Re: [Gendergap] study about gendered names and IRC

2011-12-14 Thread ChaoticFluffy
Hmmm, interesting. I've often wondered whether I would have had a less pleasant experience fitting into the wiki(p|m)edia IRC channels if I had an obviously-gendered nick. As it is, I get maybe one random pm a month, if that, and most of those are of the vague hi-followed-by-silence sort. None

Re: [Gendergap] study about gendered names and IRC

2011-12-14 Thread Theo10011
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:00 PM, ChaoticFluffy chaoticflu...@gmail.comwrote: Hmmm, interesting. I've often wondered whether I would have had a less pleasant experience fitting into the wiki(p|m)edia IRC channels if I had an obviously-gendered nick. As it is, I get maybe one random pm a month,

[Gendergap] Research into causes of the gender gap?

2011-12-14 Thread Johannes Rohr
Dear all, I recently joined this list as I am one of the persons in charge of the community-oriented goals which Wikimedia Deutschland has set for itself for the coming year, one of which is to increase female participation in Wikimedia activities projects by 50% until the end of 2012, I am well

Re: [Gendergap] Research into causes of the gender gap?

2011-12-14 Thread Nathan
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Johannes Rohr johannes.r...@wikimedia.de wrote: Dear all, I recently joined this list as I am one of the persons in charge of the community-oriented goals which Wikimedia Deutschland has set for itself for the coming year, one of which is to increase female

Re: [Gendergap] Research into causes of the gender gap?

2011-12-14 Thread phoebe ayers
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Johannes Rohr johannes.r...@wikimedia.de wrote: Dear all, I recently joined this list as I am one of the persons in charge of the community-oriented goals which Wikimedia Deutschland has set for itself for the coming year, one of which is to increase female

Re: [Gendergap] study about gendered names and IRC

2011-12-14 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Ryan Kaldari wrote: I just read the following paper which describes an interesting study that was conducted regarding IRC: http://www.enre.umd.edu/content/rmeyer-assessing.pdf The researchers created several IRC bots with different names - some female, some male, and some ambiguous. They put

Re: [Gendergap] A fun new project!

2011-12-14 Thread Rob
I have a copy of the Judy Chicago book The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation listed in the bibliography of that article if anyone needs any info from it. I will, time permitting, chip in on a couple of the articles too. ___ Gendergap mailing

Re: [Gendergap] Research into causes of the gender gap?

2011-12-14 Thread Sarah Stierch
On 12/14/11 3:58 PM, Laura Hale wrote: From an Australian perspective based on observation, I can this list has the potential to be a bit of a show stopper. :( We had about three women who were active in trying to get women involved with Wikipedia. Their efforts were even mentioned on

[Gendergap] Sheryl Sandberg On Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders

2011-12-14 Thread Sarah Stierch
[[User:Slowking4]] shared this link with me in #gendergap-l. It did get me a bit emotional, and I think it's inspiring and worth watching. It is a TED talk, so it has a number of languages available. It's by Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook. She talks about statistics related to women in

[Gendergap] The gendergap on Swedish television

2011-12-14 Thread Lennart Guldbrandsson
Hello, Recently, Swedish television had quite a long bit about the gendergap: http://svtplay.se/v/2644848/kulturnyheterna/14_12_19_00 Apparently (it caused us a little bit of a surprise), there is a Wikipedia gendergap group in Sweden, and it has some cool supporters, including a professor

Re: [Gendergap] The gendergap on Swedish television

2011-12-14 Thread Sarah Stierch
Very cool Lennart. I regret I don't know Swedish, but, this is exciting none the less =) Do you know of any on Wiki or online links to the gender gap group, or is it specifically a mailing list? Thanks for sharing this, Sarah On 12/14/11 5:33 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson wrote: Hello,

Re: [Gendergap] The gendergap on Swedish television

2011-12-14 Thread Lennart Guldbrandsson
Their very new website is http://wikifem.wordpress.com/ but there is only a short We are going to start type of notice there yet. We have emailed them. Best wishes, Lennart Lennart Guldbrandsson, Tfn: 031 - 12 50 48Mobil: 070 - 207 80 05 Epost: l_guldbrands...@hotmail.com /

Re: [Gendergap] The gendergap on Swedish television

2011-12-14 Thread Nina Wikipedia
Looked at the program and this is very interesting. They said that organisations with women are so small that they have no notability. Nina nina.wikipe...@gmail.com Den 14. des. 2011 kl. 23:54 skrev Lennart Guldbrandsson: Their very new website is http://wikifem.wordpress.com/ but there

Re: [Gendergap] A fun new project!

2011-12-14 Thread Sarah Stierch
Yes...sadly they locked it in 2007. Frustrating, because some of the subjects they say they have no information on, I have successfully research and discovered information on. You can email the woman in charge of the Wiki though and let her know if any updates and I believe she'll update the

Re: [Gendergap] Research into causes of the gender gap?

2011-12-14 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Johannes Rohr wrote: I recently joined this list as I am one of the persons in charge of the community-oriented goals which Wikimedia Deutschland has set for itself for the coming year, one of which is to increase female participation in Wikimedia activities projects by 50% until the end of