[Foundation-l] New Wikipedia gender gap research posted to Meta

New Wikipedia gender gap research has been posted to Meta. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mind_the_Gap This research was a collaborative effort of user:LauraHale, User:Hawkeye7, User:Pine, and others. "...This analysis will focus on characteristics of female participants on English Wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Who *doesn't* suffer from adminitis these days?

I don't, and if you disagree, you are trolling and I'll block you! Lodewijk No dia 2 de Novembro de 2011 21:52, Kim Bruning escreveu: > > In reference to people wanting to be nicer to newbies, (and next to the > obvious step of us really needing > to make it more frelling obvious that YES YOU C

Re: [Foundation-l] Who *doesn't* suffer from adminitis these days?

Kim Bruning, 02/11/2011 21:52: > So qua editor retention, 2 things are needed: > * Make editing more obvious and easy, and bring the fun back. :-) > * Work on The Cure For Adminitis (tm). O:-) The only known cure is abstention: either wikibreak or editing on a wiki where you're not sysop or on th

Re: [Foundation-l] New Wikipedia gender gap research posted to Meta

Hmmm. Whilst this research has interest, I don't think it really says much about gender. This form of gender coding is extremely hand wavy; and as the latter part of the report proves it is also largely defunct when applied to the internet. They clearly show that the predominant style of writing

Re: [Foundation-l] Who *doesn't* suffer from adminitis these days?

Does anyone feel that the Wikiquette is too weak to enforce the respect aspect of the five pillars? I wonder if we should make RFC/U a lot easier for cases where administrators show a pattern of not handling new editors very well. If [[WP:WQA]] had some teeth, say 3 reports against an admin and yo

[Foundation-l] Bibliographic Metadata Guide

Hi all ! The Public Domain Working Group and the Open Bibliographic Data Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation have started the drafting of a Bibliographic Metadata Guide. The goal is to produce something that can

Re: [Foundation-l] Who *doesn't* suffer from adminitis these days?

Hoi, Apparently I do not suffer because as an admin I should know what RFC/U or WP:WQA or RFA is. Or is it only when I meet people who know their acronyms that I suffer ? Thanks, GerardM On 7 November 2011 13:48, Fae wrote: > Does anyone feel that the Wikiquette is too weak to enforce the >

[Foundation-l] Message to Fae

Does anyone feel that the Wikiquette is too weak to enforce the respect aspect of the five pillars? I wonder if we should make RFC/U a lot easier for cases where administrators show a pattern of not handling new editors very well. If [[WP:WQA]] had some teeth, say 3 reports against an admin and yo

Re: [Foundation-l] Message to Fae

Fred, I'm guessing you are asking for the benefit of others on this non-en.wp focused list. RFC/U is a user conduct Request for Comments, WQA is a noticeboard for wikiquette alerts (basically, people go there to complain when someone else is rude), and RfA is the process by which people become admi

Re: [Foundation-l] Message to Fae

Oops, sorry Fred, On Wikipedia I have a nice acronym expanding script to make sure I don't get locked into jargon, particularly useful when explaining things to newer editors. Cheers, Fae ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org U

Re: [Foundation-l] Message to Fae

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Fae wrote: > Oops, sorry Fred, > > On Wikipedia I have a nice acronym expanding script to make sure I > don't get locked into jargon, particularly useful when explaining > things to newer editors. > > Cheers, > Fae > > Uhm... where can I get that script? :) pb __

Re: [Foundation-l] Message to Fae

It's a WP USCRIPT at WP:TLA/TL:DR/TTP. DL it on the QT because it's TS and you'll get KP if found out. :P On 7 November 2011 16:10, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Fae wrote: > > > Oops, sorry Fred, > > > > On Wikipedia I have a nice acronym expanding script to make

Re: [Foundation-l] Message to Fae

Hi Philippe, I use an iMacro script, which is probably pretty geeky. Someone with a bit of JavaScript knowledge could probably find a way of getting it turned into a more maintable wiki user script. Source code link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fae/Geek/fullNameOfShortcut Cheers, Fae

[Foundation-l] Fwd: Open Access to Federally Funded Scientific Research

Following up on last year's OSTP call for comments (which I also sent to foundation-l), the US government is seeking public comment on more technical questions (including policy, repository and standards development) related to sharing federally-funded scholarly data and publications. This process

Re: [Foundation-l] Message to Fae

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 04:18:54PM +, Oliver Keyes wrote: > It's a WP USCRIPT at WP:TLA/TL:DR/TTP. DL it on the QT because it's TS and > you'll get KP if found out. ZOMG, you violated WP:WOTTA [1] ! sincerely, Kim "There's a policy for that" Bruning. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Participation Grants

Hello, everyone. I am pleased to announce a new grants program available to Wikimedia community members worldwide: the Wikimedia Participation Grants program. Read all about it in our blog post: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/11/05/enabling-worldwide-participation/ Cheers, Asaf Bartov Wi

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia visual identity guidelines

Hello To Aru Shiroi Neko, Assuming you are referring to the document from: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_visual_identity_guidelines I support your request and your point. I've done some studies with 'Wikipedia' in this same topic and realize that localization is complex, and form

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia visual identity guidelines

Jay Walsh, 08/11/2011 00:51: > In short, I think the chapters should build the marks that make the > most sense in their own cultures, and more importantly that they > should very easily communicate the name and idea of the chapter as > well as 'wikimedia' in some way. I don't know if any of those

Re: [Foundation-l] New Wikipedia gender gap research posted to Meta

Forwarding a response from Hawkeye7: Yes, "the only real conclusion that can be drawn from this research is that articles on Wikipedia use language scored as male by this specific test." This is always the problem with quantitative analysis. On the one hand, the test is both objective and repe