Re: [Gendergap] Consent for photographs on Commons

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: Here's something we might do though. Addition of any image which violates anyone's privacy to any article can be suppressed on the English Wikipedia. Using this policy: Removal of non-public personal information, such

Re: [Gendergap] Kaja Foglio

Unfortunately, I've known Phil and Kaja for years, so I'm a little reluctant to touch it. Still, I'll see what I can do. On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, A fellow woman who Wikis sent me a link to Girl Genius Webcomic's facebook page.

Re: [Gendergap] Wikifashion

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/students-startup-weaves-a-web-that-keeps-growing-20110914-1k9hi.html http://wikifashion.com/wiki/Main_Page

Re: [Gendergap] Wikifashion

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: I do like this though (scroll down to badges), not the portraits..but the round badges. I'd love to see something like this developed for Wikipedia. I'd have them on my tumblr, etc.

Re: [Gendergap] 13 year old joins WP Pornography?

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Entertaining...bizarre...scary...odd? Real? fake? Don't get me wrong. If Wikipedia was around when I was 14, I so would have joined WP:Feminism. But, I was a 14 year old riot grrrl using BBSes. ;-) --

Re: [Gendergap] Nudity vs Islam in Western Europe

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: Of course the Christian Bible still says that women are subservient to their husbands (as Michelle Bachmann recently reminded us). It also endorses slavery, says that adulterers must be put to death, and requires men

Re: [Gendergap] Nudity vs Islam in Western Europe

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote: Your religion includes  Roman Catholicism, the Church of Latter Day Saints, Christian Scientists, Watchtower Society, Russian Orthodox, Anglican, Coptic, Quakers, and Amish? Christianity, like Islam, has a lot of branches

Re: [Gendergap] Geek girl smash

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Oh lonely nerds...reminds me of high school. ::rolls a 10 sided to help close the gap:: -Sarah Back in the day, I was the Wise Old Man (early 20s) who dungeonmastered for a bunch of high-school boys in the Nashville

Re: [Gendergap] Supporting Campus Ambassador programs [Fwd: Issue of Copy-Pasting]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: I took some time last week and actually went through the female editors (many of the students openly identify their real names and/or genders) participating in class programs. 1) Most don't edit Wikipedia after the

Re: [Gendergap] anonymous (street meat)

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: I looked at the discussion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Anonymous_(Street_Meat)) and didn't see personal remarks or innuendo. Can you point me to them? On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Migdia

Re: [Gendergap] Please remove my comments including this one

Is there no way to undo this, Nathan? Sarah? I will readily admit that I DID NOT understand that posts to this list were public posts, and my participation would have been shaped by such an awareness. On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Nathan wrote: Unfortunately the list is public (there is a

Re: [Gendergap] [Foundation-l] Fundraising is for men

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:23 AM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: Sure. For your information, this mailing list is a insult to the real excluded people. Why is this... individual on this mailing list, if they despise our very reason for existing? -- Michael J. Orange Mike Lowrey When I get a

Re: [Gendergap] Techies You Decide! You're either a feminist or a misogynist - by Trevor Owens

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Trevor Owens, a colleague of mine in the DC GLAM world has written a nice and honest blog about open source and feminism. It talks about the fear women have of representing themselves or writing like themselves

Re: [Gendergap] I'm not sure which is more depressing

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: And I keep saying If you want to talk about this, I look forward to talking about it with you at Wikimania, and then they all get scared and run into the corner. Perhaps they fear the wrath, but hey, if you're going

Re: [Gendergap] I'm at WisCon, and this is a paper I've got the author promising to send me when it's finalized

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Joseph Reagle joseph.2...@reagle.org wrote: On 05/26/2012 06:46 PM, Michael J. Lowrey wrote: The author, as I said, has agreed to send me a copy of the final paper, so that I may share it with the GENDERGAP folks, as I feel it's deeply relevant to our task

Re: [Gendergap] Do inconsistent GA standards discourage people from participating in GA?

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote: This is a topic that has come up at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_biaspe=1#Possible_systemic_bias_at_Good_Article_Reviews Do people have similar experiences?

Re: [Gendergap] Free as in sexist? Free culture and the gender gap by Joseph Reagle

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Joseph Reagle released his new paper - Free as in sexist? Free culture and the gender gap. Lots of talk about Wikipedia, and a few familiar names cited in it (Kat Walsh, Sue, SlimVirgin, among others). Did you

Re: [Gendergap] Free as in sexist? Free culture and the gender gap by Joseph Reagle

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Joseph Reagle joseph.2...@reagle.org wrote: That said, something that affected my thinking on the geek/autism/gender issue was that the differences between genders might not be as great as we originally thought, or, it's more complicated than we thought.

Re: [Gendergap] #askawikiwoman anything about Wikipedia on Thursday

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Thursday, Dr. Adrianne Wadewitz (User:Wadewitz) will be participating in our first #askawikiwoman event on Twitter. This event encourages people to ask short questions about Wikipedia (about editing it,

Re: [Gendergap] My second Wikipedia article: Sarah Stierch

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? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Stierch It's only my

Re: [Gendergap] My second Wikipedia article: Sarah Stierch

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Carol Moore DC carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote: Looks like we're keeping Sarah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Sarah_Stierch Decision:Keep I'll repeat here what I said during the discussion: I'd like to say how delighted I am in

Re: [Gendergap] Joseph Reagle on Wikipedia's category taxonomy

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Michael, I have to say that I find your comment offensive. NOBODY expects to be denigrated on Wikipedia, and being privileged is no excuse for doing so. This is EXACTLY the kind of behaviour this list was created to try to

[Gendergap] WisCon?

Anybody else going to be at WisCon next weekend? It's where I learned of Wikipedia (it's Laura Quilter's fault), and certainly one of the best places on the planet to discuss Gendergap-related issues. -- Michael J. Orange Mike Lowrey When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I

[Gendergap] Marie Curie fellowships in the multi-disciplinary skills, technologies, theories, and methods of digital scholarly editing

The Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT) offers 12 to early stage researchers (ESRs) for a period of 3 years and 5 Marie Curie fellowships to experienced researchers (ERs) for a period of 12 to 20 months. Fellowships are now open for applications. For details visit:

Re: [Gendergap] Learn to code events in California subject to regulation?

At Hackbright Academy, it's $15,000 for a 10 week program At Hack Reactor, where tuition costs over $17,000 We are clearly not the target here; these scams are. On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote: Leigh, Thanks for this. I looked at the agency's

[Gendergap] 19th Century Indian women who attended med school in the U.S.

http://scroll.in/article/remarkable-photos-of-19th-century-indian-women-in-us-medical-school?id=659624 Surely at least one of these is notable? -- Michael J. Orange Mike Lowrey When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes. -- Desiderius Erasmus

Re: [Gendergap] Rebirthing PAIN or something like it - and c*nt talk

My British contacts insist that the term cunt as an insult is not sexist in usage or intent. Vulgar, but not sexist. On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 4:02 PM, LB lightbreath...@gmail.com wrote: One of my hurdles as an editor is incivility: a deficiency of it in others and, according to some of them,

Re: [Gendergap] Sexualized environment on Commons

IRC is almost embarrassingly old technology; Wikimedia Foundation projects are the only place I've seen it mentioned in the last five years or more. On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: We already have #wikipedia-en-help which is remarkably good for a volunteer

Re: [Gendergap] Sexualized environment on Commons

...@gmail.com wrote: You might be surprised how widely and how much Freenode is used for open source projects. The Blender main and dev channels were even more active than English Wikipedia's equivalents when I visited a few days ago. Pine On Aug 2, 2014 6:38 PM, Michael J. Lowrey orangem

Re: [Gendergap] Sexualized environment on Commons

to supporting people who haven't quite passed the barrier to editing Wikipedia. And expecting people to want to join the ranks through OTRS emails surely isn't the ultimate goal.. -Sarah On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Michael J. Lowrey orangem...@gmail.com wrote: That's exactly my point

Re: [Gendergap] Do male editors Man up to take pain of editing?

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 are taught to take the pain, pretend it doesn't

[Gendergap] What we are up against

https://storify.com/JessicaValenti/what-happens-when-a-woman-writer-asks-a-question-o I don't have words for this, just prayer for the souls of the idiots involved. -- Michael J. Orange Mike Lowrey When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes. --

Re: [Gendergap] CommonsPorn is now following you on Twitter - NSFW

It's part of an effort by some crusader to shame the WMF into cracking down on the Commons by trolling for moral-panic media crusades. On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: It is NOT SAFE FOR WORK (aka NSFW) I received a notice of this and carefully

Re: [Gendergap] Diversity training for functionaries

I'd be more than delighted to participate in such a thing, if I ever got the money together to actually go to a Wikimania (see the article Scott Walker (politician) for why that's unlikely to happen). On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: While it might be suitable

Re: [Gendergap] Thank someone today.

Although I was ranting earlier today about the attaboy culture of meaningless little rewards and certificates that corporations substitute for any substantive kind of reward, like pay or better treatment, I concur with your message. If it's a good edit, we need to cultivate that kind of thing by

Re: [Gendergap] Ruth Barrett bio

I am! > I was sure I'd read it already was discussed by Time or something. > > I'm sure that the bio will be quickly deleted, even after the book > published and reviewed, while thousands of male bios with no refs survive. > Sigh... > > On 6/26/2016 9:45 PM, Michael J.

Re: [Gendergap] Ruth Barrett bio

having journal access configured. I > seriously doubt the article would've challenged if it were about a dude. > > If you're going to tag something as non-notable, you should probably take > two minutes before doing so. > > ---- > Kevin Gorman > > On Sun, Jun 26, 201

Re: [Gendergap] Ruth Barrett bio

The article as written contains no assertions, plausible or otherwise, of notability. It reeks with redlinks and self-published "sources". On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Carol Moore dc wrote: > It looks like her bio is being challenged just as the book she edited is

Re: [Gendergap] Firefighter woman suicide after online harassment

I'm sure the a**hole who runs that website thinks of himself as "edgy" and "provocative" and "hard-core": three code words, far too often, for "privileged, arrogant and bitter white male". On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Neotarf wrote: > “I was alarmed and wanted to let the