Re: [Gendergap] Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 mini-conferenceh for te project's 14th birthday

2015-03-23 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Mar 23, 2015 11:25 AM, Neotarf neot...@gmail.com wrote: I've never seen editithons that exclude people before. I've been to a couple of black history events, and all were welcomed, although of course there was a very high proportion of African descent. I think the point was actually to be

Re: [Gendergap] Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 mini-conferenceh for te project's 14th birthday

2015-03-23 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Mar 23, 2015 11:41 AM, Katherine Casey fluffernutter.w...@gmail.com wrote: I recognize at least some of the names on the attendance list there as people who don't, to the best of my knowledge, identify as being of African descent, so it doesn't appear to have been an event that excluded

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

2014-11-27 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Nov 25, 2014 2:48 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: could there ever be any legal repercussion - like the real legal system, not an internet community - that could be taken to support a person who should not be banned from a website? like carol? If you're called lots of nasty

Re: [Gendergap] x% female, y% male. ???

2014-11-27 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Nov 27, 2014 9:55 AM, Carol Moore dc carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote: The study's talk page has ongoing discussions of people being annoyed about this issue. Probably first place any updates will show up: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Editor_Survey_2012 I wrote there:

Re: [Gendergap] Noiva do Cordeiro

2014-08-27 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Aug 27, 2014 1:55 PM, Krystle krys...@wikihow.com wrote: Is this for real? http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/town-entire-population-made-up-4113722 And if so, should there be a Wikipedia entry about it? I started to draft one but am a little worried because there seems to be only one

Re: [Gendergap] Zoë Wicomb or Clive Cussler?

2014-07-22 Thread Jeremy Baron
also discussed on the talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:October_(novel) -Jeremy ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

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

2014-07-01 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Marie Earley eir...@hotmail.com wrote: Gosh, I did make a pig's ear out of it didn't I. I didn't realize the list had two Sarahs on it. More than two I'm sure :-) Thank you Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/make_a_pig%27s_ear_of -Jeremy

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

2014-06-30 Thread Jeremy Baron
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 ;) I do know sometimes get Sarah (Slim Virgin) and myself confused (which I

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

2014-06-30 Thread Jeremy Baron
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. (Or something like that; I can't find the original.) I can't think of how that

Re: [Gendergap] Wikidata, gamification and gender

2014-05-21 Thread Jeremy Baron
FYI, msg from another list below. -Jeremy -- Forwarded message -- From: Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com Date: May 21, 2014 11:58 PM Subject: Re: [WikimediaMobile] micro-contributions on mobile via wikidata To: Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com Cc: mobile-l mobil

[Gendergap] Fwd: [Multimedia] NSFW image searches

2014-05-16 Thread Jeremy Baron
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Gergo Tisza gti...@wikimedia.org Date: May 16, 2014 2:25 AM Subject: [Multimedia] NSFW image searches To: multimedia multime...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: For those of you who are not following wikimedia-l: you might be interested in this

Re: [Gendergap] Changing the Chelsea Manning article (and how women were shouted down)

2013-09-06 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Sep 5, 2013 6:55 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Secondly, redirects are expensive - not to those in the Western world with fast computers and high speed internet, but to those who are on dial-up or have comparatively high lag times because of distance (lots of people at Wikimania had

Re: [Gendergap] start Porno related list?? can the Commons images thread move?

2013-05-18 Thread Jeremy Baron
On May 18, 2013 2:14 AM, Carol Moore DC carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote: How about starting a list just for these porno related discussions? Most women won't find these photos to be turned off by them, so it is slightly off topic. Just announce a new thread here and then people who want to

Re: [Gendergap] You Guys Made Me Smile

2013-03-07 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Mar 7, 2013 8:43 PM, Sandra ordonez sandratordo...@gmail.com wrote: So tonight I'm at an event, and begin to chat with two amazing women...at the end of the evening one of them mentions: Did you hear that there is a feminist take over of wikipedia event on the 15th? It made me smile

Re: [Gendergap] uk chairman band

2012-08-01 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Sandra Ordonez sandratordo...@gmail.com wrote: the uk chairman band was mentioned in daily dot today http://dly.do/M9K4Sv Ugh, please, please, please just start a new thread from scratch (send an email to gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org ) if it's unrelated to an

Re: [Gendergap] Thoughts on training and gender and training generally

2012-04-06 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 08:43, Gillian White whiteghost@gmail.com wrote: I have reformatted my comments about training so they are less a report and more of a guideline, added some additional material and posted it here http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Best_practices_in_training_adults

Re: [Gendergap] What are the Poles, Slovenes, Russians and Portuguese doing right in regards to the gender gap?

2011-12-29 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 02:45, Béria Lima beria.l...@wikimedia.pt wrote: Laura, in pt case I can imagine the wp number to be right (or close enough), but from where did you took the wikimedia one? pt.wikimedia.org is a redirect to wikimedia.pt it is a redirect but it's also a wiki with content

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

2011-12-18 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 13:09, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.trevorowens.org/2011/12/techies-you-decide-you’re-either-a-feminist-or-a-misogynist/ evil, evil smart quotes.

Re: [Gendergap] Deterrent

2011-10-18 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 14:58, Mig migdia.chi...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that men editors have targeted me for and with their biases and have done everything they could to humiliate me publicly , which acts as a deterrent to female editors who are not well connected with wikipedia ranks.  

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

2011-09-17 Thread Jeremy Baron
ourmed.org (a MediaWiki wiki) is in NYC and they've come to several of our meetups. (wiki seems kinda dead or at least dormant; per their recentchanges, they seem to have done spam and vandal fighting every day in the last 2 weeks but there's no actual content work for 2 weeks straight AFAICT. of

Re: [Gendergap] Pregnancy article lead-image RFC

2011-09-06 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 01:33, Daniel and Elizabeth Case danc...@frontiernet.net wrote: Do we have an article on that women's club somewhere in England that, one year, put out their annual calendar showing them going about their regular club activities (gardening, tea, etc.) nude? IIRC, they