[Gendergap] Easy thing that would help the en.Wiki Gender Gap Project

2014-08-13 Thread Carol Moore dc
As I've mentioned, the biggest problem we're having now is male attack posts, female complaints about such attacks, generally disruptive/tendentious threads which really are driving off people who join the project, probably look at the page, and quickly leave. I started this thread.

Re: [Gendergap] [EE] [Wikitech-l] IRC web client for Wikipedia help

2014-08-13 Thread Emily Monroe
Interesting. You were just talking about IRC and #wikipedia-en-help and not using research, and now you have seem to given up. From, Emily On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: The chat system mentioned by Quiddity may actually decrease the number of helpees in

Re: [Gendergap] [EE] [Wikitech-l] IRC web client for Wikipedia help

2014-08-13 Thread Emily Monroe
Sorry if my previous email seemed a little harsh or confused. I don't think a chatroom is non-confusing enough. One other way helpees often fail hard is that they confuse messages sent to other helpees as being directed at them. They don't realize it's a public chatroom. We would need a system

Re: [Gendergap] [EE] [Wikitech-l] IRC web client for Wikipedia help

2014-08-13 Thread Pine W
Research about the chatroom concept, not so much about IRC alone. We can't practically run research projects about every change. Chatrooms would be a major change and be resource intensive to start, so research makes sense before starting this implementation. Pine Pine On Aug 13, 2014 7:15 AM,

Re: [Gendergap] [EE] [Wikitech-l] IRC web client for Wikipedia help

2014-08-13 Thread Pine W
We might be able to create one on one chats somehow on IRC or with chatrooms. The concept makes sense. Pine On Aug 13, 2014 11:11 AM, Emily Monroe emilymonro...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry if my previous email seemed a little harsh or confused. I don't think a chatroom is non-confusing enough.