Re: [Gendergap] Cross-dressing and masculinity

2016-05-02 Thread Ryan Kaldari
On the subject of masculinity, the English Wikipedia article on masculinity mentions absolutely nothing about female masculinity. There is no mention of butches, tomboys, drag kings, etc. This seems to be a pretty huge hole in the article and a good example of Wikipedia's systemic bias. There's an

Re: [Gendergap] Cross-dressing and masculinity

2016-05-02 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I added a few sentences on female masculinity to get things started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculinity#Masculinity_in_women Feel free to add more! On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On the subject of masculinity, the English Wikipedi

Re: [Gendergap] U.S. government website for International Women of Courage Award is down

2017-02-01 Thread Ryan Kaldari
It looks like the main page for the International Women of Courage Award has been moved to https://www.state.gov/s/gwi/iwoc/index.htm. Unfortunately, it seems to no longer have any actual information. I've never heard of a requirement for the U.S. government to archive all of its web pages, nor

Re: [Gendergap] Craigslist founder donates $500K to curb Wikipedia trolls - Email filters?

2017-02-09 Thread Ryan Kaldari
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 3:44 PM, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... > > The first would be to allow editors to set their email to only receive > from confirmed or even extended confirmed accounts. This would be invisible > to new editors, they'd just not see the *email

Re: [Gendergap] Gendergap Digest, Vol 70, Issue 9

2016-11-26 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Any articles or topic areas in particular? > On Nov 26, 2016, at 8:53 AM, clar...@yahoo.com wrote: > > I have encountered a definite upswing in hostile aggressive POV-pushing by > alt-right editors. > > >> On 11/25/2016 7:00 AM, gendergap-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: >> Send Gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Need "Toxic masculinity" article

2016-11-01 Thread Ryan Kaldari
The term came from the men's movement, not the men's rights movement. Agree it could use an article, as it's been around for a while and should easily pass WP:NEO. Someone may want to suggest it at WikiProject Gender Studies or WikiProject Feminism as well. > On Nov 1, 2016, at 9:16 AM, Carol

Re: [Gendergap] the poem gap

2017-05-11 Thread Ryan Kaldari
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 7:12 PM, J Hayes <slowki...@gmail.com> wrote: > maybe we should do an literature editathon? > Perhaps it's time for a Literature+Feminism editathon (to spin off from the Art+Feminism theme). > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkal

[Gendergap] the poem gap

2017-05-10 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Just out of curiosity, I used the Wikidata Query Service to see how many poems by women are in Wikidata. The answer is 5. If you do the same query for men, you get 255. If you restrict the queries to poems that have articles on English Wikipedia you get 1 and 57, i.e. according to Wikidata there

Re: [Gendergap] the poem gap

2017-05-11 Thread Ryan Kaldari
"*Tänk dig en värld där varje människa på den här planeten får fri > tillgång till **världens samlade kunskap* > <http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Huvudsida>*. Det är vårt mål.*" > Jimmy Wales > -- > *Från:* Gendergap <gendergap-bo

[Gendergap] article for first women's political party in Pakistan is about to be deleted

2017-06-26 Thread Ryan Kaldari
The article for the first women's political party in Pakistan is about to be deleted, unless someone can find some sources for it.[1][2] Urdu-language speakers would be especially useful for this effort. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_Women_Muslim_League 2.

[Gendergap] more women's voices

2017-10-29 Thread Ryan Kaldari
It would be nice to have some women weighing on this debate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Abortion#RfC_regarding_video ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please

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