[Gendergap] Inspiring pre-workshop video?

2015-07-23 Thread Carol Moore dc
Which really is about the limitations that society (patriarchy) tries to impose on women and girls saying NO! Good one to play at beginning of (or encourage people to watch before) workshops or whatever... The best that commercial advertising can be... (even better than buy the world a coke

[Gendergap] I'd like to hear about the Ally Skills Workshop

2015-07-23 Thread Risker
What it says on the tin. Even though I was present at Wikimania, I heard very, very little about the Ally Skills workshop, even when I asked participants about it. (In fact I don't think I got a straight answer to a single question about it.) Given the interest about this workshop on this list,

Re: [Gendergap] Listing all projects on gender gap page

2015-07-23 Thread Keilana
I would encourage all of you to attend WikiConference USA - we're working really hard to make it an amazing experience and of course, one that will be friendly and safe for participants. :) On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 July 2015 at 11:08, Carol

Re: [Gendergap] Research: men who harass women online

2015-07-23 Thread Carol Moore dc
I saw the loser spin on some TV report as well. I've definitely found the guys who gave me the most grief were psychologically disturbed. (Of course I consider patriarchal dominance behavior the main psychological disturbance of the human race.) This often is combined with some grievance

Re: [Gendergap] Listing all projects on gender gap page

2015-07-23 Thread Risker
On 23 July 2015 at 11:08, Carol Moore dc carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote: snip I might even be pursuaded to show up since it's in DC. The whole Wikipedia experience is just one more sexist/ageist thing that made me antisocial in my old age, I'm afraid. booo h ;-) I just want to

[Gendergap] Listing all projects on gender gap page

2015-07-23 Thread Carol Moore dc
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap#Participate I was starting to get confused about the multiplicity of links lately, some of which are a bit confusing. I don't have the energy to figure it all out and update https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap#Participate at the moment.

Re: [Gendergap] Research: men who harass women online

2015-07-23 Thread Joseph Reagle
On 07/23/2015 10:52 AM, Carol Moore dc wrote: Anyway, I'm glad to see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen%27s_User_Group happening and hope someone can work a description of the study and a generalized essay or whatever out of it. I expanded me email into a blog post: