* Carol Moore dc wrote:
Was thinking about reforming wikipedia again! (fool that I am) and I
started fantasizing about running into some billionaires I used to know
and suggesting they just grab a mirror of Wikipedia and do it the right
way
Well, anyway, to make a long story, short I ran
* Laura Hale wrote:
There was a real feeling amongst some people that this was a
red-herring type issue that was taking away valuable time and resources
from doing activities towards increasing female participation on Wikimedia
related projects, and that to a certain degree, the obsession with
* John Vandenberg wrote:
What research is needed?
We have academics across the world who want to do research on Wikimedia.
What questions can we put to the researchers in order to obtain a
better understanding of
* why women don't contribute?
* what would help them contribute?
* other?
* Johannes Rohr wrote:
So in essence you are saying that Wikipedia is a game that boys like
to play more than girls. And there is not much you can do about it,
because editing Wikipedia is more like building Lego space ships than
like playing with dolls?
I am saying that women are not driven to
* 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
* 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
* Carol Moore wrote:
Because the two editors calling for deletion may be biased vs. woman
pianist's ethnicity, I don't know if this really is an article fit for
deletion, especially for those of us who are inclusionists.
Could you explain the difference between people who are biased with
* ChaoticFluffy wrote:
Hi Björn, thanks for a very thoughtful email. I just want to point out that
the problematic comment the user made was not calling another user a woman.
If you think we would be better off if the comment had not been made in
the manner it has been made, I think we should
