[Gendergap] What to do about sexism when we see it on WP?

2011-03-17 Thread Sarah
something, and if so what and how, or is it best to ignore? Sarah ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] What to do about sexism when we see it on WP?

2011-03-18 Thread Sarah
something to the civility policy about sexual innuendo. I think so long as it's low key we could manage that fairly easily (famous last words). Sarah ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

[Gendergap] Free Credo Reference accounts for Wikipedians

2011-03-20 Thread Sarah
served. The list will open on Wednesday, March 23 at 22:00 UTC, and will remain open for seven days. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CREDO Feel free to add your name even if you're lower on the list than the 400th, in case people ahead of you aren't eligible. Good luck! Sarah http

Re: [Gendergap] Woman posting on Wikipedia about knitting, needs investigating

2011-04-13 Thread Sarah
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 13:35, Sarah Stierch sa...@sarahstierch.com wrote: Wow, the talk page is insane, and is one reason why I gave up in the beginning. I might take a stab on my own userspace to re-write this article. I'm somewhat addicted fixing crappy BLP's. Perhaps I'll send it your way

Re: [Gendergap] Woman posting on Wikipedia about knitting, needs investigating

2011-04-14 Thread Sarah
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 14:21, Sarah Stierch sa...@sarahstierch.com wrote: Hi. I actually brought up the issues with the references. While the second article about the car is not self-published, it does not state in the article that Danese is related to the owner of the vehicle or is named

Re: [Gendergap] [Commons-l] Fwd: Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

2011-05-16 Thread Sarah
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:36, Sarah Stierch sa...@sarahstierch.com wrote: If anyone is interested in contributing to the decisions made about what goes up on the front page of Commons, please visit here, I just found out about this today, and I look forward to contributing: http

Re: [Gendergap] [Commons-l] Fwd: Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

2011-05-18 Thread Sarah
that such remarks are discounted when discussions are evaluated. How do you know the comments were discounted, Fred? And that's not really the point anyway. The comments were made. People felt it was okay to make them. That's the culture we're trying to change. Sarah

Re: [Gendergap] [Commons-l] Fwd: Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

2011-05-18 Thread Sarah
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 09:45, Béria Lima beria.l...@wikimedia.pt wrote: In this case, Sarah, change the policy of what should be in Main Page, or change the Sexual policy (in discussion by the way). Create a cruzade against that image would not change anything. And btw, take political

Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

2011-05-22 Thread Sarah
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 16:32, Bob Sponge metzgerhandwerk.hat.tradit...@googlemail.com wrote: dear sarah i want to give you a small feedback about your entries here about a comment i did. (i found this list with a notice on my userpage in the german wikipedia) Pro i like her big tits

[Gendergap] Question for the Foundation about photographs of women

2011-09-02 Thread Sarah
? Any information from the Foundation about the legal situation, and what Foundation policy is, would be very helpful. Sarah ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Question for the Foundation about photographs of women

2011-09-02 Thread Sarah
deals only with images where the subject is unidentifiable. Even there, it's not clear what a woman is meant to do if she finds an inappropriate image of herself on a Wikimedia project. But if she's not identifiable -- if it's a body part -- it seems there's nothing at all she can do. Sarah

Re: [Gendergap] Question for the Foundation about photographs of women

2011-09-02 Thread Sarah
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 21:33, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: I also think (after working in the fashion and photography private sector for almost 10 years before non-profits) that model releases are as important as OTRS copyright releases when it comes to sexual content

Re: [Gendergap] Pregnancy article lead-image RFC

2011-09-06 Thread Sarah
, then in maintaining them on the pages. Sarah The concept of being objectified needs to be explained to the community and incorporated into our style guides. This has to make sense rather than being misunderstood. Fred It's the kind of idea that people would become hostile towards, because

Re: [Gendergap] So this is how Commons works?

2011-09-11 Thread Sarah
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 14:53, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: (And yes, I was a little snappy on my nomination (this was my original rager when I nominated a bunch of stuff from the high heels category..)...so no need to reprimand meI've curbed my 'tude!) I love your 'tude

Re: [Gendergap] So this is how Commons works?

2011-09-12 Thread Sarah
get something wrong. This is a good outcome. Sydney Poore Thanks for asking him to reconsider. It would be worth identifying a set of Commons admins who are used to dealing with these issues -- privacy concerns, lack of model consent, possible voyeurism. Sarah

Re: [Gendergap] So this is how Commons works?

2011-09-12 Thread Sarah
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 06:50, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Three more things that I want to state clearly based on these conversations: Commons bases identifiably on the face of an individual. While in many situations, that maybe the only way to identify an individual, when

Re: [Gendergap] Upskirt/downblouse categories (was: Re: So this is how Commons works?)

2011-09-12 Thread Sarah
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:01, Daniel and Elizabeth Case danc...@frontiernet.net wrote: The problem with all of this on Wikimedia is the anonymity factor. People could say I am the model and I hereby give consent. I don't know how we get round that. Sarah Especially when the images

Re: [Gendergap] Upskirt/downblouse categories (was: Re: So this is how Commons works?)

2011-09-12 Thread Sarah
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:06, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: While I support the use of technology, I also fear that people put so much trust into this technology they aren't aware of the lame content being uploaded. They love to reiterate that if the bot approves it it's okay

Re: [Gendergap] Consent for photographs on Commons

2011-09-13 Thread Sarah
That looks good, Ryan. Would it make sense to add something about the release of the image? For example, I personally created this media. All identifiable persons shown specifically consented to this photograph or video being taken and released under a free licence. Sarah On Tue, Sep 13, 2011

Re: [Gendergap] Consent for photographs on Commons

2011-09-14 Thread Sarah
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 09:25, Arnaud HERVE arnaudhe...@x-mail.net wrote: On 14/09/2011 16:56, Sarah wrote: So the problem with the basic consent template as written -- I personally created this media. All identifiable persons shown specifically consented to this photograph or video

[Gendergap] Labiaplasty

2011-09-17 Thread Sarah
would all prefer not to comment. Sarah ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Labiaplasty

2011-09-17 Thread Sarah
they lie outside the range when in fact they're perfectly normal. Sarah ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Black skins

2011-09-20 Thread Sarah
of the iceberg. I may do some work on the article. Any help by editors better qualified than me welcome! I agree about the Black Girls video. My wife showed it to me a few months ago, and it's stayed with me ever since. As for your other point, about unnecessary surgery, Sarah spotted that we

Re: [Gendergap] Gendergap Digest, Vol 9, Issue 5

2011-10-01 Thread Sarah
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 14:25, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On *Sat, 1/10/11, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com* wrote: Sarah, I am not sure what you've been trying to say lately[2]. Rest assured that it made

Re: [Gendergap] Logo on WIkipedia?? Re: Wikipedia: Changing the Ratio

2011-10-01 Thread Sarah
That's a brilliant logo and great post, Amy. Sarah On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 21:14, Amy Senger a...@1x57.com wrote: Hi Carole - I just added the Wikipedia:Change The Ratio logo to Wikicommons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Change_The_Ratio_Logo.jpg Amy -- co-founder, 1X57

Re: [Gendergap] Gendergap Digest, Vol 9, Issue 5

2011-10-01 Thread Sarah
the opposite on Wikipedia -- that women are often referred to as females, rather than women. It reads to my eyes as though a man is regarded as the default human position, and a female is another version. Sarah ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Sarah Stierch on Huffington Post! On why women should care about SOPA and PIPA.

2012-01-18 Thread Sarah
Excellent article, Sarah! On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Christine Meyer christinewme...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, well said and well written. Congrats on this WP-less day. Christine Meyer User:Figureskatingfan On Jan 18, 2012 11:37 AM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote: Subject

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-01 Thread Sarah
are welcome. Regards, emijrp [1] http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wmcharts/wmchart0010.html That's very interesting, thank you (and somewhat depressing). Sarah ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-02 Thread Sarah
to promote the idea that Wikipedia is wonderful. Come and join us! On the other hand, acknowledging the community's problems too openly puts out the opposite of that message. So we end up not getting the kind of all-out, top-down push for community health that we need. Sarah

Re: [Gendergap] Donkey punch

2012-02-14 Thread Sarah
kind of project-wide solution to this kind of thing. Sarah On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Andreas K. jayen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Andreas K. jayen...@gmail.com wrote: My wife pointed

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-06 Thread Sarah
to put someone on moderation). I haven't seen anything of late that would have made me think extra moderation was needed, but I haven't read all threads. I'd be willing, though, to be someone the other mods can run something by. Sarah ___ Gendergap mailing

Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] 2012 Editor survey launched

2012-11-01 Thread Sarah
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote: On 31/10/2012 02:48, Tilman Bayer wrote: Hi, the survey invitation is only shown to logged-in editors in languages where translations of the survey questionnaire exist (with Polish, Portuguese and Italian launching a bit

Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] 2012 Editor survey launched

2012-11-01 Thread Sarah
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 1 November 2012 18:47, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: Are we supposed to be seeing this invitation, or has it not been posted yet? I saw it today, on either meta or Commons (I forget which). Thanks, Sue Hi

Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] 2012 Editor survey launched

2012-11-01 Thread Sarah
I just started filling it out, noticed I'd missed a question, backspaced -- my browser said the last page wasn't available, then when I tried to go forward the next page wasn't available either. So it's gone, and no longer showing up on my Commons watchlist. Sarah On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:12 PM

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

2013-01-21 Thread Sarah
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote: HAHAHA. Yes, page 106. A young unhappy goth with her dad in New Orleans. My necklace spells out riot grrrl. I owe you a beer :) It's a good photograph. You dad looks nice, and you look cool (and nice too). I like

Re: [Gendergap] Final WikiWomen's Collaborative post + end of my fellowship

2013-01-30 Thread Sarah
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to share my report about the WikiWomen's Collaborative with you. It's a project I developed as a way to engage and build community around experienced and potential women editors

Re: [Gendergap] Please welcome Liz Kent Leon, our new co-moderator

2013-03-28 Thread Sarah
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Please welcome Liz Kent Leon, our new co-moderator of the gender gap list. Hi Liz, welcome to the list! Sarah ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Topless image retention -don't give up

2013-04-29 Thread Sarah
, more blatant. Sarah ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Topless image retention -don't give up

2013-04-29 Thread Sarah
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote: On 4/29/13 12:20 PM, Sarah wrote: I was reverted when I tried to remove them all, so I started an RfC on the talk page, and alerted WikiProject Feminism. In turn, the editor who added them (who uses a woman's

Re: [Gendergap] Topless image retention -don't give up

2013-05-02 Thread Sarah
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: But I think it's important to mention it in the context of this thread. It does seem to me that the sexism is getting worse, more blatant

Re: [Gendergap] Topless image retention -don't give up

2013-05-07 Thread Sarah
allow women and men to be represented so differently suggests that Wikipedia has a problem recognizing and dealing with sexism. So the question is why, and how can we change it? Sarah ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Gendergap] Topless image retention -don't give up

2013-05-08 Thread Sarah
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote: Andreas - when you say until the Foundation does something, what are you looking for them to do? You can always directly write the legal team and ask them for input on what they could do regarding your concerns

Re: [Gendergap] Topless image retention -don't give up

2013-05-08 Thread Sarah
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote: Andreas - when you say until the Foundation does something, what are you looking for them to do? You can always directly write the legal team and ask them for input on what they could do regarding your concerns

Re: [Gendergap] Topless image retention -don't give up

2013-05-13 Thread Sarah
not a particularly pleasant experience. I understand why people don't want to get involved. Sarah ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] can the Commons images thread move?

2013-05-14 Thread Sarah
and edges us closer to a solution that would surely be a really good outcome for the list. Sarah ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Topless image retention -don't give up

2013-05-14 Thread Sarah
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.comwrote: Hey Sarah et al On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: I think this is my first Commons deletion nom. I'm trying to act rather than expecting others to do it, but it's

Re: [Gendergap] Topless image retention -don't give up

2013-05-15 Thread Sarah
percentage of the cases we're seeing, where there's no evidence of consent to a release of the kind needed for Commons. Sarah ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

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

2014-05-08 Thread Sarah
helpful, about how to prepare students for assignments on Wikipedia.​ ​Sorry, it's quite a lot to read, but there are some helpful links to other pages.​ Sarah ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Gendergap] Wikiproject? ...Threads on various issues

2014-06-26 Thread Sarah
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Carol Moore dc carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote: 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

Re: [Gendergap] Moderation and the future of Gendergap-L

2014-06-30 Thread Sarah
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote: On Jun 30, 2014 10:27 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: I've never been suspended (whatever that means) by anyone or anything. If you're talking about me..? Before I'm the victim of any BLP violations

Re: [Gendergap] Moderation and the future of Gendergap-L

2014-06-30 Thread Sarah
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote: On Jun 30, 2014 11:14 PM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: ​Jeremy, which quote is this? I recall someone on this list saying that someone called Sarah was suspended (unclear what's meant) for an off-wiki comment

Re: [Gendergap] Addressing incivility (was: men on lists)

2014-07-03 Thread Sarah
probably has enough of an income to consider this, given the potential impact on the atmosphere and editor retention. Sarah​ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] [Spam] Re: Sexualized environment on Commons

2014-07-25 Thread Sarah
to find yourself hovering over a link without intending to, so if you're in an article that contains such links, you can suddenly have images of genitalia on your screen without having clicked on the links that contain them. Sarah On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com

Re: [Gendergap] What's happening at ArbCom re WP:GGTF

2014-11-30 Thread Sarah
, your post was interesting and on-topic. Please don't be discouraged from letting us know about these issues. They have been happening a lot and seem to be increasing. Sarah​ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Gendergap] GGTF talk page

2015-01-02 Thread Sarah
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 6:36 AM, Neotarf neot...@gmail.com wrote: Any journalists in future wanting examples of it need only read those archives and the dispute-resolution threads that failed to deal with it (which one of us ought to compile at some point). An interesting idea. What would

Re: [Gendergap] press coverage of Gamergate arbcom case

2015-01-24 Thread Sarah
more? Sarah ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] press coverage of Gamergate arbcom case

2015-01-23 Thread Sarah
#Guardian_article_about_the_proposed_decision if anyone is interested. Sarah​ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Gendergap] Woman posting on Wikipedia about knitting, needs investigating

2011-04-13 Thread Sarah Stierch
Maybe I'm missing something - what's her username? Sent via iPhone - I apologize in advance for my shortness or errors! :) On Apr 13, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Susan Spencer susan.spen...@gmail.com wrote: Wikipedia editors, Can someone look into Danese's pages please? She probably wouldn't mind

Re: [Gendergap] Woman posting on Wikipedia about knitting, needs investigating

2011-04-13 Thread Sarah Stierch
=Danese_Cooperoldid=348062767 And the most recent removal is: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Danese_Cooperoldid=386051343 On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Sarah Stierchsa...@sarahstierch.com wrote: Maybe I'm missing something - what's her username? Sent via iPhone - I apologize in advance

Re: [Gendergap] Woman posting on Wikipedia about knitting, needs investigating

2011-04-13 Thread Sarah Stierch
=Danese_Cooperoldid=386051343 On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Sarah Stierch sa...@sarahstierch.com mailto:sa...@sarahstierch.com wrote: Maybe I'm missing something - what's her username? Sent via iPhone - I apologize in advance for my shortness or errors

Re: [Gendergap] Woman posting on Wikipedia about knitting, needs investigating

2011-04-13 Thread Sarah Stierch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danese_Cooper I was able to find a citing source about your knitting, but, I can't use the self-published sources about your dads car. Now, if someone wants to interview you and write that article, then sweet, I can use it =) Sarah On 4/13/2011 3:58 PM, Danese

Re: [Gendergap] Woman posting on Wikipedia about knitting, needs investigating

2011-04-14 Thread Sarah Stierch
wants to add the information, go for it. I already did my part to re-write the article, and Fred lent a hand too. :D Sarah On 4/14/2011 3:12 PM, Susan Spencer wrote: Fred, I agree with you. Especially with handkraft information, there won't be 'references'. You can't reference what your

Re: [Gendergap] Woman posting on Wikipedia about knitting, needs investigating

2011-04-14 Thread Sarah Stierch
It does! Thanks fellow-Sarah! To be honest, my early editing experiences often make me a more paranoid when writing BLPs, so perhaps I took the rules too seriously myself! Thank you again, a little guidance and clarity always goes a long way :) Sent via iPhone - I apologize in advance for my

[Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

2011-05-15 Thread Sarah Stierch
This is the kind of imagery I have no desire to see on the front page of Commons. I'm a very liberal person, but, this makes me not want to even allow my MOTHER to use Commons. #wikilove, Sarah -- Wikipedia Regional Ambassador, D.C. Region Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Art Sarah

Re: [Gendergap] [Commons-l] Fwd: Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

2011-05-17 Thread Sarah Stierch
to add you to our HOW-TO gang if you like. =) Sarah On 5/17/2011 8:17 AM, Deanna Zandt wrote: I'd also be interested in contributing-- the BLP experience of last week was incredibly enlightening, and got me thinking about access... having the right key unlocked a wealth of knowledge and aid

[Gendergap] Girls Write Now

2011-05-26 Thread Sarah Stierch
://www.glamwiki.org Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch -- Sarah Stierch Consulting Historical, cultural artistic research, advising event planning. -- http://www.sarahstierch.com

Re: [Gendergap] an example of the unwanted attention problem

2011-08-24 Thread Sarah Stierch
characters) - they assume because of my name I am one thing. The only thing I can do is prove them wrong, including the women sometimes too. I often channel my anger into changing things. But, when I think about my own experiences, I have no idea what to to do about them. -Sarah On Wed, Aug 24, 2011

Re: [Gendergap] an example of the unwanted attention problem

2011-08-25 Thread Sarah Stierch
comments. Sometimes I forget SCA does historical, there is another group that does fantasy. I have friends who do both! (hell, my first job was at a role playing game store in high school. :D) Thanks for the clarification! Sarah -- Michael J. Orange Mike Lowrey a/k/a Lord Inali of Tanasi, G.D.H

Re: [Gendergap] fyi: Gender Bias in Wikipedia and Britannica

2011-09-02 Thread Sarah Stierch
/User:SarahStierch and Sarah Stierch Consulting *Historical, cultural artistic research advising.* -- http://www.sarahstierch.com/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Gendergap] Increasing Visibility of Diversity and Women on Wikipedia

2011-09-03 Thread Sarah Stierch
to share your thoughts and feelings! #wikilove! Sarah -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for the Wikimedia Foundationhttp://www.glamwiki.org Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Arthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch and Sarah Stierch Consulting *Historical, cultural

[Gendergap] Childless couples

2011-09-03 Thread Sarah Stierch
/User:SarahStierch and Sarah Stierch Consulting *Historical, cultural artistic research advising.* -- http://www.sarahstierch.com/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Gendergap] High-heeled shoes as a case study (and what makes me mad about Commons)

2011-09-04 Thread Sarah Stierch
. And I know I come off like a total nut when complaining about Commons, but, I'm getting sick and tired of it. I'm sick and tired of fighting about categories, educational material definitions, and double standards. In a bit of a trollish mood, if you couldn't tell, Sarah We can't walk away

[Gendergap] CFP: From Veiling to Blogging: Women and Media in the Middle East

2011-09-05 Thread Sarah Stierch
/ -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for the Wikimedia Foundationhttp://www.glamwiki.org Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Arthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch and Sarah Stierch Consulting *Historical, cultural artistic research advising

Re: [Gendergap] High-heeled shoes as a case study

2011-09-05 Thread Sarah Stierch
LOL, at least he realizes I'm on a vendetta against crappy profile personal photos too: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Bio_picture.jpg The more people speak out against crap on Commons the more our voices will be heard. ;) On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Sarah

Re: [Gendergap] Sesame Street articles

2011-09-05 Thread Sarah Stierch
surprised that there isn't a Children's Television WikiProject (or task force for WP:Television). I just pulled up the article [[Sesame Street, New York, New York]] and I think I'm going to edit it a bit =) I'm surprised someone hasn't tagged it as missing coordinates ;) -Sarah On Mon, Sep 5

Re: [Gendergap] Pregnancy article lead-image RFC

2011-09-05 Thread Sarah Stierch
Daniel, I totally 3 your use of denial and hostile work environment. Chiming in right now. Been following it since it was posted on WP:Feminism and was sickened by the conversation, so had to move on.. -Sarah On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case danc...@frontiernet.net

Re: [Gendergap] Pregnancy article lead-image RFC

2011-09-06 Thread Sarah Stierch
on iPhoneography, or at least an event that releases all images created CC-BY-A. If I do come across the rare crappy cell phone photo (it is indeed rare), I tag it low quality (if it is) and if we have better images of that subject of better quality, I will nominate it for deletion. Sarah -- GLAMWIKI

Re: [Gendergap] Pregnancy article lead-image RFC and the lack of junk in articles

2011-09-06 Thread Sarah Stierch
medical images are acceptable. Many of us aren't in that environment :) Many of us also like surprises, but not naked surprises (outside of perhaps your love life). Sarah -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for the Wikimedia Foundationhttp://www.glamwiki.org Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives

Re: [Gendergap] So this is how Commons works?

2011-09-11 Thread Sarah Stierch
for uploaders with sexual content making sure they want to do it - And I'll throw in a review of Flickr policy. Sarah On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.comwrote: See the standard for medical images from the American Medical College of Genetics http://www.acmg.net

[Gendergap] Tagging bot?

2011-09-12 Thread Sarah Stierch
this to the larger community. (And the pros/cons of course). -Sarah -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for Wikimedia http://www.glamwiki.org Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Arthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch and Sarah Stierch Consulting *Historical, cultural

Re: [Gendergap] Resolution:Images of identifiable people

2011-09-12 Thread Sarah Stierch
in a voyeuristic manner uploading images to Commons, Flickr, whatever. Just because someone (of any gender) lays on the beach, walks down the street wearing something sexy, or whatever, doesn't mean they are asking to have their photograph taken. -Sarah -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador

Re: [Gendergap] Upskirt/downblouse categories (was: Re: So this is how Commons works?)

2011-09-12 Thread Sarah Stierch
for appropriateness and copyright correctness. I suppose we are one step ahead, it's just irritating when you come across an image's source and this is what you get: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22186088@N03/4038072177/ Sarah On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.comwrote

Re: [Gendergap] Resolution:Images of identifiable people

2011-09-12 Thread Sarah Stierch
(of any gender) lays on the beach, walks down the street wearing something sexy, or whatever, doesn't mean they are asking to have their photograph taken. -Sarah How about this one: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/File:TalkingintheRoad.JPG Anyone's permission

Re: [Gendergap] Question for the Foundation about photographs of women

2011-09-12 Thread Sarah Stierch
I applied for Commons OTRS today... Sarah Sent via iPhone - I apologize in advance for my shortness or errors! :) On Sep 12, 2011, at 5:45 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote: It seems like we have strong

Re: [Gendergap] Resolution:Images of identifiable people

2011-09-12 Thread Sarah Stierch
not sure if we're ready to move it to meta yet, I do wish we had a more private place to develop this. It's a rather sensitive topic for folks. Perhaps a google doc or...? Sarah -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for Wikimedia http://www.glamwiki.org Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American

Re: [Gendergap] Resolution:Images of identifiable people

2011-09-12 Thread Sarah Stierch
it someplace public, that's fine. I'll let other participants make the final decision =) *eyeballs everyone else* Sarah -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for Wikimedia http://www.glamwiki.org Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Arthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch and Sarah Stierch

Re: [Gendergap] Wikifashion

2011-09-14 Thread Sarah Stierch
), 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. http://wikifashion.com/wiki/Wikifashion:Contributors_Needed Sarah -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for Wikimedia http://www.glamwiki.org Wikipedian

[Gendergap] Other women's wiki's

2011-09-14 Thread Sarah Stierch
://wikigender.org/index.php/New_Home -Sarah -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for Wikimedia http://www.glamwiki.org Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Arthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch and Sarah Stierch Consulting *Historical, cultural artistic research advising

Re: [Gendergap] Wikiquotes

2011-09-15 Thread Sarah Stierch
I'm doing... -Sarah On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:08 AM, carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote: Looking at my wikiquotes talk page for the first time in a while, I was reminded that is another area women's contributions may not be taken as seriously. Example: the deletion in 2009 of poet Marcella

Re: [Gendergap] Hairdresser, hairstylist...barber?

2011-09-15 Thread Sarah Stierch
Hopefully that'll change (I think?) I encourage everyone to improve on it and watch the super awesome video I just added from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. They sure don't do hair like they used to :D -Sarah On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Nicole Willson

Re: [Gendergap] Hairdresser, hairstylist...barber?

2011-09-15 Thread Sarah Stierch
Ack! I just nominated somethingand you did also! -Sarah (mine was about the 5 foot tall hairdo and Marie Antoinette...) On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.orgwrote: ** Wow, that was fast! Nice work. I think this deserves a DYK :) Ryan Kaldari On 9/15/11

Re: [Gendergap] Projects/Ideas page in Wikipedia to address the gendergap

2011-09-16 Thread Sarah Stierch
to add content that needs to be created as well. -Sarah On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Joseph Reagle joseph.2...@reagle.orgwrote: On Friday, September 16, 2011, Amy Senger wrote: Hi Folks - I know there is a page in Wikipedia with ideas/projects to address the gendergap which I forgot

[Gendergap] Weird lame body fashion whatever website of the day

2011-09-17 Thread Sarah Stierch
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch and Sarah Stierch Consulting *Historical, cultural artistic research advising.* -- http://www.sarahstierch.com/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap

[Gendergap] Kelly Wearstler

2011-09-18 Thread Sarah Stierch
, but interesting. -Sarah -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for Wikimedia http://www.glamwiki.org Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Arthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch and Sarah Stierch Consulting *Historical, cultural artistic research advising

[Gendergap] Women Rock at Supporting Nonprofit Causes

2011-09-19 Thread Sarah Stierch
or images, or edits, is a donation, in a way, to the world of knowledge. It's so important to let one another know that the work we're doing is important - regardless of gender - but that it also has a special image on women..and our contributions. Your daily reminder... :) -Sarah -- GLAMWIKI

Re: [Gendergap] Black skins

2011-09-19 Thread Sarah Stierch
. There is a lot of work to do, but, if we can develop successes with women, I like to think we can develop opportunities with more specific communities - and perhaps both at the same time. -Sarah On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Brandon Harris bhar...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 9/19/11 4:26 PM

[Gendergap] Hairdresser

2011-09-20 Thread Sarah Stierch
Look who's in the DYK! :) Go team! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for Wikimedia http://www.glamwiki.org Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Arthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch and Sarah Stierch Consulting *Historical, cultural

[Gendergap] Derby..

2011-09-20 Thread Sarah Stierch
better coverage on Wikimedia, and ask them for a media donation today. Then, of course, brag about them on Facebook, Twitter, mailing lists, etc, and praise them for how awesome they are for helping the mission and encourage others to join in. ;) -Sarah -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador

Re: [Gendergap] Hairdresser

2011-09-21 Thread Sarah Stierch
it to barber :X http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Barber -Sarah On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Emily Monroe emilymonro...@gmail.comwrote: Yes! Go us! From, Emily On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:35 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: very nice. -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Gendergap] Incentive programs and wikicups: Effectiveness?

2011-09-23 Thread Sarah Stierch
Laura - this is probably more of a topic for say cultural partnerships - if you would like (and I would suggest it) I can add you there, I co-mod the list. -Sarah (Stierch) Sent via iPhone - I apologize in advance for my shortness or errors! :) On Sep 23, 2011, at 5:30 AM, Laura Hale la

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