Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-02 Thread Caroline Becker
Don't be depress Sarah if female participation remains low. Even if Wikipedia was a perfect place without any bias, it would still be a project from the real world were lot of forces prevent women from editing : lower confidence in themselves, less free time, lower access to education. We can't

Re: [Gendergap] WikiWomenCamp: National perspectives on women and the movement

2012-02-02 Thread Jane Darnell
Hi all, Actually, I would also love to write a book with no rigor, so I sympathize with the idea. Sorry I missed this. As one of the two female board members of the Dutch Wikimedia organization I feel compelled to contribute to this page. Unfortunately I am not sure when I will have time. I

Re: [Gendergap] Facebook Group re pornography on Wikipedia

2012-02-02 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I'm not familiar with the discussion you are referring to, but I'm 100% sure Jimmy would never say that as it is completely antithetical to his position on Wikipedia editing. Do you happen to remember where you read that? Ryan Kaldari On 2/1/12 11:53 PM, Caroline Becker wrote: Yeah, and

Re: [Gendergap] Facebook Group re pornography on Wikipedia

2012-02-02 Thread Caroline Becker
That was irony, sorry :) I'm against image filtering and I think image filtering has nothing to do with gender gap, so I answered with my guts instead of my brain :( Caroline 2012/2/2 Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org ** I'm not familiar with the discussion you are referring to, but I'm

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-02 Thread Sarah
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:05 PM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: By the way, you can't invite 1000 women that a day after leave because they don't understand how to edit (usability) or other reason. First, you have to understand why women leave. When you solves that, every woman that arrives,

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-02 Thread Nina Wikipedia
Thanks Sarah! Nina Sendt fra min iPhone Den 2. feb. 2012 kl. 22:15 skrev Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:05 PM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: By the way, you can't invite 1000 women that a day after leave because they don't understand how to edit (usability) or other

[Gendergap] Wikiproject India/Women and gender issues

2012-02-02 Thread Sarah Stierch
Hi everyone, I'm really happy to see that Wikiproject India (in English Wikipedia) has taken up a new initiative spearheaded by User:Ashlin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Women_and_gender_issues Perhaps you'll feel the urge to participate, or maybe find inspiration