[Gendergap] Geek girl smash

2011-10-03 Thread Lennart Guldbrandsson
Hello, I don't know if it's been discussed before, but I found this cartoon which I thought was a bit fitting for this list: http://www.shoeboxblog.com/?p=19380 Best wishes, Lennart Lennart Guldbrandsson, Wikimedia Sverige http://wikimedia.se Tfn: 031 - 12 50 48 Mobil: 070 - 207 80 05

Re: [Gendergap] Geek girl smash

2011-10-03 Thread Lennart Guldbrandsson
And of course, the header makes absolutely no sense, unless you know that I found that comic on the Geek Girl Smash blog, pasted the title into the header of that mail, and *then* traced the source back to Shoeboxblog. Sorry for that. /L Lennart Guldbrandsson, Wikimedia Sverige

Re: [Gendergap] Gender neutrality template

2011-10-03 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Thanks all for the feedback. I've started a discussion on-wiki, at  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Feminism#Gender_neutrality_template Andreas --- On Sat, 1/10/11, Daniel and Elizabeth Case danc...@frontiernet.net wrote: From: Daniel and Elizabeth Case

Re: [Gendergap] Geek girl smash

2011-10-03 Thread Chris Keating
There's this great text-based MMORPG I know where you pretend you're creating this kind of online encyclopedia it's really addictive, some people take it a bit too seriously, though... ;-) /spam On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote: Oh lonely

Re: [Gendergap] Geek girl smash

2011-10-03 Thread Michael J. Lowrey
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Oh lonely nerds...reminds me of high school. ::rolls a 10 sided to help close the gap:: -Sarah Back in the day, I was the Wise Old Man (early 20s) who dungeonmastered for a bunch of high-school boys in the Nashville

Re: [Gendergap] This list

2011-10-03 Thread Thomas Koenig
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:58:12 +0200, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote: A couple of months ago, I asked Sarah Stierch to help me administer this list. AFAIK, she's the only other list owner, at the moment. So I am going to leave this question in her hands, and in the hands of

Re: [Gendergap] This list

2011-10-03 Thread Fred Bauder
I know that it is not typically stringently enforced on mailing lists, but I think that enforcing [[WP:CIVIL]] would be a good idea on this list. I can understand concerns over any form of moderation, but believe that for this list the benefits far outweigh the costs. An open atmosphere

Re: [Gendergap] This list

2011-10-03 Thread Emily Monroe
Maybe create our own civility guidelines? From, Emily On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: I agree that several posts recently should have resulted in some sort of moderation. I'm not sure [[WP:CIVIL]] is the answer... That's an English Wikipedia policy, and

Re: [Gendergap] This list

2011-10-03 Thread ChaoticFluffy
Ideal moderation, for me (and perhaps this isn't even possible; I'm not sure how the backends of these mailing lists work) would be directed at users, not individual emails. I wouldn't expect a moderator to approve every post, or to edit posts, or anything like that. But I would expect them to

[Gendergap] Roller derby article deletion

2011-10-03 Thread Laura Hale
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Romsey Town Rollerbillieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Romsey_Town_Rollerbillies If people are interested, can they weigh in one way or another on that article for deletion request? Just one of those tricky issues of how to come down

[Gendergap] This List Part 2

2011-10-03 Thread Sarah Stierch
Hi everyone, As Sue mentioned, I am the co-moderator for the list. Thanks Sue for entrusting me with such. This list has been a remarkable place for brainstorming, sharing opinions, discussion, rabble rousing, and inspiring for many - active or not - who subscribe. While we have had some really

Re: [Gendergap] Looking for success stories of article improvement

2011-10-03 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I remember the article [[Sun tanning]] for a long time was mostly bikini pictures, one topless. There are several threads on the talk page about it. I think the first one is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sun_tanning/Archive_1#Image_discussions The article [[Ochre]] had a topless photo for