Re: [Gendergap] Women on Wikimedia group

2011-10-02 Thread Risker
in the list that created some dissent. Ultimately, I believe it was decided they could participate; in fact, my introduction to the list was from a trans woman. Risker/Anne On 2 October 2011 10:46, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: You can go here and look: http://wikichix.org/wiki

Re: [Gendergap] Wikipedystka

2011-10-05 Thread Risker
and German, and I suspect it would also apply to other languages. But in English Wikipedia content, we've taken to using the term that the subject of an article uses to describe herself. Risker/Anne ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Gendergap] washington dc

2011-10-07 Thread Risker
On 7 October 2011 12:03, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: I am saying that you are questioning the decision of an independent body to select a person for membership in the same way that he questioned the WMF

Re: [Gendergap] Please remove my comments including this one

2011-11-09 Thread Risker
to the moderation queue because of length. Best, Risker ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] WP stalking

2011-11-13 Thread Risker
difficult to put the genie back in the bottle, so to speak. Nonetheless, if you'd like help trying to get stuff taken down, let me know. Risker/Anne On 13 November 2011 18:47, Lika Tika likatikalikat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Christine, I'm so sorry this happened to you. Unfortunately, something

Re: [Gendergap] AfD on woman musician's BLP

2011-11-19 Thread Risker
taught at least three people who went on to become respected professional musicians, is not noteworthy. Risker/Anne ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] The Dinner Party

2011-12-06 Thread Risker
this in the early 1980s, and I came away thinking that women artists were just as obsessed with female genitalia as male artists. Risker/Anne On 6 December 2011 15:58, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Yes please! I've yet to see it in person! :( Sent via iPhone - I apologize

Re: [Gendergap] [cultural-partners] WikiWomenCamp: National perspectives on women and the movement (x-posted, apologies)

2012-02-01 Thread Risker
!), perhaps she could help the list to understand what the intention was in including some of this information. Risker/Anne Risker/Anne On 1 February 2012 10:41, Béria Lima beria.l...@wikimedia.pt wrote: Again, I would like to point that meta is a wiki and all of us have usernames there. So I

Re: [Gendergap] List of lists of women

2012-02-11 Thread Risker
the inclusion of the word notable is important here. The lists aren't just of women, they're of women who are notable enough to qualify for a Wikipedia article - which is a pretty low bar, as anyone who's ever tried to get some mess deleted already knows! Risker/Anne

Re: [Gendergap] List of lists of women

2012-02-11 Thread Risker
On 11 February 2012 13:05, Carol Moore DC carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/11/2012 12:35 PM, Risker wrote: I do think the inclusion of the word notable is important here. The lists aren't just of women, they're of women who are notable enough to qualify for a Wikipedia article

Re: [Gendergap] Niqab

2012-03-25 Thread Risker
to as the source of the image. Of course, I don't go near Commons if I can avoid it - and I usually can - so I'm not going to take up this fight. However, if *I* can see a problem with an image copyright, there's probably a problem. Risker/Anne (And thanks to Andreas and whomever else removed the images

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-06 Thread Risker
to you and the other moderators? Have you discussed your proposed actions with the other moderators, so that you are all acting in concert? Risker/Anne ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-06 Thread Risker
. In particular, I do not want to see people denigrated for coming up with ideas and brainstorming on this list, which I believe is where this post about moderation has come from. It's not acceptable, regardless of whether it comes from a woman or a man. Risker/Anne On 6 May 2012 18:37, Laura Hale la

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-06 Thread Risker
for no apparent reason. We've also had people mysteriously wind up on our moderation list when we definitely didn't add them. (And for the record, I've not volunteered to moderate this list because I already moderate half a dozen other ones.) Risker/Anne

Re: [Gendergap] Asking Reddit's /r/asktransgender about Wikipedia

2012-05-09 Thread Risker
who sleeps with whom. Risker/Anne On 9 May 2012 16:57, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: I've found that Wikipedia handles transgender issues fairly well. A good example is the Chaz Bono article. This article is an example of what should be the most problematic case on Wikipedia

Re: [Gendergap] Please welcome Cindamuse as our new co-moderator

2012-05-13 Thread Risker
to your new role, and thanks for taking it on. Risker/Anne ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Day 1 of WikiWomenCamp

2012-05-23 Thread Risker
to get home and digest. Risker/Anne ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Outcomes for WikiWomenCamp

2012-05-30 Thread Risker
, even if they are bringing a substantive issue to the table. I like the idea of Wikimedians supporting each other, in many different ways, so I hope that good planning will help this list become a reality in a form that helps women to participate in one or more of our projects. Risker/Anne

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Risker
not worry so much about what courts have decided, and pay more attention to developing best practices within our own projects. Risker/Anne ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] gendergap research

2012-05-31 Thread Risker
On 31 May 2012 21:07, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Andreas - you seem to have the belief that the pervasive exposure to pornography is having an adverse effect on community dynamics, and in particular is having

Re: [Gendergap] positive action Re: Nastiness

2012-06-13 Thread Risker
Well, I've taken a look at the history and have identified BLP violations going back to October 2011; as such, I've extended the existing semi-protection for a full year. Some extensive cleanup has already taken place, as well as some useful article expansion. Risker/Anne On 13 June 2012 02:04

Re: [Gendergap] positive action Re: Nastiness

2012-06-15 Thread Risker
there was a serious external campaign happening. Risker/Anne On 15 June 2012 15:54, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: This case presents a good argument for flagged revisions. Given that the people who made these edits weren't logged in, none of their additions and changes would have been visible

Re: [Gendergap] Measuring the influence of Wikipedia on public thinking (in Australian women’s sport): A proposed methodology

2012-06-17 Thread Risker
the various WMF projects and with external media. Risker/Anne On 17 June 2012 21:58, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote: I think I brought this up in another post about developing a methodology to determine this based on a number of offline conversations I was having. As this might

Re: [Gendergap] WikiWomen's Luncheon at Wikimania

2012-07-16 Thread Risker
were significant to us. It was really fascinating to see the diversity in that! Risker/Anne ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

[Gendergap] Awareness of gender gap at Olympics

2012-07-30 Thread Risker
the treatment of women/women's issues as less important than men/men's issues. http://sports.nationalpost.com/2012/07/29/london-2012-steps-toward-gender-equality-steps-backward-at-olympics/ Risker/Anne ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Gendergap] uk chairman band

2012-08-01 Thread Risker
. Risker/Anne On 1 August 2012 18:03, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote: 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

Re: [Gendergap] uk chairman band

2012-08-02 Thread Risker
Hi Sandra, I didn't mean that your posting it to this list was gossip, I was referring to the initial news reports. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to figure out that there was a secondary motive behind the disclosure of this information to the press. Risker/Anne On 2 August 2012 00:54

Re: [Gendergap] Gender Gap Revamp! [please read] (and [please forward]!)

2012-08-30 Thread Risker
-- Thanks, Sarah, for letting us know about this. And thank you to the list moderators for revisiting the list's purpose and principles. Risker/Anne ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Gendergap] Category: Female Wikipedians

2012-09-09 Thread Risker
. Risker/Anne On 9 September 2012 17:10, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Don't forget, you can also add the category to any women you might know who have Wikipedia articles and are Wikipedians. Such as Sue or Valerie! -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* *Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Gendergap] Category: Female Wikipedians

2012-09-09 Thread Risker
the longstanding tradition that any category that refers to a person's Wikipedia status/preference/etc is considered a user category rather than an article category. I don't think the two should be mixed. Risker/Anne On 9 September 2012 18:25, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.comwrote

Re: [Gendergap] Violentacrez and civility

2012-10-13 Thread Risker
that point in *any* WMF project), and none of them have anywhere near the same degree of control of content. Risker/Anne On 13 October 2012 16:55, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: What I was most struck by was the hypocrisy: in Reddit's vision, freedom of speech includes anonymously posting

Re: [Gendergap] Do the April Fool's Day jokes on English Wikipedia's front page deter women editors?

2013-01-15 Thread Risker
, and swearing. Hmmm. Risker/Anne ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Do the April Fool's Day jokes on English Wikipedia's front page deter women editors?

2013-01-17 Thread Risker
On 17 January 2013 22:33, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: There was actually a good suggestion for one on the TFA talk pagefor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Cod_of_Massachusetts It's already at GA, needs significant polishing and filling in of gaps, but is easily do-able

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

2013-01-21 Thread Risker
Yes, I get that part. I'm actually rather surprised by that, but then again I don't know Sarah well enough to understand her perspective. Risker/Anne On 21 January 2013 21:42, Katherine Casey fluffernutter.w...@gmail.comwrote: While I mostly agree with your take about the judgment being shown

[Gendergap] Gender equality in El Salvador

2013-02-24 Thread Risker
to say that the unintentional typo in the title of this thread made me *very* curious! ' Risker/Anne ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

[Gendergap] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Are you interested in being interviewed about your LGBT experience with Wikimedia?

2013-04-16 Thread Risker
Forwarding to this list, as this may be of interest to some of our readers and regular participants. Risker -- Forwarded message -- From: Fae fae...@gmail.com Date: 16 April 2013 11:29 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Are you interested in being interviewed about your LGBT experience

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

2013-04-29 Thread Risker
Michael, I have to say that I find your comment offensive. NOBODY expects to be denigrated on Wikipedia, and being privileged is no excuse for doing so. This is EXACTLY the kind of behaviour this list was created to try to modify. Risker/Anne On 29 April 2013 22:35, Michael J. Lowrey orangem

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

2013-04-29 Thread Risker
On 29 April 2013 23:34, Michael J. Lowrey orangem...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Michael, I have to say that I find your comment offensive. NOBODY expects to be denigrated on Wikipedia, and being privileged is no excuse for doing so

Re: [Gendergap] Sue's blog about Categorygate

2013-05-01 Thread Risker
Thanks, Sarah. I've got to ask...I've not seen some of those comments before on the public lists, and I subscribe to most of them. Did I miss something? Risker/Anne On 1 May 2013 11:12, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Please see below via Matthew Roth at WMF. Sue

[Gendergap] Wikimedia Elections 2013

2013-05-01 Thread Risker
of the Election Committee, Risker ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Images of radical feminist protests

2013-05-19 Thread Risker
of thumb, images used in articles should be of subjects or activities that are discussed in the article. Risker/Anne On 19 May 2013 13:08, Audrey Cormier cormier.h...@yahoo.ca wrote: Roberta, I'm afraid that I don't see where the directory aspect of policy is related this. If images

Re: [Gendergap] how sewing circles became secret queer celebrity love fests

2013-06-03 Thread Risker
and this article renamed to sewing circles (lesbian groups) or something like that. Risker/Anne On 3 June 2013 03:32, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Where I expected to read about sewing circles and sewing bees... I get an article about lesbian/bisexual actresses secretly having

Re: [Gendergap] Suggestions for female biographical articles

2013-08-22 Thread Risker
Russavia is indefinitely blocked on enwiki, so perhaps recommending he post this is not the best solution. However, anyone else can feel free to add what they believe is relevant information to the project. Risker/Anne On 22 August 2013 06:35, Jodi Schneider jschnei...@pobox.com wrote: Great

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

2013-09-07 Thread Risker
On 7 September 2013 10:49, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, I keep hearing those excuses for performance problems, Jeremy. It takes longer to serve up the original page here in North America on a fast

Re: [Gendergap] Seeking advice on how to talk to other lists about sex-issue.

2013-10-25 Thread Risker
. Frankly, this is pretty much none of our business and is only notable where the subject says it is. Risker/Anne On 25 October 2013 13:30, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: By the way, I started a proposal to change 'sex' to 'gender' back in May: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki

Re: [Gendergap] Seeking advice on how to talk to other lists about sex-issue.

2013-10-25 Thread Risker
It's controversial because there are women who assumed a male role, but were definitely women in their personal life. So your definition there would be to assign them the male gender but the female sex. And I disagreewhat's being assigned there is sex, not gender. Risker On 25 October

Re: [Gendergap] moderation update

2013-10-30 Thread Risker
into OTRS. I think this comes down to some fundamental issues with filtering of spam at the systems level, and it might be worthwhile to put in a bugzilla to see if better spam filtering throughout the Mailman system can be added in. Risker/Anne On 30 October 2013 11:59, Lane Rasberry l

Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: Edit-a-thon for editing articles on violence against women

2013-12-04 Thread Risker
for semi-protection if unregistered or newly registered accounts start adding BLP-violating material. Good luck. Risker/Anne On 4 December 2013 03:40, Rohini Lakshané roh...@wikimedia.in wrote: This weekend I'm remotely participating in an edit-a-thon for editing articles pertaining

Re: [Gendergap] Help: Research on whether we have made any difference?

2014-02-26 Thread Risker
knowledge. Risker/Anne On 26 February 2014 05:37, Lennart Guldbrandsson l_guldbrands...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, I am writing a short (1500 word) text for the journal of current cultural research, Culture Unbound (http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/index.html), to be published in April

Re: [Gendergap] New York Magazine article summaries the gender gap issue in one conversation

2014-06-06 Thread Risker
. Oh dear. I agree with you Fluffernutter. Risker/Anne ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

[Gendergap] A reason to celebrate

2014-06-08 Thread Risker
. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-06-04/Traffic_report A thank you to Christine for the Maya Angelou article, and to Sage Ross (with support from Awadewit) for the Rachel Carson article. Risker/Anne ___ Gendergap mailing list

Re: [Gendergap] A cautionary tale

2014-06-23 Thread Risker
to ever pay attention to her again. I am really hoping you didn't intend that. And Carol has a point. There are now more men posting to this thread than there are women. And most of you have missed the point entirely. Heaven help us from those who see themselves as our saviours. Risker On 23

Re: [Gendergap] men on lists

2014-06-23 Thread Risker
Derric, if I may suggest - the best way to get a mailing list back on topic is to write to the topic, not to remind people of the rules. Risker/Anne On 23 June 2014 11:49, Derric Atzrott datzr...@alizeepathology.com wrote: I'm sorry Derric, but I think the topic of this thread is the notion

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

2014-07-06 Thread Risker
. Some thoughts. Risker/Anne On 6 July 2014 04:51, Marie Earley eir...@hotmail.com wrote: I previously described my experience of being a member of Kevin Spacey's Trigger Street Labs website http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2014-June/004388.html I think part of my shock

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

2014-07-07 Thread Risker
by the existence of the block log. Many of our most seriously problematic sockpuppeting accounts are people who've been blocked for behavioural reasons - and we waste a huge amount of time trying to keep them off the site. Risker/Anne On 7 July 2014 03:20, Marie Earley eir...@hotmail.com wrote

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

2014-07-07 Thread Risker
On 7 July 2014 09:51, Carol Moore dc carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote: While I've barely had a chance to read through proposal and comments, I'd like to just ask re the below which applies generally right now: On 7/7/2014 9:35 AM, Risker wrote: I know what it's like to have my inbox flooded

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

2014-07-07 Thread Risker
to one-off vandal accounts). Risker/Anne ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Wikipedia and the war on women’s dignity

2014-09-11 Thread Risker
Frankly, I see little value in creating a site whose goal includes attracting journalists - particularly given the poor quality, sensationalistic journalism that we've all seen reporting on anything Wikimedia. Risker/Anne On 11 September 2014 18:51, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Gendergap] Wikipedia and the war on women’s dignity

2014-09-11 Thread Risker
in journalists to get things right. Risker/Anne On 11 September 2014 22:31, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: Anne, That's precisely the point. A lot of journalism is badly researched, because Wikipedia is remarkably opaque to many outside observers. So you simply end up with people

Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: fembot: Announcing a new pictorial digital women's history collection

2014-10-22 Thread Risker
-1451625788recno=55resultset=2format=Fnext=html/nffull.htmlbad=error/badfetch.htmlentitytoprecno=55entitycurrecno=55entityreturnTo=brief Risker/Anne On 22 October 2014 12:17, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Hi - I actually professionally consult with GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives

Re: [Gendergap] [arbcom-appeals-en] [Child Protection Policy]Gender Gap issues

2014-11-18 Thread Risker
Please moderate or even remove access to this list. Risker On 18 November 2014 16:52, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: Yeah, I don't see how this is at all relevant to the gender gap. Please moderate the sender. On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:27 PM, George Herbert george.herb

Re: [Gendergap] [Research] Communicating on Wikipedia while female

2014-11-21 Thread Risker
permission of those individuals. Regardless of what any of us think of the specific editor who is named, it behooves us all to act as we would expect to be treated - and I'd be pretty ticked if someone published research that included examples that identified me by name. Risker/Anne On 21 November

Re: [Gendergap] [Research] Communicating on Wikipedia while female

2014-11-21 Thread Risker
it, and we're going to group all obscenities together and use it to slag off the guy we're ticked off with. This isn't claimed to be journalism, it's claimed to be research, and it needs to be held to a higher standard. The more I'm reading this, the more I'm finding it problematic. Risker/Anne

Re: [Gendergap] [Research] Communicating on Wikipedia while female

2014-11-21 Thread Risker
. Risker/Anne On 21 November 2014 16:41, Kevin Gorman kgor...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think it's at all fair to characterize the section as an attempt to rail on Eric. He just happens to have been at the center of the most recent high profile controversy about the word - which means that quoting

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

2014-11-25 Thread Risker
of discretionary sanctions effective at the close of the case, as well. [1] As if that will make any difference. Risker/Anne [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gender_Gap_Task_Force/Proposed_decision#Discretionary_sanctions On 25 November 2014 at 20:14, LB

Re: [Gendergap] WP:ANI on Disruption of Gender Gap Task Force

2014-11-29 Thread Risker
Check your spam folder and spam filters - many of us have had problems from time to time with mailing list posts winding up in spam or junk. Risker On 29 November 2014 at 16:05, Marie Earley eir...@hotmail.com wrote: Okay, so this is the last message that I had in my e-mail inbox (it's from 4

Re: [Gendergap] coordination work off-wikie

2014-11-30 Thread Risker
. The same is true of many topics of interest to women: abortion, marriage, gender identity, etc. Let's not simply dump all of these in the men vs women drawer, please. Risker/Anne On 30 November 2014 at 08:12, Kathleen McCook klmcc...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, one can see easily how they move from topic

Re: [Gendergap] Google Group invite

2014-11-30 Thread Risker
I got one and promptly unsubscribed. I don't do google groups, and every time someone has invited me to one, I've found they were not to my taste. Risker/Anne On 1 December 2014 at 02:08, Alison Cassidy coot...@mac.com wrote: I didn't get one. Now, I feel cheated! :D -- Allie On Nov

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

2014-12-01 Thread Risker
of it being used in this manner before, although I'd heard and read the term being used in a lot of other ways - including the validation for including sex education in the school curriculum. Risker On 30 November 2014 at 16:13, Jim Hayes slowki...@gmail.com wrote: in re: video - addressing the video

Re: [Gendergap] Arbcom election

2014-12-09 Thread Risker
user is gender-specific, such as German, Spanish, etc), even though I've been openly female for most of my wiki-career. (I realise that it sounds like I came out as being a woman...when I look back on the earliest years of enwiki, there was a far less significant gender imbalance.) Risker/Anne

Re: [Gendergap] Arbcom election

2014-12-09 Thread Risker
nosedived, so we may be seeing the effects of that reflected in the interest in voting, and even in the number and quality of candidates. Back in the earlier days, there were often 30-40 candidates. Risker/Anne On 9 December 2014 at 11:08, Carol Moore dc carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/9/2014 9

Re: [Gendergap] Arbcom election

2014-12-10 Thread Risker
of the community to proactively address these issues. Again, I think you're caught in the trap of believing Arbcom has more power and authority than it really has. Risker/Anne ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Gendergap] Women, cliques and Wikipedia's tyranny of structurelessness

2014-12-10 Thread Risker
this method out of proportion to the percentage of women on the project - and in some ways it is an even greater insult because it's hard to persuade others that what look like civil words are being used to convey quite the opposite meaning. Risker/Anne

Re: [Gendergap] Gender gap emails Arbitrator doesn't like

2014-12-12 Thread Risker
Actually, GorillaWarfare was responding to the subject header. She is an arbitrator. She is also expressing her opinion about why, as an arbitrator, she has concerns about this list. I think she's bang on. And I agree with Chris. Risker/Anne On 12 December 2014 at 14:08, Reguyla regu

Re: [Gendergap] Diversity training for functionaries

2014-12-12 Thread Risker
Kumioko, you can change your gmail preferences to have this list automatically dump to spam if you're not getting a fast enough response to your unsubscribe. Risker On 12 December 2014 at 14:43, Reguyla regu...@gmail.com wrote: While I am waiting for the email confirmation disenrolling me from

Re: [Gendergap] Diversity training for functionaries

2014-12-12 Thread Risker
More likely, it is the fact that none of the moderators happen to be online right now. If you want to leave the list, as is your stated intention, you can go to your own Mailman preferences and decide which lists to unsubscribe without waiting for a moderator. Risker On 12 December 2014 at 14

Re: [Gendergap] Diversity training for functionaries

2014-12-12 Thread Risker
if your objective is not to participate on the list any further. It might be useful for the list moderators to consider changing the footer message to include an unsubscribe link, as is done on several other Wikimedia-hosted lists. Risker On 12 December 2014 at 15:19, regu...@gmail.com regu

Re: [Gendergap] Australian article about recent onwiki drama

2014-12-16 Thread Risker
It's just a reprint of the Slate article. Risker/Anne On 16 December 2014 at 11:09, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/12/14/comment-will-editing-disputes-mean-end-wikipedia -- Sarah Stierch - Diverse and engaging consulting

Re: [Gendergap] Diversity training for functionaries

2014-12-18 Thread Risker
be arranged. Risker/anne On 18 December 2014 at 11:04, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Christina - this sounds very interesting - would you be happy for me to propose it as a possible topic in the Wikimedia Conference, for which I'm on the programme committee? Chris

Re: [Gendergap] Iraqi human rights lawyer Samira Salih al-Nuaimi tortured and executed because Facebook; where is her Wikipedia article?

2014-12-22 Thread Risker
herself may not meet the threshold of notability, just as Tomlinson himself did not meet the threshold. Risker/Anne On 23 December 2014 at 00:45, Neotarf neot...@gmail.com wrote: Is Samira Salih al-Nuaimi notable? Just looking for an example of an article about someone notable for only one event

Re: [Gendergap] Iraqi human rights lawyer Samira Salih al-Nuaimi tortured and executed because Facebook; where is her Wikipedia article?

2014-12-24 Thread Risker
(or a journalist of any kind, actually). Oh, the irony. Carol, please don't ask people to put links to opinion pieces written by banned editors into the Gendergap project. We all get that you're really very angry right now, but this is not constructive. Risker

Re: [Gendergap] GGTF talk page

2014-12-29 Thread Risker
/magazine/2014-the-lives-they-lived.html?module=SearchmabReward=relbias%3Ar_r=1 Risker/Anne On 29 December 2014 at 17:25, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: +1 to that. My tips are: 1) No talk pages if I can avoid it 2) Other channels (sorry people, but not all revolutions can take

Re: [Gendergap] GGTF talk page

2014-12-30 Thread Risker
more obvious because they outnumber us 10 to 1. Risker/Anne On 30 December 2014 at 09:57, Carol Moore dc carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote: As long as (mostly male) Wikipedia editors are allowed to insult and harass editors whose edits they oppose for whatever reason Wikipedia cannot retain women

Re: [Gendergap] Wikimedia Conference (was - Diversity training for functionaries)

2014-12-30 Thread Risker
at human contact. Today, I wouldn't even get the templates, I bet; there's probably an edit filter somewhere that will prevent me from making the edit in the first place. Even if it's right. Risker/Anne On 30 December 2014 at 14:55, Marie Earley eir...@hotmail.com wrote: I don't know how it goes

Re: [Gendergap] GGTF talk page

2014-12-31 Thread Risker
? Risker/Anne On 31 December 2014 at 10:31, LB lightbreath...@gmail.com wrote: Is it simply impossible to start a Wikipedia project that's open to women, or people who identify as women? (I'm sorry if I don't use the correct terms, but I haven't kept up with them in recent years.) I mean

Re: [Gendergap] GGTF talk page

2014-12-31 Thread Risker
pages of self-identified female editors on our German projects uses the feminine term for user.) Not quite sure what the result is on English Wikipedia - is there a list somewhere? Risker/Anne On 31 December 2014 at 10:59, LB lightbreath...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I'm brainstorming, but yes

Re: [Gendergap] GGTF talk page

2014-12-31 Thread Risker
, in addition to the entire canvassing aspect. There was once a Wikichix mailing list, moderated and very similar to the one described by Lightbreather. It died a slow death several years ago because, essentially, nobody really had much to say there, absent the ability to discuss actual content. Risker

Re: [Gendergap] GGTF talk page

2014-12-31 Thread Risker
been posted, Lightbreather; at least I've seen both of them. Perhaps you've got preferences (either on Mailman or on Gmail) set so that you don't get copies of your sent mails. Risker/Anne ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage

Re: [Gendergap] Techno issues (was Wikimedia Conference)

2014-12-31 Thread Risker
On 31 December 2014 at 11:52, Carol Moore dc carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote: The below definitely are interesting issues which deserve their own thread. I kept reading the proposals but had not run into the implementation very often. On 12/30/2014 3:24 PM, Risker wrote: Keep in mind

Re: [Gendergap] WikiProject Women

2015-01-01 Thread Risker
load, and am not particularly interested in going to more venues, but I may be the exception. Risker/Anne On 1 January 2015 at 19:49, LB lightbreath...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, Heather! This is what we run into on the WP GGTF every time we open something up for discussion. All I wanted

Re: [Gendergap] Thank someone today.

2015-02-05 Thread Risker
Wikilove in every edit summary, which I find really creepy. Risker/Anne On 5 February 2015 at 05:04, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote: Well Jonathan, thanks for doing that! I am not an administrator, so I couldn't do those things you mentioned, but I often think that in some cases I wish I could

Re: [Gendergap] Test Kaffeeklatsch area for women-only

2015-01-17 Thread Risker
. RIsker/ANne ___ 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] Test Kaffeeklatsch area for women-only

2015-01-16 Thread Risker
On 16 January 2015 at 17:13, Heather Walls hwa...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Whatever else cis is, it's not a scientific term. It's a buzzword that sounds scientific because it derives from the Latin, but in fact it's a coined

[Gendergap] Upcoming Steward elections

2015-01-15 Thread Risker
should seriously consider participating actively in these elections[1] and the annual review of current stewards [2] that happens concurrently. Risker/Anne [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2015 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Confirm/2015

Re: [Gendergap] Gender gap blamed for shuttting down grantmaking

2015-01-06 Thread Risker
an effect in retaining new women editors as new men editors. But it's not counted as a gender gap activity. Risker/Anne [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gender_gap_campaign [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Reimagining_Wikipedia_Mentorship

Re: [Gendergap] FYI - another trolling? Fwd: Google Groups: You've been added to Wikimedia-l

2015-01-09 Thread Risker
Just copy-pasting this from another thread on Wikimedia-L, where similar events are happening in relation to members of that list: I think it will be better if most of us can Report the Group. Yes, please do this. We're also talking with Google about trying to resolve the issue, but my

[Gendergap] Makers.com

2015-01-03 Thread Risker
articles that don't currently exist. Risker/Anne ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

[Gendergap] Strong support for grants directly related to addressing the gender gap

2015-01-06 Thread Risker
, and there's a recognition that some are going to be successful, while others (even if they look good on paper) are not going to produce results. The key is ensuring that there is some learning derived from the experiments. Don't be afraid to try something! Risker/Anne

[Gendergap] Art+Feminism edit-a-thon in Toronto

2015-03-09 Thread Risker
that there will be some editor retention out of this one. Much to my surprise, I realised that this was the largest Wiki*edia event I had attended outside of Wikimania. It bodes well for both the Canadian editing community, and for the narrowing of the gender gap. Risker/Anne [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

[Gendergap] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Nominations being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections

2015-04-20 Thread Risker
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com Date: 20 April 2015 at 18:59 Subject: [Wikitech-l] Nominations being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org Greetings, I am pleased to

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