Re: [Gendergap] Progress of Inspire Grants – Gender gap campaign

2015-03-23 Thread Jodi Schneider
The list of drafts appears to be here, Fae: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Ideas#idealab-drafts These are on all topics... On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Fæ wrote: > Would someone like to summarize how the campaign is doing now it is > (presumably) half way through? > > From t

[Gendergap] please improve an article about female pilot & aviator Yvonne Sintes

2015-02-15 Thread Jodi Schneider
British aviator Yvonne Sintes made a long career in aviation: she was the first female airtraffic controller and first female Captain in the UK. Born in South Africa. Please improve the draft article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Yvonne_Sintes Especially with timelines of her family life &

[Gendergap] Help write an article about American Airlines' first female commercial pilot

2015-02-04 Thread Jodi Schneider
In 1973, Bonnie Tiburzi became the first female pilot for a major commercial airline in the US. Her article redirects to AA. Want to help fix that? Here's a draft that needs improvement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Bonnie_Tiburzi -Jodi ___ Gende

Re: [Gendergap] sex work

2014-10-03 Thread Jodi Schneider
Hi Sarah, I'd suggest this WikiProject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sexology_and_sexuality -Jodi On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've been tweeted at to help some people about "sex work" on Wikipedia. I > don't have the capacity t

[Gendergap] "Video games featuring female antagonists"

2014-10-02 Thread Jodi Schneider
The category "Video games featuring female antagonists" is up for deletion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2014_September_2#Category:Video_games_featuring_female_antagonists ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists

[Gendergap] editing target: biologist emerita Annette Coleman's page

2014-08-22 Thread Jodi Schneider
Here's an article that needs improvement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette_W._Coleman It was created at the Brown edit-a-thon -- and could do with some expansion. -Jodi ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedi

Re: [Gendergap] Novel by Woman-Notability

2014-07-24 Thread Jodi Schneider
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote: > > If you're looking to have the students engage with Wikipedia's systemic > bias, I think it might be more worthwhile to have them evaluate existing > deletion debates (and similar discussions) -- rather than having them > contribute directly

Re: [Gendergap] Novel by Woman-Notability

2014-07-24 Thread Jodi Schneider
Hi Kathleen, I suppose you are writing about this revision (or thereabouts): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=October_(novel)&direction=next&oldid=617753940 A notability tag is not a "Scarlet A": it is merely a sign that the notability of the topic hasn't been sufficiently asserted. The

Re: [Gendergap] 19th Century Indian women who attended med school in the U.S.

2014-03-31 Thread Jodi Schneider
Well-spotted, Michael. I created a draft EN article for Dora Chatterjee -- anybody want to give it an edit? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Chatterjee The other two have EN articles already: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anandi_Gopal_Joshi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurubai_Karmarkar -Jodi P

Re: [Gendergap] Suggestions for female biographical articles

2013-08-22 Thread Jodi Schneider
Great to have this list, Russavia! I'd suggest putting the list on-wiki. The "requested articles" list would be a natural place, e.g. for EN perhaps bios by profession: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Biography/By_profession and you could link to the photos at the same ti

Re: [Gendergap] Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF

2013-05-24 Thread Jodi Schneider
There are lots of related discussions on the talk page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P21 Translation seems like one of the major issues! So far, sex and gender are not distinguished as far as I can tell. -Jodi On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Powers wrote: > I wonder if that's a

[Gendergap] Can I interview you about the deletion process on EN-WP?

2011-05-11 Thread Jodi Schneider
mins who close discussions), with people who spend little time commenting in deletion discussions, as well as those who do. Would you be willing to talk with me? Let me know the best times for you; you can reach me at jschnei...@pobox.com or with the info below. -Jodi Schneider WP:J