Re: [Gendergap] Donkey punch
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Andreas K. jayen...@gmail.com wrote: My wife pointed me to this animation a couple of days ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22Donkey_punch%22_(animated).gif It is/was included (there is currently edit-warring about it) in the Donkey punch article in the English Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_punch This has been one of the most viewed articles in Wikipedia of late, with nearly 400,000 page views this last month. http://stats.grok.se/en/latest30/Donkey_punch Views? Speaking purely as an editor... I don't care if we had a majority of female editors. That image is just awful as an encyclopedia illustration -- it's the kind of thing you see on Tumblr or 4chan. Practically speaking, I doubt Commons will delete it, but I think people who feel strongly should just comment on the Wikipedia talk page. -- Steven Walling ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Commons Village Pump convo about female politicans category.
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote: A Commons user began deleting the category Female politicians and it was brought up on the Village Pump. The user even asked what the point of the category was, which entertains me. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Female_politicians_cats_removed_and_asked_for_deletion... It's gotten to the point where someone declares the concept of female sexist, and then heads into the way of but there are categories for females with cats and males with cats. uh huh.. Accusations of sexism or whatnot aside, I think it's important to understand the instinct for Commons which applies here. The desire of Commonists is to move as many files as possible away from top-level generic categories like Female politicians and towards fine-grained categorization like, Female Minister-Presidents of North Rhine-Westphalia. (That example was a little hyperbolic, but hopefully you catch my drift.) Seeing something as generic as Female authors or similar immediately looks in need of cleanup to a lot of Commons editors, and not because they all want gender neutral categories only. ;) -- Steven ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] es:wp contest to write biographies of women
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:10 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: As part of their celebrations for the 10th anniversary of the Spanish Wikipedia, Wikimedia Argentina has organized a contest to write biographies of notable Argentine women: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiconcurso/Concurso_Wikipedia_10_-_Wikimedia_Argentina They have a list of ideas of missing biographies: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiconcurso/edici%C3%B3n_21/Lista_de_mujeres What a lovely idea for combating systemic bias. (This will be the 21st (!) article writing contest on es:wp: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiconcurso). The contest starts May 22. ¡Feliz cumpleaños, Wikipedia! -- phoebe This is really cool. Do I smell a good candidate for a Wikimedia blog post? Perhaps a bilingual one by Wikimedia Argentina? -- Steven Walling Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Outreach..was.. Proposal: Forking gendergap
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:43 AM, elisabeth bauer efleb...@googlemail.comwrote: I don't think outreach letters, however well formulated, will motivate many people to try editing Wikipedia. If you know the women you sent your letter to, why not rather invite them to an edit wikipedia party? Clear and direct invitations to join Wikipedia really matter, I think, which is why Carol's letter excites me. Who knows how many women who could be motivated to edit don't because they think we don't want or need their help? -- Steven Walling Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
