Hi,
I had a chance to chat with some one today who is involved in the public
sector about the potential importance of Wikimedia related projects to
developing dialog, resources related to, and having a larger societal
impact on women as it pertains to women's related coverage on Wikimedia
related
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junko_Tabei
scaled Mount Everest on 16 May 1975, but you wont see this
anniversary, or any other female anniversary, on the front page of
Wikipedia on 16 May (tomorrow).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/May_16
Here is why:
On 5/15/12 11:50 AM, Christine Meyer wrote:
I thought that I'd bring an AfD discussion to the attention of this
list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Fanny_Imlay#Fanny_Imlay
It really is ridiculous that this discussion is even happening, and is
yet another example
On 5/15/2012 12:47 PM, Nathan wrote:
It was a tactical deletion request. I find that to be a pretty silly
maneuver, personally, particularly as the nominators never do a very
good job as devil's advocate. If jbmurray didn't think the article
should be deleted, he should not have wasted his own
Too bad she wasn't nominated for any porn awards, then she would be
clearly notable.[1] As it stands, she only has 1 biography and a couple
hundred years of scholarly commentary, so it seems like a borderline
case to me./sarcasm
1.
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:08 AM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case
danc...@frontiernet.net wrote:
This happened to another article I contributed to that reached FA status,
as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:New_York_State_Route_32/Archive_1#Question
It really came down to “yes, it’s
Search engine page ranks and click-through might be one way of measuring the
social impact of Wikimedia, although Google’s ranking formula is secret and I
don’t know if Wikimedia does click-through tracking. You might try asking
Google or the Wikimedia technical folks for ways to measure
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote:
Been there. Done that. It isn't only women's topics. Because Justin
Bieber is unpopular and actively disliked by some people, (Though I guess
you could argue this example relates to a topic of interest to many young
I have to say that I think a topic such as Imlay, with literally centuries
of scholarship is not really comparable to the recentism that is an article
on a Twitter account, whether Bieber's or Gaga's.
LadyofShalott/ Aleta Turner
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
From a gender gap perspective of bringing in new female contributors, I
would argue that Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga are much more important than
Imlay because Gaga and Bieber are of interest to and more accessible to a
greater audience than Imlay's article is. I would further argue that it is
a
Dell posted an apology on their Google+ page yesterday:
https://plus.google.com/117161668189080869053/posts/5Zg5FdFEydi
During a Dell-hosted customer and partner summit in Copenhagen in April,
well-known public speaker and moderator, Mads Christensen, made a number of
inappropriate and
On 5/15/12 6:35 PM, Laura Hale wrote:
From a gender gap perspective of bringing in new female contributors,
I would argue that Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga are much more
important than Imlay because Gaga and Bieber are of interest to and
more accessible to a greater audience than Imlay's
Hi Elaine! Thanks for posting those updates. yeah, Google+ strange that
they didn't post something on their website or release a statement in a
more broader known format.
Glad to see you out of your lurking!
-Sarah
On 5/15/12 6:50 PM, Elaine Mao wrote:
Dell posted an apology on their
Welcome Elaine, and thanks for keeping this moving! The comments on
that G+ are very informative.
I'd love to see some reliable sources to back up that
a) it was an attempt at humour
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/15/12 6:35 PM, Laura Hale wrote:
From a gender gap perspective of bringing in new female contributors, I
would argue that Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga are much more important than
Imlay because Gaga and Bieber
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