On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Pete Forsyth wrote:
> All,
> I just ran across a short Wikipedia article I wrote a couple years ago, and
> thought I'd share it. It's a bio of Frances Fuller Victor:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Fuller_Victor
> Victor was generally known as a novelist of
It seems like we have strong consensus that a separate "customer support
queue", run by and for women, would be a good idea. I certainly think so!
Who here is active on OTRS? I'm on it, and on the email list, but I'm not
active there. It might be best for somebody float the idea over there, see
> Sarah,
>
> Yes those conversations were a real trial for me--it was like knocking my
> head against a brick wall. And while I had some friends and knew of a
> great
> number of people who wanted to see these categories put in place, I was
> not
> allowed to let them know where the conversation wa
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Fred Bauder wrote:
>>..
>> Hi Fred, if it were an entirely separate address it would work, an
>> email address that is only ever read by women volunteers.
>>
>> Sarah
>>
>
> That is the way we need to go with perhaps a panel of specialized OTRS
> volunteers, for thi
Category:High-heeled shoes is an excellent example of the current problem
WMF projects are having with creating and disseminating content that is
unbiased.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:High-heeled_shoes
This category is different that most all the other categories about footwear
bec
Sarah,
Yes those conversations were a real trial for me--it was like knocking my
head against a brick wall. And while I had some friends and knew of a great
number of people who wanted to see these categories put in place, I was not
allowed to let them know where the conversation was going on due
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 03:14, Fred Bauder wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 22:22, John Vandenberg
>>> wrote:
As Sarah Stierch points out, our images of sexuality and reproduction
are crap, broadly speaking, and our paperwork/processes are
self-evidently not good for attracting h
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 03:14, Fred Bauder wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 22:22, John Vandenberg wrote:
>>> As Sarah Stierch points out, our images of sexuality and reproduction
>>> are crap, broadly speaking, and our paperwork/processes are
>>> self-evidently not good for attracting high qualit
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote:
> I thought, along with the more serious deliberations, it might be nice to
> occasionally share interesting Wikipedia content we've worked on related to
> gender. If you've worked on something that may be of interest to this list,
> please sha
All,
I just ran across a short Wikipedia article I wrote a couple years ago, and
thought I'd share it. It's a bio of Frances Fuller Victor:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Fuller_Victor
Victor was generally known as a novelist of the 19th century American West, but
she also ghost-wrote tr
> (I am particularly concerned with bulk uploads from other services
> that don't have such policies in place, such as Flickr, because
> provenance and consent becomes very difficult to trace in that case.)
This is, of course, another side effect of our overly dogmatic fair-use
policy, where "it
The article for [[childfree]] is just as weird, including this odd photo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childfree#Motivations
So glad we have a photo of a guy doing "research" to illustrate
this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childfree#Statistics_and_research
The same user, Tesseract2, added b
>From WP:Feminism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Feminism#Outrageous_male_bias
Man our talk page has been blowing up lately
The article for [[childfree]] is just as weird, including this odd photo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childfree#Motivations
So glad we have a
Idea:
1. We design a wiki page like a call for artists for selected topics that we
notice need quality images.
2. People who have connections to professional photographers (like me..I'm a
consultant and I one of my services is strategic plans for private sector
artists and studios, including half
Here is the deletion log, for reference, regarding "African American women"
it looks like the desire was to have it used as a main category and then
have sub categories added to it, and I think that makes sense, but I also
understand some aren't categorized.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 22:22, John Vandenberg wrote:
>> As Sarah Stierch points out, our images of sexuality and reproduction
>> are crap, broadly speaking, and our paperwork/processes are
>> self-evidently not good for attracting high quality photographs. What
>> processes should we put in pla
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