On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Karen Sue Rolph karenro...@hotmail.com
mailto:karenro...@hotmail.com wrote:
I would make a go of this in the San Francisco Bay Area if we
could get some traction going. I'll check in with a couple groups
I know of, and see where they stand. Do we
On 2/2/2012 3:03 AM, Caroline Becker wrote:
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
On 2/4/2012 4:16 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote:
If you'd like to participate or develop an event, please visit the on
English Wikipedia (translations encouraged!) Women's History Month
page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month
At least once a week I feel l guilty for
On 2/11/2012 12:35 PM, Risker wrote:
I do think the inclusion of the word notable is important here. The
lists aren't just of women, they're of women who are notable enough to
qualify for a Wikipedia article - which is a pretty low bar, as anyone
who's ever tried to get some mess
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop_for_Women_in_Wikipedia
After communicating with the originators of the page, I restructured it
to be the Womens/Gender Gap part of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop (which is also a great
self-teaching resources with links to other
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
I assume Sue Gardner will be organizing something.
Just a reminder if people have their own ideas as well.
Cm in Dc
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This search shows which ones are about women. You can sign up to approve
at the bottom. (You should be able to sign in with your wikipedia user
name.)
The deadline for submissions is Sunday, March 18 at
More workshops for women and everyone else can be found through either
the complete list here
https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_submissions
(includes subcategories by topic and type)
Also of interest to women in general:
Search: Newbie in list above and see if you
I was wondering if there is a web page I can link to with your comments
for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop_for_Women
I can link to the newsletter but it only mentions the workshop was all
women. Thanks.
PS Love the Roo and other photos!
On 4/4/2012 10:58 AM, Sarah Stierch
On 4/7/2012 10:35 AM, Bob Sponge wrote:
welcome to censorpedia
we fight probalbly sexism with our own middle-age-view on the world
and oppress any non appreciated right for free expression
than we told the critics idiots
The photo is obviously more about a sexy and stimulating phyical
On 4/27/2012 3:45 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
I could have a go again, Carol. :)
Gay porn is underrepresented in these articles.
Andreas
So if I was too implicit in my statement. As Andreas surmised, I meant
re-do that photo to make it male on male. Or do a second one that's male
on male. Go
On 5/2/2012 3:40 AM, Caroline Becker wrote:
Working harder to have awesome pictures of artworks with naked men ?
Caroline
I did the bio of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Feinstein_%28sculptor%29 as part of
a GLAM event.
Her husband does http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Currin does a
For those who enjoy debating various angles of this topic. Controlling
myself personally...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notability_%28people%29#rfc_3EDB4AE
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This article has problems I've mention on the talk page and
WP:Wikiproject feminism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Women
It's up for second deletion and proposals it be permanently banned.
FYI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/War_on_Women_%282nd_nomination%29
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
On 6/2/2012 12:15 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote:
I think the point is taken.
I really have no desire to think about these things, especially every
time I read this mailing list these days.
-Sarah
Really. My idea is, let the foundation use it's best judgement. I'm
sure it will err on the liberal
Sounds good... go for it...
On 6/3/2012 12:50 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote:
Hi everyone,
I think we're on the Beating a dead horse again situation with this
subject.[1] We will be going in circles about it - most of us seem to
not care as much as others, and no one seems to be taking any direct
One thing people can do is get on the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Feminism/Article_alerts
List for articles being deleted, RfC'd etc.
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On 6/18/2012 9:29 AM, Nathan wrote:
Seems like another 1E candidate. The over-emphasis on the controversy
at the end of her career can be addressed by wiping out most of the
detail, or by removing the article entirely (since the notability
argument is somewhat fragile, and all the references
One comment on your draft, is that the langugage makes it a bit unclear
for the average reader if/that the imbalance in England was because the
males left the country and/or were killed in overseas wars. It's
implied but not sufficiently explicit so some people might get confused.
Also, the
On 7/18/2012 7:41 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote:
Hi everyone,
The photo is up from the WikiWomen's Luncheon. A bit of chaos - but,
we're throwing W's for wiki of course =)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiWomen%27s_Lunch,_Wikimania_2012.jpg
Thank you Pierre-Selim for taking the photo
I took a few shots during the lunch and while setting up photo which
might put on wikicommons when get a chance; not sure if there's anyone
who DIDN'T want self photographed so that's an issue.
I didn't see a PINK don't photo me tag on anyone the whole event, but
I'm sure some people had
From
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback#Other_meetups_and_meetings
The Women's Luncheon on Saturday was something I was very much looking
forward to, but it fell short of my expectations. I was enjoying bonding
with the women at my table, asking the speakers about their
I actually didn't read the first few posts because of the misspelling ;-)
But when I read in the telegraph article
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/7883064/MPs-scandals-covered-up-on-Wikipedia.html
*He's used multiple accounts
*Very interested in bondage
*Can be hostile to other users
I
On 8/2/2012 4:16 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
You seem to have omitted the bit about how he was subject to a relentless
campaign of vicious homophobic abuse.
Or, indeed, ArbCom's complete failure to understand the importance of how such abuse
and bullying occurs. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Closing_Wikipedia:Wikiquette_assistance
So then where does one go for those constant, insidious low level sexist
comments that don't quite make it to WP:Ani level...
CM in DC
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Right now there are 3 questionable AfD's and various nominations, etc.
Plus a bunch of Good article nominees and other listings.
Watch that page (or the relevant page in your language) and comment from
time to time
On 8/26/2012 9:58 AM, Thomas Morton wrote:
Right now there are 3 questionable AfD's and various nominations,
etc. Plus a bunch of Good article nominees and other listings.
On a fostering friendly atmosphere note; characterising actions as
questionable is not very nice.
Tom
Moore DC carolmoor...@verizon.net
mailto:carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote:
On 8/26/2012 9:58 AM, Thomas Morton wrote:
Right now there are 3 questionable AfD's and various
nominations, etc. Plus a bunch of Good article nominees
and other listings
On 8/26/2012 5:27 PM, Laura Hale wrote:
I would personally be less bothered if it was women criticising women
critically and harshly, but when it looks like man after man
criticising women and no other female voices in the conversation, that
bothers me because of the historical overtones
On 8/26/2012 5:33 PM, Emily Monroe wrote:
It's probably better to avoid arguments of tone online, even if it's a
tone you want to avoid yourself, because it's way too easy to
misinterpret without tonal inflection, or other bits of non-verbal
body language. You may have misinterpreted the tone
I hate to use physiological excuses, but...the reason I lost control
was I had a bad head cold - plus doing strong coffee on top. So
confused mental/emotional states on steroids dominated my writing...
I value Wikipedia as a place where I HAVE to be diplomatic, since I do
lose my temper like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_Wikipedians
How did we go from a dozen to 1,700? Some other category got renamed
and redirected?
Or some bot added everyone who had one of the user boxes in that category??
Looked at a few and didn't see evidence someone manually added them all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Civility_enforcement
Again some people want to get rid of all civility enforcement.
(The larger RfC came after RfC on the policy talk page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Civility#rfc_A3FCF91 )
I haven't opined yet so
Added it to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop_for_Women
Have to get back into the workshop head myself. Going to GLAM
edit-a-thon Friday at least.
On 10/10/2012 1:17 AM, Netha Hussain wrote:
Dear all,
It gives me pleasure to inform you that the first Wikipedia Women
Speaking of incivility,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Civility_enforcement
is still going on...
But we need more than words - we need a video. Maybe some of the
influentials on board could get something like this going...
As I just wrote there:
I'm thinking
It's kind of sad she has to start to by making statements that could be
calculated to tarnish one group of skeptics; it's as if to say, I can
sling insults as good as the next guy, so don't sling them at me, sling
them at those other guys. Weird...
On 10/24/2012 11:49 PM, Daniel and
On 10/30/2012 3:10 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
After you finish your questionnaire, don't forget to add...
[[Category:Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Civility enforcement/Questions]]
to the bottom. Otherwise, it will never be seen.
Ryan Kaldari
Thank you. I have to update mine because to my horror
On 10/30/2012 5:10 PM, Carol Moore DC wrote:
So what am I supposed to do about a guy who curses me in talk page,
edit summaries (including for a mistake HE made) and even Dispute
resolution?? Go to WP:ANI
Via
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Incivility#Dealing_with_incivility I
On 1/16/2013 2:23 AM, Risker wrote:
Although I think it probably says something about the general
mentality of a significant portion of our editorship what was being
proposed for April Fool's day - sex, body parts, and swearing. Hmmm.
Risker/Anne
I stooped to that level and added the one
On 1/17/2013 1:24 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:06 AM, Carol Moore DC
carolmoor...@verizon.net mailto:carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote:
It took forever to get the actual article [[Circle jerk]] into
Wikipedia - a female did it.
Now, now, Carol. The record shows
On 1/20/2013 7:07 PM, Michael J. Lowrey wrote:
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Valerie Aurora
vale...@adainitiative.org wrote:
Can you believe Wikipedia Community Fellow and first Smithsonian
Wikipedian-in-residence Sarah Stierch didn't have a Wikipedia
biography until today?
Looks like we're keeping Sarah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Sarah_Stierch
Decision:Keep
Hmmm, was he referring to MY yapping about other stuff? Oh, well
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On 5/9/2013 4:35 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
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
OK, points taken below from Oliver Keyes about talking to trolls.
But here's what (knock wood) got my well known long term abuse harasser
(1000+ nasty and/or threatening emails, hundreds of reverts of edits to
me during last 6 months) off my back without going to the cops --which I
easily
I second your proposal.
On 5/13/2013 9:36 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2013-May/thread.html
shows me that Topless image retention -don't give up has stretched on
pretty long, and it seems to me like it might be better suited to onwiki
discussion
Yes, I kept thinking the doctors who talked her into this are monsters.
Then saw another article on that topic and read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRCA1#Patents.2C_enforcement.2C_litigation.2C_and_controversy
Good place to add a WP:RS on that topic.
(And my first mammogram in 6 years came
There have been similar problems at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning
Obviously there have been a number of comments that are obviously
transphobic. However, there also have been repeated false charges of
transphobia against those who cite good policy reasons for not changing
the
Just cleaning up my email I realized I had missed this email about the
New School/FemTechNet project. The announcement and links look well
within Wiki policy parameters of recruiting more editors interested in
a topic and in an area where the Wikimedia Foundation wants more
recruits. It's a
On 10/21/2013 2:41 AM, Sarah Granger wrote:
I could see some women's organizations getting really angry once they
understand the problem, and blaming men for sexism, when the problem,
as all of us on this list know, is much more complex and not an
outright issue like that.
It may not be as
On 10/25/2013 7:35 PM, Risker wrote:
It's controversial because there are women who assumed a male role,
but were definitely women in their personal life. So your definition
there would be to assign them the male gender but the female sex.
And I disagreewhat's being assigned there is sex,
For various reasons I've been studying policies on both community and
arbitration sanctions and looking at lists of such sanctions here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_sanctions#Active_sanctions
Of particular interest is the recent arbitration
On 1/31/2014 8:21 AM, Lennart Guldbrandsson wrote:
Hello,
During the last week or so, Wikimedia Sverige's gendergap project
https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Kvinnor_p%C3%A5_Wikipedia_2013
has had some media attention. We've had some interest from the media
before, mainly before some of
On 5/14/2014 7:05 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote:
Great points Moriel - thanks for contributing to the discussion.
When this mailing list was a hot bed of discussion a few years back a
number of us tossed around the idea about media projects to tackle
systemic bias. Such as photography competitions
an example of topless female cheesecake that IS art and appropriate is here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Currin
Google.images has lots more.
I created the article about his wife artist/sculptor Rachel Feinstein.
He's done a lot of these of his wife and maybe they help expand the
juvenile
Thread: Translating effective methods of dealing with a culture of
bullying from other organisations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Editor_Retention#Translating_effective_methods_of_dealing_with_a_culture_of_bullying_from_other_organisations
Just been too busy with own
On 6/22/2014 7:04 PM, Delphine Ménard wrote:
Hello,
I found this:
http://www.zdnet.com/quoras-misogyny-problem-a-cautionary-tale-730762/
an interesting read.
Cheers,
Delphine
Thanks for this. I wasn't even aware of this site.
There goes the theory that making editors register with
On 6/23/2014 11:45 AM, Kathleen McCook wrote:
There is a tendency of men to disregard women's discussion of issues
that affect them so, yes, men on a list like this can undermine its
purpose.
--Kathleen
FYI, for those who want to read the early archives, they are linked from
the bottom
On 6/23/2014 12:56 PM, Katherine Casey wrote:
Actually, I think there's something to be said for downvoting. Not in
the reddit i disagree sense, but in the slashdot/ meta filter
comments downvoted/flagged past a certain point will be
hidden/deleted sense. It would obviously take a lot of
On 6/23/2014 11:26 AM, Risker wrote:
I
The focus on technology here is very important. Right now, there is
no way for Wikimedians to control from whom they receive email this
user emails, or pings through the notification system. We know that
both have been, and continue to be, vectors for
On 6/23/2014 2:19 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Derric Atzrott
datzr...@alizeepathology.com mailto:datzr...@alizeepathology.com
wrote:
* bring back Wikipedia:Wikiquette_assistance since women may not
want to got to WP:ANI for low grade constant nonsense
On 6/23/2014 1:49 PM, Derric Atzrott wrote:
Studies are useful. This particular study shows promise I think:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_and_Wikipedia For
allies these sorts of things help us understand what we are actually
trying to accomplish and metrics are useful
On 6/23/2014 3:17 PM, Derric Atzrott wrote:
Maybe it would be worth making threads for some of these ideas. If no
one else does, I'd be happy to.
*Threads here? Like proposals that could be worked over and brought to
our various wikis? That's what we need to do. I re-named one thread
On 6/24/2014 4:02 PM, Kevin Gorman wrote:
If there is a problematic situation that the list moderators have
missed (which are currently me, Sue Gardner - who tends to be busy
enough to not be an active moderator, and Liz Kent,) I would encourage
anyone concerned about it to bring it to our
On 6/25/2014 11:50 PM, Sarah wrote:
We've got Wikipedia:Gendergap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Gendergap that we could do
something with, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic
bias/Gender bias task force
Re: the below, yes, i was blocked in a situation I thought was biased
compared to other blocks I've seen. (I didn't mention that originally it
was a six month block but the community of mostly guys thought that was
grossly unfair and it was reduced to two weeks.)
However, in general wikipedia
Actually that wasn't too bad a closing reply, since too often real
complaints are just ignored and there is no close.
Also, the good news is that *if* someone on wikipedia had linked to that
article and said that Sue Gardner is not good like this article says
blah blah, there might be some
On 7/3/2014 1:40 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
The problem on en.wiki at least is that a vocal minority effectively
prevent any enforcement of the civility policy.
The other problem is double standard enforcement. A bunch of guys may
complain about mild incivility by a female and she'll get
While I've barely had a chance to read through proposal and comments,
I'd like to just ask re the below which applies generally right now:
On 7/7/2014 9:35 AM, Risker wrote:
I know what it's like to have my inbox flooded with requests for
assistance in relation to dispute resolution - just
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
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
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
It ranges all over the place on various issues.
Wikipedia_talk:Administrators'_noticeboard#Where_and_how_to_request_a_Civility_board
I'm now trying to use it for a definitive ruling as to whether the
Gender Gap task force main page/subpage/essay can list particularly
obnoxious examples of
some ideas that came up here in the last week.
We're still building infrastructure, so come on by!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias/Gender_gap_task_force
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Carol Moore dc
carolmoor...@verizon.net mailto:carolmoor
Going through old emails, see I now have info that replies to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias/open_tasks
On 6/26/2014 11:16 AM, Pharos wrote:
I think a version of Marie's idea for an umbrella to help with
diversity-related articles might be
FYI. The C word discussion was prompted by the now closed WP:AN
discussion mentioned previously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Where_and_how_to_request_a_Civility_board
On 7/27/2014 7:51 PM, Kathleen McCook wrote:
These words do cause concern..this
On 7/30/2014 5:51 AM, Marie Earley wrote:
Things that I think might help:
Help pages wise, I'm sure they'd love to see you at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Help
I know I wasted a couple years learning the hard way because the Help
pages didn't seem intuitive enough.
On 7/30/2014 11:39 PM, LB wrote:
Twice during my short discussion about how to start a civility board,
which turned into a long discussion about the word c*nt, an Admin gave
the link to the Commons search results for that word, saying that
showed that the text of the word isn't very
On 7/31/2014 4:32 PM, LB wrote:
I would appreciate some feedback on this discussion, please,
especially from others who have been stalked in real life, harassed
online, or Wikihounded.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/government-funded-study-why-is-wikipedia-sexist/
Government-Funded Study: Why Is Wikipedia Sexist?
$202,000 to address 'gender bias' in world's biggest online encyclopedia
BY: Elizabeth Harrington
Coincidentally(?) even as we're trying to get the Task Force more
.
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Sarah Stierch
sarah.stie...@gmail.com mailto:sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote:
This is amazing.
That's a lot of money.
Sarah
On Aug 1, 2014 6:04 AM, Carol Moore dc carolmoor...@verizon.net
mailto:carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote:
http
On 8/2/2014 1:37 AM, Keilana wrote:
To briefly go back to what Sarah and Marie have said, I do find that
in person hand-holding and social support are the most effective
factors in getting women to stick around. I don't know how to
translate that from the real-world environment I teach newbies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Rebooted_discussion
This whole topic is going hot on heave on his talk page, starting with
his proposal which I mention in my response on the proposalbelow:
What if it was far more limited: /WMF hires mediators to do
mediation and to
Reading through a 2011 post by a woman who quit because she didn't need
the grief I was thinking about why guys keep editing despite it. And
it occurred to me men are taught to take the pain, pretend it doesn't
hurt, man up.
In the ongoing discussion of civility on Jimbo Wales talk page I
On 8/6/2014 2:34 PM, Michael J. Lowrey wrote:
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Carol Moore dc carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote:
Reading through a 2011 post by a woman who quit because she didn't need the
grief I was thinking about why guys keep editing despite it. And it
occurred to me men
On 8/8/2014 11:28 AM, Tim Davenport wrote:
Ironically, all reference to Caitlin Dewey's ''Washington Post'' piece
cited by Ms. Stierch has been swept away from the En-WP article
[[Gender bias on Wikipedia]] by a tag-team.
Tim Davenport /// Carrite
Corvallis, OR
Similarly there's support
On 8/12/2014 1:39 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote:
Cynicism can be a powerful tool. And you aren't the first person to
tell a shitstarter like me that ;-)
OK, in that vein, first, are we talking about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help/clickthrough
I hate chatting myself so already
that
ostensibly is for dealing with the problem.
On 8/12/2014 2:56 PM, Carol Moore dc wrote:
On 8/12/2014 1:39 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote:
Cynicism can be a powerful tool. And you aren't the first person to
tell a shitstarter like me that ;-)
OK, in that vein, first, are we talking about
As I've mentioned, the biggest problem we're having now is male attack
posts, female complaints about such attacks, generally
disruptive/tendentious threads which really are driving off people who
join the project, probably look at the page, and quickly leave.
I started this thread.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Carolmooredc/My_Sandbox_1
It took me a month to put together, including by rereading 2/3 of
threads here and grabbing links.
The big objection to working to end the gender gap has been that there's
no proof it exists/its important/we can change it/etc. I do
On 8/28/2014 12:18 PM, Amanda Menking wrote:
This is /fantastic/, Carol! I've been (very slowly) updating
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap. Will you be posting these
resources there, too? If not, may I?
Best,
Amanda
I definitely was going to bring most of this material over. Let's
People in the know can answer when it's covenient next week, but since
it's on my mind, posting now.
As we write on Gender Gap Task Force main page: In 2014 Wikipedia
co-founder [[Jimmy Wales]] said the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] was
doubling down its efforts to reach that goal and would be
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Disruption_of_Wikiproject
After multiple complaints by other editors about this, I decided to
bring an ANI. It might not be the best constructed one possible. And
maybe I'm not the best person to do it, being a
Frankly, given the hostility to the Gender Gap project, I have to wonder
about this Hashtag effort.
Lightbreather quoted some obnoxious guy statements a month ago out of
her own account and was roundly criticized. Forum shopping and
canvassing issues were raised while others applauded it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive853#Disruption_of_Wikiproject
There will clearly never be a consensus for any administrative action to
be taken with respect to this incident, therefore this discussion only
continues to serve as a
Wikipedia and the war on women’s dignity
http://wikipediocracy.com/2014/09/07/wikipedia-and-the-war-on-womens-dignity/
This article mentions an individual who's caused problems at the Gender
Gap task force.
Off wiki sites engaging in outing is, like hashtags, a two edged sword.
It can be
/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive835#Harassment
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Carol Moore dc
carolmoor...@verizon.net mailto:carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote:
Frankly, given the hostility to the Gender Gap project, I have to
wonder about this Hashtag effort.
Lightbreather
On Sep 10, 2014 8:41 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com
mailto:nawr...@gmail.com wrote
Hi Sarah, I'm sorry if I was unclear. I was understanding Carol as
saying that there were sexist comments in the ANI she linked (where
Andreas' quoted comment was found). I read the entire AN/I thread and
the
Moore dc
carolmoor...@verizon.net mailto:carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote:
Wikipedia and the war on women’s dignity
http://wikipediocracy.com/2014/09/07/wikipedia-and-the-war-on-womens-dignity/
This article mentions an individual who's caused problems at the
Gender Gap task force
The Resources page links to forty-eight mainstream and tech articles
with another 30 or 40 reprints or summaries of those in smaller
mainstream publications. The fourteen blog and other entries are just a
smattering of the higher quality blog and activist commentary on
Wikipedia. So there is
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