you might be a good candidate for any of the roles
currently open for election. Women have been important participants in all
of these roles, and it would be good to keep it that way. Women from
outside of North America/Europe would add even more to the diversity of
these groups.
Risker/Anne
On 20
the opposes
are in any of these elections for me as well.
Risker/Anne
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of the Board of Trustees have
stepped down in the past because of the time commitment expectations
(including several full weekends a year, a retreat, attendance at
Wikimania, and participation in online/teleconference meetings).
Risker/Anne
On 6 June 2015 at 15:48, Carol Moore dc carolmoor
behaviour is very much
unappreciated, I'm not sure the legal systems of most democratic countries
will be able to solve it.
Risker/Anne
On 27 May 2015 at 00:21, Neotarf neot...@gmail.com wrote:
This might also be a good time to mention the conversation about
harassment on the recent Inspire grant
, but those invitations are much more narrowly focused and
the potential invitees have been communicated with much more directly.
Perhaps Valerie or someone else directly involved in the seminar can advise
if all the seats are full and, if not, how many more applicants they are
seeking.
Risker/Anne
for
their dedication and devotion to making the world a better place for women
in the technology industry - whether as casual users, content contributors,
developers, or in any other role.
Risker/Anne
On 4 August 2015 at 10:29, Carol Moore dc carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote:
They did great work. Assumedly more
in saying whether they felt they came away from
the session with new tools or skills that they feel will be useful?
I'm going to be honest, the silence about this well-supported experiment
has me very curious.
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attendance.
There was a post event survey of participants so there may be some
publicity as to what the participants thought of it.
Another correspondent was kind enough to link me to the basic materials
for the workshop, which of course the Ada Initiative has given in other
settings.
Risker/Anne
On 24
set, I've always been
pleasantly surprised at how non-marginalized older Wikimedians are - I
found less age bias at Wikimedia events than I have in almost all other
similar events.
I do encourage those who can attend events, whether local, national or
international, to do so.
Risker/Anne
ey don't belong...like Commons and
Wikipedia. Joe Jobs can sometimes have more than one target.
Risker/Anne
On 22 October 2015 at 12:37, Sarah (SV) <slimvir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> WSC, the evidence as to who posted the porn images was, I would say,
> conclusive. We nevertheless ended up with
such activities is more likely to
result in those individuals leaving the project entirely rather than making
great decisions (other than the obvious "this is stupid, ban them all so I
can get back to my categorization"). In fact, I suspect that a jury system
made up of conscripted jurors wou
egular classes on Skype for any Wikipedian who wants to sign up.
>
This should go at the Idea Lab. In fact, I think it has before. It would
fit into one of the hypothetical "strategies" that the WMF is bandying
about right now, although in fairness they've been bandying it about for a
idn't know how to get or read the evidence;
> Also they could be given the sort of training that UK magistrates go on.
> Question to Risker, what sort of training do they currently undertake?
>
>
In theory, the community selects as arbitrators individuals whom it
believs have al
ontributors who have no taste for the drama.
Risker
On 22 October 2015 at 16:10, Daniel and Elizabeth Case <
danc...@frontiernet.net> wrote:
>
> >We have to do something. Suggestion: women coming before the committee
> could require that certain >committee members not partici
made
some interesting proposals in another thread that have the chance to
develop some momentum if nurtured carefully. This...well, that's an awful
lot of money.
Risker/Anne
On 22 October 2015 at 19:08, Carol Moore dc <carolmoor...@verizon.net>
wrote:
> It seems like every time I ask this q
://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Advocacy/Citations_on_Harassment_and_Behavioral_Issues
There's this belief that either the WMF or Arbcom can control the behaviour
of people on every one of Wikipedia's 20 million pages. It isn't gonna
happen no matter what.
Risker/Anne
in pretty much the same way, using
essentially standardized formats.
Risker/Anne
On 6 November 2015 at 06:16, Marie Earley <eir...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> As much as I like to see an event like this happening, and the Women in
> Science event, I'm left wondering why there are no si
the utterings of someone this
mentally imbalanced to show that there is a gender gap *anywhere*, let
alone here. This guy was a powder keg, and he was striking out at anyone
whom he believed had caused him harm. I do not believe that his actions
were motivated by sexism.
Risker/Anne
On 27 August 2015 at 03
You linked to a discussion on the ideas lab which you stated included 26
people speaking out against sexual harassment. Most of those people are not
indeffed or sanctioned in any way. Many of them are administrators or hold
other permissions.
Risker
On 29 September 2015 at 08:25, Neotarf <n
e
that one of the shortcuts is [[WP:SUICIDE]].
I have removed that as a "Main article" because it's not really about
harassment.
Risker/Anne
On 26 September 2015 at 11:52, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> @Carol Moore, I believe that link is about suicide threats. Did you mea
attention on the people who have
control of the money and persuade them this is something more important
than...I don't know, whether notifications are flagged using one tag or
two...
Risker/Anne
On 26 September 2015 at 16:29, J Hayes <slowki...@gmail.com> wrote:
> rupert,
> i and carol hav
Community Advocacy team) to
cover the entire world.
Risker/Anne
On 26 September 2015 at 13:59, Carol Moore dc <carolmoor...@verizon.net>
wrote:
> I was referring to threats to kill someone that clearly come from a known
> Wikipedia handle or editor, or, as in my case, a person who i
or sanctioned, let alone indeffed. Please stop spreading such nasty memes.
It is hurtful.
Risker
On 28 September 2015 at 20:20, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> @Risker: "I have a simple question to ask: How many people in this thread
> have publicly or privately requested
their real name, and can
provide them with enough information to get a warrant if it's needed (e.g.,
IP addresses, links to the threat itself - which will normally have been
suppressed, etc). And it is rare for police to take email threats
seriously - Gamergate should be enough of an example there.
:-) I am beginning to wonder if being a straight, cis, monogamous married
woman puts me into a microscopic minority on Wikimedia projects. :-)
Risker
On 24 November 2015 at 13:16, Keilana <keilanaw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Fae,
>
> Opabinia regalis and I both ident
Sharing with this list.
Risker
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From: Siko Bouterse <sboute...@wikimedia.org>
Date: 11 February 2016 at 20:24
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Another goodbye
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear friends and colleague
it would have been published if written by
any male editor, though Rob could tell us otherwise - but even if they did
publish it, the reaction would have been infinitely more severe if not for
the name of the author.
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been written by
roughly 95% of the active editorship. I'm relatively certain if I'd
written exactly the same piece, they would have published it - but if you
did, Slowking, it would not have seen the light of day.
Risker/Anne
On 24 February 2016 at 13:59, J Hayes <slowki...@gmail.com>
place to work. Keilana's actions have
encouraged people to make it less so.
Risker/Anne
On 22 February 2016 at 12:46, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> @Risker, the double standard is that several individuals dropped f-bombs
> on the page, but only the woman got tsked. Talk page
.
Risker
On 24 February 2016 at 22:20, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> What I don't understand is if administrators like Risker and Mike Peel are
> so concerned about civility on Wikipedia that they object to Keliana's
> swearing, why aren't they the people that are mak
On 22 February 2016 at 13:06, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> @Risker, if your high school student are that benign, perhaps I will move
> to Canada.
>
>
:-) Even though it's a big urban centre that takes the word
"multicultural" to a whole new level,
While I believe that the issues raised in the changes in the Board of
Trustees are important and worthy of attention for many reasons, it does
not appear to me that there are issues specific to (or particularly
relevant to) the gender gap, except in a very, very peripheral way.
Risker/Anne
On 26
Is it a double standard? If that page hadn't been written by Keilana,
would it have been published as is?
Perhaps you're right, it *is* a double standard. Just not quite the one
some think it would be.
Risker/Anne
On 21 February 2016 at 08:31, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Op
uot; is a good
thing.
Risker
On 21 February 2016 at 18:19, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >"Badass" isn't a compliment.
>
> And "cunt" is a friendly term of camaraderie in British English.
> Apparently I just don't have a good command of the
I dunno, Ryan. The last time someone called me a badass, it was very
definitely meant as an insult cloaked as a compliment. I would not subject
any article subject to such an adjective.
RIsker/Anne
On 21 February 2016 at 19:12, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb
that people who used to be in the "let's make this a more
pleasant and positive place to do our work" have gone over to the other
side.
Risker
On 21 February 2016 at 19:38, Pete Forsyth <petefors...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Risker, I want to be clear:
>
> It's not that I
ot closely associated with behavioural
change. It's only a step above "create a policy". What works is regular
reinforcement when behaviour lapses, and empowerment of people to reinforce
the desired behaviour.
Risker/Anne
On 3 May 2016 at 15:04, WereSpielChequers <werespielch
. They are,
however, required, to archive all pages, so they should be somewhere - not
necessarily easy to find, but somewhere within the US government sites.
Risker/Anne
(Who lives in Canada, which does not have the same applicable legislation
as exists in the US to require the federal government to retain
y the list owners themselves already, but the
contents are usually far more confidential than would be appropriate for a
moderator without the same level of access as the list itself.
I do like the idea of being able to block emails from certain accounts or
to only accept them from certain accounts
On 12 February 2017 at 17:22, Jonathan Cardy <werespielchequ...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thanks Risker,
>
> Clearly not everyone would opt into it if there was an option to do so. Do
> you object to the idea of developing an option to opt in to email filtering?
>
&
of saying that, at least
up until 2008, it was generally assumed that all RFA candidates were male
unless they had disclosed otherwise.
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60%. Sometimes the reason was
absurd, but more often it was a justified concern (e.g., absence of
reliable sources for key facts or notability) that was just not addressed.
Only a very small percentage (under 5% as I recall) had the PROD tag
removed and then someone took the article to AfD.
Risker
This may be of interest to some members of this list.
Risker/Anne
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From: Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org>
Date: 17 March 2017 at 01:06
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Hardware donation program
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <
I had the opportunity to meet Monika at Wikimania, and poked just a little
bit at this project. It looks really interesting! Thanks Monika for
telling us about it.
Risker/Anne
On 9 August 2017 at 10:56, Monika Sengul-Jones <jones.mon...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello all -
>
> I'm M
escription in the Wikipedia article to which the term is currently linked
in the "affiliation" parameter.
Risker/Anne
On 19 July 2017 at 19:34, Marie Earley <eir...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Can someone look at this for me?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Women%27s_Eq
is...well, factless, until you can show us some facts.
Risker/Anne
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On 7 August 2017 at 14:11, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So
on the ability to
fight such harassment, especially when they seem so absurd. Simply put,
it's factless allegation, or what certain sectors of the American public
have come to term "fake news". Please retract your statement.
Risker/Anne
On 7 August 2017 at 08:21, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com
start reciprocating.
Risker/Anne
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On 26 April 2017 at 13:27, Jessy D. King <jessy.d.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new to this list, this is my first post.
>
> If Wikipedia is a boy's club, Wi
Noting that the discussion has now closed with the video being removed.
Risker/Anne
On 29 October 2017 at 14:50, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> It would be nice to have some women weighing on this debate:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Abortion#RfC_reg
urage anyone who would like to leave a
message of condolence to do so there.
Risker/Anne
On Wed, 12 May 2021 at 05:21, Željko Blaće wrote:
> Hey Folx -
> I am new to the list and relatively new to organizing in this spectrum and
> context. My work is mainly in bringing queer, but also fe
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