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

2015-03-26 Thread Ellie K
From: Katherine Casey > My guess would be that the "open to" bit is intended to bring in people who might otherwise feel they're not welcome if they're not specifically invited, more than it's intended to dis-invite people who already know they're always welcome at Wikimedia events. From: Jeremy Ba

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

2015-03-23 Thread Neotarf
*"I doubt I'd attend any event purporting to recruit women that nevertheless limited itself to "people who were born female"; that's very much a type of exclusion I'm uncomfortable with. In general, however, there's nothing stopping you or anyone else from arranging a women-centric (or even women-o

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

2015-03-23 Thread Katherine Casey
I doubt I'd attend any event purporting to recruit women that nevertheless limited itself to "people who were born female"; that's very much a type of exclusion I'm uncomfortable with. In general, however, there's nothing stopping you or anyone else from arranging a women-centric (or even women-onl

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

2015-03-23 Thread Neotarf
See also this article: "AfroCrowd: The Black Wikipedia For People of African Descent" http://kreyolicious.com/afrocrowd/17531/ One of the drawbacks of GLAM is that people are just making a few edits, and leaving, rather than becoming long-term editors. There may be chances for followup here that w

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

2015-03-23 Thread Daniel and Elizabeth Case
>Yes, the idea is to be extra inclusionary by reaching out to all these groups >explicitly, and in particular to representing >different cultural identities >in rather non-monolithic African American / African Diasporic communities. ~

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

2015-03-23 Thread Pharos
Yes, the idea is to be extra inclusionary by reaching out to all these groups explicitly, and in particular to representing different cultural identities in rather non-monolithic African American / African Diasporic communities. Thanks, Pharos On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Jeremy Baron wrote

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

2015-03-23 Thread
From a UK perspective, I have been to and helped to run a couple of women-based editathons, they were mainly attended by women but were never intended to be exclusive. There have also been a couple of black history editathons in London, again they were not exclusive to any particular group. I ran t

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" 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 anyone. I think that wording wa

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

2015-03-23 Thread Carol Moore dc
If someone started "WomenCROWD" it would be interesting to see if the other "Crowd" meetups would support it. (AfroCROWD, HaitiCROWD, AfroLatinoCROWD, AfricaCROWD) Not that I think it's necessary, but it would be interesting to see the reaction. And I am curious as to what pushback they might h

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" 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 extra inclusionar

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

2015-03-23 Thread Katherine Casey
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 anyone. My guess would be that the "open to" bit is intended to bring in people who mi

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

2015-03-23 Thread Neotarf
That's interesting: "The workshops are open to all Afrodescendants including but not limited to individuals who self-identify as African, African-American, Afro-Latino, Biracial, Black, Black-American, Caribbean, Garifuna, Haitian or West Indian." I've never seen editithons that exclude people be

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

2015-03-21 Thread Carol Moore dc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Day_2015 Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 is a celebration and mini-conference for the project's 14th birthday,* to be held on Sunday March 22, 2015, hosted at Barnard College starting at 10:00 am, and also supported by Wikimedia New York City