This NY Times article - Learning to Love Criticism by Tara Mohrsept -
itself has been criticized for downplaying the negative effects constant
criticism has on women; salient quotes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/opinion/sunday/learning-to-love-criticism.html?_r=0
/A NEW study by the
Carol said:
I do think there are structural things that can be imposed by the
Wikimedia Foundation to make reforms happen. (Whether they'll choose the
right reforms and the right people to make them happen is a whole 'nother
story.) *But the purpose of this thread is not to discuss
are broken up.
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-- Original message--
From: Risker
Date: Wed, Dec 10, 2014 2:46 PM
To: Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase the participation
of women within Wikimedia projects.;
Subject:Re: [Gendergap] Women, cliques and Wikipedia's tyranny
equity and exploring ways to increase the
participation of women within Wikimedia projects.;
*Subject:*Re: [Gendergap] Women, cliques and Wikipedia's tyranny of
structurelessness
Carol said:
I do think there are structural things that can be imposed by the
Wikimedia Foundation to make
Agree with Anne her first, with the proviso its not only point of view at stake but honest to goodness vested interests as well; obviously so for the academics who hold tenure, or at least gain status, on the strength of their wikipedia contributions, and the rising younger generation who
On 12/10/2014 5:14 PM, JJ Marr wrote:
Does anyone have a proposed action plan to do anything about this?
First, there definitely are all kinds of groupings and cliques and maybe
even a couple dominated by women. Given it was one particular group of
guys and their allies that went after GGTF,
Yes, constructive and I shall watch with interest.Willing to do my bit exposing, but find Im having to learn PHP (a website scripting language) first to accomplish what I want to do.
Marinka
On December 10, 2014 at 7:02 PM Carol Moore dc carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote:On 12/10/2014
