Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: Free accounts available from HighBeam Research!

[Kath O'Donnell]

thanks for this. sounds great. I've applied on the page.

On 5 April 2012 00:22, Sarah Stierch  wrote:

>  Hi everyone,
>
> HighBeam is offering free accounts for Wikipedians with an account for one
> year and 1000 edits. So far only about 300 people have applied and they
> have 1,000 slots. HighBeam is a paid newspaper and journal resource, and as
> a researcher, even I don't have access to it, so I was happy to see this
> opportunity.
>
> And if you don't have the right amount of edits, you can have your
> Wikipedian friends find things for you ;-)
>
> See below!
>
> -Sarah
>
>  Original Message   Subject: [Otrs-en-l] Free accounts
> available from HighBeam Research!  Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 07:14:21 -0700
> (PDT)  From: Ocaasi Ocaasi
> Reply-To:
> Ocaasi Ocaasi  , English OTRS
> discussion list 
>   To:
> otrs-e...@lists.wikimedia.org 
> 
>
>  1000 free accounts are available from the internet research database,
> HighBeam Research. HighBeam has full versions of tens of millions of
> newspaper articles and journals and should be a big help in adding reliable
> sources--especially older and paywalled ones--into the encyclopedia.
> Sign-ups require a 1-year old account with 1000 edits on any Wikipedia.
> Here's the link to the project page: http://enwp.org/WP:HighBeam (account
> sign-ups are linked in the box on the right). Sign-up! And, please tell
> your Wikipedia-friends about the opportunity! Cheers, Ocaasi
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Re: [Gendergap] Photo accreditation for the Lesbian Spring in Toulouse (France)

[Caroline Becker]

Thanks for all your help, but the new review and the whole en-wikinews
policy feels really alien to me. The next reportings I'll do of the Lesbian
Spring will be thus in French only.

Caroline


2012/4/2 Tom Morris 

> Caroline,
>
> I've responded on the talk page with some further advice on how to do OR
> notes. Pi zero is giving you accurate advice about Wikinews original
> research publishing.
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Re: [Gendergap] BuzzFeed articles

[Valerie Aurora]

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Andreas Kolbe  wrote:
> Two recent Buzzfeed articles:
>
>
> 1. Wikipedia's Gender Gap, As Measured By Famous Birthdays, by Anna North
>
> http://www.buzzfeed.com/annanorth/wikipedias-gender-gap-as-measured-by-famous-birt
>
> A gender gap continues to plague Wikipedia, and one of its main effects is
> on the kinds of people the encyclopedia considers noteworthy. We took a look
> at this through the lens of birthdays.
>
>
> 2. The Epic Battle For Wikipedia's Autofellatio Page, by Jack Stuef
>
> In the underbelly of Wikipedia is an exhibitionist subculture dedicated to
> one thing: Ensuring that their penis is the visual definition of penis. Meet
> Jiffman, one such exhibitionist. (This article is very probably NSFW.)
>
> http://www.buzzfeed.com/jackstuef/inside-the-seedy-world-of-wikipedia-exhibitionism

Thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention!  I think this is
useful insight into the motivations of people trying to get specific
sexualized content onto Wikipedia in ways that aren't compatible with
the overall goal of Wikipedia.  Probably the discussion would have
better results if participants acknowledged that perhaps not all
attempts to get sexualized content on Wikipedia are motivated purely
by the desire to educate, and not all attempts to remove it are
motivated purely by prudery.  Framing it as education vs. prudery
makes only one outcome possible, we need to re-frame it in another way
if we want change.

An interesting side note: I've been working the Wikipedia article for
Mary Ware Dennett, who wrote a sex education pamphlet that was the
subject of the court case that overturned the Comstock
"anti-obscenity" laws in the United States.  She ended up drawing her
own diagrams of the sexual organs because she couldn't find any
useful, medically accurate diagrams at the time!  I strongly support
Wikipedia as a medium to distribute information about human sexuality
to empower people around the world, I'm far less enthusiastic about
using it as a way to flash or gross out a larger audience. :)

-VAL

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[Gendergap] WikiWomen's History Month outcomes

[Sarah Stierch]

Hi everyone,

I am in the process of developing a wrap-up about WikiWomen's History 
Month! If you created, improved on, uploaded, etc. any content in honor 
of women's history month it'd be fabulous if you could add your outcomes 
to this page:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month/Outcomes

Thanks! Any off-list feedback about events you attended or your feelings 
about the event are welcome as well.


-Sarah

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[Gendergap] Smithsonian Edit-a-Thon: blog post

[Andreas Kolbe]

Blog post about the Smithsonian Edit-a-Thon

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2012/04/how-many-women-does-it-take-to-change-wikipedia/

Nice one. :)
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Re: [Gendergap] Thoughts on training and gender and training generally

[Carol Moore DC]

I was wondering if there is a web page I can link to with your comments 
for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop_for_Women


I can link to the newsletter but it only mentions the workshop was all 
women. Thanks.


PS Love the Roo and other photos!

On 4/4/2012 10:58 AM, Sarah Stierch wrote:


.
I know Carol Moore has been gathering documentation about training [1] 
and I think this would be a good addition for that!


Sarah

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop




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Re: [Gendergap] Thoughts on training and gender and training generally

[Sarah Stierch]

On 4/4/12 3:47 AM, Gillian White wrote:


Hello all,


Following on from recent WP editing workshops in Queensland (see/This 
Month in GLAM/ 
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2012/Contents/Australia_and_New_Zealand_report), 
I wanted to write about it before I forgot.  I am posting here because 
the workshop participants were women and leading the sessions brought 
to mind my earlier experience gained over many years of teaching and 
training adults.





Hi Gillian! As always, thanks for your great insight. As someone who 
works at a GLAM and is in a museum studies program (an educational 
program that is 80% women around the country), I've been quite familiar 
with the "opposite" gender gap - more women than men. I'm really really 
glad you and Liam were able to travel to Queensland (enjoyed his photo 
blog!) and even happier that you shared your experiences with us. But, 
many of the reasons you cited are also the struggles on getting women 
involved in from those arenas - the hierarchy of the cultural makeup, 
privacy, etc. So these tips and thoughts are really valuable.


I know Carol Moore has been gathering documentation about training [1] 
and I think this would be a good addition for that!


Sarah

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop


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[Gendergap] Fwd: Free accounts available from HighBeam Research!

[Sarah Stierch]

Hi everyone,

HighBeam is offering free accounts for Wikipedians with an account for 
one year and 1000 edits. So far only about 300 people have applied and 
they have 1,000 slots. HighBeam is a paid newspaper and journal 
resource, and as a researcher, even I don't have access to it, so I was 
happy to see this opportunity.


And if you don't have the right amount of edits, you can have your 
Wikipedian friends find things for you ;-)


See below!

-Sarah

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Subject:[Otrs-en-l] Free accounts available from HighBeam Research!
Date:   Wed, 4 Apr 2012 07:14:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Ocaasi Ocaasi 
Reply-To: 	Ocaasi Ocaasi , English OTRS discussion 
list 

To: otrs-e...@lists.wikimedia.org 



1000 free accounts are available from the internet research database, 
HighBeam Research. HighBeam has full versions of tens of millions of 
newspaper articles and journals and should be a big help in adding 
reliable sources--especially older and paywalled ones--into the 
encyclopedia. Sign-ups require a 1-year old account with 1000 edits on 
any Wikipedia. Here's the link to the project page: 
http://enwp.org/WP:HighBeam (account sign-ups are linked in the box on 
the right). Sign-up! And, please tell your Wikipedia-friends about the 
opportunity! Cheers, Ocaasi
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Re: [Gendergap] Thoughts on training and gender and training generally

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Gillian,

thanks for the write-up. I enjoyed reading it. I don't have anything particular
to comment about it unfortunately.

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 17:47:45 +1000
Gillian White  wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> 
> Following on from recent WP editing workshops in Queensland (see* This
> Month in GLAM*
> http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2012/Contents/Australia_and_New_Zealand_report),
> I wanted to write about it before I forgot.  I am posting here because the
> workshop participants were women and leading the sessions brought to mind
> my earlier experience gained over many years of teaching and training
> adults.
> 
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Re: [Gendergap] Thoughts on training and gender and training generally

[elisabeth bauer]

2012/4/4 Gillian White :

 [...]
> Tip: Given them a chance to practise and give them feedback.
>
> If you have read this far, thanks!

Thank _you_ for the really helpful and insightful posting. *forwarding
it to some people who can make good use of it*

greetings,
elian

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[Gendergap] Thoughts on training and gender and training generally

[Gillian White]

Hello all,


Following on from recent WP editing workshops in Queensland (see* This
Month in GLAM*
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2012/Contents/Australia_and_New_Zealand_report),
I wanted to write about it before I forgot.  I am posting here because the
workshop participants were women and leading the sessions brought to mind
my earlier experience gained over many years of teaching and training
adults.


So here are some thoughts about training and gender, followed by some
thoughts about training in general. I wrote this in case it helps anyone
involved in training adults, especially women, who are not students in a
formal educational environment. There are two bases for these comments –
the first is that training is different from making a presentation (newbie
trainers often fall into the trap of just talking as if to an audience);
and the second is that women as trainees often have different needs (this
was evident in the recent workshops). You can already see this is a long
post. My apologies. Stop reading here if training is not something you will
ever do. If there is a better place to put this, please let me know. I am
happy to be (politely) advised where to go. :)


*Context*


The recent training days that Wittylama and I ran for newbies in outback
Queensland consisted entirely of female participants (except for one man
who joined in at the last minute after finding out what was happening).
Ninety per cent of them were mature age and I think none had undertaken
tertiary studies. Therefore, somewhat unexpectedly, these training days
became activities that made their own tiny contribution to reducing the
gender gap. In many ways, they were a case study for adult learning in
general and female learning in particular. The sessions provided an
opportunity to observe the trainees’ attitudes and reactions to editing WP.
Some of those observations are here – in some cases they reinforce what has
been previously noted about women and Wikipedia; in others, they refute it.


*Technology*


Contrary to what you might expect, the participants seemed unworried by the
fact that this was a computer-mediated activity. No one seemed daunted by
“the internet” or the information technology. They recognised and accepted
it; thence it was simply a case of using it to get the intended results.


*Perceptions of participation in WP*


One of the interesting things was the reaction to our question: “what
percentage of Wikipedia editors do you think are female?” The answer was
revealing. They guessed it must be from 60% to 80%. The question was asked
just after WP and its sister projects had been introduced – at a point when
the effort, focus, level of detail and commitment needed to contribute
effectively were becoming evident. My impression was that being a
Wikipedian struck them as a quintessentially female activity: unpaid,
detailed, ongoing, educational, done for the good of others. They seemed to
recognise and identify with this constellation of requirements and were
surprised, even a little sceptical, when we said that boys and men had done
most of it. Personally, I think this insight can be interpreted in two
different ways. On the one hand, these women acknowledged WP as worthwhile
and something that they could do. On the other hand, they could see it as
yet another call on their time, demanding effort that would likely go
largely unvalued.


The lesson for training is that the motivational factor needs to be
explicit. That is, in the middle of learning something new, it helps to
state some of the benefits that may seem to be invisible to learners at
that moment: for example, that this is a way of sharing knowledge; that it
is useful and many regard it as fun; that there is a community of willing
helpers. Many of the trainees were librarians or local tourism office
workers, so these are motivations to which they could relate.  At this
point, of course, we crossed our fingers and hoped that their “first
contact” with the WP community (or even second or third contact) would not
be with its combativeness.


*Tip:* Remind trainees what they can get out of being a WP editor.


*Women opt for training*


It was not a complete surprise to me that the people who came to the
training were women. Women like training, perhaps because they often think
they do not yet know enough and need more skills. The result is that more
women will volunteer for training and more men will contribute without it.
For stereotypical support of this argument, consider the oft-quoted idea
that men will only “read the manual” as a last resort. On this topic, I am
amused to find that this article exists on the English WP:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM


 

*Tip*: Trainees seek competency, so training must work to deliver it.


*Reluctance and timidity*


We did notice that many in the group were reluctant to try editing
publicly, that is, in front of the rest of the group. Many of the