Re: [Gendergap] Women reluctant to comment online - any relation to the WP gender gap?

A reminder to women on this list, if there is something you want to discuss privately with other women Wikipedia editors, go to this page - Anita Borg Institute - Systers Technical Interests - and scroll down, you will see a link to "

Re: [Gendergap] Women reluctant to comment online - any relation to the WP gender gap?

Moderating is not easy. It is just as hard as blocking spam and hacking attacks, but far more resource intensive because it is almost impossible to automate. You need real people moderating full time. And unless they are anonymous, they take a lot of abuse. Janine Daniel and Elizabeth Case wro

Re: [Gendergap] Women reluctant to comment online - any relation to the WP gender gap?

On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case < danc...@frontiernet.net> wrote: > *>>The newspaper that did this and heavily moderated trolling comments > had higher participate by women than most >>news >comment areas.* > >Like. Like. LIKE. > > It never fails to amaze me that, for

Re: [Gendergap] Women reluctant to comment online - any relation to the WP gender gap?

>>The newspaper that did this and heavily moderated trolling comments had >>higher participate by women than most >>news >comment areas. >Like. Like. LIKE. It never fails to amaze me that, for all the complaining people do about barely-moderated comment sections and the driveby hate speech they

Re: [Gendergap] Women reluctant to comment online - any relation to the WP gender gap?

*The newspaper that did this and heavily moderated trolling comments had higher participate by women than most news comment areas.* Like. Like. LIKE. Lightbreather On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Sydney Poore wrote: > Likely yes. Women not making public statements in the same way as men is > n

Re: [Gendergap] Women reluctant to comment online - any relation to the WP gender gap?

Likely yes. Women not making public statements in the same way as men is not isolated to Wikipedia or the internet. The article mentions the use of a respect button in addition to) a like button to encourage people to stop trashing other peoples opinions. The newspaper that did this and heavily mo

[Gendergap] Women reluctant to comment online - any relation to the WP gender gap?

Could this provide any insights into women contributing to Wikipedia? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/23/women-are-silenced-onli ne-just-as-in-real-life-it-will-take-more-than-twitter-to-change-that Kerry ___ Gendergap mailin