Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: [Adacamp Alumni] Applications open for AdaCamp Berlin and Bangalore

2014-07-23 Thread Nicole Ebber
Frist AdaCamp in Berlin! :) On 23 July 2014 00:16, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: First AdaCamp in India! -- Forwarded message -- From: Valerie Aurora vale...@adainitiative.org Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 3:11 PM Subject: [Adacamp Alumni] Applications open for

Re: [Gendergap] Zoë Wicomb or Clive Cussler?

2014-07-23 Thread Carol Moore dc
On 7/22/2014 8:00 PM, Kerry Raymond wrote: I think it's new-ness bias and a related content bias and a popularity bias rather than primarily a gender bias. There's loads of new work published all the time. Lots of it will not merit a Wikipedia article, just as many novels by the male

Re: [Gendergap] Zoë Wicomb or Clive Cussler?

2014-07-23 Thread Carol Moore dc
On 7/23/2014 11:56 AM, Carol Moore dc wrote: On 7/22/2014 8:00 PM, Kerry Raymond wrote: I think it's new-ness bias and a related content bias and a popularity bias rather than primarily a gender bias. There's loads of new work published all the time. Lots of it will not merit a Wikipedia

Re: [Gendergap] Sexualized environment on Commons

2014-07-23 Thread Pete Forsyth
Ryan, thanks for bringing this up for discussion. I've put a lot of thought into the series of photos this comes from over the years, and it's well worth some discussion. I'd like to hear what others think about this. Here is a link to the category for the larger collection; warning, there's lots

Re: [Gendergap] Sexualized environment on Commons

2014-07-23 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Personally, I don't think it's worth having a discussion here about the merits of deleting these images. There's no chance in hell they are going to be deleted from Commons. What I'm more interested in is the locker-room nature of the discussions and how/if this can be addressed, as I think that

Re: [Gendergap] Sexualized environment on Commons

2014-07-23 Thread Pete Forsyth
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: Personally, I don't think it's worth having a discussion here about the merits of deleting these images. There's no chance in hell they are going to be deleted from Commons. What I'm more interested in is the

Re: [Gendergap] Sexualized environment on Commons

2014-07-23 Thread Carol Moore dc
On 7/23/2014 5:10 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: Personally, I don't think it's worth having a discussion here about the merits of deleting these images. There's no chance in hell they are going to be deleted from Commons. What I'm more interested in is the locker-room nature of the discussions and

Re: [Gendergap] Sexualized environment on Commons

2014-07-23 Thread Kerry Raymond
I agree that offensiveness is in the eye of the beholder. And while there may be all manner of very niche groups who find strange things offensiveness, maybe some people object to seeing refrigerators or reading about cakes, nonetheless we know that there are a lot of widespread categories of