Re: [Gendergap] Random musings about a bot

2015-02-27 Thread Maia Weinstock
> > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 19:29:28 -0800 > From: Travis Briggs > To: "Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase the > participation of women within Wikimedia projects." > &g

Re: [Gendergap] Random musings about a bot

2015-02-26 Thread Kerry Raymond
o increase theparticipationof women within Wikimedia projects. Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Random musings about a bot >You also need to avoid making such a change in uRLs and quotations, or at least quotations that were originally in >English. And filenames, too, in image syntax (although of

Re: [Gendergap] Random musings about a bot

2015-02-26 Thread Daniel and Elizabeth Case
>You also need to avoid making such a change in uRLs and quotations, or at >least quotations that were originally in >English. And filenames, too, in image syntax (although of course we should probably rename the image files, too). Daniel Case ___ Gen

Re: [Gendergap] Random musings about a bot

2015-02-25 Thread WereSpielChequers
You also need to avoid making such a change in uRLs and quotations, or at least quotations that were originally in English. Regards Jonathan > On 25 Feb 2015, at 03:29, Travis Briggs wrote: > > I have contributed to py wikipedia bot, which could easily enable > functionality like this. >

Re: [Gendergap] Random musings about a bot

2015-02-25 Thread Travis Briggs
I have contributed to py wikipedia bot, which could easily enable functionality like this. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot The user specifies an article or range of articles, the substitution to be performed, and the bot prompts you with each instance in the text, something like >

Re: [Gendergap] Random musings about a bot

2015-02-25 Thread Gobonobo
Wikipedia's manual of style has a section devoted to gender-neutral language (MOS:GNL). I think it would be useful to add something about using "manned" to the related essay 'Wikipedia:Gender-neutral language'. Given the knee-jerk reactions by some editors to anything they perceive as "PC" la

Re: [Gendergap] Random musings about a bot

2015-02-24 Thread Kerry Raymond
ssing gender equity and exploring ways to increase theparticipation of women within Wikimedia projects.' Subject: RE: [Gendergap] Random musings about a bot The mechanics of doing this aren't such a big deal. AutoWikiBrowser is probably the best way to do it as you can eyeball each cha

Re: [Gendergap] Random musings about a bot

2015-02-24 Thread Kerry Raymond
From: gendergap-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:gendergap-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Maia Weinstock Sent: Wednesday, 25 February 2015 1:04 PM To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Gendergap] Random musings about a bot Hi all, There have been numerous discussions amo

Re: [Gendergap] Random musings about a bot

2015-02-24 Thread J Hayes
you can also do a bot request here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_requests On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:09 PM, JJ Marr wrote: > You should ask down at the village pump, then if the response is > favorable, start a BRFA. > On Feb 24, 2015 10:04 PM, "Maia Weinstock" wrote: > >> Hi all

Re: [Gendergap] Random musings about a bot

2015-02-24 Thread JJ Marr
You should ask down at the village pump, then if the response is favorable, start a BRFA. On Feb 24, 2015 10:04 PM, "Maia Weinstock" wrote: > Hi all, > > There have been numerous discussions among folks in the space exploration > community that use of the word "manned" and "unmanned" in Wikipedia

[Gendergap] Random musings about a bot

2015-02-24 Thread Maia Weinstock
Hi all, There have been numerous discussions among folks in the space exploration community that use of the word "manned" and "unmanned" in Wikipedia is outdated and gender-biased. Unfortunately, going in and fixing all of these by hand would be rather labor-intensive... Someone recently created