[Gendergap] Commons Searches

2011-10-12 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Brandon, On a matter that originally arose in Meta and on the Foundation list,  but may be of interest to this list as well, do you know the answer to the question posed here ... http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2011-October/006290.html ... or do you know someone who does?

Re: [Gendergap] Commons Searches

2011-10-12 Thread Sarah Stierch
WHOA that's fascinating...weird...disturbing..something Perhaps that's why someone asked about electric toothbrushes and cucumbers on #wikimedia-gendergap the other day :P -Sarah On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote: Brandon, On a matter that

[Gendergap] User blocked for sexist comment, many disagree - it wasn't sexist.

2011-10-12 Thread Sarah Stierch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Block_review_for_Baseball_Bugs The first unblock statement shares the link to the joke and the reprimand by an admin on the users page telling them they can get blocked for ongoing comments like that. Fluffernutter

Re: [Gendergap] User blocked for sexist comment, many disagree - it wasn't sexist.

2011-10-12 Thread Fred Bauder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Block_review_for_Baseball_Bugs The first unblock statement shares the link to the joke and the reprimand by an admin on the users page telling them they can get blocked for ongoing comments like that.

Re: [Gendergap] User blocked for sexist comment, many disagree - it wasn't sexist.

2011-10-12 Thread Fred Bauder
You are right, of course, what we do is bad enough, without having to answer for the expectations of what our gender is expected to do. Fred Thanks for posting this, Sarah. I was hesitant to link to it while it was an active thread. My basic feeling in this case was that the user's comments

Re: [Gendergap] Commons Searches

2011-10-12 Thread Brandon Harris
Funnily, I just answered that question on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-second-image-returned-on-Wikimedia-Commons-when-one-searches-for-electric-toothbrush-an-image-of-a-female-masturbating On 10/12/11 7:48 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: Brandon, On a matter that originally

Re: [Gendergap] Commons Searches

2011-10-12 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Thanks for the link, Brandon.  I had raised this in the image filter discussions on Foundation-l yesterday (as well as on http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Kurier ), and it seems to have triggered some thought, which is all for the good. Here are searches that deliver similar

Re: [Gendergap] User blocked for sexist comment, many disagree - it wasn't sexist.

2011-10-12 Thread icewedge
Is there any way to criticize a any action justified with sexism without adding to the persecution complex here? Honest question. Blocking a user for comments made a week prior falls a mile out of standard process. Blocking a user who tries to explain himself without begging for mercy falls a

Re: [Gendergap] User blocked for sexist comment, many disagree - it wasn't sexist.

2011-10-12 Thread Sarah Stierch
I never said that I agreed or disagreed with the block. I was merely expressing that some of the comments made in regards to the comment the blocked user made were interesting. A nice selection of people didn't see anything sexist about the comment, or the potential to find anything sexist within