Re: [Gendergap] Surplus women and World War I

2012-06-26 Thread Bence Damokos
Nice article, one thing I note is that the article focuses on Britain only although it has a very general title. (I am just noting, because even today most countries seem to have surplus women[1], so there is surely more to a topic with this title both in the context of other countries fighting in

Re: [Gendergap] Surplus women and World War I

2012-06-26 Thread Bence Damokos
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote: Also, the topic of surplus males is probably more timely today and I've thought about writing an article about it, so this certainly is relevant. That would be very interesting! So this is quite a big

Re: [Gendergap] Surplus women and World War I

2012-06-21 Thread Thomas Morton
One comment on your draft, is that the langugage makes it a bit unclear for the average reader if/that the imbalance in England was because the males left the country and/or were killed in overseas wars. It's implied but not sufficiently explicit so some people might get confused. Yep

[Gendergap] Surplus women and World War I

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Keating
Dear all, Just wanted to let you know about some interesting contributions to the Wikimedia article gender balance from a slightly unexpected source. On Saturday, Wikimedia UK had a World War I-themed Editathon[1], where we essentially put a lot of Wikimedians and a group of academics in a room

Re: [Gendergap] Surplus women and World War I

2012-06-20 Thread Thomas Morton
(just to note; it's in my userspace - I got the singled out book the other day, and hopefully we can finish the article in the next day or so) Tom On 20 June 2012 20:22, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Just wanted to let you know about some interesting contributions

Re: [Gendergap] Surplus women and World War I

2012-06-20 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Nice work! Looking forward to seeing it on the Main Page. Ryan Kaldari On 6/20/12 12:48 PM, Thomas Morton wrote: (just to note; it's in my userspace - I got the singled out book the other day, and hopefully we can finish the article in the next day or so) Tom On 20 June 2012 20:22, Chris

Re: [Gendergap] Surplus women and World War I

2012-06-20 Thread Sydney Poore
Very pleased to see this come out of that Editathon. :-) Sydney Poore User:FloNight On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.comwrote: Dear all, Just wanted to let you know about some interesting contributions to the Wikimedia article gender balance from a

Re: [Gendergap] Surplus women and World War I

2012-06-20 Thread Carol Moore DC
One comment on your draft, is that the langugage makes it a bit unclear for the average reader if/that the imbalance in England was because the males left the country and/or were killed in overseas wars. It's implied but not sufficiently explicit so some people might get confused. Also, the

Re: [Gendergap] Surplus women and World War I

2012-06-20 Thread Ryan Kaldari
This is probably getting off topic, but the main articles on this subject on en.wiki would probably be sex-selective abortion and gendercide. Ryan Kaldari On 6/20/12 2:37 PM, Carol Moore DC wrote: One comment on your draft, is that the langugage makes it a bit unclear for the average reader