[Gendergap] Visible female faces for Wikim/pedia

2011-03-20 Thread Juliana da Costa José
s of dealing with it: come up with much more appropriate and popular > symbol widely disseminated. > > Come up with male and female wikipe-tans and put those up. > > Try to delete all the female only ones. > > > On 3/20/2011 4:05 PM, Juliana da Costa José wrote: >> hehe

[Gendergap] Visible female faces for Wikim/pedia

2011-03-20 Thread Juliana da Costa José
hehe ;) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipe-tan%27s_past,_now_and_future2.png 2011/3/20, Carol Moore in DC : > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Wikipe-tan > I started a debate here. Uh oh, sexual innuendo warning. ___ Genderga

[Gendergap] Visible female faces for Wikim/pedia

2011-03-20 Thread Juliana da Costa José
Additional: I really love the first sentence here [1]: "Wikipe-tan is one of the personifications of Wikipedia." So if you see the following pictures (my favourites are this [2] and [3]) and see a child-eyed girl in french-roommade-dress and hold-ups cleaning so it says a lot about the picture o

[Gendergap] Visible female faces for Wikim/pedia

2011-03-20 Thread Juliana da Costa José
Hi, I like this file, but this is a comic-woman. And the most women I know do not really identify with a drawn person, especially if you have this kind of Comic-Women too in Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Wikipe_tan_wearing_a_bikini_by_Kasuga39.png A comic-person really hate very

[Gendergap] Visible female faces for Wikim/pedia

2011-03-20 Thread Juliana da Costa José
Hello, my problem in Wikipedia is, that we have not many rolemodels who are not very known outside of the Wikim/pedia world. The only one, who is constant in media is Sue. Sue is wonderful, but where are the other faces of Wikim/pedia? Where are the other women, why are they hiding? Ok, we had a

Re: [Gendergap] Meta: Don't be a dick

2011-03-13 Thread Juliana da Costa José
Hello, I agree with this. To read such vulgar words is for me very repulsive too and I am not prudish. In a serious scientific project like Wikipedia such terminology has no space! How could we proceed to best to change this site? Best Juliana 2011/3/13, The Richardsons : > Now here’s something