the point about dying with a whimper is well taken;
or as Andrew Lih said: become like wikinews, a failed wiki
the librarian who said "cultural buzzsaw", also said, "would not touch
wikipedia with a 10 foot pole."
apparently, the write an article outside wiki to provide negative feedback
to the t
The Signpost has an article, "Women and Wikipedia, the world s watching"
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-10-21/Editorial
and "In the media: Wikipedia's hostility to women"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-10-21/In_the_media
On Sun
I'm glad to see the uptick in the number of high profile gender gap
discussions in the past few months. I hope that this will give the theme
some momentum that leads to meaningful improvements in the civility on
Wikimedia and a variety of our community health statistics.
There's a piece in the NYT
Hi all -
As a further bit of clarification regarding the current arbcom case
request (it had not been accepted yet:)
1) Eric Corbett made a series of statements that Kirill Lokshin, one
of our best regarded former arbitrators, regarded as violating his
topic bans w/r/t discussion of the genderga
In case anyone missed it, there is now an Arbcom case about this article...
or something - am not entirely clear what it's about but there are some
very, erm, "interesting" arguments being made in the dozens of case
statements.
On 21 Oct 2015 21:01, "Carol Moore dc" wrote:
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> http://www.thea
In this soft commercial from Bollywood for a match-making app, actresses
Shweta Basu Prasad and Mansi Multani face off in a competition to describe
the creepiest guy currently stalking them on the internet: "Actually your
creep isn't even a legit creep, For my shaadi he is someone my mom would
lik