[Gendergap] Category: Female Wikipedians

2012-09-09 Thread Carol Moore DC
Up for deletion but easily will survive. But meanwhile, there are just two of us there, and I just joined from my user page 3 minutes ago. (Also added one of the user boxes.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_Wikipedians So a little thing women can do for positive effect. ;-) CM _

Re: [Gendergap] Category: Female Wikipedians

2012-09-09 Thread Sarah Stierch
Don't forget, you can also add the category to any women you might know who have Wikipedia articles and are Wikipedians. Such as Sue or Valerie! -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* >>Mind the gap! Support Wikipedia women's outreach: donate today

Re: [Gendergap] Category: Female Wikipedians

2012-09-09 Thread Risker
Umm, please don't do that. Users themselves should be the sole deciders of what categories they wish to link to. For example, I hope nobody puts that category on my userpage, and if they do it will be removed as soon as I can log in. Some people deliberately choose not to categorize themselves.

Re: [Gendergap] Category: Female Wikipedians

2012-09-09 Thread Netha Hussain
I think Sarah's point was that one could add this category to the Wikipedia articles on women Wikipedians, and not on their userpages. Of course, I do not want anybody to put any category on my userpage too. But if an article about me existed on Wikipedia, it is not under my control to choose whic

Re: [Gendergap] Category: Female Wikipedians

2012-09-09 Thread Emily Monroe
I think the argument behind deleting this category is WP:MYSPACE, which isn't really sexist. I mean, I think it's taking WP:MYSPACE too far, personally, but still. Just FYI, I just tried to search for "male wikipedians" and couldn't find it. Anyone have better luck? From, Emily On Sun, Sep 9, 2

Re: [Gendergap] Category: Female Wikipedians

2012-09-09 Thread Sarah Stierch
Oh, sorry, I meant to say the Wikipedia articles about people who are Wikipedians :) Both of them have Wikipedia articles and also state on their Wikipedian user pages that they are who they are. -Sarah On 9/9/12 2:30 PM, Risker wrote: Umm, please don't do that. Users themselves should be t

Re: [Gendergap] Category: Female Wikipedians

2012-09-09 Thread Sarah Stierch
On 9/9/12 3:08 PM, Emily Monroe wrote: I think the argument behind deleting this category is WP:MYSPACE, which isn't really sexist. I mean, I think it's taking WP:MYSPACE too far, personally, but still. Just FYI, I just tried to search for "male wikipedians" and couldn't find it. Anyone have

Re: [Gendergap] Category: Female Wikipedians

2012-09-09 Thread Thomas Morton
I'd suggest having a different category for that. (although I am not sure it is utile in the first place). To avoid the mix up of back end admin and academic content. Tom Morton On 9 Sep 2012, at 23:21, Sarah Stierch wrote: Oh, sorry, I meant to say the Wikipedia articles about people who are

Re: [Gendergap] Category: Female Wikipedians

2012-09-09 Thread Emily Monroe
> > There is no male Wikipedian category. JUst like there aren't "men's > history" classes because history has been written about and by men for the > majority of time ;) It's that same type of thing. It might partially the same thing, but not entirely. There's another reason why Category:Male Wi

Re: [Gendergap] Category: Female Wikipedians

2012-09-09 Thread Risker
See nowI don't see a lot of value in categorizing articles this way. I'm not even certain that being a Wikipedian is a notable enough category to include for an article, let alone being a *female* Wikipedian. The standard for including someone in a category is that the category is representati

Re: [Gendergap] Category: Female Wikipedians

2012-09-09 Thread Risker
Aww, Sarah - I see you've already added those categories to Valerie Aurora's and Sue Gardner's pages. Please don't do that. Neither of their articles mentions that they edit Wikipedia, so your edits don't meet the standard. I understand you wanting to promote women in Wikipedia, but taking what

Re: [Gendergap] Category: Female Wikipedians

2012-09-09 Thread Valfontis
I agree that user categories should not be mixed up with article categories. Being a Wikipedian isn't necessarily notable. And for the record I don't choose to self-identify by placing myself in to very many user categories, just ones that relate to getting the job of editing done. There's not

Re: [Gendergap] Category: Female Wikipedians

2012-09-09 Thread Sarah Stierch
Feel free to remove! :-) No skin off my back! Sarah Sent from my iPhone On Sep 9, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Risker wrote: > Aww, Sarah - I see you've already added those categories to Valerie Aurora's > and Sue Gardner's pages. Please don't do that. Neither of their articles > mentions that the