--- On Tue, 8/3/11, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
From: Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net
Subject: [Gendergap] Why women and wikis do mix...
To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Tuesday, 8 March, 2011, 19:09
On Signpost:
I've added sexual innuendo to the en:WP civility policy, under other uncivil
behaviours:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ACivilityaction=historysubmitdiff=419506099oldid=416379114
Andreas
--- On Fri, 18/3/11, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Sarah
--- On Sun, 20/3/11, carolmoor...@verizon.net carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote:
Come up with male and female wikipe-tans and put those up.
Thinking out loud here:
Having images that contain both a female and a male figure might actually
be useful for young men, on a subliminal level.
Having
--- On Mon, 21/3/11, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Why couldn't the personification of Wikipedia a pair
of
happy, healthy, young people, a male and a female?
Always seen together, side by side?
This is a lovely idea.
Yes. I like the always seen together aspect.
I wouldn't
As someone pointed out in the discussion at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Jumping_Wikipe-tan.svg#File:Jumping_Wikipe-tan.svg
(which is heading for a keep) Stephen's - in my view - quite sensible deletion
of
Hi Deanna,
There is some basic advice for people wishing to edit (or complain about) their
ownbiographies here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notable_person_survival_kit
Otherwise, drop me or some of the established women editors on this list a
private note identifying the article,
--- On Mon, 16/5/11, Béria Lima beria.l...@wikimedia.pt wrote:
From: Béria Lima beria.l...@wikimedia.pt
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] [Commons-l] Fwd: Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Monday, 16 May,
There is a long thread on the Commons and Gendergap lists about today's
featured image on Commons:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2011-May/
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2011-May/
It's an original piece of art by a Wikimedian, in the style of erotic
manga:
, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com
Subject: [Foundation-l] Commons as an art gallery?
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org,
Wikimedia Commons Discussion List common...@lists.wikimedia.org,
Increasing female
--- On Mon, 16/5/11, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [Commons-l] [Foundation-l] Commons as an art gallery?
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org,
Wikimedia Commons Discussion List common
This response here is emblematic of the misogyny and ageism pervading Commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File_talk%3AOn_the_edge_-_free_world_version.jpgaction=historysubmitdiff=54489618oldid=54483841
Coming up with stuff old women like would actually be a good idea, but I
--- On Wed, 18/5/11, Béria Lima beria.l...@wikimedia.pt wrote:
From: Béria Lima beria.l...@wikimedia.pt
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] [Commons-l] Fwd: Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Wednesday, 18 May,
--- On Wed, 18/5/11, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
From: Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] [Commons-l] Fwd: Photo of the Day on Wikimedia
Commons
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Wednesday,
--- On Wed, 18/5/11, Béria Lima beria.l...@wikimedia.pt wrote:From: Béria
Lima beria.l...@wikimedia.pt
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] [Commons-l] Fwd: Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Wednesday, 18 May,
--- On Wed, 18/5/11, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
From: Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] [Commons-l] Fwd: Photo of the Day on Wikimedia
Commons
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Wednesday,
--- On Wed, 18/5/11, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
From: Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net
I am sure the editor who said I like her big tits
had that political
message in mind.
Andreas
OK, Einstein, what is the psychological significance of a
bare-breasted
Liberty, as
--- On Fri, 20/5/11, patricia morales mariadelcarmenpatri...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: patricia morales mariadelcarmenpatri...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Please, a question on deleted article SP Migrantas
on women´s empowermente
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
Just for reference, the relevant guidelines are:
Unambiguous use of a name or URL of a company, group or product as a
username is generally not permitted, and users who adopt such a username may
be blocked if their editing behavior appears to be promotional. However,
users who adopt such
Hi Charlotte,
I managed to find the dispute and had a look at it. The editor concerned
definitely was being a bit of a prat in my view, and should have discussed the
matter with you before going on a reverting spree.
I would not have inserted the sic in that one quote, but otherwise you were
P.S. I echo Sue's sentiments. :)
Welcome, and thanks for your articulate letter.
Andreas
--- On Thu, 23/6/11, Charlotte J ravin...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Charlotte J ravin...@gmail.com
Subject: [Gendergap] As I was passing through...
To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Thursday, 23 June,
Fred,
--- On Sat, 2/7/11, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
I have said this before, but we seem to lack African-American editors,
and it's my
impression we don't cover African-American culture well. I wonder if we
could get an article
out on theroot.com
There are a few really
Thanks for your post, Karen.
For reference, I just checked the data on singleness / parenthood in the most
recent survey.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:WP_2011_Editor%27s_Survey_-_Topline.pdfpage=3
55% of Wikipedians are single, 17% have a partner, 28% are married.
There is a deletion discussion on an American online fashion store selling
dance wear, leggings, coloured tights etc. here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/We_Love_Colors
Notability is contested, but in my view on the right side of the threshold:
Book coverage
--- On Mon, 12/9/11, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote:
First, the issue of consent on Commons has been passionately debates for
years, and has a long and tortured history. Before proposing anything,
please make yourself familiar with the previous discussions and their
outcomes. Most
Arnaud,
I've just remembered a documentary related to your post that is very much worth
watching.
Here is a link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXG38QxXY-s
Andreas
--- On Mon, 19/9/11, Arnaud HERVE arnaudhe...@x-mail.net wrote:
From: Arnaud HERVE arnaudhe...@x-mail.net
Subject: [Gendergap]
with the impression that Wikipedia is not written for them.
A.
--- On Mon, 19/9/11, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Black skins
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Date
skins
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Wednesday, 21 September, 2011, 0:15
On 20/09/2011 01:10, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXG38QxXY-s
Not only worth watching but compulsory watching, I think. Thanks Andreas
Whether or not the editor is indeed thirteen years old is probably relatively
unimportant.
What matters is that voices in the RfC generally (about 3:1) oppose the idea
of a minimum age of 18 for contributors to the WikiProject.
Thanks for the link Sarah. It's an outstanding post by Sue, and a courageous
one, too.
Andreas
--- On Thu, 29/9/11, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com
Subject: [Gendergap] Sue's new blog
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia
What do you think about creating a {{gendergap}} or {{GNPOV}} (gender-neutral
point of view) template in en:WP? This could have a format similar to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:NPOV
and could use an image like
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igualtat_de_sexes.svg
The text could
--- On Sat, 1/10/11, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
Sarah, I am not sure what you've been trying to say lately[2].
Rest assured that it made perfect sense to others. ;)
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Thanks all for the feedback. I've started a discussion on-wiki, at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Feminism#Gender_neutrality_template
Andreas
--- On Sat, 1/10/11, Daniel and Elizabeth Case danc...@frontiernet.net wrote:
From: Daniel and Elizabeth Case
Wouldn't the obvious thing in the Spanish Wikipedia be to differentiate between
usuario and usuaria? As in Página del usuario / Página de la usuaria?
Andreas
--- On Wed, 5/10/11, patricia morales mariadelcarmenpatri...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: patricia morales mariadelcarmenpatri...@yahoo.com
Cool.
Andreas
--- On Thu, 6/10/11, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Indeed, that's the current implementation, which is now deployed.
Here's an example female user's page on Spanish Wikipedia:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuaria:Angela_tocua
And here's an example female user's page on
Brandon,
On a matter that originally arose in Meta and on the Foundation list,
but may be of interest to this list as well, do you know the answer to the
question posed here ...
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2011-October/006290.html
... or do you know someone who does?
-masturbating
On 10/12/11 7:48 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
Brandon,
On a matter that originally arose in Meta and on the Foundation list,
but may be of interest to this list as well, do you know the answer to the
question posed here ...
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2011-October/006290
. If a gallery page for cucumber existed, all searches for cucumber
would go immediately to that gallery page rather than pulling up random images.
Ryan Kaldari
On 10/12/11 3:49 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
Thanks for the link, Brandon.
I had raised this in the image filter discussions
go immediately to that gallery page rather than pulling up
random images.
Ryan Kaldari
On 10/12/11 3:49 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
Thanks for the link, Brandon.
I had raised this in the image filter discussions on Foundation-l yesterday
(as well as on http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki
John,
From: John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com
(Searching for levee in Commons brings up an image of a
naked Suicide Girl called Levee in third place.)
Its a thumbnail for !@#$ sake, and anyone who finds that image
offensive should turn off their internet connection.
It's a perfectly nice
and proactively curate the content we have so that there is less
potential for astonishment in our search results.
Ryan Kaldari
On 10/13/11 5:37 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
John,
From: John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com
(Searching for levee in Commons brings up an image of a
naked Suicide Girl called Levee
Brandon,
Would it be a lot of work to give primary weight in the Commons search listing
order to files included in
1. Categories (top level only) and
2. Galleries
whose name matches the search term (or is the plural thereof)?
So the top files listed for cucumber, say, would be all the
This edit to the article on the niqab worn by Muslim women
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Niq%C4%81bdiff=482813756oldid=481659451
was pointed out on the Wikipediocracy forum the other day (
http://www.wikipediocracy.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=8t=122; I'm a mod
there).
The edit has
Two recent Buzzfeed articles:
1. *Wikipedia's Gender Gap, As Measured By Famous Birthdays*, by Anna North
http://www.buzzfeed.com/annanorth/wikipedias-gender-gap-as-measured-by-famous-birt
A gender gap continues to plague Wikipedia, and one of its main effects is
on the kinds of people the
If you don't particularly object to that image
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_Naked_Gardening_Dayoldid=485677881
then I would suggest you have very poor taste and very little sense of what
an encyclopedia, even an online encyclopedia, should look like.
Andreas
On Thu, Apr 5,
Sequel to Jack Stuef's piece:
*It's Almost Impossible To Get Kiddie Porn Off Wikipedia*
*Wikipedia's self-policing isn't working.*
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jackstuef/its-almost-impossible-to-get-kiddie-porn-off-wiki
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I could have a go again, Carol. :)
Gay porn is underrepresented in these articles.
Andreas
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Carol Moore DC carolmoor...@verizon.netwrote:
NO need to censor it. Just do a second one with bushier eyebrows and a
goatee and put that up instead :-)
On
A Google image search for gay cumshot indicates there are 37.8 million
results. Cumshot -gay has 44 million. If these numbers are correct, then
gay and non-gay cumshots are almost equally common online, and it's a
toss-up (pun intended) as to which we should use.
There are really two separate
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
**
Fun fact: Female ejaculation is the most viewed Wikipedia article related
in any way to feminism (at least since WikiProject Feminism started keeping
stats). It's 3 times as popular as the next article on the list,
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:22 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
No one here has commented on the fact that the German Wikipedia article
uses
a special, local version of one of Seedfeeder's images. The German
Wonderful.
Don't miss http://thehairpin.com/2011/01/women-laughing-alone-with-salad
Andreas
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote:
**
Perfect opportunity to share one of my favorite blog memes:
http://thehairpin.com/2011/11/women-struggling-to-drink-water
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote:
There was an idea brainstormed a little while back with me and a few other
folks about seeking funding to have a Wiki Loves Women photography event
that wanted photographers to take photographs of women - and this
From Larry Sanger's blog:
---o0o---
I want to start a conversation. [...Larry says, in his blog]
I. Problem? What problem?
So, you didn’t know that Wikipedia has a porn problem?
Let me say what I do not mean by “Wikipedia’s porn problem.” I do not mean
simply that Wikipedia has a lot of porn.
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Caroline Becker
carobecke...@gmail.comwrote:
What is the relationship with gender-gap ? Are female children more
unlikely to contribute to Wikimedia projects if they saw some porn on
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote:
So yes, systematic bias can be overcome by encouraging the growth of
female contributors. The failure to attract women contributors to editing
Wikipedia across various languages has little to do with that.
I am
Here are results of a multimedia search for human female in Wikipedia
(NSFW):
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Searchlimit=250offset=100redirs=0profile=imagessearch=human+female
Did you look at the examples Larry mentioned in his post?
There are many more: e.g.
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Caroline Becker carobecke...@gmail.comwrote:
The Flickr account has been closed down (usually for breach of Flickr's
terms of service). Note that there are no 18 USC 2257 records demonstrating
that the persons depicted were 18 or over. According to my
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not convinced that sexual images is a gender gap issue. But my
non-expert opinion is that there is, or ought to be, a degree of feminist
interest in the problems of model releases and age verification. I've
always thought it
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
Now, things got complicated when DOJ added an entirely new class of
producers you speak of secondary producers, anyone who publishes,
reproduces, or reissues explicit material. This is where things get
complicated. What
To the list administrators: Would it be possible to have this list archived
on gossamer-threads, like the Foundation list?
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/
It's a much more convenient format to refer back to than the monthly
archive page.
Andreas
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
Outside prosecutors can not prosecute, or charge any editor based on their
username, whether its User:someguy542 or User:Ladiesman232, there is no
real world link without the IP records.
Firstly, that's not the sort of
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
On the Commons side of things, I think there has been an over-aggressive
campaign to extract license compliant images from Flickr and other
non-WMF repositories that include subjects who were very unlikely to know
that their
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote:
Usually it's because they are busy. The smallest group - 2% said because
of sexualized environments on wiki spaces. Which has led me to believe in
the red herring theory about porn and Wikipedia. I think it's
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Michael J. Lowrey orangem...@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
Please consider the likelihood that there may be a correlation between
the
let-it-all-hang-out attitude towards porn, and the problem you
the screenshots are taken from is here:
http://cultureandcommunication.org/f09/tdm/elisaverna/wait-did-4chan-just-enlighten-me-i-feel-dirty/
Andreas
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Michael J. Lowrey
orangem...@gmail.comwrote
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
Andreas - you seem to have the belief that the pervasive exposure to
pornography is having an adverse effect on community dynamics, and in
particular is having a negative impact on the recruitment of women
editors. Perhaps you
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Kim Osman kim.os...@qut.edu.au wrote:
Hi,
I edit Wikipedia a lot. I probably spend more time than I should editing
Wikipedia. Can I ask where there is a prevalence of pornography on
Wikipedia? I honestly can't think of a single time I have come across
We are not talking about filtering standard sex education images as you
might find in a school book. We are talking about images or videos of women
drinking their urine, masturbating with a toothbrush, or having sex with a
dog.
Andreas
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Michelle Gallaway
This case presents a good argument for flagged revisions. Given that the
people who made these edits weren't logged in, none of their additions and
changes would have been visible to the public.
Andreas
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 7:04 AM, koltzenb...@w4w.net wrote:
Hi Gillian,
thank you for
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not so sure. As soon as the incident was noted, the article was
semi-protected, which solved the problem.
Perhaps you are suggesting flagged revisions for *all* biographies of
living persons (BLPs), by default?
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Holly_Grafoldid=476031995
This article, on a female Navy officer – apparently the first woman to
command a cruiser in the history of the Navy – seems to exemplify some of
the failings of what I call WP:ADAM:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ADAM
Also coverage of varying quality in ...
The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/9439046/Chairman-of-Wikipedia-charity-banned-after-pornography-row.html
Civil Society (media outlet focused on charities)
The Telegraph has now reported Fæ's resignation as Chair of Wikimedia UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/9447161/Wikipedia-charity-chairman-resigns-after-pornography-row.html
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What I was most struck by was the hypocrisy: in Reddit's vision, freedom of
speech includes anonymously posting invasive images of teenagers, but
excludes posting the name of a 49-year-old programmer who anonymously posts
invasive images of teenagers.
No privacy rights for teenage girls, complete
There was an article in the Wall Street Journal last week reporting on a
longstanding war in Wikipedia:
Editors Won't Let It Be When It Comes to 'the' or 'The'
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1872396390444657804578048534112811590.html
---o0o---
The Beatles once sang, Have you heard the
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know that they contribute to the gender imbalance - although in
fairness the women who make it as far as adminship and discussions on
Jimbo's page tend to be unusually thick-skinned (I mean it as a
compliment!). I
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:06 AM, Carol Moore DC carolmoor...@verizon.netwrote:
It took forever to get the actual article [[Circle jerk]] into Wikipedia
- a female did it.
Now, now, Carol. The record shows that *I* created the circle jerk article,
and I am not a female.
A lady down under has started her own Wikipedia about New Zealand.
http://www.hawkesbay.co.nz/general-stories-page:/52063-a-new-wikipedia-about-new-zealand-origionates-in-hawkes-bay.html
---o0o---
Wiki web to satisfy Kiwi curiosity
If knowledge is power then Lillian Grace's new website -
I think most people here will remember the appalling harassment Anita
Sarkeesian suffered in YouTube and on Wikipedia.
If not, see
http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/06/harassment-misogyny-and-silencing-on-youtube/
Diff of the quoted edit, for reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Anita_Sarkeesiandiff=prevoldid=523584174
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
I think most people here will remember the appalling harassment Anita
Sarkeesian suffered
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.comwrote:
Diff of the quoted edit, for reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Anita_Sarkeesiandiff=prevoldid=523584174
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.comwrote:
I think most
http://www.dailydot.com/society/william-shatner-reddit-moderation-racism-sexism/
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(I hope these may be of tangential interest, even though they are not
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:43 AM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case
danc...@frontiernet.net wrote:
This system keeps the categories more straightforward, and pretty well
avoids the sort of subtle bias Wikipedia has been caught with here.
Defining the precise intersection of interest is up to the
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
But I think it's important to mention it in the context of this thread. It
does seem to me that the sexism is getting worse, more blatant.
It is, and the reason is that it is humoured and swept under the carpet,
rather than
Commentary in The Daily Dot.
http://www.dailydot.com/society/wikipedia-sexism-problem-sue-gardner/
---o0o---
Wikipedia found itself squirming uncomfortably last week after charges of
systemic sexism drew heat from media outlets across the world and sparked
widespread outrage on social media.
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
It's a good question. Why is it humoured?
It doesn't look like you're going
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Mary Mark Ockerbloom
celebration.wo...@gmail.com wrote:
Regarding the question of what can you do,
I had the experience last week of starting a new job.
I had to read through the guidelines for the organization,
which included a section on Equal Opportunity
in the press
these last couple of weeks. Talk to journalists instead. You may find them
more sympathetic, and such an effort has a better chance of bringing about
change.
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Mary Mark
no action, and it's really tiring
and depressing to watch and puts the burden on those of us who have limited
time and are already burnt out).
-Sarah
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Nepenthe topazbutter...@gmail.comwrote
Pete,
I'd invite you to run a Google image search for Bagby Hot Springs, with
safe search turned off. The first one hundred images include about as many
images of female nudity as the nine-image Commons category.
That is the difference between Commons demographics, and general
demographics.
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
The Terms of Use prohibit harassment, which is the same word that's
used to characterize the behaviors the friendly space policy
prohibits. So at least in that respect the two are already somewhat
analogous.
Two good posts.
Bear in mind though that there is also a half-way house solution, whereby
contributors would identify to the Foundation, but remain at liberty to use
a pseudonymous user name.
Identification might then be a prerequisite for certain community roles (as
indeed it is today).
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
Pete,
I don't know which Commons you participate in. The one I know has tons of
nude pictures of women uploaded by anonymous throwaway accounts
Pete,
Please suggest a revised wording that you feel would be clearer. Then we
can request that the board adopt it and amend the resolution accordingly.
Andreas
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:
The resolution wording is:
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We feel that it
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi, I have some comments inline.
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This image, originally posted to Flickr, was reviewed on 3 March 2013 by
the administrator or reviewer Mattbuck, who confirmed that it was available
on Flickr under the
, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
Pete,
Please suggest a revised wording that you feel would be clearer. Then we
can
request that the board adopt it and amend the resolution accordingly.
Andreas
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On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Russavia
russavia.wikipe...@gmail.comwrote:
Would you like the board to adopt and amend a resolution based
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.comwrote:
I will be of course posting a link to this list on the DR given the
idiocy and trolling of a Commons admin going on here.
Cheers,
Russavia
The message you posted at the DR,
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*Comment* This nomination
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Oliver Keyes ironho...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
Two good posts.
Bear in mind though that there is also a half-way house solution, whereby
contributors would identify to the Foundation
Here is an example of a recent deletion request that was closed as Keep.
(While the image is not safe for work, the following link to the deletion
discussion is. The deletion discussion does not show the image, only a link
to it.)
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