http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/opinion/sunday/what-really-keeps-women-out-of-tech.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0
"As a woman who earned a bachelor of science degree in physics in the
1970s but left the field because I felt I didn’t belong, I have long
been interested, and focus here, on women in scien
y. sarah sharp tried to make a
rule "do not curse or go away". as linus torvalds curses from time to
time it is not rocket science to understand that rule as: (1) linus
please change and do not curse, or (2) linus please leave the
community if you cannot stop cursing.
>>>
to let wikipedia NPOV also have a word, here what linus torvalds
thought about it two years ago:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137392506516022&w=2
in a summary, torvalds argues that sarah sharp should accept that
people are different and act different, she should not try to change
linus tor
falls in the "anger" category. many examples i
saw up to now were caused by some sort of ignorance, on purpose or
without knowing.
best,
rupert
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From: rupert THURNER
Date: Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] WP:Harassment finall
On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Carol Moore dc wrote:
>
>
> On 10/4/2015 5:59 AM, Robert Williams wrote:
>>
>> Well, what I'd like to say is that some of these arguments do make
>> sense. While men shouldn't get over-sensitive over perceived
>> "harassment" of them, neither should women just whine
the daily telegraph published an article with title "Well done,
feminism. Now men are afraid to help women at work":
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/11904203/Well-done-feminism.-Now-man-are-afraid-to-help-women-at-work.html
and linked to one with title "why powerful men now hide behin
m with enough information to get a warrant if it's needed (e.g.,
> IP addresses, links to the threat itself - which will normally have been
> suppressed, etc). And it is rare for police to take email threats
> seriously - Gamergate should be enough of an example there.
>
> Risker/Ann
risker you are joking? a death threat is a case for the police not for the
wikimedia foundation. wikimedia foundation is not a para-military or
para-police organization replacing standard legal systems, the wikimedia
community is also not a community outside other legal systems, with special
rules
On Mar 7, 2015 1:36 AM, "Pine W" wrote:
> Forwarding to the Gendergap list in case others are interested, and
> forwarding to Jason and Peaceray in case they want to share this blog post
> at the Art and Feminism event in Portland, Oregon (Cascadia territory!)
> this weekend.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pine
do you know women outside the north american culture, i.e. US and CA,
affected by this?
rupert
Am 03.07.2014 21:13 schrieb "Leigh Honeywell" :
> Even if it is an en-wiki only issue, it's having a clear impact on
> editor retention and therefore the long-term sustainability of the
> project. I th
hi, an interesting discussion. what do you mean by "dedicated time"? but it
might as well be that working for the foundation is a regular paid job.
becoming a volunteer editor out of a paid job is of course possible as sue
gardner showed. but i think it is something not very typical. if wmf wants
t
hi,
actually there were two questions. one was if a vote about the topic (have
a rule for gender-something in articles) makes sense. a 3:1 majority says:
no. the main reason is "do not patronise the autor." and the second
question was if people do support the proposal or not. the proposed rule
its
hi shlomi,
what you are doing here might be perceived as having a conflict of
interest and/or doing self promotion.
you wrote a solver for black hole solitaire. then you create a
wikipedia article about black hole solitaire, mentioning your name and
your software in it, as well linking to your so
idea has basically been
> shot down. It also sounds like the user of the post-it note would have to
> view the image to place the post-it on top of the image, so I'm not too
> sure what the benefit would be.
>
> -Sarah
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Bjoern Hoehr
hi,
a collegue made me stumble upon a german user page with a couple of
interesting notes concerning wikimedia participation:
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer:DrJunge&oldid=96427767
there is quite a lot of statements why the author thinks the current wmf
and wmde suggestions for
hahaha, charlotte, i really like your attitude and passion!
let me give a completely different example where i fell into a similar trap.
at that time, when i was young, stupid and idealistic
at that time, it bothered me a little that articles contained miles, foot
and inches. so i started to
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 20:04, Sue Gardner wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I did a superfast compilation of online comments by women talking
> about why they don't edit Wikipedia:
>
> http://suegardner.org/2011/02/19/nine-reasons-why-women-dont-edit-wikipedia-in-their-own-words/
>
> A couple of things st
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