[Wikimedia-l] Gendergap approach causing problems

[Romaine Wiki]

Hi all,

On Wikipedia and in our movement we are aware of the gendergap that exists
and all kinds of activities are organised to make the gap smaller. I think
this is great as no single gap should exist in collecting all the knowledge
in the world, as well as our movement should be diverse as the world's
population is diverse.

The statistics are clear on this matter, this is something to take care of.
However, a part of the approach is causing problems, because general
statistics should not be applied on individuals as that reduces humans to
numbers only.

The reason why I bring this up is because I recently received an e-mail
from a user in the Wikimedia movement who has (temporarily?) stopped
contributing as she is not happy with a specific aspect of the atmosphere
in Wikimedia.

She does not speak out at loud, but I think we must be aware as movement of
the silent cry, therefore this e-mail to bring awareness (but with respect
for the privacy of this individual).


What has happened?

She was invited to participate in a Wikimedia activity, because:
1. she is a woman
2. she is from a minority
3. she is from an area in the world with much less editors (compared to
Europe/US)

and perhaps also because her colour of her skin is a bit different then
mine (Caucasian).

At the same time she has the impression that the work she does on the
Wikimedia wiki('s) is not valued, nor taken into account.

She does not want to be invited because she is a woman, nor because she is
from a minority, nor ... etc. This is offensive.
She only wants to be invited because of the work she contributes on
Wikipedia/etc.



Besides the many good initiatives and intentions, this kind of approaches
to our contributors is demotivating them, please be aware of this. I
believe demotivation/frustration is the largest problem we face as movement.


I heard from people that the problem described is called tokenism
.


I believe the only way to close the gaps related to gender, minorities,
etc, is to create an atmosphere in what everyone is appreciated for what
she/he is doing, completely unrelated to the gender someone appears to
have, the ethnicity, race, area of the world, etc etc etc etc.

Thank you!

Romaine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Information on "Multiple failed attempts to log in" emails

[Nathan]

I get hundreds of these a year (my user name, Nathan, seems to be a popular
target). It would nice to be able to use some sort of multi-factor
authentication, which is actually supported by OAUTH. However, it seems
most projects (including en.wp) restrict use to accounts with elevated
rights. Can anyone explain why these tools can't be made more widely
accessible?

On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 1:24 AM Pine W  wrote:

> Thanks, John.
> Fae, I suggest that we let the WMF folks who are working on this issue
> extinguish the current fire before asking them to write a report about a
> previous one.
> I agree that the report about the previous incident is overdue. Perhaps as
> the current situation becomes calmer (updated metrics and news would be
> nice to have on the public Phab tickets) some staff can be moved off of the
> front line and back to the archives.
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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[Wikimedia-l] Apa yang membuat anda gembira minggu ini? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 6 May 2018)

[Pine W]

I was happy to read about the new features in the latest release of the 
Wikimedia Commons app for Android. My understanding is the app is developed and 
maintained by community members with funding from WMF and GSoC in addition to 
volunteer time.


Also, I was happy to see GSoC participants introducing themselves and their 
projects on Wikitech-l.


I am grateful to the WMF staff who are listening and responding civilly to the 
questions and comments on MediaWiki regarding the page previews feature. The 
project plan appears to have been designed thoughtfully.

Finally, I liked reading portions of English Wikipedia's article about CubeSats.


What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any language.


Pine
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