Re: [Gendergap] Article about super-spreader might need help (enWP)

2014-05-08 Thread Marielle Volz
Hi Jane, (Perhaps we should have this discussion on the grant page itself as well but) I do want to say that I disagree that this situation proves that step-wise editing might not help shy people. The student in this case chose to do their editing in a way which was comfortable for them. And the

[Gendergap] Preprint on cross-cultural historical figures in Wikipedia, includes gender breakdowns

2014-06-08 Thread Marielle Volz
Interactions of cultures and top people of Wikipedia from ranking of 24 language editions http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7183 ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] men on lists

2014-06-29 Thread Marielle Volz
If you ask a black artist to paint a picture of a man they will most likely paint a picture of a black man. A tangent- but this is not strictly true! See: http://mediadiversified.org/2013/12/07/you-cant-do-that-stories-have-to-be-about-white-people/ On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Marie Earley

Re: [Gendergap] Visiting the Feminist library in London

2014-08-06 Thread Marielle Volz
Just an erratum; the lunch is on Sunday. On Aug 6, 2014 1:31 AM, Sanja Pavlović sanja.pavlo...@vikimedija.org wrote: Hi, everyone! For all of you who are in London for Wikimania - I would very like to meet you all :) I look forward the lunch we will have on Saturday! Some girls and me were

Re: [Gendergap] Why Women Have No Time For Wikipedia (WPO article)

2014-08-27 Thread Marielle Volz
The math behind that little statistic was so terrible I had to write a blog post about it. http://blog.mvolz.com/2014/08/what-percentage-of-wikipedia-editors-are-mums/ First off, in their blog post, Andreas Collida multiply the percentage of contributor respondents who were women (12.64%) by

[Gendergap] Re: List update

2021-05-11 Thread Marielle Volz
Welcome back! Just to piggyback on this post, I'd also like to let people know that we've recently lost two editors who were a significant part of working on content gaps. Flyer22, who made significant contributions to articles on women's health, died in January: