Well said, Kaldari.
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I find the entire premise of this essay to be a bit misguided. Do we
really need to worry about tamping down the trickle of feminists editing
art articles on Wikipedia? There are easily ten times
nice wiki-splaining - the problem with your thesis:
*What we don't need, however, is more feminists.*
is labeling and the double standard of civility enforcement
as Djembayz said at Signpost:
the rules on Wikipedia are not clear, the enforcement on disruptive
behavior is arbitrary or
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I find the entire premise of this essay to be a bit misguided. Do we really
need to worry about tamping down the trickle of feminists editing art
articles on Wikipedia? There are easily ten times more men's rights
activists editing Wikipedia than feminists, and they actively organize
off-wiki to
Yes, and its patronizing to write a blog post about NPOV policy directed at
the community members who organize community outreach events for feminists.
Especially condescending towards art+feminism community organizers who
brilliantly executed a well thought out plan that included pre-event
Well, if you want to write articles about French women painters, go
ahead. But you shouldn't do it just because you want more articles
about women on Wikipedia.
Why not? Nobody says this to the people who write articles about
trains or video games.
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Ryan Kaldari
Thanks for your very eloquent response, Sydney, I strongly second that
thought.
Amy
On Apr 9, 2015 3:29 PM, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, and its patronizing to write a blog post about NPOV policy directed
at the community members who organize community outreach events for
This part of the we of Wikipedians...me..wants feminist to edit
Wikipedia, as well as people who want to solely add articles about women.
What I ask of you is to stand back so that those of us who are interested
in creating an inclusive editing community can do so without being
hindered. Because
Dear readers of the gender gap mailing list,
My name is Lukas and I am a German Wikipedian (User:Gnom).
I recently wrote a blog post on Wikipedia and feminism
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Gnom/Blog#2_April_2015:_A_blog_post_on_Wikipedia_and_feminism.
and was encouraged to share it with
I think it would be better to drop, or tone down the bit about:
But stay away if your actions are in any way motivated by a certain
interest, or worse, a social agenda.
We want expert editors and that's not possible if they are being
pushed away. Maybe consider re-writing it to promote the idea
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