> > As one of the females in the male-dominated wiki world, I have sometimes > felt that I've had to put my girliness aside in order to be taken seriously. > I also feel that there is a backlash against girly pink userpages and the > like on wiki projects and that generalizations are made about people based > on their username or userpage and not on their contributions to the wiki. >
I find I'm not really girly girly all that much. Pink and purple used to be my absolute favorite colors, for example, but now "Pretty much shade of blue" fills a slot above them. Of course, at least in America, blue=baby boy, know what I mean? What I'm trying to say is, sometimes somebody who's comfortable with being a woman isn't always going to fulfill the "fluff, rainbow, unicorns, and sparkles!" stereotypical of how a woman should act. I don't want a backlash in response to this sort of concern severe enough that I feel uncomfortable editing. From, Emily On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Nicole Willson <artisticaltru...@gmail.com>wrote: > As a wikiHowian, I can speak to this a bit. Although I can't speak for > Jack, I have my own aversions to purple girly welcome messages and I think > this reasoning is seen on other wiki projects. > > On wikiHow we have struggled to have professional looking welcome messages. > I think the worst of it was one that had a picture of a bunny and said > "follow the bunny to wikiHow" or something like that. So, I think that view > may have (at least for me) trickled down even to welcome messages that are > a "girly" color", since I am concerned that girliness and even just girly > colors will cause wikiHow to be taken less seriously as a project. > > The funny thing, however, is that one of the "girlier" welcome messages > I've seen (pastel background, '<3') is one that was created by a male > wikiHowian and no one seems to have any problem with it so far that I know > of. > > As one of the females in the male-dominated wiki world, I have sometimes > felt that I've had to put my girliness aside in order to be taken seriously. > I also feel that there is a backlash against girly pink userpages and the > like on wiki projects and that generalizations are made about people based > on their username or userpage and not on their contributions to the wiki. > > > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Sue Gardner <sgard...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > >> On 14 September 2011 10:03, Michael J. Lowrey <orangem...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Sarah Stierch < >> sarah.stie...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I do like this though (scroll down to badges), not the portraits..but >> the >> >> round badges. I'd love to see something like this developed for >> Wikipedia. >> >> I'd have them on my tumblr, etc. >> >> >> >> http://wikifashion.com/wiki/Wikifashion:Contributors_Needed >> > >> > Really???? I find them loathsome in the extreme; very Facebooky. >> >> >> Soooo funny: everyone is different, and that is fine. >> >> I remember Jack Herrick seeming flustered and a little embarrassed one >> day by a purple girly welcome message on WikiHow. But I loved the >> purple girly welcome message, personally :-) >> >> Thanks, >> Sue >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> > > > > -- > "Only the shallow know themselves." - Oscar Wilde > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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