So perhaps the question is how many women would be interested in
participating in off-wiki...I'm not really sure entirely what exactly it
is, although hypothetically it's mentoring and... well, I keep coming back
to I'm not sure what it is.

I have a hard enough time keeping up with my current load, and am not
particularly interested in going to more venues, but I may be the exception.

Risker/Anne

On 1 January 2015 at 19:49, LB <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you, Heather! This is what we run into on the WP GGTF every time we
> open something up for discussion.
>
> All I wanted to discuss the possibility of such a group. Are there any
> policies that would make it impossible? How would we determine who is a
> woman? Could inclusion/exclusion be automated? What might the benefits of
> such a group be? The liabilities? What would its scope be? It's goals?
>
> Can we discuss this?
> On Jan 1, 2015 5:30 PM, "Heather Walls" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Tim Davenport <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I for one would immediately be running the project through the
>>> Miscellany for Deletion process.
>>>
>>> You don't see anything slightly wrong with this idea? Really?!?
>>>
>>> This is 100% unadulterated identity politics.
>>>
>>
>> You say that as if identity politics is somehow inherently negative.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Tim Davenport
>>> Carrite on WP /// Randy from Boise on WPO
>>> Corvallis, OR
>>>
>>>
>>> >>Is it simply impossible to start a Wikipedia project that's open to
>>> women,
>>> or people who identify as women? (I'm sorry if I don't use the correct
>>> terms, but I haven't kept up with them in recent years.)
>>>
>>> >>I mean if we did it... what would the consequences be?
>>>
>>> >>Lightbreather
>>>
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