Re: [Gendergap] what follows from most editors do not gender-identify
la...@fanhistory.com: Do you have any data to back up the theory that women will write women's content? I would hope not, actually! But a grassroots approach will give more people the chance to express whatever it is that interests them, maybe join a few mailing lists and committees, etc. Maybe some of these new editors will be inspired by gender justice projects. Anyway, the reason I pointed to the notably male biographies was to refute the OP's suggestion that we be vague about gender discrepancies on wikipedia... We certainly can't hide these extremely obvious facts, so let's improve the mailing list description--by linking to something fun like https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap ? -adam ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] what follows from most editors do not gender-identify
la...@fanhistory.com: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Adam Wight s...@ludd.net wrote: la...@fanhistory.com: Do you have any data to back up the theory that women will write women's content? I would hope not, actually! I would actually HOPE you did. The connection was made by you. Only 20% of biographies are about women. If we can increase women's participation, this gap in articles in articles about women will disappear. I want to know what this premise is, as it appears to be a fundamental assumption in how the gender gap is addressed. I don't understand why the thinking is this way and I'd love to see research done on this topic to prove if this actually holds true. The 20% was a relative measure, quoted from an even less scholarly source which is currently offline. An archive exists here: http://web.archive.org/web/20100310065157/http://onwikipedia.blogspot.com/2010/01/whos-on-wikipedia-part-2-gender-and.html That article claims that 29% of people in the Gale Biography Resource Center are female (N=330,000), so either wikipedia is underrepresenting by 10%, or Gale is overrepresenting women. You bring up an excellent point, that women aren't necessarily going to write about feminist topics, and some men are. Without a doubt, there are two distinct issues, the first is recruiting strong feminists and women in general, along with people who aren't interested in an encyclopedia strictly-defined, and people who feel queasy around markup languages. The second is to channel creative energy towards feminist topics. There's definitely a chicken-and-egg problem here, nobody can say whether it's more important to recruit, or to create an environment which encourages the type of work you'd like to see. The premise I hope people are acting on when they prioritize participation is the democratic principle, that individuals' interests can only be represented by the people themselves. It's to be expected that most grantmaking bodies are not forward-thinking enough to accept this. -Adam ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Wiki gender balance inclusive languaje
The @ device is very clearly anti-sexist, for example l@s maestr@s quienes lo organizaron, and in my opinion it really encourages the language to evolve. How would you promote these guidelines? Otherwise, using the feminine form as generic sounds like a good idea to me. Anyone who is offended by that convention can start a productive discussion about their concerns. Saludos, Adam Wight mayo.fus...@eui.eu: Hello! First congrats to all for the great progress on the gender gap! I am looking for data or research on: If and how the adoption of inclusive language (or non-sexist language) tend to favor or not more woman participation/gender balance participation in wikis? Sarah Stierch (thanks!) suggested me that someone in this list might have insights on this question. In the romanic languages (Spanish, Italian, Catalan, etc), contrary to English, the language has much more gender references. So in this languages, it emerges more the debate if there should be adopted an inclusive language (Ej. not taking male as generic, but making both references to woman and men, etc such as “usuarios” (male) and “usuarias” (women)) as a way to favor woman participation. Does Wikipedia experience in some way this? I am wikipedian (and also a researched on wiki and gender), but I am asking this in regard to another experience that would like to build upon Wikipedia experience - an encyclopedia of the 15M movement in Spain (http://wiki.15m.cc), that just started. I am looking to see ways in order to not reproduce the horrible data on gender balance of other wiki experiences. I would appreciate any insight on this. Thank you and congrats again! Mayo/Lilaroja «·´`·.(*·.¸(`·.¸ ¸.·´)¸.·*).·´`·» «·´¨*·¸¸« Mayo Fuster Morell ».¸.·*¨`·» «·´`·.(¸.·´(¸.·* *·.¸)`·.¸).·´`·» Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info Fellow Berkman center for Internet and Society. Harvard University. Researcher. Institute of Govern and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Ph.D European University Institute E-mail: mayo.fus...@eui.eu Twitter/Identica: Lilaroja Skype: mayoneti Phone United States: 001 - 8576548231 Phone Spanish State: 0034-648877748 Berkman Center 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 +1 (617) 495-7547 (Phone) +1 (617) 495-7641 (Fax) Personal Postal Address USA: The Acetarium http://www.acetarium.com/ 265 Elm Street - 4 Somerville, MA, USA 02144 The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, forwarding, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited without the express permission of the sender. If you received this communication in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Happy Mother's Day (in many countries!)
Yes, and as my own mom once joked with me, International Women's Day was two months ago, but thank you for the card! Hello to the list, I'm a community software developer for Mediawiki, and a partisan in the fight for equality. I look forward to sharing in the culture here, and learning more. -Adam Wight sarah.stie...@gmail.com: In the United States, and many other countries[1] it is Mother's Day today! So happy Mother's Day to those here and beyond who edit Wikipedia and related projects. And if it is not Mother's Day where you live, take this as a well wish! --- Interesting story about the founding of Mother's Day: Mother's Day was founded by Anna Jarvis, who held a memorial for her mother who founded the Mothers' Day Work Clubs. These clubs cared for Union and Confederate soldiers, regardless of affiliation (keepin' it neutral! ;) ) during the American Civil War. Jarvis held a memorial, and decided to make Mother's Day a national holiday. Many of us often send flowers, have brunch or bring mom a nice gift. Jarvis disliked how commercialized Mother's Day became: A printed card means nothing except that you are too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the world. And candy! You take a box to Mother---and then eat most of it yourself. A pretty sentiment.[2] Touche! Jarvis also remained unmarried and childfree until her death. --- Her home is on the National Register of Historic Places and we need a photo for the article. Perhaps there is a Wiki Loves MOMuments challenge here ;) (Ba-du-dum..) Happy Mother's Day! -Sarah [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day#Dates_around_the_world (scroll down a bit) [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Jarvis -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Mind the gap! Support Wikipedia women's outreach: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] [FW: Fri Mar 30, Selma James, Andaiye, Peter Linebaugh, scott crow, George Katsiaficas, Gustavo Esteva, Ruth Reitan]
- Forwarded message from Retort ret...@sonic.net - To: Retort Via: AG Radical Pasts, Radical Futures Conversation on Contemporary Social Movements with Andaiye scott crow Gustavo Esteva Selma James George Katsiaficas Peter Linebaugh Ruth Reitan Moderated by Sasha Lilley (host of KPFA's Against the Grain) Friday, March 30th, 2012 California Institute of Integral Studies 1453 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Namaste Hall 3:00-7:00 pm - Participants' biographies: Andaiye is co-founder and international coordinator of Red Thread in Guyana. Begun in 1986 as a self-help income-generating group, it brings low-income women together despite often violent racial divides. Red Thread is now a campaigning organization, with three immediate priorities: a living income for the poorest women and their families; protection and justice for women and children in violent situations; and the political visibility and voice of grassroots women— Indo- and Afro-Guyanese as well as Indigenous. Andaiye is the author of several key papers (soon to be anthologized) such as “The Valuing of Unwaged Work”, an analysis of the cost to women in the Caribbean of IMF policies. In 1979, she was a founding member and leader of the Working People’s Alliance of Guyana along with historian Walter Rodney, author of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, who was assassinated in 1980. She is the Caribbean coordinator of Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike. As a leading women’s activist in the English-speaking Caribbean, and with her extraordinary political background, organizing experience and gifts as an orator, she is much sought after as a speaker. In 2007 she and Selma James toured the US together to much acclaim. When both levees and governments failed in New Orleans in the Fall of 2005, scott crow headed into the political storm, co-founding a relief effort called the Common Ground Collective. In the absence of local government, FEMA, and the Red Cross, this unusual volunteer organization, based on ‘solidarity not charity,’ built medical clinics, set up food and water distribution, and created community gardens. They also resisted home demolitions, white militias, police brutality and FEMA incompetence side by side with the people of New Orleans. scott crow is a community organizer, writer, strategist and author of the new book Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective (PM Press, November 2011). Gustavo Esteva is an independent writer, a grassroots activist and a deprofessionalized intellectual. He works both independently and in conjunction with a variety of Mexican NGOs and grassroots organizations and communities. He has been a key figure in founding several Mexican, Latin American and International NGOs and networks. Though not an economist by training, he received Mexico’s National Prize of Political Economy for his contribution to the theory of inflation, and though not a sociologist was President of the 5th World Rural Sociology Congress. He also served as President of the Mexican Society of Planning, as Vice-president of the Inter-American Society of Planning, and served as Board Member and Interim Chairman of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. He is a well known writer, with three dozen books and hundreds of essays and articles published around the world in numerous languages. Gustavo is an active voice within the “deprofessionalized” segment of the Southern intellectual community.. Gustavo argues that even the “alternative” development prescriptions lead inexorably to depriving the people of control over their own lives and shifting this control to bureaucrats, technocrats, and educators. Rather than presume that human progress fits some predetermined mold leading toward an increasing homogenization of cultures and life styles, he prefers a “radical pluralism” that honors and nurtures distinctive culture variety and enables many paths to the realization of self- defined aspirations. In Grassroots Postmodernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures and Escaping Education: Living as Learning at the Grassroots, that he wrote with Madhu S. Prakash, he elaborates on his thesis. He was invited by the Zapatistas to be their advisor, in 1996. Since then, he has been very active in what today is called Zapatismo, involving himself with the current struggle of the indigenous peoples. He lives in a small Zapotec village in the south of Mexico. Selma James is a women's rights and anti-racist campaigner and author. Raised in a movement household, she joined CLR James’s Johnson-Forest Tendency at age 15, and from 1958 to 1962, she worked with him in the movement for Caribbean federation and independence. In 1972, she founded the International Wages for Housework Campaign, and in 2000 she helped launch the Global Women's Strike which she coordinates. She coined the word unwaged to describe the caring work
