Re: [Gendergap] Atlantic article..."How Wikipedia is Hostile toWomen"

2015-10-22 Thread Sarah (SV)
r regular classes on Skype for any Wikipedian who wants to sign up. The above wouldn't solve everything, but I think it would help. Sarah On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Risker wrote: > > On 22 October 2015 at 16:27, Sarah (SV) wrote: > >> Daniel, I happen to think that a

Re: [Gendergap] Atlantic article..."How Wikipedia is Hostile toWomen"

2015-10-22 Thread Sarah (SV)
Daniel, I happen to think that any Arb who is asked to excuse themselves from a case should do so, within reason. But in particular I think women who see certain Arbs as sexist should be able to require recusal. Otherwise the case is hobbled before it begins. Ditto for anyone with concerns about r

Re: [Gendergap] Atlantic article..."How Wikipedia is Hostile to Women"

2015-10-22 Thread Sarah (SV)
On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Risker wrote: > But it's gonna take more than "this picture is the same one on Person X's > personal website" to do it for me - because any experienced Wikimedian > knows that "stolen" images from personal websites are constantly showing up > where they don't bel

Re: [Gendergap] Atlantic article..."How Wikipedia is Hostile to Women"

2015-10-22 Thread Sarah (SV)
fferent problem > to > > work on. As for the broader picture I don't dispute that Wikipedia has > > several problems around gender, and some terrible publicity, but if one > took > > that article at face value the obvious next step would be to get a > change in >

Re: [Gendergap] Atlantic article..."How Wikipedia is Hostile to Women"

2015-10-22 Thread Sarah (SV)
WSC, the evidence as to who posted the porn images was, I would say, conclusive. We nevertheless ended up with a situation in which a man who had been engaged in harassment (much of which was onwiki and had been going on for about a year) was let off the hook, and the harassed woman was banned. Th

Re: [Gendergap] Lightbreather arbitration case

2015-07-16 Thread Sarah (SV)
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Ellie Kesselman wrote: > > So then, WHY is Wikipedia more anti-female than some of the seemingly most > female-unfriendly parts of the Internet? I don't know, and it frightens > me. I don't want to be subject to what Lightbreather experienced. It just > isn't wo

Re: [Gendergap] What would it take to Close the Gender Gap?

2015-06-01 Thread Sarah (SV)
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Thanks Jason. I enjoyed reading this, though the conclusions remind me of > _Seeing Like a State_. Not all edits, editors, and subcommunities are > equal. Trying to shift about contributors en masse in a way that is > convenient for large

Re: [Gendergap] Zero tolerance on FGM

2015-02-07 Thread Sarah (SV)
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case < danc...@frontiernet.net> wrote: > > > >The WP article is a stub, > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_of_Zero_Tolerance_to_Female_Genital_Mutilation >

Re: [Gendergap] press coverage of Gamergate arbcom case

2015-01-31 Thread Sarah (SV)
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Marie Earley wrote: > Yes, no action from ArbCom or however, followed by a criminal conviction. > Quotes from the judge in the criminal trial appearing in the media > alongside quotes from those on-wiki who just said, "Closing this... no > action... trivial... thi