While I would continue to oppose the concept of a "slate" of candidates
regardless of what "slate" they were representing (and I am fairly certain
that the wider community would find it very inappropriate, too, having
deprecated slates from Day One) I think there is some value in trying to
recruit
i take the point that arbcom is overrated
we see how difficult it is for them to enforce even site bans as in the
case of betacommand
and the point that it takes away from talking about image uploads or
infoboxes at editathons.
it is optimistic to imagine that we can train newbies to get to 150 ed
I agree with all Jim says here. I also think the incentive of regular
editing is too low - why hangout on Wikipedia after a long day at work or
school or caring for a child when you can space out with Netflix or do
something with more incentive (I am knee deep in Wikidata right nowand
have writ
Now that the Arbcom case has concluded and the punishments have been
imposed, I just wanted to welcome Carolmooredc and Neotarf to the list of
editors who have been banned from Wikipedia. I now its a hard pill to
swallow, but all good editors end up here eventually if they stay long
enough, so welc
That "passion about SOMETHING" I shall suggest is in the case of the most prolific editors nothing more than a passion to contribute to Wikipedia. Ordinary contributors soon contribute all they reasonably wish to spend time contributing, leaving the compulsive elements "here to write an encycl
there is a lack of continuity studying editing behaviors,
it is all one-off studies, not longitudinal
they only know "editor decline" because it's an easy data dump.
that said, there is some data from editations being gathered by eval &
testing group.
we fund editathons because the primary goal is
For the record: the percentage of female editors on the Dutch Wikipedia is
only 6%. In the Netherlands, edit-a-thons seem to be useless in terms of
recruitment vehicles and many long-term Wikipedians seem to have a
long-tail interest that they tend to spend most of their time editing.
The "eternal
gender equity and exploring ways to increase
the participation of women within Wikimedia projects.
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Moving Forward
You make many good points, Kerry, that speak for themselves. This reply
merely addresses one of them: the availability of data.
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:05
Just a gentle reminder..that the work we did evaluating edit-a-thons and
workshops when I worked at WMF showed that they do not retain new
editors.[1]
They're good for getting people aware about Wikipedia - and people do edit
while they are at the event, but, newer editors rarely edit AFTER the
ev
In reply to Kerry Raymond's post...
QUANTIFICATION
If "all the studies on female participation come up with low percentages
around 10%" but there are anecdotes of a significant undercount from
Teahouse volunteers and such and if female participation at Wikimania
approaches one-third, would that
You make many good points, Kerry, that speak for themselves. This reply
merely addresses one of them: the availability of data.
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Kerry Raymond
wrote:
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>1. All the studies on female participation come up with low
>percentages around 10% plus or minus a few
continue to be so.
Kerry
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[mailto:gendergap-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Tim Davenport
Sent: Tuesday, 2 December 2014 5:40 AM
To: Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Gendergap] Moving Forward
Is that addressed to me
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Tim Davenport wrote:
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>
> (1) Political organizing should happen off wiki, not on wiki. This is just
> as true for WikiProject Conservatism as it is for WikiProject Gender Gap
> Task Force. Wikipedia is not the place. Go for it, just not there.
>
>
It's not politi
Is that addressed to me? Not sure. In any event, the first link doesn't
seem to me either a "lack of civility" or a "gender gap issue," but rather
another one of the tens of thousands of more or less unimportant
conversations that happen backstage at Wikipedia by people killing time in
between cont
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