[Gendergap] Girl Geeks and a Wikipedia Editing Day

2011-11-02 Thread Fiona Apps
Heya, I've put up a geonotice but just in case anyone has them disabled (I wouldn't blame you), we're having an editing day with the Manchester Girl Geeks on the 12th. Any presence, female or otherwise, would be appreciated. Invitations went out today to their 400 strong mailing list and we're

[Gendergap] Women celebrating...women!

2011-11-02 Thread Sarah Stierch
This month Lori Phillips, Wikipedian in Residence at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis has a two page spread in Indianapolis Woman, Indiana's biggest magazine dedicated to women. http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/03afc96c#/03afc96c/16 Lori isn't on this list, so I cc'd her, but, I just

Re: [Gendergap] the state of civility on en.wiki

2011-11-02 Thread Nathan
The particular incident that prompted this thread has spawned a request for an arbitration case, which apparently is likely to be accepted. I think this would be a really good opportunity for the committee to make a difference with respect to enabling people with a long history of rude