Re: [Gendergap] visual impairment and gender @Wikipedia Re: Nuremberg: lesbian wikipedia edit-a-thon workshop Re: So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-06-05 Thread Laura Hale
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 4:49 AM, wrote: > > about part b. > the specifics that the first mentioned colleague shared with us in the > workshop I am now finding out more > about, listening to Wikipedia results of the image-to-sound transcript > software that is in use with my > colleagues - then I n

Re: [Gendergap] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-06-05 Thread Cynthia Ashley-Nelson
I agree with Anne/Risker. I've gone ahead and thrown my hat in the ring for the Grants Advisory Committee. My background includes expertise with both applying for and approving grants. In my work with nonprofit corporations, I have been responsible for assessing programmatic needs; researching an

[Gendergap] visual impairment and gender @Wikipedia Re: Nuremberg: lesbian wikipedia edit-a-thon workshop Re: So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-06-05 Thread koltzenburg
Hi Sarah > I'd love to learn more about how a visually impaired translesbian > participated and what she shared about editing Wikipedia. about a. thank you, I will ask her for her own opinion, and also her colleague, living against the same double/triple possible discrimination factor if I m

Re: [Gendergap] Nuremberg: lesbian wikipedia edit-a-thon workshop Re: So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-06-05 Thread koltzenburg
thanks, Sarah > > at the annual meeting that picks up a 1920s Berlin tradition of lesbians > > who meet over the extended > > weekend of Whitsuntide, we met in Nuremberg (city of human rights) this > > year for another fabulous self- > > organized non-commercial bunch of worshops, plenary sessi

Re: [Gendergap] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-06-05 Thread Carol Moore DC
One thing people can do is get on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Feminism/Article_alerts List for articles being deleted, RfC'd etc. ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/l

Re: [Gendergap] Men's_shelter Re: New WikiProject Feminism Articles from WSG students

2012-06-05 Thread Kevin Gorman
Men's shelters definitely meet the level of coverage required by the [[WP:GNG]] to have a separate article. Ideally, one wold exist. I'd considered creating it myself previously, but I didn't want to deal with the flood of men's rights advocates that invariably appear at such articles. If anyone

Re: [Gendergap] Men's_shelter Re: New WikiProject Feminism Articles from WSG students

2012-06-05 Thread Sarah Stierch
I'd say if mens shelters are notable enough to warrant their own articles perhaps that'd be best. Sent via iPhone - I apologize in advance for my shortness or errors! :) On Jun 5, 2012, at 8:13 AM, Emily Monroe wrote: > Is there a way to put information about men's shelters in the woman's sh

Re: [Gendergap] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-06-05 Thread Joseph Reagle
On 06/05/2012 09:53 AM, Risker wrote: place where we can continue to illustrate the contributions of women to many fields would be to include their peer-reviewed scholarly works as references in our articles. I am not saying that this should be done in That could also be an interesting researc

Re: [Gendergap] Men's_shelter Re: New WikiProject Feminism Articles from WSG students

2012-06-05 Thread Emily Monroe
Is there a way to put information about men's shelters in the woman's shelter article, without violating civility standards? From, Emily On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:11 AM, wrote: > Couldn't hurt, and would give a place to direct people who try to insert > Men's shelter info into the Women's shel

Re: [Gendergap] Men's_shelter Re: New WikiProject Feminism Articles from WSG students

2012-06-05 Thread puppy
Couldn't hurt, and would give a place to direct people who try to insert Men's shelter info into the Women's shelter article. Original Message Subject: [Gendergap] Men's_shelter Re: New WikiProject Feminism Articles from WSG students From: koltzenb...@w4w.net Date: Tue, June 05

Re: [Gendergap] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-06-05 Thread koltzenburg
thank you, Risker/Anne, how interesting! ___a. Grants Advisory Committee http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Candidates I would like to suggest we more or less immediately start a little group who advise female socialised people on how to fill in the application so it "works

Re: [Gendergap] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-06-05 Thread Risker
A couple of things come to my mind with respect to this thread. The first is that there is a lot of work that can be done "behind the scenes" to encourage the voice of women within the WMF community. I recently advocated for a woman to be included in the Funds Dissemination Committee Advisory Gro