Re: [Gendergap] Category:Nude portrayals of computer technology

2013-05-17 Thread Nepenthe
I apologize Sarah. I thought that descriptions of the images would allow those who cannot view them to evaluate the contents if they wish. It will not happen again. Nepenthe On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I'd like to ask that people don't

Re: [Gendergap] Accidental Troll Policy - beyond gender gap

2013-05-09 Thread Nepenthe
Presumably Sarah means Cindamusehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cindamuse . On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case danc...@frontiernet.net wrote: I know women (Cristamuse, Slim Virgin, just to name two) who deal with plenty of crap and *ARE NOT* admins. Actually,

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

2013-05-09 Thread Nepenthe
File:Ronda F7998.JPGhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ronda_F7998.JPGis clearly in scope. Could be used to illustrate Urn, Vase, Pottery, Crosslegged etc. On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.comwrote: I will be of course posting a link to this list on the

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

2013-05-08 Thread Nepenthe
categorized! (Is that really all it takes? Absurd.) And it could be used to illustrate the article on Bagby Hot Springs! Of the seven images Commons proposes to have illustrate encyclopedic articles on Bagby Hot Springs, 3 are of nude women. It's female nudes all the way down. Nepenthe On Wed, May

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

2013-05-08 Thread Nepenthe
of our websites, then I'm not really losing sleep over it unless personality rights are involved. (Meaning naked photo of woman/man who doesn't know their naked photo is on Commons under a free license.) -Sarah On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Nepenthe topazbutter...@gmail.com wrote: The more I

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

2013-04-30 Thread Nepenthe
to suggest that there's some sort of class gap on Wikipedia too? Utter tosh. I hope you don't intend on editing any Wikipedia articles based on these ridiculous assertions. Nepenthe On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Joseph Reagle joseph.2...@reagle.orgwrote: On 04/30/2013 12:03 AM, Risker wrote

Re: [Gendergap] the state of civility on en.wiki

2011-10-26 Thread Nepenthe
heavier whinging about how adminship is terrible idea because they might block *him*, as if there's any chance of that. Nepenthe On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote: RANT START If these people were behaving the way they do on other websites (i.e

Re: [Gendergap] Wikipedystka

2011-10-05 Thread Nepenthe
I'm curious; which feminists are these? I've never encountered that line of reasoning. On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: It seems we may be coming full circle, in that an increasing number of feminist women are seeking to return to the sex-differentiated

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

2011-05-18 Thread Nepenthe
Fred, as I've already noted, the offending comment was apparently *not*eliminated from the final tally of the votes made by George Chernilevsky, though omitting it would not have changed the outcome of the vote. Nepenthe On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote

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

2011-05-16 Thread Nepenthe
I was all ready to point out that administrators (at least on en.wiki, theoretically) discount comments like that, but that was *not* done in this case per the closing summary. Nepenthe On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:36, Sarah