Re: [Gendergap] List of celebrity hairdressers

2012-10-09 Thread Tom Morris 
On Wednesday, 10 October 2012 at 01:36, Juergen Fenn wrote:
> 2012/10/9 Tom Morris mailto:t...@tommorris.org)>:
> > We have an AfD nomination for 'List of celebrity hairdressers', on the 
> > basis that it is "trivial".
> > 
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_celebrity_hairdressers
> > 
> > Can't remember the last time that a list article on baseball was nominated 
> > for deletion on the basis of triviality. Apparently, stereotypically 
> > masculine trivial things are fine but stereotypically feminine trivial 
> > things aren't.
> 
> I agree, but isn't such a list OR?

Not particularly. There are celebrities, their livelihood depends quite a lot 
on their image, so they have stylists and hairdressers. There are sources that 
discuss their stylists and hairdressers. 

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Tom Morris




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[Gendergap] Event: November 4, India : Wikipedia Women Workshop in Mumbai

2012-10-09 Thread Netha Hussain 
Dear all,

 It gives me pleasure to inform you that the first Wikipedia Women
Workshopis
being organized in Mumbai, India on 4th November 2012. Women of any
age,
profession or educational background are invited to attend. The workshop is
hosted by Wikimedia Mumbai community and the members of  Wikimedia India
Chapter . The event will involve
learning the basics of Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia and Wikimedia
Commons. The event is aimed to increase the participation of women editors
in Wikimedia projects.

If you are interested in attending, please sign up here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Women_Workshop_in_Mumbai#Participants

Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/events/439128679462671/


Thanks!

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Netha Hussain
Student of Medicine and Surgery
Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode
Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com
swethaambari.wordpress.com*
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[Gendergap] Fighting back

2012-10-09 Thread G. White 
Hi All,

There is a fight about misogyny going on here in Australia at the top
level. Our Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has ripped into the Leader of the
Opposition over continued sexism from both him and especially from radio
"shock-jocks". [1]

There's a short section in the Gillard biography about  sexism (general and
particular) but it's hard to write in a way that's neutral. [2]  The issue
has been simmering for a while but now it has blown up. There are entirely
new articles appearing as a result of the controversy, particularly about
the radio announcer who said Gillard's father had "died of shame" over his
daughter. [3]
(Background: her father did recently die. I recall seeing him on
television saying
that he was - unsurprisingly - very proud of his daughter.)

So, articles are running on WP hot at the moment (in contrast to our own
Press which is not giving it as much attention as it is receiving
internationally).

*The New Yorker* says: "Gillard cut through the disingenuousness and
feigned moral outrage of her opponent to call him out for his own personal
prejudice, hypocrisy, and aversion to facts" [4] *
Jezebel* reported this under the heading "Rants". [5]

[1] Video of Gillard's address to the Parliament. :
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-09/julia-gillard-attacks-abbott-of-hypocrisy/4303634
 [2] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Gillard#Prime_Minister(footnotes
45-50)
[3] For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Jones_shame_controversy
[4]
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/10/julia-gillards-misogyny-speech.html#ixzz28qqpaG9K
 [5]
http://jezebel.com/5950163/best-thing-youll-see-all-day-australias-female-prime-minister-rips-misogynist-a-new-one-in-epic-speech-on-sexism

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Re: [Gendergap] List of celebrity hairdressers

2012-10-09 Thread Juergen Fenn 
2012/10/9 Tom Morris :
> We have an AfD nomination for 'List of celebrity hairdressers', on the basis 
> that it is "trivial".
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_celebrity_hairdressers
>
> Can't remember the last time that a list article on baseball was nominated 
> for deletion on the basis of triviality. Apparently, stereotypically 
> masculine trivial things are fine but stereotypically feminine trivial things 
> aren't.

I agree, but isn't such a list OR?

Regards,
Jürgen.

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[Gendergap] More about the Ada Lovelace initiative

2012-10-09 Thread Lennart Guldbrandsson 

Hello,

Something very cool has begun to happen in Sweden. Since 
the largest daily newspaper wrote about the Ada Lovelace editathon 
(http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/svenska-wikipeida-skapar-dag-for-kvinnoartiklar),
 we have seen a buzz in the social media. 

A Swedish non-profit, 
Rättviseförmedlingen (the Fairness Bureau), which is devoted to making 
it easier for media to find female experts, have endorsed it 
(http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151273255534750&set=a.361483174749.189413.361481469749&type=1&theater¬if_t=photo_reply),
 which so far has been shared several dozen times on Facebook. That has 
also inspired other to send out invites to women across the internet. 
One example is this invite:

https://www.facebook.com/events/525660827448094/

It has been sent out to 4,500 persons, mostly women, and so far 593 have 
accepted the invitation. 

Just
 to give you some perspective: according to the statistics 
(http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediansEditsGt5.htm), there are
 about 800 active users (+5 edits) this month on Swedish Wikipedia. So, 
potentially, women could out-edit men on that day!


Best wishes,

Lennart Guldbrandsson

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[Gendergap] List of celebrity hairdressers

2012-10-09 Thread Tom Morris 
We have an AfD nomination for 'List of celebrity hairdressers', on the basis 
that it is "trivial". 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_celebrity_hairdressers

Can't remember the last time that a list article on baseball was nominated for 
deletion on the basis of triviality. Apparently, stereotypically masculine 
trivial things are fine but stereotypically feminine trivial things aren't.

Le sigh. 

-- 
Tom Morris




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