Re: [Gendergap] wiki-post-it increases female participation, and replaces image filter?
I don't think women are scared or disinterested to participate because of images on Wikipedia. People are uncomfortable about certain images regardless of gender, just like people having a hard time with wiki-mark up is genderless. But, that's just speaking for my experiences, research and role in English Wikipedia. I don't really think post-it note type tools would benefit Wikipedia any more or less than the image filter would, and that idea has basically been shot down. It also sounds like the user of the post-it note would have to view the image to place the post-it on top of the image, so I'm not too sure what the benefit would be. -Sarah On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann derhoe...@gmx.net wrote: * rupert THURNER wrote: to increase female participation, drjunge suggests to implement post-its. they can be placed on any position into wikipedia pages, and are only personally viewable in a first step. later the visibility might be extended just like with other social networks. one funny side-usage of these post-its is that they of course can be placed onto images one does not like. as i am not female and not non-participating, i'd wonder what you think about such an idea? If you want to close the gendergap then you have to think about how to turn 10% female participation into 90% female participation. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjo...@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- http://www.glamwiki.org Sarah Stierch Consulting *Historical, cultural artistic research advising.* -- http://www.sarahstierch.com/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] The Online Gender Gap: Why Don't More Women Participate in Online Forums?
Featuring a photo of our Sue Gardner :) http://www.policymic.com/article/show/id/2600#signup-call And as a selfish plug you can follow related content like this on my scoop.it, which documents gender gap in the media related to Wikimedia, open source, and related areas here: http://www.scoop.it/t/women-and-wikimedia Occupy Wikipedia! -Sarah -- http://www.glamwiki.org Sarah Stierch Consulting *Historical, cultural artistic research advising.* -- http://www.sarahstierch.com/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] [Foundation-l] Fundraising is for men
I actually have interest in the gender of Wikimedia fundraising donors, I think I've voiced that interest publicly a few times, in the past. Perhaps next fundraiser we'll be able to explore opportunities like that, or maybe WMF and chapters are gathering data related to gender. I was hoping to see a bigger push towards having women represented in the fundraiser, with hope perhaps it'd attract female donors, and even female contributors, (or donors and contributors in general of course) but, there has been only one woman who has been showcased, thus far. -Sarah Dear all; We have heard many times that most Wikipedians are male, but have you heard about gender and fundraising? Some data from a 2010 study[1] and a 2011 German study[2] (question 20th of 22). People have said that Wikipedia is a sexist place which excludes women to edit. Looks like women neither are interested on editing nor funding free knowledge. Is WMF working to increase female donors just like female editors? -- Sarah Stierch Consulting -- Historical, cultural, new media artistic research advising. http://www.sarahstierch.com ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] January 2012 San Francisco Hackathon
Hi everyone, This came across my radar; perhaps there are a few of you (of any gender, of course!) interested in participating who might not know about this: January 2012 San Francisco Hackathon - Jan 20-22. Developers in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley, you can create cool hacks with and on Wikipedia. Our first San Francisco hackathon is happening Jan. 20-22, and we'll be there teaching you about MediaWiki (our software), about our API and about our framework for JavaScript feature development. Learn to reuse Wikipedia content in your own apps, create new functionality for every Wikipedia user around the world, or just tailor your own experience. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/January_2012_SF_Hackathon It's being led by Sumana Harihareswara who is the Wikimedia Foundation's Volunteer Development Coordinator and one of Femmeonomics http://femme-o-nomics.com/2011/10/top-50-women-to-watch-in-tech-part-ii/ top 50 women to watch in tech this year. A great opportunity to meet other developers, learn about MediaWiki-ness. And of course, for any female tech geeks - a great opportunity to work with other female developers and programmers in a laid back and welcome environment (which I assume it will be having worked with Sumana!). Please forward to your colleagues and fellow-geeks! -Sarah -- Sarah Stierch Consulting -- Historical, cultural, new media artistic research advising. http://www.sarahstierch.com ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Kelly Wearstler, again...
Hi everyone, A few months ago Kelly Wearstler appeared - I think on this list. I had never heard of her, but, a small stink was being made on her talk page about whether to feature the Playboy model infobox for her page. So, I took a look, and of course got sucked in. I rewrote the article and blahblabhlah. One user was claiming that only claim to fame Kelly Wearstler has is being a Playboy model. Someone linked me to an interesting comment on some arbcom case. Now, I'm not into getting involved in the drama llama known as Arbcom, but I'm a bit irked by this guy's comments here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2011/Candidates/Kww/Questions#Question_from_Newyorkbrad And I'm not sure the protocol to going about handling this. It really irritates me, and now he's making some assumption that Kelly Wearstler herself would rather that her Wikipedia page emphasize her interior design business rather than her Playmate past. Uhhh...I wrote the page, to emphasize that she wasn't just a Playboy model (and consensus agreed on the talk page that it wasn't her main claim to fame). I also have NEVER MET KELLY WEARSTLER let alone do I own her books, nor did I know who she was (I'm just that involved in the fashion industry anymore.)... So, I'm fairly aggravated that this person is claiming that it was Wearstler doing the manipulating to the article and that by revamping the page I'm saying (or someone is) that being a Playboy bunny is inherently bad. It states it in the lead that she was Playboy of the Month, and there is a section for it - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Wearstler Her clothing and interior design items are sold at Bergdorf Goodman (which is a VERY high end store - think 1% ;-) ) and she's published a number of books including a LA Times best seller. Obviously I'm pissed, so how does one go about saying Listen dude, I didn't write it FOR her, and if you don't think there's more to her, you need to really look a little closer, without getting sucked into an Arbcom drama? I try to assume good faith, that perhaps he's just misunderstanding something, or I don't know what... It also doesn't help that I've had artist biographies I've written lately speedy nominated because the speedy nominators 1) don't know anything about art 2) don't do their research properly. So yeah, I'm grumpy. Sarah -- Sarah Stierch Consulting -- Historical, cultural, new media artistic research advising. http://www.sarahstierch.com ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
Hi everyone, While starting my trip into /The Dinner Party/, I came across the sad article for British women's rights activist Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence. While there are many women in the installation who have poor or no articles, this article struck me as rather, well, mucked up (if you will). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmeline_Pethick-Lawrence Perhaps someone feels like learning a bit about her and taking a go at it =) Right now it's just a sad stub and features a pile of see also's and a list of links to organizations she might have been involved in. Thanks to whomever takes on the task =) Sarah -- Sarah Stierch Consulting -- Historical, cultural, new media artistic research advising. http://www.sarahstierch.com ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] A fun new project!
Hello everyone, I've been fiddling with the article and content for Judy Chicago's /The Dinner Party/ and as I've mentioned, I've wanted to clean up the list for the 999 mythical figures and women listed on the tiles underneath the table (called the /Heritage Floor/). I double checked the list (which was short) and Kaldari developed a really lovely table for it. Which we've both started to fill out a bit. Quoting from Kaldari on WP:Feminism talk page: There are 999 women in the table, so it's a lot of data to add. If you're more of a prose-writer than a table-filler, we could also use help making sure that all of the women have decent articles, or just articles period. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_in_the_Heritage_Floor Yay! We look forward to seeing the table fleshed out and the articles as well. Thanks for your interest, and please spread the word! Sarah User:SarahStierch en.wp ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Research into causes of the gender gap?
On 12/14/11 3:58 PM, Laura Hale wrote: From an Australian perspective based on observation, I can this list has the potential to be a bit of a show stopper. :( We had about three women who were active in trying to get women involved with Wikipedia. Their efforts were even mentioned on Signpost. They joined the list, and it killed off informal, non-Chapter female efforts in the country to specifically do outreach to women. Oops. :( I don't understand what this paragraph means. Can you explain a little bit more? I've read it a few times and I'm rather confused on what you're trying to explain. Thanks, Sarah [[User:SarahStierch]] en.wp ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Sheryl Sandberg On Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders
[[User:Slowking4]] shared this link with me in #gendergap-l. It did get me a bit emotional, and I think it's inspiring and worth watching. It is a TED talk, so it has a number of languages available. It's by Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook. She talks about statistics related to women in organizations and leadership (coincides with Wikipedia data, actually), women and families, as well. Her three points: * sit at the table * make your partner, really your partner (One of the best pieces of advice I ever received was Make sure your partner is a feminist, from a female director of a GLAM, and this reminded me of that.) * don't leave before you leave http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/13/sheryl-sandberg-ted-talk_n_1145415.html?1323791868 She does talk about being a mother, and while I am childless by choice, I think it's really important to hear the voices of mother's and women in the workplace, and how they feel gender equality plays a role in motherhood and a professional life. I found it inspiring, and perhaps you will too. Sarah [[User:SarahStierch]] en:wp ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] The gendergap on Swedish television
Very cool Lennart. I regret I don't know Swedish, but, this is exciting none the less =) Do you know of any on Wiki or online links to the gender gap group, or is it specifically a mailing list? Thanks for sharing this, Sarah On 12/14/11 5:33 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson wrote: Hello, Recently, Swedish television had quite a long bit about the gendergap: http://svtplay.se/v/2644848/kulturnyheterna/14_12_19_00 Apparently (it caused us a little bit of a surprise), there is a Wikipedia gendergap group in Sweden, and it has some cool supporters, including a professor in History. They have recently started, but we intend to keep in contact. Best wishes, Lennart Lennart Guldbrandsson, Tfn: 031 - 12 50 48Mobil: 070 - 207 80 05 Epost: l_guldbrands...@hotmail.com / lenn...@wikimedia.se Användarsida: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%C3%A4ndare:Hannibal Blogg: http://mrchapel.wordpress.com/ Wikimedia Sverige http://wikimedia.se http://www.1av3.se ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Sarah Stierch Consulting -- Historical, cultural, new media artistic research advising. http://www.sarahstierch.com ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] A fun new project!
Yes...sadly they locked it in 2007. Frustrating, because some of the subjects they say they have no information on, I have successfully research and discovered information on. You can email the woman in charge of the Wiki though and let her know if any updates and I believe she'll update the entries. -Sarah On 12/14/11 7:15 PM, Rob wrote: Everyone might know about this already, but the Brooklyn Museum has set up their own Wiki for The Dinner Party: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/about_wiki.php ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Sarah Stierch Consulting -- Historical, cultural, new media artistic research advising. http://www.sarahstierch.com ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Pune Hackathon Feb 2012
Hi everyone, WMF is planning a hackathon in Pune, India, in Feb. 2012, to coincide with the GNUnify Conference - Feb 10-12. A Wikimedia hackathon is a chance to learn how to develop using MediaWiki, Phonegap, and our other technologies, and to work alongside experts. Software engineers, designers, and translators are welcome. The goal is to have a healthy group of women representing, so spread the word to your Indian colleagues (and the male colleagues too =) ) ! It's also being coordinated by Alolita (with help from Sumana!!) Please visit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Pune_Hackathon_Feb_2012 for more information. Don't live in India or don't have a chance to attend that Hackathon? There is also a Hackathon in San Francisco in January: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Hackathon_January_2012 Which has an event page so sexy that I wish I could attend and I'm better at breaking things than fixing them! HACK ON, -Sarah [[User:SarahStierch]] en.wp ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Fwd: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Fwd: [cultural-partners] Wiki Loves Monuments... 2012!
Hi everyone - this is the announcement for WIki Loves Monuments. The US will be participating (in some capacity) for the 2012 event, and we're of course looking for participants around the world. And since this is gender gap - perhaps you know some cool women's groups, or yourself - who would like to step up and help lead a group or your country/state/chapter into the WLM event. See below! It's an awesome experience - I participated (Despite living in the US) in the Belgian WLM, and it was really awesome. -Sarah Original Message Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Fwd: [cultural-partners] Wiki Loves Monuments... 2012! Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:56:12 +0100 From: Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl Reply-To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition wikilovesmonume...@lists.wikimedia.org To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition wikilovesmonume...@lists.wikimedia.org FYI, we send out the following email to several lists. Please spread the word :-) --- Hello everyone, As you may have heard, a little while ago some organizers of Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 came together in a rainy and cold Amsterdam to evaluate the 2011 edition, and kick off documentation for 2012. We would like to share some of the results of our meeting with you. The first and most important information is: * There is going to be a Wiki Loves Monuments in 2012 -- and if there is interest, we are going global! We would like to get a feeling of in how many countries there would be people potentially interested in organizing a Wiki Loves Monuments nationally; but firstly, let us start with the basics. Wiki Loves Monuments is a photo contest organized in 2010 and 2011 in, respectively, the Netherlands and in Europe. The contest asks the general audience to upload pictures of monumental/historical sites and buildings during September. It has a federal structure and is organised seperately in every participating country by the local people who know how things work in their area; best photos from all countries are nominated for an international contest. In 2011 this contest was very successful, with more than 165.000 photos of monuments in 18 participating countries submitted in total. This was possible thanks to the hard work of hundreds of volunteers in those countries who helped organise Wiki Loves Monuments in one way or another. The winning pictures have been published on http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu and on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011_winners. Besides the wonderful direct impact on the overall quality and coverage of heritage and culture topics, Wiki Loves Monuments is a fantastic opportunity to reach some of our important goals: we had a participation of over 4.000 new users who created the first ever community-driven contribution peak on Wikimedia Commons (_http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/#new_editors_per_month_); we have also helped in establishing cooperation between Wikimedia groups chapters and some of their local cultural institutions and organisations in several countries. Would you be interested in organizing a Wiki Loves Monuments in 2012 in your country? Would you like to know more? Find all the details at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012. We have put together some information there for you -- and much more will follow soon. We would also like you to join our public mailing list where everyone is welcome to ask any questions about the details on how to organise a Wiki Loves Monuments in your country. This is a place where many organizers of 2011 are already on and we will use that as our main channel for communications and information dispersion in 2012. Be bold and sign up for the list at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments. So, please speak up if you're interested! Best regards, Lodewijk, Maarten Tomasz (on behalf of so many others) ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list wikilovesmonume...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] A nice mix - our edit-a-thon sure shook up the gender gap!
Hi folks, I'm going to be a little selfish here, so pardon me. But, yesterday I coordinated a fine art themed edit-a-thon at our local downtown library, here in Washington, DC, followed by a meet-up at a local pub. I'm proud to say we had 13 people at the edit-a-thon, and six were women. The meetup? We had 16 people and 9 were women!! These numbers might seem small compared to larger events, but, to have an event like this, and have such a healthy mix, made me so happy. User:Aude, the President of Wikimedia DC joked I remember when it'd be just me and Mindspillage, as the only women, and we gushed about having such a healthy group of all genders at the event. I noticed, when saying goodbye to people, that I got a bit emotional - not only did we have a gender-mixed Wiki-event, but, we also actually wrote new articles and expanded articles - and anyone who attends an edit-a-thon knows - it's often chaos and just socializing, not actual editing. You can see our outcomes here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC_26/To-do_list#OUTCOMES Which includes new articles or expanded articles about seven women artists!!! Obviously, I'm on a bit of a high from this, as I love outreach and coordinating things like this; I do believe the power of invitation helped with the success of this event. I don't use bots for invitations, and I do my best to individually reach out to people I hope you'll be there. I genuinely do believe that invitation is one of the strongest keys in making sure that events, participation, and programs succeed in regards to closing the gender gap. Thanks for letting me gush =) One event, for me, leads to one more woman feeling inspired to continue participating. It also shows that offline events make for such a rewarding experience - we get to come together, put our differences aside, and work together for the common cause of providing free knowledge to the world. One woman who came had never written a new article - and this was her first time - and she really was proud. That just made me so happy. I also got to meet Carol Moore, which was rather epic, I must say. :) -Sarah -- Sarah Stierch Consulting -- Historical, cultural, new media artistic research advising. http://www.sarahstierch.com ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Techies You Decide! You're either a feminist or a misogynist - by Trevor Owens
Trevor Owens, a colleague of mine in the DC GLAM world has written a nice and honest blog about open source and feminism. It talks about the fear women have of representing themselves or writing like themselves online, the experiences of Skud her ideas about harassment, and Trevor stating why he is a feminist. http://www.trevorowens.org/2011/12/techies-you-decide-you’re-either-a-feminist-or-a-misogynist/ Nice to see a man in tech express himself like this - it's a rare thing to see, especially in the tech field. Sarah -- Sarah Stierch Consulting -- Historical, cultural, new media artistic research advising. http://www.sarahstierch.com ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] I'm not sure which is more depressing
On 12/21/11 6:41 AM, Michael J. Lowrey wrote: This discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Becritical#Please_don.27t_encourage_bigotry. This guy is notorious. This person shouldn't even be in the community for their behavior. It's painful to read and makes *me* not want to participate in Wikipedia, for godsake. I'm sorry you got thrown under the bus, as well. It's people like this that scare the crap out of me in regards to me retaliating or saying anything. I feel like they'll be placing an Arbcom request against ME, instead of someone against THEM. or this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#File:Wikipedia_Change_The_Ratio_Logo.jpg Yeah, thus far I'm the only woman who chimed in on it. Someone brought it to my attention last night just as I was preparing to go to bed. Suffice to say I had to distract myself with other things to get it off my mind. Obviously just a troll being, well, a troll, and a bunch of dude-ness. I do think it's interesting that one guy mentions third gender, as I'm wondering if he's referring to [[third sex]] or if he's just creating the concept of those who do not identify their gender in their preferences are the new Wikipedia third gender. I understand not everyone sits around and reads statistical data about women, Wikimedia, open source communities, etc, but, it's really weird that in a community that /relies/ on citations and statistical data, that they repeatedly deny/dimiss the concept of the gender gap, throw it to the wayside and think its either not a problem or not worth mentioning. How many times do I have to have this conversation? I also acknowledge that everyone has their own individual experience. While I've had remarkable and terrible experiences in the community, I realize some women have had nothing but awesome experiences, some men have had sexist experiences, and that everyone has could end up on both sides of the victim/non-victim spectrum. But, I also know that if we have 100 examples of painful, terrible, frightening experiences, we have a problem. We have one of these stories, we have a problem, but, unfortunately communities like this need 100 of them to make anyone take notice or make change. And change is comin', baby. Someone does state that everyone is just sitting around and whining and not taking action. Perhaps they need to become a bit more aware about the actions that some of us within the community are taking. Whether it's WMF's decision to explore options to close the gap, or the UK and Girl Geeks, the planning conference, the Ada Initiative, etc. Perhaps I should invite them to this list. :P And I keep saying If you want to talk about this, I look forward to talking about it with you at Wikimania, and then they all get scared and run into the corner. Perhaps they fear the wrath, but hey, if you're going to say it on Wikipedia...say it to my face! Hell, attend Wikimania and I think you'll notice..helloo gender gappp Sarah [[User:SarahStierch]] en.wp ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] I'm not sure which is more depressing
Wikimania offers hundreds (?) of thousands of dollars in grant money - that's the only way I could afford (and still can afford) to go. That includes housing and most Wikimania's provide food and drinks too :) If you submit a talk proposal and it's accepted it's an even better reason for getting a grant. So people have no excuses! I'd love to see Wikimania GenderGap-L happy hour!! :-) Sarah Sent via iPhone - I apologize in advance for my shortness or errors! :) On Dec 21, 2011, at 8:37 AM, Michael J. Lowrey orangem...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: And I keep saying If you want to talk about this, I look forward to talking about it with you at Wikimania, and then they all get scared and run into the corner. Perhaps they fear the wrath, but hey, if you're going to say it on Wikipedia...say it to my face! Hell, attend Wikimania and I think you'll notice..helloo gender gappp I wish I could afford to come to Wikimania. -- Michael J. Orange Mike Lowrey When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes. -- Desiderius Erasmus ___ 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] Pimp
Hi everyone, I'm doing a bit of fiddling with some articles related to sexuality and came across an article about a madam [[Polly Adler]]. The word madam was linked to [[pimp]]. While the article opens mentioning that a woman who runs a brothel is called a madam, it's an extremely male dominated article and focuses on the violent and sordid world of being a pimp, for lack of better words. I, frankly, would /love/ to see madam have it's own article. Perhaps we should discuss it on the pimp page or just BE BOLD. (I don't have time to start a well fleshed out madam article, but, I'd be interested in perhaps collaborating with others to do it.) Thoughts? -Sarah -- Sarah Stierch Consulting -- Historical, cultural, new media artistic research advising. http://www.sarahstierch.com ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Pimp
Beria - I never asked Caroline to leave the mailing list. I was merely making a suggestion. For example, when I became overwhelmed by the traffic on Foundation-L, I went to digest with it. A mere suggestion is not a request for anyone to leave. It's a shame that my posts have been so bothersome for the list, I never knew that I was only making things worse, or not helping at all. Sarah On 12/25/11 10:32 AM, Béria Lima wrote: /I must say, you are the first person to openly complain, and if others feel strongly about it I can cease sharing content that I think needs urgent help or peer review. / Well, I second Caroline. I already said this in Foundation-l but again: I don't think that delete pictures of Wikipe-tan, remove a vagina from the article with the same name or create a article for a female pimp (only to mention a few cases I remember now) are the way we will solve gender gap. So yes, please stop post this here, or use the wikiEN-l https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l mailing list. And Sarah, this If you don't like you can sign the digest mode sounds rude to me, as if you are inviting her to leave. (I'm not a english native, but that is how appears to me) _ /Béria Lima/ Wikimedia Portugal http://wikimedia.pt (351) 963 953 042 /Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos/ On 25 December 2011 17:03, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com mailto:sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Caroline, I apologize if my occasional posting of an interesting article in English Wikipedia has been a burden, deterrent, or has went against the goal of this mailing list for you. Since I have joined, it has been something we have been doing, and the past month or so the list has been rather quiet compared to other times in the past. In the past, when we have shared articles of questionable matter, subject, sexism, or other issues, we've had great success of working together or independently to improve those articles, and often those improvements have been done by women who are on this list, which is very cool. I of course urge folks in any language to share content, however, with most Wikipedia mailing lists, systematic language bias does exist, as many are in English, though I know that was not the main point of your post. Thanks for the suggestions. I'll probably start out discussing it on the talk page of the article and also the project page. Again, I apologize if my own interests in article improvement in English Wikipedia have deterred or went against the mission of this mailing list. I must say, you are the first person to openly complain, and if others feel strongly about it I can cease sharing content that I think needs urgent help or peer review. As you did state, we could be pointing out issues of sexism all the time, however, sometimes I feel there are things of interest to the broader community, or something that might interest someone. (And while it has mainly been me lately, if you explore the history of the mailing list it's usually not just me flooding up your mailbox =) ) I also must add, my sharing of articles of interest and concern have wielded nothing but positive on.Wiki improvement of these subjects, which for me, means the closing of the gender gap in a different manner - one more subject area related to women or women's history which is covered in a more equal and respectful manner. We also offer, as you probably know, a digest mode, so, if this list is too busy for you (I think we are rather minimal these days, compared to lists such as internal-l and foundation-l) that might be something to consider. I'm glad you have joined and chosen to participate, and I am really sorry if my posts have been intruding. Sarah /Sarah Stierch/ Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA085/en/USutm_source=WMdonateutm_medium=sidebarutm_campaign=20110130SB003language=enuselang=encountry=USreferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwikimediafoundation.org%2Fwiki%2FHome On 12/25/11 5:59 AM, Caroline Becker wrote: Hi everyone, I'm sorry that my first post on the gender-gap list is a little mean. I'm a wikipedia-fr admin, active member of Wikimédia France chapter and a member of the OTRS team. Yet, since I've joined gender-gap a week early, I receive more mails from this list than all the other lists together. I'm also not a native English speaker, which means every mail takes me a little longer of my time. I thought the goal of this list was to discuss about women on wikimedia
Re: [Gendergap] I'm fed up - was Re: article differentials/unnecessary drama
On 12/26/11 11:29 AM, Florence wrote: Sarah Seriously When it comes to bullying... There are several options as to how to answer it. One is blahblahblah. It takes your time, it takes our time, it takes its toll on the environment, and is bad on your health :) But blahblahblahblah is one of my specialties! ;-) When there is no bodily harm involved, I'd say to do just as with trolling. Let it go. Do not answer. Do as if it did not exist. Have a drink and forget about it. Do not escalate. Close your mind. Do us the favor of thinking us able to filter out what is ridiculous and non sense from what is relevant and meaningful criticism. Beria is capable of both. Take the second and shut your mind from the first as most of us learnt to do ;) I always get a ton of emails asking me to ignore these things. But, I just get so freaking fed up and I feel like I'm going to explode; and then private ranty emails can only go so far..and then...BOOM!!! Perhaps I should take up boxing. Or just drink more. ;-) Maybe both. Thanks Flo!! -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA085/en/USutm_source=WMdonateutm_medium=sidebarutm_campaign=20110130SB003language=enuselang=encountry=USreferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwikimediafoundation.org%2Fwiki%2FHome ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] OccupediA - Women Contributing to Wikipedia (the first of many such events)
Hi all, Thanks Jorm for sending this blog to me - Lukas Blakk works at Mozilla and is an advocate for open stuff (my new favorite phrase I swiped from the Ada Initiative!). Lukas wrote a blog about her experience putting together an edit-a-thon at Noisebridge (an awesome hackerspace I can't wait to check out) in San Francisco recently. http://crashopensource.blogspot.com/2012/01/occupedia-women-contributing-to.html Not only does she have desire to continue these events (yeah!) she shares some cool ideas she believes might help new editors (at the bottom). I really like the idea of having a symbol next to usernames of new contributors; this might help with less biting and bring more attention to new users in regards to assistance from experienced contributors. Could be an interesting experiment! She also touches on the idea of gamification, an idea that is sort of like the article incubator (which encourages collaboration more than just creating an article and hoping that more seasoned editors approve it which is what article review comes off to me as being), and a more visible adoption program (and hopefully the project I'm working on right now will help with that!). Always excites me to see others thinking about these things who are somewhat outside of the Wikipedia community; I think having fresh eyes and minds on what Wikipedia needs to improve is extremely valuable. -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA085/en/USutm_source=WMdonateutm_medium=sidebarutm_campaign=20110130SB003language=enuselang=encountry=USreferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwikimediafoundation.org%2Fwiki%2FHome ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] WikiProject Women's sport
Hi everyone, A few months ago Laura Hale founded WP:Women's sport on English Wikipedia.[1] While it's not an area I tend to work in, I've noticed it popping up on my radar with a French-English-Hebrew speaking editor named Genevieve2 who has been posting about it on WP:Feminism and WP:Women's History talk pages. Some of you might have interest in the project, right now Genevieve is trying to inspire folks to participate in writing an article and major women's sports in North America.[2] It might interest some of you, or perhaps inspire some of you to translate or write related articles in whatever language of your choice! And if you're in the mood to get a bit fiery or involved in conversation, a discussion about gender in articles (i.e. This is a men's football tournament, for the SuperBowl, for example) has been brought up on the talk page.[3] (It also appears to me that the people involved in the conversation are male, correct me if I'm wrong, of course!) Great work Laura at starting the project and Genevieve (who I don't believe is on this list, yet) for promoting collaboration amongst Wikipedians. It's been nice to see my cohorts from WP:Feminism jumping into handle some tough tasks of copy editing issues on some articles. -Sarah [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_sport [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Genevieve2/sandbox0001A [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Women%27s_sport#Statement_of_gender -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA085/en/USutm_source=WMdonateutm_medium=sidebarutm_campaign=20110130SB003language=enuselang=encountry=USreferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwikimediafoundation.org%2Fwiki%2FHome ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] WikiProject Women's sport
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[Gendergap] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Call for Participation - Wikimania 2012
Hi everyone! See below - Wikimania 2012's Call for Participation is now open. I do hope to see lots of great quality papers, presentations, round tables and more about gender and systemtic bias! -Sarah Originele bericht Onderwerp: [Wikimania-l] Call for Participation - Wikimania 2012 Datum: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:07:16 -0500 Van:Tiffany Smith tiffany.lmb.sm...@gmail.com Antwoord-naar: Wikimania general list (open subscription) wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org Aan: Wikimania general list (open subscription) wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi all, We're happy to announce that the Call for Participation for Wikimania 2012 is open! During this time of reflection, please take a few minutes to consider what topics you've been thinking about most and how you'd be willing to share what you know with the worldwide Wiki community. The two most important dates to keep in mind - outside of July 12-14 - are as follows: Deadline for submitting proposals: 18 March 2012 Notification of acceptance: 8 April 2012 To submit a proposal, visit http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions. If you'd like to forward this message to other mailing lists or for broader distribution (please do!), please use the Call for Participation included below my signature line. Thanks so much for your consideration, and, on behalf of the Program Committee, we look forward to reviewing your proposals and seeing you in Washington. Best, Tiffany Tiffany Smith Program Committee Chair, Wikimania 2012 tiffany.lmb.sm...@gmail.com -- Call for Participation - Wikimania 2012 To submit a proposal, visit:http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions Important Dates Deadline for submitting proposals: 18 March 2012 Notification of acceptance: 8 April 2012 Overview Wikimania conferences provide unique opportunities for the wiki community and its sister projects (including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wiktionary, Wikispecies, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikimedia) to come together, share their common goals, and develop better ways to work together on an international level. The Wikimania 2012 program structure is designed to create multiple opportunities for conference participants to actively engage with the subject matter, the environment, and, most importantly, each other. Washington, D.C, can play an important role in Wikimania 2012 as a locale that gathers interest in government, culture, media, and academia around the general goals of the Wikimania conference series. In accordance with these goals and themes, the program will include traditional conference offerings such as paper presentations, tutorials, panels, and poster sessions; provide lounge space and breaks throughout for participants to gather; and innovate with an unconference day for attendees to design their own schedule and participation around common interests. Submissions will be reviewed and selected in advance by the program committee. Attendees are welcome to present in the open space track of the conference, regardless of whether their submitted presentations were accepted. The eigth annual Wikimania will be held between 12th and 14th July, 2012 in Washington D.C. For more information, please visit the main site. Presentation length Due to the extensive amount of program submissions received in the previous years, we request your presentation be a maximum of 25 minutes, including time for questions. You may request more time, though shorter individual presentations are more likely to be accepted. This does not apply for keynote speakers, panels, or workshops. 70 minute presentations must be submitted either as panel presentations to include at least three presenters or as workshops with a clear lesson plan. Tracks Tracks are used by Wikimania to organize submissions and diversify audiences so that presentations of competing interest do not have time conflicts. Five tracks are proposed: Wikis and the Public Sector The Washington, DC, location for Wikimania 2012 provides a special opportunity for those working in the social good, policy, government, nonprofit, and disaster response arenas to share their experience with collaboration on a local, national, or international level. Wikis and complementary technologies are proving to be critical in times of crisis and in ongoing work with citizen participation in government, as well as in long-term goals for education, public policy, social entrepreneurship, and development in the global south and throughout the world. This track will explore the ways that Wikimedia projects and related activities can be used to support citizens worldwide. GLAM: Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums This track aims to support current outreach to Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums and build enthusiasm for continued work in this area. Presentations and panels will demonstrate effective outreach techniques and results from
[Gendergap] Fwd: Ada Initiative linux.conf.au 2012 talk streaming live at 0220 UTC Jan 19
FYI, please see below!!! -Sarah Original Message Subject: Ada Initiative linux.conf.au 2012 talk streaming live at 0220 UTC Jan 19 Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:24:05 +1100 From: Mary Gardiner m...@adainitiative.org To: support...@lists.adainitiative.org Valerie and I will be speaking about Women in open technology and culture worldwide http://lca2012.linux.org.au/schedule/116/view_talk?day=thursday at linux.conf.au http://linux.conf.au 2012 today, surveying women in open technology and culture initiatives. Tech willing, this talk will stream live at view.streamti.me/caro http://view.streamti.me/caro at 0220 UTC. (See this event time in your local time. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Ada+Initiative+linux.conf.au+talkiso=20120119T1320p1=435am=50) Join us from whereever you are in the world. We recommend joining the stream a few minutes early to give the video time to sync. If you miss out on the live stream, a recorded version of the talk will likely be available in a few weeks, and we will share the video when it is available. -Mary ___ Supporters mailing list support...@lists.adainitiative.org http://lists.adainitiative.org/listinfo.cgi/supporters-adainitiative.org ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] BINGO!
Right now the Science Online conference is taking place (#scio2012 if you're a Twitter person!), and this was shared with me: http://lockerz.com/s/176163501 It's a BINGO card that was passed out during a session on science blogging while female. I do love A bingo card is not an argument and Demand for citations to back up blogger's account of her own experience. A recently discussion that took place on another mailing list I'm on was about how to bring humor into situations where discussing sexism (i.e. opening up a panel discussion or a workshop about the not so pleasant subject, as smart humor can help shake the tension in the room and make people more comfortable). I do have to say - this BINGO card is one clever way to do that. -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA085/en/USutm_source=WMdonateutm_medium=sidebarutm_campaign=20110130SB003language=enuselang=encountry=USreferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwikimediafoundation.org%2Fwiki%2FHome ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] New Moderator
Hi everyone, I wanted to say welcome to our new moderator of the Gender Gap list - Kevin Gorman. Kevin is an advocate for minding the gap, as a student at UC Berkeley, he is the first to bring the ambassador program to a women's studies department, which will be executed this spring. Kevin has the patience and ability to maintain sensitive subjects on Wikipedia and beyond, showing his ability to be patient, yet honest, on subjects such as men's rights, domestic abuse, and beyond. As a colleague, I have been nothing but impressed with Kevin's input, honesty, and strength regarding sensitive subjects. Both Sue and I are delighted to have Kevin involved here in the list; thank you Kevin! -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA085/en/USutm_source=WMdonateutm_medium=sidebarutm_campaign=20110130SB003language=enuselang=encountry=USreferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwikimediafoundation.org%2Fwiki%2FHome ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Disney Princesses fun..
Hi Caroline - What do you mean in regards to being on gender-...@wikimedia.org? I'm a fan of feminist.us as well! -Sarah On 1/25/12 4:07 PM, Caroline Becker wrote: Are we on gender-...@wikimedia.org mailto:gender-...@wikimedia.org or on feministe.us http://feministe.us ? (I love feministe.us http://feministe.us) Caroline 2012/1/25 Ole Palnatoke Andersen palnat...@gmail.com mailto:palnat...@gmail.com which isn't really that funny. George Takei posted an excellent illustration of Disney Princesses on Facebook (you can also see the image at http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RmuZP-qViKM/TrYM8ZtFG-I/AFc/NO-hvW5Vvw8/s1600/disneyprincessparade.jpg until someone removes it).. I reposted it. If you know me on FB, feel free to re-repost it. -Ole -- http://palnatoke.org * @palnatoke * +4522934588 tel:%2B4522934588 ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org mailto: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 -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA085/en/USutm_source=WMdonateutm_medium=sidebarutm_campaign=20110130SB003language=enuselang=encountry=USreferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwikimediafoundation.org%2Fwiki%2FHome ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] International Women's History Month
Hi everyone, March 8th is International Women's History Day, however, in the US and UK we celebrate Women's History Month for the entire month! I'd like to know if anyone here, or anyone you know, will be hosting a Women's History editing event or event related to Wikimedia projects or women's outreach to celebrate. I'll be doing something in DC (date TBA) about women in science. I'm also hoping something can take place in Chile during GLAM-WIKI Santiago related to Chilean women's history.[2] There are also talks about doing something in NYC and Philadelphia. I'd love to see a number of events take place around the world - it can be as simple as an edit a thon with your friends at your house, or something more complex - working with a GLAM or related organizations. Please let me know if you have something planned, as I'll be developing a page on Wiki (not sure where yet) about it. And if you do not have something planned, please let me know how I can support you or help you plan something, even if I'm from afar! (Including swag, etc.). If you're concerned about funding something, there is always the option of applying for a WMF grant (i.e. if you want to buy a cake or something special!). I'd like to help anyway I can. Looking forward to hearing from my fellow gender gap-ers :) Sarah [1]http://nwhp.org/resourcecenter/whistoryday.php [2]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Encuentro_GLAM-WIKI_Santiago_2012/en -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA085/en/USutm_source=WMdonateutm_medium=sidebarutm_campaign=20110130SB003language=enuselang=encountry=USreferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwikimediafoundation.org%2Fwiki%2FHome ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] San Francisco Bay Area! was Re: On Women's History Month
Hi KS and Pete (and everyone else!), Thanks Pete for sharing the Bookshelf. I know we still have a room to improve in regards to outreach tips about women, and I'm hoping we can develop something like that, very soon. While the event(s) don't have to be about GLAM, the GLAM WIKI outreach group (the group of Wikipedians who work with galleries, libraries, archives and museums) have developed a lot of great content: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Model_projects/GLAM_events If you scroll down there is a section about edit-a-thons. Sadly, general parties and major events aren't really covered anywhere, but you might find some help from this page in general, depending on the level of an event you wish to put together. I'd love to see more traction in the bay area, while I know things go on, it seems like not /enough/ goes on for the region and Wikipedia (there wasn't even a Wikipedia Day event!). KS - I also posted this to the SF Bay Area Wikimedian list, so perhaps that can provide a resource for getting people motivated. I'm probably going to send you a message off list to see how I can help :) Thanks for volunteering, I can't wait to see something happen! -Sarah On 1/31/12 10:10 AM, Pete Forsyth wrote: I think outreach tool kit could mean a lot of things, but maybe of use are the print materials listed at http://bookshelf.wikimedia.org (especially the Welcome to Wikipedia guide); and things like the latest annual report and the strategic plan. You could also probably get stickers, buttons, and other swaggy bits from the Wikimedia mothership. Hope this helps -- if you want specific thoughts about how to make a request, maybe contact me offline. I may be out of town on the 8th, but if I'm back by then I'd love to pitch in for some kind of event. -Pete On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Karen Sue Rolph karenro...@hotmail.com mailto:karenro...@hotmail.com wrote: I would make a go of this in the San Francisco Bay Area if we could get some traction going. I'll check in with a couple groups I know of, and see where they stand. Do we have an outreach tool kit ready that can be utilized, and if not, seems like an idea too? KS Rolph ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org mailto: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 -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA085/en/USutm_source=WMdonateutm_medium=sidebarutm_campaign=20110130SB003language=enuselang=encountry=USreferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwikimediafoundation.org%2Fwiki%2FHome ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] International Women's History Month
Hi Caroline! On 1/31/12 3:03 AM, Caroline Becker wrote: Hi, This is a great idea :) We can try to have a female-related article in the first page of wikipedias. (I've just asked for fr-wikipedia). Glad you're excited - do you think Wikimedia France will sponsor the event perhaps? (Giveaways, funding) You know what would be cool - if we could also try to coordinate some translations of articles into other languages after or during the event. I've participated in events where the event was in Mexico, and we collaborated on Etherpad to write articles and translate them. It was really cool and a lot of good content came from it! But that's just an idea, for use now or to table for later! You're lucky to have Women's History Month, in France we have Women's Rights Day', often translated in mass medias to Woman's Day' and, as women, we are always told the oh so funny joke don't do the laundry today Leave it for tommorow. -_- Ugh, yes, I've heard jokes like that before regarding doing laundry. So let's turn that into Do my laundry for me, we're editing Wikipedia! :) I do know that Women's History Day is March 8, but the US and the UK decided to make it month long. It is called International Women's Month, so I decided to say let's own it no matter where we are! I'll try to involve feminist organizations in the Wikipedia edition, how writting women's history is a feminist act, etc. Anyone has the experience of dealing with teaching NPOV to polical organizations and if it ends well ? That sounds wonderful. I do know a few people who have worked with NPOV and political groups. [[User:Carolmooredc]] has recently put on an event that worked with advocacy groups and taught them how to edit neutrally. http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/One_day_training The talk page also has her input from the recent event. I have no clue if this would be helpful, but it's a PowerPoint I presented to the Smithsonian Institution staff about NPOV and COI editing: http://www.slideshare.net/SarahStierch/sourcing-original-research-notability-conflict-of-interest-wikipedia-glam I'm pretty sure that [[ User:Trizek]], [[User:Jean-Frédéric]], [[User:Remi_Mathis]] and [[ User:Serein]] have some experience as well. They're pretty active in GLAM and perhaps they have some French resources. Even if we take this off list or develop something on Wiki, let me know how I can help! Thanks Caroline for carrying the French torch! Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA085/en/USutm_source=WMdonateutm_medium=sidebarutm_campaign=20110130SB003language=enuselang=encountry=USreferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwikimediafoundation.org%2Fwiki%2FHome ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Fwd: Re: [cultural-partners] Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees
Assuming I can cross post this, as it's popped up on a few lists I'm on. Please see below - perhaps /you/ should run for the board :) -Sarah Original Message Subject: Re: [cultural-partners] Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:09:57 -0200 From: Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com Reply-To: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination cultural-partn...@wikimedia.ch To: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination cultural-partn...@wikimedia.ch cross posting _ /Béria Lima/ (351) 925 171 484 /Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos/ On 31 January 2012 22:05, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com mailto:berial...@gmail.com wrote: The Wikimedia chapters are seeking to appoint two candidates to sit on the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees for two years, starting 1 July 2012. The two new members of the board will help to decide the future direction of the world?s leading non-profit website. Wikimedia project are constructed by hundreds of thousands of volunteers worldwide, supported by a growing number of staff and an international network of chapters. Board membership is unpaid. The chapters wish to appoint two excellent board members and believe this can best be achieved by selecting from a large number of varied and skilled candidates. Therefore, the chapters call for nominations by everyone who believes they or someone they know would be suitable. The chapters ask that this call for candidates be distributed as widely as possible through such forums as mailing lists, village pumps, and blogs. The successful candidates will be committed to the Wikimedia mission and willing and able to engage constructively with the stakeholders of the movement, including the volunteers and the chapters that provide it with essential support. The successful candidates will have: * The ability to provide expertise to the board in its goal of implementing a coherent vision on how the projects? communities, the foundation, the chapters, and other affiliated groups work together; * Sensitivity to complex issues surrounding the multiplicity of languages, cultures, and jurisdictions served by the foundation?s projects; * Knowledge and understanding of the governance of international non-profit organizations, balancing autonomy and subsidiarity; * The ability to think strategically and to work both as part of a team and independently; * A good standard of written and oral English (fluency in additional language would be well regarded); * Sufficient time to devote to the role of board member, and the ability and willingness to travel. Increasing the geographical diversity of current board membership would be an advantage. The selection process is set out here:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats/Nominations must be sent to the moderator Béria Lima (Wikimedia Portugal) and deputy moderators Milos Rancic (Wikimedia Serbia) and Mardetanha (Wikimedia steward from Iran) by 23:59 UTC, 29 February. If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else, please see the instructions here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats/2012/Nominate /Béria Lima/, Moderator ___ cultural-partners mailing list cultural-partn...@wikimedia.ch http://lists.wikimedia.ch/listinfo/cultural-partners ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] [cultural-partners] WikiWomenCamp: National perspectives on women and the movement (x-posted, apologies)
Laura - Thanks for asking for more contributions. I was wondering what was going on, since the project has seemed a bit quiet lately! Glad to know it's catching steam again. I made some edits a few months ago to the US section. (See comments below) On 2/1/12 5:18 AM, Lodewijk wrote: Perhaps it would be helpful if you could add some explanation why you are collecting this information, what you want to make clear. Because as I explained before to you privately (and I see nothing has changed) at least for the Netherlands the stats that have been put up are almost hilarious. Lots of percentages, but every Dutch person will be able to tell you that many of them are of no meaning (Ripuarian is not a language spoken at any significant level in the Netherlands, Zealandic is considered mainly a dialect and has 1 admin, of course there are no Dutch women in the enwiki arbcom, because to my best knowledge there are no Dutch people in there at all at this moment, and I would wonder why there are no Dutch female admins on the Portuguese Wikinews...) I am not sure if it is just me, but reading this page ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Perspectives/Netherlands ) I would almost think that this is a parody of something - I can't tell if it is the same in other countries. I've also been highly confused by these statistics. It confused me so much that I acted boldy and removed them from the United States section. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Perspectives#United_States When I started to see information on how there were no Portuguese women involved in Algerian Wikipedia I was like why would there be? and is this information here? I rewrote the majority of the section to just discuss women's roles in the United States - at WMF, as fellows, as researchers, as Wikimedians and active editors, etc. I created a list of people who are active US Wikimedians who are known to be women (didn't want to make assumptions about anyone) and some of the cool things they've been doing. Of course, these are limited to people I know, so I hope others are added (as someone did me). I also removed the US related on Wikipedia in regards to the subject matter (which was added back). I wasn't really sure why netball would be featured because it's not popular in America at all, so to me it doesn't really tell us anything, but it's not popular. Same with roller derby. (But other women's sports aren't discussed?) So I guess if someone has interest in discussing American women's sports, this area has room for expansion, or IMHO removal. And the list of popular biographies makes sense - Amy Winehouse died when this data was retrieved and I'm sure her popularity has been replaced. And it's no surprise that someone from Barbados is in the top 10 - it's Rhianna, and same for Nicki Minaj (two of the most famous pop stars in the world, at least in the US.) I just don't' think this shows much about women who contribute to Wikipedia except that people of all genders like reading articles about pop stars and media frenzies. I'm more curious about how women are active and what women are doing. Who are planning events, have those been successes? Are people being hired by Wiki companies? (Not just Wikimedia.) What is participation like regarding women and other Wiki websites? (This conference is about that right, not just Wikimedia?). Sadly I can't gather data on those, nor do I know how, but it would be cool to know what the most popular Wiki's are for women and so forth. I am sure your intentions are good though, so perhaps it would be helpful to state somewhere what kind of information you're looking for that is *really* informative, and get rid of the non-relevant parts? I would say that the semi-automated adding of information isn't exactly helpful in at least the Dutch case - again, I can't vouch for other countries. Some information *is* interesting (interest ratios on Facebook or other external websites) and it would be a waste if that gets discarded because of the irrelevance of the rest of the page. +1. I think this has really cool potential to focus on original research - just knowing who is doing what and sharing that information. I took the time on the US section to not only celebrate who is doing what, but, opportunities that women have been given in the movement in the US. I wanted people to see what women were doing in the United States, not what they /aren't/ doing. We already know the statistics are depressing about women's participating - so what are women doing to change that or to be a part of that? Thanks Lodewijk and Srikanth for sharing your thoughts! I was beginning to think I was the only person who had these thoughts! And thanks Laura for spearheading a unique and interesting opportunity to learn more about women around the world in the community. I hope people be bold and participate! Sarah -- *Sarah
Re: [Gendergap] [cultural-partners] WikiWomenCamp: National perspectives on women and the movement (x-posted, apologies)
On 2/1/12 10:45 AM, Caroline Becker wrote: Hi, this is a personnal mail (not on the gender-gap list). two of the most famous pop stars in the world, at least in the US.) is a really, really funny sentence :) Either they are famous in the world, ie not only in the US, or in the US so not in the world :) Again, this is funny, not a horrible mistake of yours :) Caroline Hahahaha! And I got your second email saying yay for sending personal emails to the list! No problem. I blame lack of caffeine (I only just woke up!) on my poorly structured sentence and bad grammar ;) And yes, you know what I was saying. Ha ha! :) Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] WikiWomenCamp: National perspectives on women and the movement
On 2/1/12 3:35 PM, emijrp wrote: No. You just want to write a book with no rigor. Not sure why I didn't think of this the first time, but, like Beria and I both said - let's be bold and while we hope for input from Laura, I'm sure people would be welcome to improve on their pages, like I hope I did in the US section. (I did remove the material related to top articles and so forth, but it was returned!) And of course, like all wiki's, there is a talk page for each country that Laura has listed, so you can even craft conversation and ideas there. And of course, I do encourage constructive conversation here on this mailing list (more than just an obtuse one liner!). (For example, here is the US talk page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Perspectives/United_States) Thanks Beria for encouraging others to participate on Meta! Looking forward to seeing the materials on Meta continue to grow into something really valuable for the community! I think if we can focus on what people are doing, it'll show us where we can place ourselves in the role of Wikimedia, and also encourage us to examine what people aren't doing. Sometimes just focusing on that 9% can be a downer, you know? :) -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap
On 2/1/12 5:39 PM, Sarah wrote: That's very interesting, thank you (and somewhat depressing). Sarah ___ Yeah, it just shows that we need to take action. Imagine if every Wikimedia contributor on this list, took a few hours and invited a friend, colleague or family member to contribute to a Project? As someone who has done a survey that just continued to solidify the depressing state of women and Wikimedia, and thinks about it probably more than a person should...I just get sick of it at this point. I want to see increase, damnit. :( No more same old bad news. I think it's funny to see that WikiNews has no women. Even though /This Month in GLAM/ and /The Signpost/ both have contributors. Also interesting that Commons has a steady amount of women who make edits. I think I could probably name them all off the top of my head. OrI wonder how many of those women are new contributors who upload an image and then never come back (since you have to have an account to upload). What else are people seeing in their chosen languages that might be interesting? Anything surprising? Anyplace on Wiki where women really do dominate in this data? -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Wikiproject India/Women and gender issues
Hi everyone, I'm really happy to see that Wikiproject India (in English Wikipedia) has taken up a new initiative spearheaded by User:Ashlin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Women_and_gender_issues Perhaps you'll feel the urge to participate, or maybe find inspiration in this and create your own task force for a project you participate in. Very cool stuff! Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Women's History Month action plan wiki
Hi everyone, Just to clarify this Etherpad link is *specifically* for events taking place in the San Francisco Bay Area. We encourage you to participate if volunteering to plan an event in the Bay Area interests you. If you'd like to participate or develop an event, please visit the on English Wikipedia (translations encouraged!) Women's History Month page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month Looking forward to participation no matter where you are in the world. Thanks KS for sharing the link. Sarah On 2/4/12 4:13 PM, Karen Sue Rolph wrote: See: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/SFWHM KS Rolph ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] List of lists of women
Hi everyone, A few of us came together on the WikiWomen's History Month page to create a List of Lists of Women on English Wikipedia. Plenty of red links throughout the lists included, and yes everything is covered involving women! Even women pirates... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_women I know we'd love to see a similar collection in other languages, and use them as tools for figuring out what other lists need to be created, but also what articles need to be made. Also, please take a look at our English WikiWomen's History Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen's_History_Month We have more events that have been added, so please get involved, online or offline! There are also discussions on the talk page. Looking forward to seeing some great things happen in March, Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Fwd: Re: [cultural-partners] Meeting with Gender Right Group
Hi everyone! Please see below - a really great opportunity for Wikimedians to participate in a project to help improve women's rights about India and beyond on Wikimedia projects! The project team (fellow Wikimedians) are looking for volunteers from around the world to help out so that the project can come into fruition! (Again, you do /not/ have to live in India!!!) -Sarah On 2/23/12 8:45 AM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com mailto:wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Hiya, This is to inform you that Bishakha (WMF Trustee, in cc) and I had a meeting with the team at the Akshara Centre (http://www.aksharacentre.org/), a Mumbai based NGO that works on womans rights and runs a library in Mumbai earlier today. The meeting was organised by Bishakha, who knows some of the people running the organisation, as there was some interest from their end to see if they could collaborate with us in any way. I was asked to join in as a Wikipedian to conduct a small workshop for the team at Akshara so that they could understand the principles and basics of editing. The scope is unimaginably big. As we realised, rights issues in India are not covered much, even on English Wikipedia. We have proposed starting of a Collaboration of the Month initiative with them, wherein we will choose a topic where both Wikipedians involved and the NGO are comfortable with - using Akshara's library resources as references. They sounded excited about running such a COTM on a pilot basis and have suggested we organise a WikiAcademy for which they will invite interested persons to come and attend, thus making it easier for them to start off. From our end, we are looking for atleast a couple of Wikipedians who can help support such a project online on a regular basis - we will be sending out an email to various lists once things are formalised. Inputs on the above are most welcome. Kind Regards, ___ cultural-partners mailing list cultural-partn...@wikimedia.ch mailto:cultural-partn...@wikimedia.ch http://lists.wikimedia.ch/listinfo/cultural-partners -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] [wmau:members] Australian women's national water polo team
Great photos Laura! It's super cool that Bigbee is volunteeering their time and skill to help out with the project. Even cooler that the water polo folks gave you guys such great access. It'd be cool to see some case studies developed on gaining access to subjects. -Sarah On 2/24/12 3:57 PM, Laura Hale wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 1:06 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com mailto:jay...@gmail.com wrote: Great work Laura and Bidgee! I noticed a problem with the first image page I clicked on. Maybe others have the same problem. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ANicola_Zagame.jpgdiff=67465143oldid=67443407 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ANicola_Zagame.jpgdiff=67465143oldid=67443407 Fixed. I think all of them have been fixed anyway. Not sure about the descriptions and if they really should have more as it might be nice to try to take one or two to featured pictured: The people: sports category lacks women. :( I've mentioned it in signpost suggestions at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Suggestions#First_time_for_national_team_pictures and would be awesome to get a mention. :) Bidgee upload the pictures of the Brits. These are pretty awesome too. :D File:Great_Britain_water_polo_coach_at_AIS_Aquatic_Centre.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Britain_water_polo_coach_at_AIS_Aquatic_Centre.jpg File:Great_Britain_water_polo_player_at_AIS_Aquatic_Centre_(1).jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Britain_water_polo_player_at_AIS_Aquatic_Centre_%281%29.jpg File:Great_Britain_water_polo_player_at_AIS_Aquatic_Centre.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Britain_water_polo_player_at_AIS_Aquatic_Centre.jpg File:Great_Britain_water_polo_players_and_coach_at_AIS_Aquatic_Centre.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Britain_water_polo_players_and_coach_at_AIS_Aquatic_Centre.jpg File:Great_Britain_water_polo_players_at_AIS_Aquatic_Centre.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Britain_water_polo_players_at_AIS_Aquatic_Centre.jpg I think the pictures do a good job at showing frustration at a losing game. I really need to learn to use Wikinews to write more about this stuff. Would be great to see more women's topics and Australian topics covered on the project, and more people to get accredited as reporters. :) -- twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com http://ozziesport.com ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] New gender gap research via Signpost
Hi everyone, Some new research papers released about the gender gap and Wikipedia were presented at the CSCW conference in Seattle. A nice run down of the research is featured in the new Signpost: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-02-27/Recent_research -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Fwd: Lessons learned that we could learn from, and outreach help request (pls fwd to gendergap)
See below! Original Message Subject: Lessons learned that we could learn from, and outreach help request (pls fwd to gendergap) Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:43:12 -0500 From: Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com Sarah, could you forward this to the gendergap list? Thanks. I am interested in improving the quality of our outreach events, especially those focused on women. I thought you might therefore find it useful to see these lessons learned from another outreach/training project: https://openhatch.org/blog/2011/lessons-learned-from-the-boston-python-workshop-an-outreach-event-for-women/ I found these lessons helpful in guiding me as I worked on training materials and structure for Wikimedia's technical events. Also, I would love some help reaching out to technical women to tell them about participating in Google Summer of Code, which is a pipeline for our open source community. I want the tools we build to serve all our audiences, so I want the population that makes those tools to reflect the users we want to reach. Thus I have created this list http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_academic_organizations_interested_in_women_in_CS and would love help in contacting more of those organizations. There's a template below that you could send and refine. If you reach out to one of the schools or groups on that list, could you edit the Contacted? column to mention your name and the date you did so? Thanks. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation suma...@wikimedia.org Hi! I'm writing to help you and your grad and undergrad students prepare for Google Summer of Code. Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. Participants work remotely from home, while getting guidance from an assigned mentor and collaborating within their project’s community. The application deadline for Google Summer of Code this year is April 6 and the program dates are May 21 to August 20. The stipend for the program is $5,000 (USD). http://code.google.com/soc Open source software development is a rewarding and educational way for students to learn real-world software engineering skills, build portfolios, and network with industry and academe. Women especially find GSoC a great entry point because they can work from anywhere (including home) with flexible hours, they get guaranteed personal mentorship, and the stipend lets them focus on their project for three solid months. The organizations that will participate in Google Summer of Code this year will be announced on March 16, but the best way for a student to prepare to apply is to become a contributor of the project that interests her early on. There are people in many organizations who are happy to help newcomers fix their first bug. Here is a list of some organizations where you can find mentors who will help your students along the way: http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/Mentors Please consider encouraging students of all genders to apply. You can help spread the word by forwarding this e-mail to university Computer Science departments and student groups. Sumana Harihareswara of the Wikimedia Foundation (suma...@wikimedia.org) will personally help guide students who are interested in working with MediaWiki, the open source project that powers Wikipedia. And if you'd like to get a speaker to speak about GSoC to your school, she'll help! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012 Thank you. ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] She Blinded Me with Science - Edit-a-Thon in DC!
In case you're in the Washington, DC Metro area on March 30... /*She Blinded Me With Science*/*- A celebration of Smithsonian women Hosted by the Smithsonian Institution Archives **March 30 - 1 to 5 pm *This event, held at the Smithsonian Institution Archives is an edit-a-thon devoted to improving content about women in science related to the Smithsonian. Attendees will have a chance to work with Smithsonian archivists and it'll be a good old time. *Wikimedia DC Happy Hour* 5:30pm-??? At Hill Country BBQ in Penn Quarter Hope you can join us! Please forward to interested parties and bring a friend! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC_30 (It's a Friday afternoon because the archives aren't open on Saturdays) -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] We can edit!
A delightfully remixed image for our use, thanks to Tom Morris :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:We_Can_Edit.jpg -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Wikinews and women's topic on the front page :)
On 3/20/12 7:42 PM, Laura Hale wrote: woot woot. :D There have been two news stories about women on the front page of Wikinews in the past two days. (Both are sport stories about softball.) It is nice to see front page coverage for them. If you haven't written for Wikinews, I highly encourage you to do so. The style guide can be found at http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Style_guide and if you follow the directions, it is pretty easy to get your article published, have it appear in Google News searchers and appear on the front page. I wrote up my first editing experience at http://editors.wikinewsie.org/2012/03/writing-for-wikinews-for-the-first-time/laura-on-mainpage/ . I found the process much easier, especially for original research, than English Wikipedia. The expectations are very clear. There is a review process to let you know issues. The people helping have been fantastic and are pretty accessible for asking questions. If you do an interview with some one or some other original reporting, you can use the source you create for Wikipedia as an article source. (Though sadly, not for notability.) It would be great to see a wider variety of women's topics covered on wikinews. :) This is awesome. I'd love to see more women's coverage for sure on WikiNews! It's like a whole new can of worms! So thanks for sharing your experience. It has been on my own to-do list to experiment with WikiNews post-grad school. I was recently in Chile for a GLAM event, and had the pleasure of meeting with some women activist who work in journalism in Chile. After seeing this post, I think I'll talk to them about utilizing WikiNews as an option for their journalism students. This is great, thanks Laura! -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) has an opening for a PAID Wikipiedian in Residence!
Hi everyone, OCLC is seeking a Wikipedian in Residence to serve three months this summer at their San Mateo, California (SF Bay Area) office. This would be a remarkable experience for anyone, including library sciences students. If you don't live in the area, I believe the pay they are offering will be more than enough to temporarily cover your stay in the bay area (an amazing place and of course an excuse to hang out with some cool Wikimedia folks ;) ). Learn more here: https://jobs-oclc.icims.com/jobs/2081/job OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs. Tens of thousands of libraries around the world use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve library materials. OCLC is one of the most important figures in library sciences internationally - your local library most likely utilizes their services. Apply today and PLEASE forward to any appropriate parties, mailing lists, etc. Tweet, Facebook, whatever! Thank you, Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Women Write Wikipedia: A How-To Webinar to be held on Monday!
Hi everyone! A cool organization called WAM! (Women, Action Media) is hosting a webinar on Monday that will be teaching people how to edit Wikipedia. I hope you spread the word! http://www.womenactionmedia.org/events/wamit/wikipediawebinar/ -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Newsflash: sexism in geek communities demeans everybody - by Tom Morris
Hi everyone. I wanted to share a blog that came across my radar today. I've always been one to channel my rage into action, more than comfortably verbally expressing myself through blogs. So, it's always nice when I read a blog that basically verbalizes my own personal frustrations and rage, and well, I didn't have to write it. :) Fellow Wikipedian, Tom Morris, wrote a wonderful blog that channeled his own frustrations and bluntly takes a look at sexism within the geek landscape and the concepts of booth babes, verbalized sexism and more, and all with a queer spin, something rarely expressed by men (queer women generally have no problem expressing these frustrations!). http://blog.tommorris.org/post/19778985050/newsflash-sexism-in-geek-communities-demeans-everybody Thanks Tom for sharing your voice, you expressed a rage that many of us (well, at least me!) feel but have a hard time expressing. (And perhaps some of you might disagree with Tom, too!) I'm really hoping that at Wikimania we can provide the healthy and professional, yet fun and collaborative environment that is without worry. I have heard from women who have little desire to attend Wikimania due to past experiences. Let's try to make this years Wikimania, and other meetups, gatherings and events around the world friendly for all. Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] And I was totally inspired by Laura and Tom
and I wrote my first WikiNews article :) http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012_announces_Mary_Gardiner_as_keynote_speaker?dpl_id=396334 Short and sweet...but yaho! and it's on the front page! Lots of Australians representing =) More to come (and not necessarily about Wiki-stuff)this is a bit addictive!!! (uh ohmore addictive Wikithings) -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Hackathon 2012 in Berlin
Hi everyone, Hackathon Berlin is June 1-3 in...you guessed it, Berlin, Germany. As always, it'd be great to have anyone, of any gender, interested in MediaWiki, bots, templates, data geeks, etc, involved in participating. There will also be some focus on the Wikidata project as developed by Wikimedia Germany. But, with any hack event I encourage you to share this and encourage women hackers to participate! http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Berlin_Hackathon_2012 Any questions or if your interest goes beyond attending (participating in another manner) please email Sumana, whom I have copied here. Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Wikipedia Academy: Research and Free Knowledge - June 29-July 1
Hi everyone, Another event that has came across my radar this morning is Wikipedia Academy: Research and Free Knowledge. It will take play June 29 - July 1 in...Berlin! The Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge provides a platform for the research community and the Wikipedia community to connect, present, discuss and advance research on Wikipedia in particular and on free knowledge in general. The call for papers has been extended until April 15. Learn more here: http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Main_Page And as always, encourage and inspire others to participate, and participate yourself! -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Rewards help!
Hi everyone, This study was shared with me this morning and discusses how informal rewards (barnstars) do make a significant impact on the contributions and productivity of editors. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0034358 It's a quick read, and helps to solidify the research and theories that a number of us have theorized about. Give a little wikilove today to a new experienced editor, it really does make a difference :) -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Rewards help!
On 4/2/12 11:40 PM, Sarah wrote: Hi Sarah, I've been meaning to ask this for awhile but didn't know where. This seems as good an opportunity as any. :) Hi to you other Sarah :) (Hehehe!) Something I find offputting about the wikilove awards is that they leave an edit summary of new WikiLove message. I've only used it once because of that, and if I use it again I'll paste in my own message and image rather than use the template. Do you know whether there's a way individuals can change those edit summaries, or can the template be tweaked centrally so it doesn't automatically do that? I'm just thinking that if I was put off by the edit summary, others might be too. I can see how that can be off-putting for sure. Sometimes even I go ergh, wikilove, and I'd rather have my edit saying A barnstar for you! or Here's a brownie..nom or whatever I might be in the mood for. But sadly, on that note, I have no idea if it's able to be changed. We'll have to ask Kaldari, as wikilove his is grand creation! (ala Frankenstein!) So...we shall await his response! -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Fwd: Free accounts available from HighBeam Research!
Hi everyone, HighBeam is offering free accounts for Wikipedians with an account for one year and 1000 edits. So far only about 300 people have applied and they have 1,000 slots. HighBeam is a paid newspaper and journal resource, and as a researcher, even I don't have access to it, so I was happy to see this opportunity. And if you don't have the right amount of edits, you can have your Wikipedian friends find things for you ;-) See below! -Sarah Original Message Subject:[Otrs-en-l] Free accounts available from HighBeam Research! Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 07:14:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Ocaasi Ocaasi wikioca...@yahoo.com Reply-To: Ocaasi Ocaasi wikioca...@yahoo.com, English OTRS discussion list otrs-e...@lists.wikimedia.org To: otrs-e...@lists.wikimedia.org otrs-e...@lists.wikimedia.org 1000 free accounts are available from the internet research database, HighBeam Research. HighBeam has full versions of tens of millions of newspaper articles and journals and should be a big help in adding reliable sources--especially older and paywalled ones--into the encyclopedia. Sign-ups require a 1-year old account with 1000 edits on any Wikipedia. Here's the link to the project page: http://enwp.org/WP:HighBeam (account sign-ups are linked in the box on the right). Sign-up! And, please tell your Wikipedia-friends about the opportunity! Cheers, Ocaasi ___ Otrs-en-l mailing list otrs-e...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/otrs-en-l ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Thoughts on training and gender and training generally
On 4/4/12 3:47 AM, Gillian White wrote: Hello all, Following on from recent WP editing workshops in Queensland (see/This Month in GLAM/ http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2012/Contents/Australia_and_New_Zealand_report), I wanted to write about it before I forgot. I am posting here because the workshop participants were women and leading the sessions brought to mind my earlier experience gained over many years of teaching and training adults. Hi Gillian! As always, thanks for your great insight. As someone who works at a GLAM and is in a museum studies program (an educational program that is 80% women around the country), I've been quite familiar with the opposite gender gap - more women than men. I'm really really glad you and Liam were able to travel to Queensland (enjoyed his photo blog!) and even happier that you shared your experiences with us. But, many of the reasons you cited are also the struggles on getting women involved in from those arenas - the hierarchy of the cultural makeup, privacy, etc. So these tips and thoughts are really valuable. I know Carol Moore has been gathering documentation about training [1] and I think this would be a good addition for that! Sarah [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] WikiWomen's History Month outcomes
Hi everyone, I am in the process of developing a wrap-up about WikiWomen's History Month! If you created, improved on, uploaded, etc. any content in honor of women's history month it'd be fabulous if you could add your outcomes to this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month/Outcomes Thanks! Any off-list feedback about events you attended or your feelings about the event are welcome as well. -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Workshop for Sveriges Kvinnolobby
Great news Axel! I can't wait to learn more about Wikifem and how the event went. Any outcomes you can share with us or teaching points on similar events? Thank you! Sarah On 4/12/12 5:15 AM, Axel Pettersson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I and user:Boberger hosted a workshop for Sveriges Kvinnolobby[1]. Learning about the gendergap they started a network called Wikifem to narrow the gap and to improve and create articles about women and the womens movement. Focus from our side was both on how to edit and write an article, but also on notability, discussions, NPOV and understanding the community. Future plans include edit-a-thons and getting some of the members skilled enough to host their own workshops. /axel, [[User:Haxpett]] [1] http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveriges_Kvinnolobby Axel Pettersson tele +46 (0)8 641 81 79 mobil +46 (0)730 59 58 13 haxp...@hotmail.com pr...@wikimedia.se Wikimedia.se - Stöd fri kunskap! ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] AdaCamp DC - July 10 11 - Apply today!
(Please pardon the cross-posting!) Hello everyone! We have opened the application process for AdaCamp DC, which will take place July 10 and 11 in Washington, D.C.. The event will be held just down the street from where Wikimania will take place starting on July 12! *What is AdaCamp*? It is an event, planned by the Ada Initiative, that focuses on increasing women's participation in open technology and culture. AdaCamp brings together people to build community, discuss issues women have in common across open technology and culture fields, and find ways to address them. Open technology and culture includes open source software, Wikipedia and other wiki projects, open data, open government, fan/remix culture, open libraries, and more. Attendance is by invitation and attendees are selected from qualified applicants through an open invitation process. Attendance is open to people of all genders. *APPLY TODAY! http://dc.adacamp.org/apply/ *And please encourage anyone you know who might be interested. Applicants of any gender, any background, any age, and experience level encouraged to apply. If you are interested in sponsoring AdaCamp, please do let me know! Thank you, -Sarah -- *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
Re: [Gendergap] Article Cumshot in English and German Wikipedia
Perhaps the conversation should be more about equal representation of gender in articles like this... Just a thought :) Sarah Sent via iPhone - I apologize in advance for my shortness or errors! :) On Apr 27, 2012, at 3:33 PM, Emily Monroe emilymonro...@gmail.com wrote: While the picture could be described as somewhat pornographic, I'll have to agree with previous participants in this email conversation. This article IS porn-related, so a pornographic cartoon can be used to illustrate it, per WP:NOTCENSORED. From, Emily On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Carol Moore DC carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote: NO need to censor it. Just do a second one with bushier eyebrows and a goatee and put that up instead :-) On 4/27/2012 1:50 PM, Béria Lima wrote: Katrin, I hate to be captain obvious here, but: Do you know that cun shot is a porn related term right? Only used in Porn related articles (see related articles)? And that what is in the article isn't a picture, but a illustration? I do agreed when people complained about the naked gardening article and pic, because isn't a sex related article. But this IS a sex related article, not only, this one is a PORN related article. Is not like someone will fall there accidentally by looking for Jesus or Santa. Therefore, I don't see the reason to censor the article. Béria Lima ___ 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 mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Article Cumshot in English and German Wikipedia
On 5/6/12 1:07 PM, Carol Moore DC wrote: On 5/2/2012 9:39 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: Don't miss http://thehairpin.com/2011/01/women-laughing-alone-with-salad Where are women laughing as they chop up bloody sausage... To me I guess I see hostility and dominance in the kind of shots people have been complaining about. I don't think women should respond en masse with the same, but if no one responds at all, I feel it is my duty to mention bloody sausages. Of course, women have responded here, but I guess not enough of a ping in the fabric of world wide male dominance for me to keep my bloody sausages to my self... Hmmm... maybe I should write some of my favorite artists with suggestions Or get rich and commission a bunch of stuff I like... whatever the them... (Handsome male dogs of various breeds on their backs smiling and saying Scratch my belly mommy.) There was an idea brainstormed a little while back with me and a few other folks about seeking funding to have a Wiki Loves Women photography event that wanted photographers to take photographs of women - and this wouldn't be some broad crowdsourced thing like WLM, we would work with photographers, various models etc and make this legit with releases, etc - doing whatever we needed them to be better represented doing, so to say. So, wearing certain articles of clothing (i.e. go go boots), certain make up looks or uses, hairstyles, - places that are often poorly represented regarding women's stuff (i.e. men don't get manicures that often, sorry) even as extreme as sex acts, I also wanted to just have women doing things like mowing the lawn and planting flowers or pan searing salmon or whatever things need videos to represent them (and no, these women wouldn't be nude :P). The latter was inspired by Jenny Geigel Mikulay's work at Alverno College where she had her students (it's a women's college) make films of things like playing drums, the art museum building kinetic architecture time-lapsed, etc. All of these videos have been uploaded to Commons. Someday I'll do it =) I can see it being a project that would be a perfect fit for Kickstarter. Sarah -- *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
Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards
On 5/8/12 9:52 AM, Thomas Morton wrote: On 8 May 2012 14:42, Béria Lima beria.l...@wikimedia.pt mailto:beria.l...@wikimedia.pt wrote: I still waiting for see someone else other than him on moderation. Did you already invite Laura? _ /Béria Lima/ I'd suggest that Laura is possibly not a good moderator candidate given her extremely strong viewpoint; I'd be concerned she would moderate posts, for example, on the basis they came from a man, rather than on behavioural merits - or at least that this would influence her moderator actions. Indeed, her earlier posts on this thread IMO serve as an example of divisive material/rants that would need moderator attention. Tom I agree with Tom. This list is open to people of any gender participating. I know that WikiChix isn't around anymore, but, if folks are interested in having women's only discussion they are welcome to start a women's only mailing list, though I feel that would deter from the actual goal of encouraging broader participation in underrepresented groups, /but the latter is my personal opinion/. However, I understand the importance for women feeling more comfortable in a women's only environment when discussing specific subjects. This mailing list was founded space for any gendered being to discuss and think about ways to improve the gender disparity in Wikimedia projects, so I'd be disappointed to see a fork, but, again, I understand if some people are more comfortable in a gender specific landscape at times. I personally find value in any gender participating, especially as someone who identifies as gender queer. As I said, I take it personal both ways - when women aren't told to participate and when men aren't, but, that's based on my own personal gender identity. (again this is my personal opinion) I would encourage anyone who is interested in lending a hand with moderation who perhaps leans more towards feminist in regards to balancing out gender inequality in their beliefs or is comfortable in working with any gender to ping the moderators off list. It really takes little to no work, it's just dealing with the occasional hiccup in civility when it causes angst. (I generally handle the spam that gets blocked to the list.) Thanks, Sarah -- *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] AdaCamp DC - July 10-11
Hi everyone, I wanted to send a second reminder about *AdaCamp DC*, which will take place in (you guessed it!) Washington, D.C. on July 10-11. We intentionally wanted it to take place during Wikimania since we have a strong cross-over of attendees. So far we've had a remarkable response from the international community, with attendees ranging from everywhere including Australia to Burma, the United Kingdom to Poland! From the website: AdaCamp is an Ada Initiative http://adainitiative.org/ event focused on increasing women's participation in open technology and culture. AdaCamp brings together people to build community, discuss issues women have in common across open technology and culture fields, and find ways to address them. Open technology and culture includes open source software, Wikipedia and other wiki projects, open data, open government, fan/remix culture, open libraries, and more. Attendance is by invitation and attendees are selected from qualified applicants through an open invitation process. Attendance is open to people of all genders. The first AdaCamp was AdaCamp Melbourne http://melbourne.adacamp.org/, in January 2012. http://dc.adacamp.org/ We hope you'll join us and please apply. Also, feel free to forward this onto your colleagues, cohorts and comrades! Sarah -- *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] Google Summer of Code sets a record regarding women's participation
Google just released their participation data regarding the upcoming Google Summer of Code (or winter of you are on the other side of the world :) ) The program set another record this year: the highest percentage yet of women accepted. 8.3% of our accepted students identified themselves as female, versus 7.1% percent last year. Overall the percentage of women accepted has slowly but surely increased every year since 2006. http://google-opensource.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/google-summer-of-code-2012-by-numbers.html Great news!! I'm curious how a more collaborative and mentor-based short-term project like Summer of Code could perhaps encourage higher participation in Wikipedia. One could say, Oh, we have that with the Global Education program, but, perhaps there is more to learn from Google's summer projects and the opportunity for intimate learning relationships from experienced coders. (Summer of Wiki!? :D ) -Sarah p.s. thank you Donna Benjamin from kattekrab.net for sharing the link. -- *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
Re: [Gendergap] Google Summer of Code sets a record regarding women's participation
On 5/8/12 6:02 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote: (Summer of Wiki!? :D ) And in response to my original post, another conversation is taking place on another mailing list about this and the struggle to entice southern hemisphere friends and folks to participate due to it being winter and in the middle of the school year for many. Something to think about, that's for sure. -Sarah -- *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] Inaugural NZ_OzWIT Conference /12th Australian Women in IT Conference
Hi everyone, This came across my radar and might be something some of you might have interest in it! http://www.ozwit.org/index.php/upcoming From the website: *NZ_OzWIT 2012: Building New Pathways * http://www.ozwit.org/index.php/upcoming Inaugural NZ_OzWIT Conference /12th Australian Women in IT Conference 10th -- 12th October 2012, Christchurch, New Zealand We invite *industry representatives, academics, researchers, school teachers and students* involved in broadening the participation of women in information technology to meet and share programs, discuss strategies and assess progress towards increased diversity of our exciting profession. International keynote speaker *Professor Dame Wendy Hall* DBE FRS FREng, Dean, Faculty of Physical and Applied Sciences, University of Southampton -Sarah ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Mailing List statement
Hi there. I'll go ahead and add it to that list. I had no clue that list even existed. I don't think the description needs to be too complex. I think just stating that this list is for just what it says it is - people within and beyond the Wikimedia community interested in exploring ways to close the gender gap on Wikipedia and related projects. -Sarah On 5/12/12 11:56 AM, Karen Sue Rolph wrote: Dear colleagues, As for the 'Wikipedia: Mailing Lists' page [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mailing_lists ] I too would expect to see the gendergap list there. I propose it be described as follows - anyone can improve it, please - as this is wordy...: gendergap list focuses on female contributors' concerns, and topics likely to be of interest to people who are female, identify female, and those with particular interest in female voices. The female perspective is and was historically - and even in Wikipedia - minimized in multivariate ways not (yet) well understood. As such, gendergap is intended to be a safe place for controversial or difficult ideas and values. KS Rolph == Today's Topics: 1. interesting data for study? glass ceiling - or glass floor? (koltzenb...@w4w.net) 2. add gendergap list? / what stats hide (koltzenb...@w4w.net) 3. Re: add gendergap list? / what stats hide (B?ria Lima) -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 06:31:40 +0100 From: koltzenb...@w4w.net To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Gendergap] interesting data for study? glass ceiling - or glass floor? Message-ID: 20120512052043.m74...@w4w.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi @all, I recently mailed an inquiry to a wikipedia list and it seems to me that the thread that ensued might be interesting data for study, possibly in the light of gender gap issues the thread starts here: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/pywikipedia-l/2012-May/007514.html btw, let me know if you have any idea (or know of someone who might have) for the actual topic of my inquiry, I mean: how to figure out the right query and where start the query etc. thanks cheers, Claudia koltzenb...@w4w.net ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- *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] Please welcome Cindamuse as our new co-moderator
Hi everyone, Please welcome Wikipedian User:Cindamuse as our new co-moderator on the list. Cindy has been involved in Wikipedia for just over 5 years and is most active on English Wikipedia. She is highly active in the Global Education Program and has helped shape the program as a volunteer on various committees. She's a professional writer and is highly active in women's human rights programs in the North America, Southeast Asia, and Western Europe. She's quite a force to be reckoned with when it comes to the passion of women's rights, minding the gap and Wikipedia. Thanks Cindy for volunteering to join the moderator team for this list, and please give Cindy a warm thank you and welcome! You can visit Cindy's userpage here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cindamuse -Sarah -- *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
Re: [Gendergap] add gendergap list? / what stats hide
On 5/12/12 1:45 AM, koltzenb...@w4w.net wrote: I think that on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mailing_lists in the list following The public mailing lists for the Wikipedia project include: I added it to the list. I had no clue that Wikipedia page existed. I was only familiar with the meta page. I don't think that list is complete, actually. gendergap should be added. how to describe the intention of this list? is this information still current? https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap Technically, sure. Depending on the study, female contributors vary ranging from 9% to 13%. I've updated it to the recent statistics from the editor survey that was just released. Let's hope we can change it in the future. :P I can't really say much about the statistical data. The most recent editor survey is gathered via a survey site notice (or whatever), so it's the participants who are claiming their gender. You can find out peoples genders by turning on certain scripts, if the user has chose their gender in their profile. Also, sometimes you just know - my username is SarahStierch...so you can only assume I'm a female. When I did my Women and Wikimedia survey out of 1000 people I emailed only 2 wrote back saying they identified as men. You can also discover that type of stuff through infoboxes. You can only assume someone is a woman most of the time if they say they are. I did have to have assistance examining the data because I have a math disability making it hard for me to dissect numbers, so I'm probably not the best person to provide more detailed information. I think Ayush is probably the best person to ask about the editor's survey. If you would like me to point him in your direction I'm happy too, I don't think he's on this list. (And I vary well could have failed to understand your question! :D) -Sarah -- *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
Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] Election and resolution results
Always great news to see women taking leadership in any non-profit and beyond :) Wonderful news thank you Tom and congratulations to Joscelyn and WM UK!! -Sarah On 5/12/12 6:28 PM, Tom Morris wrote: Just thought I should pass this on. Today, Wikimedia UK elected its first female director: Joscelyn Upendran is the Public Project Lead for Creative Commons UK. In addition, three other women stood for election to the board. -- Forwarded message -- From: James Farrarjames.far...@gmail.com Date: 12 May 2012 18:50 Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Election and resolution results To: wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org Dear all, Here are the results of the resolutions and elections held at the Wikimedia UK AGM today: Resolutions 1. Change of name: passed with 2 votes against and 4 abstentions 2. Registration in Scotland: passed with 1 vote against and 5 abstentions 3. Increasing the term of Board members: passed with 46 votes in favour, 10 against and 5 abstentions 4. Membership fees: passed without objection (1 abstention) 5. Appoint Board members: passed without objection (2 abstentions) 6. Approve 2011 accounts: passed without objection (7 abstentions) 7. Approve 2012 accounts: withdrawn 8. Re-appoint auditors: passed without objection (6 abstentions) Please note that for all resolutions except number 3, the actual tally of votes in favour was not kept as the show of hands and number of proxy votes given to the Tellers was sufficient to show an overwhelming majority in favour. Election of Board members The number of votes given for each candidate was as follows: Christopher Keating 52 Michael Peel50 Ashley Van Haeften 49 Joscelyn Upendran 48 John Byrne 46 Roger Bamkin46 Doug Taylor 40 Steve Virgin38 Saad Choudri34 Roshana Gammampila 27 Katie Chan 26 Alison Fayers-Kerr 11 Christopher Allen 10 Thomas Nichols 6 Gary Hayes 2 Junior Campbell 1 The total number of votes cast was 61, and therefore candidates required a minimum of 31 votes to be eligible for election. Therefore Christopher Keating, Michael Peel, Ashley Van Haeften, Joscelyn Upendran,John Byrne, Roger Bamkin and Doug Taylor have been duly elected to serve as Directors of Wikimedia UK. James Farrar For and on behalf of the Tellers ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- *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
Re: [Gendergap] The Dell Summit
On 5/13/12 4:40 AM, Laura Hale wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com mailto:sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote: I think it is relevant to our understanding of how the gender gap developed on WMF wikis. That was hard to pick up from the e-mail. :( I too was baffled as to how this connected. I still don't see how this connects to the gender gap. What are we supposed to do with it? What can learn from it? Is it a call for chapters to boycott Dell? (If so, nothing was posted to the chapters list, though maybe something posted to Internal.) Was she asking for women to write about it for Wikinews? (Wikinews loves women's contents and I know they like women contributors and wish they had more of them.) Sexism happens all the time at tech conferences and online. There is something wrong on the Internet! has practically become an internet meme in its own right. Context free, it is confusing... because it makes this list seem like a general feminist list to air grievance. I can get that any time I want in many other places. : / Hi Laura! I addressed this in a previous email, actually responding to Sydney. To each their own of course, but, I do think this situation, the Sqoot situation[1], etc. say so much about what we are dealing with in Wikimedia..including how a part of culture just accepts this type of joking and so forth. It's been like that since as long I can remember, and I'm just grateful that the web is providing women with a new face and tool for fighting that sexism. I also think learning from Dell's poor decisions can be learning tools for the community (and other communities) when progressing towards change. If you feel that this list has become general feminist in a way that makes you uncomfortable and the majority of this list feels that way too, then perhaps I'm on the wrong mailing list - as I see solving the gender gap as part of feminism and general gender discrimination as a whole. I also think we can learn from Dell's mistakes - chapters can make healthy decisions on who participates as speakers at their conferences and events, and of course this stresses the importance of friendly space policies and respectful work environments, which is dictated by leadership leading by example, IMHO. It also solidifies the urgency of all of the things we're doing here - whether it's writing WIkinews and Wikipedia, putting on events like WikiWomensCamp or merely having these conversations on mailing lists in a smart, civil, urgent manner. On boycotting... I think the idea of an individual, or someone broader boycotting companies that go against their ethical/professional mission is a totally awesome idea if one sees it fit and possible. I just took a look at the Dell products list[2] and I'm happy to say I don't have any Dell in my life, though I do know folks who do and I'm sure it's not feasible to throw Dell laptops out the window and buy other products. I think one person or organization stepping back before acquiring new products and saying does this organization match my/our personal/institutional ethics and mission? is a really important thing. I surely support organizations that meet my ethical and personal beliefs, and do my best to avoid those who do not. I just think it's really important to share news and experiences that are impactful and meaningful to women's roles within technology, as they often overlap with women's experiences in wiki technology. And of course, if someone wishes to write about this on WikiNews go for it! Right now I'm pretty swamped with moving and wrapping up some projects, hence my slacking in my Wikinews participation right now. I do hope to utilize Wikinews again in the future as a continued outlet for this type of content, but it's not on my personal to-do list right now. If not, perhaps blogs and other tools will make up for the lack of Wikinews about this. So Sarah, you've got women and men who want to do something in response to Dell's latest behavior. How do you want us to assist and what are going to offer to assist us in that? I wish I had the answer! Sadly, I don't. I've got some dialog taking place about this on other mailing lists, and on Twitter, and I'm happy to keep this list in the loop of anything that might come from those conversations. I just think it's really important to share this type of news and situations with fellow community members, just like I would if an open source wiki was going through something that overlaps with our mission(s) or strategic plan. I think as the work day starts this upcoming week more coverage will continue to come from this situation. -Sarah [1] http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Web_startup_Sqoot_loses_sponsorship_after_failed_advert_deemed_sexist_by_social_media [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell#Products -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Mind the gap
[Gendergap] Happy Mother's Day (in many countries!)
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
Re: [Gendergap] The Dell Summit
On 5/13/12 6:39 PM, Tom Morris wrote: On 13 May 2012 23:36, Cynthia Ashley-Nelsoncindam...@gmail.com wrote: I would think it could certainly be added to the Mads Christensen article on Wikipedia, found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mads_Barner-Christensen. Have we any sources other than the blog post? Right now Molly Wood's C-net article and video is the best: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-57431869-256/why-we-need-to-keep-talking-about-women-in-tech/ I think this story will be picking up, at least in the States, as the work week starts up. I'm surely going to keep my Twitter coverage up on this, and I hope others will as well, as blogging, social media etc are great tools to getting legit media to cover the subject. I know there are a lot of tings in Danish, but alas, I'm not able to do translation right now (I'm not at a place physically where I can do that right now) so perhaps our Danish gender-gap crew can help out with that. I wonder how Danish Wikipedia will handle it? -Sarah -- *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
Re: [Gendergap] The Dell Summit
On 5/13/12 8:33 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Pete Forsythpetefors...@gmail.com wrote: On May 13, 2012 5:40 PM, Tom Morrist...@tommorris.org wrote: Have we any sources other than the blog post? Yes -- the cnet column, among others. But isn't this the sort of discussion that belongs on article talk pages, and maybe a wikiproject talk page? I hope this is a suitable place to start the discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Gender_Studies#Dell_Summit I'd suggest also bringing it up on WP Feminism if there is interest. Gender studies has become virtually inactive (i think Carol talked about this a few months ago). I'm not really sure how to deal with that issue of inactivity, but, I can't deal with it this second that's for sure. -Sarah -- *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
Re: [Gendergap] Article for deletion Fanny Imlay
On 5/15/12 11:50 AM, Christine Meyer wrote: I thought that I'd bring an AfD discussion to the attention of this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Fanny_Imlay#Fanny_Imlay It really is ridiculous that this discussion is even happening, and is yet another example of the gender bias on en:Wikipedia. I've followed the discussion on the article's talk page, and it goes into absurdity. I wouldn't say it there, but how in the world is Imlay not notable but one of the articles I've been working on lately, [[Anthony Field]], is? (I think that Field is notable, but it proves my point, I think.) I bring it to your attention because the article needs our support. Thanks Christine. The article looks like it was a snow keep which is great. I am pretty shocked it was also nominated for deletion. If an article like this - a high quality featured article about a notable historical figure - is nominated for deletion, then about half of Wikipedia should be nominated for deletion because it's boring or because the person is so obscure only scholarly folks tend to know who the figure is. Glad it's safe now :) It's also all the more reason for folks to monitor the AfD queue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion -Sarah -- *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
Re: [Gendergap] Article for deletion Fanny Imlay
apply to Justin Bieber on Twitter.
The articles discussing his Twitter usage are really about
Justin Bieber and his behavior, not his Twitter account. See
for example[1], a short mention in Ashton Kutcher's bio about
his Twitter use. Kutcher is also among the most prominent
users of that service in its history, but there is no article
devoted to it. Rather than seeing the merge proposal as an
example of I don't like it, I think the fact that it failed
demonstrates the power of a gigantic fanbase to distort normal
practice on a wiki.
~Nathan
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Kutcher#Twitter_presence
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Re: [Gendergap] The Dell Summit
Hi Elaine! Thanks for posting those updates. yeah, Google+ strange that they didn't post something on their website or release a statement in a more broader known format. Glad to see you out of your lurking! -Sarah On 5/15/12 6:50 PM, Elaine Mao wrote: Dell posted an apology on their Google+ page yesterday: https://plus.google.com/117161668189080869053/posts/5Zg5FdFEydi During a Dell-hosted customer and partner summit in Copenhagen in April, well-known public speaker and moderator, Mads Christensen, made a number of inappropriate and insensitive remarks about women. Dell sincerely apologizes for these comments...Going forward, we will be more careful selecting speakers at Dell events. Although as CNET's Molly Wood points out, it falls a bit short of being an adequate apology: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-57434780-256/dell-apologizes-for-hiring-sexist-summit-moderator/?part=rsssubj=newstag=title http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-57434780-256/dell-apologizes-for-hiring-sexist-summit-moderator/?part=rsssubj=newstag=title Comments on the Google+ apology have noted that it's not a particularly visible apology, which is true; it's also a little tepid, primarily touting Dell's female-forward initiatives rather than pointing out any actions it's taken in response to that incident (a reprimand? a letter of apology to the women -- and men -- in the audience that day?). Nevertheless, it's something, and it's a better apology than the one Danish Director Nicolai Moresco issued shortly after the event. --Elaine (By the way--hello everyone! I don't usually post to this list, which I suppose I've been lurking on for some time now, but I've been semi-following this thread and I happened to come across this coverage, so I thought I'd make myself useful and post an update :) I currently intern in the WMF's communications department, and you can also find me at User:Revolutionetc) On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:56 AM, Ole Palnatoke Andersen palnat...@gmail.com mailto:palnat...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:09 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com mailto:jay...@gmail.com wrote: ... Also worth noting, the Danish Wikipedia description of Christiane Vejlø (the tweeter) is very similar to that of Mads Christensen, so they are in the same sector, as is Christiane's husband, and this could have some bearing on how she wrote her piece about Mads. https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_Vejl%C3%B8 Christiane Vejlø and Mads Christensen are more or less in the same sector (lifestyle and such); Christiane Vejlø's husband is a stand up comedian. Regards, Ole Disclaimer: I have participated in a social event with Christiane a couple of years ago. Never met her husband nor Mads. -- http://palnatoke.org * @palnatoke * +4522934588 tel:%2B4522934588 ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org mailto: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 -- *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
Re: [Gendergap] Gossamer threads archive
Hi Andreas, I think the current archival system, while not as manageable as Gossmer-Threads, is fine. We've had enough issues with privacy concerns on this public list, and I'd rather keep this list public yet still maintain what little bit of safety and privacy we can. If the members of this list think that an additional archival system is welcome, so be it, but, I think at this time the current system is fine. -Sarah On 5/31/12 6:58 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: To the list administrators: Would it be possible to have this list archived on gossamer-threads, like the Foundation list? http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/ It's a much more convenient format to refer back to than the monthly archive page. Andreas ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- *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
Re: [Gendergap] gendergap research
the importance of the exact same activity in dramatically different ways? I have a lot of theories, but I'd love to see more research into this. Ryan Kaldari ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- *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
Re: [Gendergap] gendergap research
I agree! Pete, Kaldari and others have fought the good fight about that. I think some Things were developed on Commons and we tried to get more folks involved to no avail. I can't provide links this second. I tried my best with model releases (I worked in fashion and photography before I was a Wikipedian and curator!) but little has seemed to come from it and as alway - I encourage people to get involved in curating commons of non-educational content. More voices means more content control. I had to shift my focus to focus on bringing more women to Wikipedia, which I hope leads to more curating of content. Don't get me wrong - I think his very Important!! Sarah Sent via iPhone - I apologize in advance for my shortness or errors! :) On May 31, 2012, at 1:44 PM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: ... I think it's concerning about model contracts and so forth, but, I think we have bigger fish to fry at this point. ... Hi Sarah, I see your point, but I think the model releases are a major issue for us. As I look at it, women *are involved extensively in Wikimedia, but a big percentage of that involvement comes in the form of being portrayed naked on Commons. This is very troubling to me. If in addition it's being done without their consent, then it's something I really wish we could act on, regardless of the legal requirements. Sarah ___ 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] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?
I thought it'd be refreshing to have a positive thread and something less-...porny, if you will :) *What have /you/ been working on? In any language, on any sister project of Wikimedia? Online and offline? What are you doing to be proactive or contributing as a volunteer, fellow, staff member, etc? Don't be shy, share your work! Be bold and be proud*! I've been working on the Teahouse, as part of my Fellowship, and of course, you're welcome to stop by and say hi if you wish and make a guest profile (or sign up to be a host!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse Article wise I've been writing a lot about the Smithsonian, since I'm finishing up my final month as Wikipedian-in-Residence there. Just finished a rewrite of the National Museum of African Art which was the first Smithsonian museum to hire a woman director: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_African_Art When I have leisure-Wikipedia time (which seems like never these days) I've been working on trudging through the 1,000+ backlog of WikiProject Women's History unrated articles (i.e. importance/class). We also have a second women's edit-a-thon coming up in San Francisco, if you're in the area, sign up! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco_WikiWomen%27s_Edit-a-Thon_2 What about you? Online and offline activities, I'd love to hear about how you've being proactive and what you're working on! -Sarah -- *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
Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Should there be a Wikipedia boycott over the lack of an image filter?
I think the point is taken. I really have no desire to think about these things, especially every time I read this mailing list these days. -Sarah On 6/2/12 7:57 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: We are not talking about filtering standard sex education images as you might find in a school book. We are talking about images or videos of women drinking their urine, masturbating with a toothbrush, or having sex with a dog. Andreas On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Michelle Gallaway mgalla...@gmail.com mailto:mgalla...@gmail.com wrote: You know, while I'd rather my son learns about human sexuality in a way that I'm comfortable with and can control, the reality is that he's not going to come to his mum for that information! I'd really much rather he reads that information on Wikipedia, (even if that information is not perfect), than gets his education on the topic from *actual* internet pornography. In this sense putting in a family friendly content filter like Larry Sanger advocates would probably be a massive own goal. If there are any other mothers on the list, I'd be interested in hearing their thoughts too... On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org mailto:t...@tommorris.org wrote: The problem with all enforced filtering systems is that they aren't going to stop kids getting to porn (15-year-old boys have both a lot of time, technical expertise and will find creative ways to get their hands on porn), but they often will over-censor. Back in the 90s, GLAAD put out a report called Access Denied that described how filtering technology was restricting access to LGBT information sites. My university used to prevent students (adults!) from accessing the Wikipedia article on Same-sex marriage because, well, the URL contains the word sex. Breast cancer awareness/information sites get hammered for the word breast. ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org mailto: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 -- *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] Kill thread dead - Re: Larry Sanger's blog post: Should there be a Wikipedia boycott over the lack of an image filter?
. Ironically, however, she names Wikipedia as one of the sites where she believes this is NOT happening. That assumption is flatly contradicted by viewing statistics like those above. Wikipedia is doing exactly that: it is a place where adults tell a global audience that includes children about kinky sex. And its status as an educational site, and the only major site eschewing any kind of filtering, puts it at the forefront of this effort. Now it is absolutely true that children and adults can find a far greater amount of explicit content elsewhere (provided they have learnt in Wikipedia what to Google for ...). Kids could find the original images we host in Flickr too, if their curiosity was so great that they were prepared to lie about their age. But the fact is, they don't. Material like this may certainly have educational value, in the right context. But we have a responsibility to follow mainstream educational standards. A sexology course in university may involve a video or live presentations of a couple demonstrating BDSM techniques to students. This sort of thing happens and is legitimate. Sex education in schools, however, does not involve such graphic presentations. And I think that is equally legitimate. One of the functions of a filter is to make that difference clear. The second function of the filter is of course to enable adults who are really not interested in these topics to adjust their settings in such a way that Wikimedia will not show them kink or gore in response to innocuous searches -- see http://tch995319.tch.www.quora.com/Why-is-the-second-image-returned-on-Wikimedia-Commons-when-one-searches-for-electric-toothbrush-an-image-of-a-female-masturbating and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Problems for an explanation of how or why this happens -- much like some of the contributors here feel this discussion itself is an unwanted intrusion. On that point, I am sorry to have raised these matters in a manner that has seemed crude to some of you. I will take this to heart, and think of ways to express myself in less offensive ways. But we have to be clear and differentiate between the criticism of religious fundamentalists, who might object to a bikini shot and plain anatomical images, and the question whether it is right for Wikimedia to host a growing store of explicit images of the most bizarre kinds of kink unfiltered. Nobody (at least not me, nor Larry, as far as I can see) advocates a filter that would prevent children from viewing sex-educational material on Wikipedia, and drive them to porn sites instead to learn about sex. As far as I am concerned, everything that is well and good in schools could remain entirely unfiltered here. But material that is borderline illegal, or that is subject to strict age restrictions in the real world, or that is imported from sites where it is hosted in an age-restricted section, should be behind a filter (which, after all, can still be bypassed by anyone -- of any age -- who is curious enough). Andreas ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- *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
Re: [Gendergap] Nuremberg: lesbian wikipedia edit-a-thon workshop Re: So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?
On 5/31/12 11:45 PM, koltzenb...@w4w.net wrote: Hi Sarah, hi @all, thank you, Sarah, for this new thread and thank you for sharing your activitities with us, I particularly like the teahouse :-) Yeah! Glad you like the Teahouse. I can't wait to share the data with people and explore more ways to get it in the hands of women who need help editing! at the annual meeting that picks up a 1920s Berlin tradition of lesbians who meet over the extended weekend of Whitsuntide, we met in Nuremberg (city of human rights) this year for another fabulous self- organized non-commercial bunch of worshops, plenary sessions, cultural programme and a manifestation in downtown Nuremberg - and all of this in 90% barrier-free arrangements, one of the acknowledged hallmarks of this meeting, called LFT (Lesben-Fruehlings-Treffen, lesbian spring meetings) I love how you always share information about these gatherings. I do think that German lesbians surely must be the most active when it comes to intellectual gatherings, merely based on all the activities you share with us. for the first time, a Wikipedia workshop was held (initiated by me and spontaneously co-moderated by a visually-impaired translesbian colleague), with 8 participants Wow. I'd love to learn more about how a visually impaired translesbian participated and what she shared about editing Wikipedia. for a short round-up of what Lesbenfruehling meetings are doing to promote transparency and openness also in other respects: the meeting also included a panel discussion on the current situation for lesbians in neighbouring countries like Croatia (to be joining the EU in July 2013), Poland (EU member since 2004), Hungary (EU member since 2007) and Russia (member country of the Council of Europe http://www.coe.int/ that is human rights- related), with Poland clearly on the upside, Croatia almost, and Russia and Hungary on servere downsides, with Russian regional parliaments having introduced explicitly homo- and transphobic bills that we are fighting against in international solidarity. By way of an example, our panel speakers from Croatia belong to the team who form the lesbian feminist mixed choir Le Zbor (www.lezbor.com) and the last song of their evening programme was from Russia and sung in Russian. We also had workshops dedicated more specifically to the situation in Russia and Hungary and in Germany, e.g. on an initiative to finally put up a specifically lesbian memorial stone on the site of the former concentration camp Ravensbrueck that was women only. At the downtown rally we read out the names of known lesbian individuals that died because of persecution during the Nazi regime (i.e. those who could not or did not want to leave the country early enough in those years). Wow, sounds really moving and powerful the work that people are aiming towards. The unification of these womyn is pretty amazing! this is just to give you an example of how LFT meetings work on a culture of openness that I think is close to what Wikipedia is aiming at, too, Really great stuff. Thanks for sharing as always Claudia! -Sarah -- *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
Re: [Gendergap] Men's_shelter Re: New WikiProject Feminism Articles from WSG students
I'd say if mens shelters are notable enough to warrant their own articles perhaps that'd be best. Sent via iPhone - I apologize in advance for my shortness or errors! :) On Jun 5, 2012, at 8:13 AM, Emily Monroe emilymonro...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to put information about men's shelters in the woman's shelter article, without violating civility standards? From, Emily On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:11 AM, pu...@killerchihuahua.com wrote: Couldn't hurt, and would give a place to direct people who try to insert Men's shelter info into the Women's shelter article. Original Message Subject: [Gendergap] Men's_shelter Re: New WikiProject Feminism Articles from WSG students From: koltzenb...@w4w.net Date: Tue, June 05, 2012 12:09 am To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Hi Ryan thank you for your message explaining how you see the situation that might be coming what does everyone think about opening an article about Men's shelter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men's_shelter (Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Men's shelter in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings.) and use a few male user names to work on it seriously (there is quite a lot of facts to make known, I think), then see what happens my2cents is that this would cost us not even three Guineas any opinions? cheers Claudia On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:12:46 -0700, Ryan Kaldari wrote Just a quick word of warning... you should expect interference at the Women's shelter article from the highly active men's rights activists on Wikipedia. They have been pushing the point of view that women's shelters are discriminatory against men, that the women's shelter movement is part of a conspiracy to hide the true statistics about male victims of domestic violence, and that women's shelters are just scams to get government money, etc. If the students run into problems, just have them drop a message on the WikiProject Feminism talk page. Ryan Kaldari On 6/4/12 6:29 AM, Kissling, Elizabeth wrote: Now that there's room in the discussion for a new topic :-), I'd like to ask for help from some of you experienced Wikipedians in bringing a new group of women to the project. I'm a professor of Women's Gender Studies, and for their senior capstone project, I've had a group of WSG majors students working on WP articles for the WikiProject Feminism. They've selected articles from the list of requested articles and stubs from WP:Feminism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Feminism), and have been researching, writing, and revising in their sandbox pages for the last few weeks. We're planning to post the articles in class today (a few make take a little longer, but this week for sure -- it's the last week of the term). It's been a wonderful experience for them, learning about how to present research for the Wikipedia audience compared to an academic audience, and to make feminist ideas accessible to larger audience, and more. It's given them a new appreciation of Wikipedia -- most of their professors tell them not to use it, so it was a big shock the first day of class when I announced we'd spend the quarter working on it. It's also been very challenging for many, especially the technical aspects of working with wiki markup and Wikipedia. Will those of you who volunteer in this area help shepherd them into the fold? I'm not expecting my students to be treated with kid gloves, but we've watched a few edit wars, and they're nervous. As with any group of students, some are stronger writers than others, and some of these pieces will need more help than others. Here's the list of articles that will soon be added/updated: American women's firsts Feminism in Thailand Feminism BDSM Metaformic theory Women's shelters Genderfuck Feminist pedagogy Thank you for the work that you, and for any help you can provide to my students. thanks cheers, Claudia koltzenb...@w4w.net ___ 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 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] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?
On 6/8/12 10:17 AM, Christine Meyer wrote: I like this thread but have hesitated contributing to it because I'm a little worried that you'll all laugh at me... ;) Christine! I'm so glad you shared this. I know you really enjoy writing children-based subject matter and you inspired me to rewrite the article about the *actual* Sesame Streetstreet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street,_New_York,_New_York) which was really entertaining and a super fun article to write. While parents probably aren't seeking that out specifically (it's more of a subject I'd use to win a bar bet with), if people use Wikipedia for medical research, etc, why shouldn't parents be utilizing Wikipedia to research the best media, tools and so forth for their children's lives? I also think that one of Wikipedia's missions is to document this type of material - I'm sure there is some small group of children's subject historians, but.. and we get lots of good services for them, so I have more time on my hands than parents of young children. Plus, I have an obsessive personality, so when I get involved in volunteer organizations, I tend to be compulsive about it. I also love writing. It gives me a great deal of pleasure to know that topics like this that aren't well represented have been improved mostly due to my efforts. (I also edit [[Maya Angelou]] articles.) I am the same way. Wikipedia = awesome outlet for OCD type behavior!!! While I have no children nor do I really hang out with any, I am familiar with the show /Yo Gabba Gabba! /from hip friends with kids. I just found myself disappointed that the characters don't have their own individual articles, but, I guess they don't quite merit it at this point. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brobee (redirect!) -Sarah -- *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] Get involved! Fwd: Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Grant Advisory Committee is expanding!
Hi everyone, I wanted to forward the below message about the Grant Advisory Committee. I'm not sure the gender of all participants, but, I'm sure it's primarily a male based group of candidates at this time. I encourage you to sign up if you seek to support Wikimedians seeking grant support from chapters and the Wikimedia Foundation. A more balanced gender of participants can lead to not only a more balanced viewpoint on funding, but also may encourage more women to apply for grants. Great to also see our own Cindy up for the running :) Thanks Cindy for volunteering! -Sarah Original Message Subject:Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Grant Advisory Committee is expanding! Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:55:18 -0700 From: Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Reminder: The Grant Advisory Committee is expanding. If you'd like to help grantees and the Foundation in its grantmaking, consider submitting your candidacy here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Candidates Cheers, Asaf On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Asaf Bartovabar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear colleagues, The Wikimedia Foundation would like to expand its Grant Advisory Committee[1], and we would like you to consider whether you might be interested in volunteering in that capacity. The GAC (as it is affectionately known) is an advisory body performing a double function in relation to the Wikimedia Foundation's Grants Program[3] -- 1. The GAC advises grant applicants on how to improve and clarify their proposals and their plans. This often extends to advice not just about how to secure the funds, but how to improve the planning of the project/event or what precedents to look at, for positive or negative examples. 2. The GAC advises the Foundation on the mission fit, frugality, and expected impact of grant proposals, expressing support or concerns about open grant proposals. If this sounds like something you might want to help with, please review the description of the GAC[1] and the membership criteria[2]. If you think you meet the criteria, add your name to the candidates page[4] with a brief statement demonstrating your meeting the criteria. This is to be an open process, and the number of seats on the GAC is not predetermined; we expect all qualifying candidates to be admitted into the GAC. Please help us reach potential volunteers by sharing/forwarding this announcement in appropriate community mailing lists. Finally, I'd like to thank the incumbent members of the GAC (founded exactly one year ago), who are putting in their time and experience and have been making a real difference in our grantmaking this past year. Thank you, Asaf [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Membership_criteria [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Candidates -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundationhttp://www.wikimediafoundation.org -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundationhttp://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] positive action Re: Nastiness
I do have to say - it is a challenge explaining to people You're not notable just because you're a popular blogger. Even if you beat people over the head with notability guidelines articles still crop up. Perhaps we need to draft a list on Wiki of notable bloggers =) Sarah On 6/15/12 1:07 PM, Russavia wrote: I wouldn't call that an AFD It was open for an entire hour and a half. Yeah it sucks she met trolls on the internet -- god knows this isn't something new for Wikipedia -- but she just isn't notable. In fact, this is now setting a precedent that any blogger who has been interviewed by another blogger can get their own article. That's not good. -- *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
Re: [Gendergap] LGBT mailing list
Thanks for starting this list and for letting us know Tom. Joining now, Sarah On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: On Sunday, 1 July 2012 at 22:30, Tom Morris wrote: I'm happy to announce that a new Wikimedia LGBT mailing list has been setup. For the time being, it is being hosted on lists.wikiqueer.org ( http://lists.wikiqueer.org). http://lists.wikiqueer.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-lgbt The list is for discussion of possible future LGBT outreach and partnership work, increasing the coverage of LGBT history, issues and culture, and any other issues that specifically affect LGBT editors. You don't have to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender to join. A barely discernible amount of time after Gregory launched it on the WikiQueer servers, Wikimedia have decided to allow the list to be created on lists.wikimedia.org instead. Please feel free to join here instead: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/lgbt Sorry about the confusion. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- -- *Sarah Stierch* *Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate todayhttps://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] WikiWomen's Luncheon at Wikimania
Hi everyone, Are you a woman attending Wikimania? Join us for the WikiWomen's Luncheon on Saturday, July 14 in the Grand Ballroom. This is a great opportunity to meet women from around the world who contribute to and advocate for Wikimedia projects. Sign up to participate here: http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen%27s_Luncheon -Sarah -- *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] Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention
Some informative editors have brought this to my attention! I signed up to participate. A lot of great conversation (civil...at that!!!) on the talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Editor_Retention Not sure if there are similar projects like this on other language Wikipedia's? Do share, if there are! -Sarah -- *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
Re: [Gendergap] WikiWomen's Luncheon photo!
I pulled it from his Flickr and did not see any different shots (only this one with different color tones). Perhaps this was the best of the bunch :-) Next year we need a woman photographer to attend who will volunteer her time to photograph! Sarah Sent from my iPhone On Jul 19, 2012, at 1:34 PM, Orsolya Gyenes gyenes.orso...@wiki.media.hu wrote: This is GREAT! Where is the rest? ~Orsolya 2012/7/18 Sarah Stierch sstie...@wikimedia.org Hi everyone, The photo is up from the WikiWomen's Luncheon. A bit of chaos - but, we're throwing W's for wiki of course =) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiWomen%27s_Lunch,_Wikimania_2012.jpg Thank you Pierre-Selim for taking the photo last minute =) Sarah -- Sarah Stierch Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow Mind the gap! Support Wikipedia women's outreach: donate today ___ 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 mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] WikiWomen's Luncheon photo!
Good point! Next year we'll have to think about this for sure! -Sarah On 7/19/12 2:03 PM, Carol Moore DC wrote: I took a few shots during the lunch and while setting up photo which might put on wikicommons when get a chance; not sure if there's anyone who DIDN'T want self photographed so that's an issue. I didn't see a PINK don't photo me tag on anyone the whole event, but I'm sure some people had them. On 7/19/2012 4:40 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote: I pulled it from his Flickr and did not see any different shots (only this one with different color tones). Perhaps this was the best of the bunch :-) Next year we need a woman photographer to attend who will volunteer her time to photograph! Sarah ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- *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
Re: [Gendergap] WikiWomen's Luncheon photo!
I didn't even know they existed! Something that we can put on the Wikimania feedback page: http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback -Sarah On 7/19/12 4:54 PM, Cyriel Brusse wrote: Even the BBC-guys came up to me for on interview and pictures, so the pink sticker on my badge might just have been too small to notice anyway. 2012/7/19 Carol Moore DC carolmoor...@verizon.net mailto:carolmoor...@verizon.net I didn't see a PINK don't photo me tag on anyone the whole event, but I'm sure some people had them. -- Vriendelijke groet, Cyriel ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- *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
Re: [Gendergap] Wikimania Feedback Comment on luncheon
Hi Carol, There is always room to improve, and I wish I had more time to devote to planning the event, but, by the time a few of us were able to get organized (Gayle, Sue and I) we were knee deep in Wikimania and AdaCamp activities. Perhaps it's my fault for failing to reach out to the community (delegation, something I'm working on professionally and personally!) I did hear that a lot of women wished they could have gotten to know those around them in a mixer type atmosphere. Perhaps in Hong Kong we have a chance to try out a few different things. We also didn't expect over 100 women, so that was quite a shock to see for me, and I believe it threw myself, Sue and Gayle for a loop. I also liked the intros - and I do think about half way through a few of us were like oh crap, this is going to take a while! I'm not sure what the situation will be next year in Hong Kong - the venue, the space, etc. I'd love to see a more mixer like atmosphere perhaps than having us on lock down at tables. I'd love to see more WikiWomen step up to the plate and perhaps help plan the event collaboratively next year. (nudge nudge wink wink ! :D) Hindsight is 20/20 though, and we can only take what we learned from this event and explore ideas for next year in Hong Kong!! -Sarah On 7/25/12 6:40 AM, Carol Moore DC wrote: From http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback#Other_meetups_and_meetings The Women's Luncheon on Saturday was something I was very much looking forward to, but it fell short of my expectations. I was enjoying bonding with the women at my table, asking the speakers about their presentations and hoping to form some more solid relationships with veteran and new Wikipedians alike. Being required to sit back quietly while 125+ women each stood up to introduce themselves felt like a waste of an opportunity to build a stronger female editing community. Knowing that the women are passionate about sharing was good, but wouldn't have been more to the purpose to encourage networking so all the women in attendance would be more inclined to stay active and recruit knowing there was a pool of support they could personally draw upon? [[User:Samarista|Samarista]] ([[User talk:Samarista|talk]]) 17 July 2012 (UTC) I personally liked the intros. Perhaps suggest a common topic or two people can discuss at tables? Or have a separate meetups - a couple at different times, perhaps with different themes. That might answer her concerns ? Note that in the feedback section two of us mentioned that annoucements of meetups needed to be better. ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- *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] Hall of fame of Delware women template on english wikipedia
Just noticed this template added to an article I started (And expanded with another woman editor!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucile_Petry_Leone Scroll down and you'll see a template. I'm sure other languages and countries also have halls of fame for women? Many states do here, and there is also the national hall of fame (which I've written a lot of articles for). If you open the template you'll see there are a lot of red links... Very cool template and I encourage others to do the same!!! -Sarah -- *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] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours with the Wikimedia Fellows
FYI - great place to also ask about fellowship opportunities - yes, you can be a fellow (or a ladyfellow)!! (and not live in the States!) Original Message Subject:[Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours with the Wikimedia Fellows Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:35:56 -0700 From: Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.org Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org To: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi all, The Wikimedia Fellows program will be holding IRC office hours in #wikimedia-office this Thursday, August 2, 2012 at 21:00 UTC. Fellows Tanvir Rahman, Peter Coombe, Jon Harald Søby, Steven Zhang, Sarah Stierch and Jonathan Morgan will be there to discuss their current fellowship projects (exact topics TBD based on who shows up with questions/comments/feedback), and I'll take any questions on the fellowships program that you may have.[1][2] As always, links to time conversion and other office hour info is on Meta.[3] Hope to see you there! Best wishes, Siko 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fellowship_News/Current, and this should be even more current by Thursday :-) 2. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships 3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours -- Siko Bouterse Head of Community Fellowships Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] uk chairman banned
Carol- I do not think they are the same people. In fact,I am 95% sure. Just FYI. Sarah Sent from my iPhone On Aug 1, 2012, at 8:50 PM, Carol Moore DC carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote: I actually didn't read the first few posts because of the misspelling ;-) But when I read in the telegraph article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/7883064/MPs-scandals-covered-up-on-Wikipedia.html *He's used multiple accounts *Very interested in bondage *Can be hostile to other users I began to wonder if he was the editor who was so hostile to me in early 2011 when someone brought me to WP:COIN on a completely different issue. I got so annoyed at the hounding and nitpicking defacto attacks from this editor whom I'd never run into before that I went to his contributions page to see what his POV was. I saw articles all of women bondage related and then asked on his talk page if abusing women was how he got his jollies - this got me blocked for the first time. There was a big WP:ANI brouhaha whose details I won't go into, but he did stop editing completely at that point. Which makes me wonder if it was a sock who felt too much attention had been brought to him. So if it IS the same individual, I certainly would understand the decision... Power corrupts, even in Wikipedia. So it's good to impeach the powerful from time to time to keep them all on their best behavior. (I'll have to check WP:ANI and see why my biggest nemesis Admin hasn't posted in two months, since we last had a policy dispute on an article, his last series of edits. Maybe I missed something. Some one else high profile who had a nice long block a few years back that did somewhat improve his behavior, though he started getting worse again lately.) CM: PS: Just about ready to put my Wikimania 2012 blog report on my blog, but it might be too POV to promote or advertise among wikipedians. Comments on a number of Wiki issues, and my own naughtiness here and there, so guess I should just let people chance upon it... :-) Only one issue that was important enough to bring to a policy talk page as a question, with one response so far. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource_talk:What_is_Wikisource%3F#.22WikisourceLeaks.22 Ah the things women and feminists could leak from the places of power they need leaking from... sigh... On 8/1/2012 9:53 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote: In my opinion, it's very much within the remit of this list to share anything that creates an environment that is not welcoming to new contributors. It doesn't need to be proven every time, as far as I'm concerned, that women are disproportionately affected, for a topic to be germane to this list. In this case, I consider it highly relevant information, considering that someone in a position of trust in our community (chair of the UK board) was found by English Wikipedia's highest authority: * (unanimously) to have violated important policies meant to protect the health of the community (failing to disclose information about his past accounts that he was required to disclose) * (by a slim majority) to have made unacceptable personal attacks * (unanimously) to have made ad hominem attacks to discredit others * to have attempted to deceive the community on more than one count * was banned (indefinitely, with opportunity for appeal starting in 1 year) from editing the encyclopedia I am aware that this person has made a number of high quality contributions to our site, and is well respected for much of his work, and do not discount that in any way. But the fact that he would continue in a position of trust, as chair of the Board of the UK Wikimedia chapter, in light of these findings, is distressing to me. It seems to me that he, and the board that is supporting him (I'm unclear whether it's the UK or WMF board) is choosing to place his personal status above the interests of the movement, and choosing to accept the consequences of a story like this, which in my view will surely tend to discourage people from participating in the Wikimedia movement. I don't carry any ill will toward this person, or wish to deny his efforts to continue to contribute to our projects. But it does distress me that he would continue to carry a Wikimedia business card, and represent our movement in a high-profile position of trust, in light of these findings. And I'm glad to have information about something like this posted on a list dedicated to the removal of barriers to participation. -Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]] On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: I have to be honest here, I'm not really certain what this thread has to do with the gender gap. It just feels more like gossip than anything, particularly as a significant portion of the reporting either (a)
[Gendergap] AdaCamp report
Hey folks - AdaCamp report is out from the Ada Initiative. They are interested in hosting another - preferably not in the US - in the upcoming year. So keep your ears and eyes peeled: http://adainitiative.org/2012/08/adacamp-dc-final-report-the-experience-profoundly-changed-me/ -Sarah -- *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] Forbes Top 100 Women List
Hi everyone, Forbes Magazine released their list of the world's 100 most powerful women. Wikimedia Foundation's own Sue Gardner is #70! Very very cool :) Congratulations Sue! http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2012/08/22/the-worlds-100-most-powerful-women-2012-this-year-its-all-about-impact/ For fun, I made a not so glamorous list of the top 100 women and their article quality, you can see it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch/100power Starts win the award for the most, at 52. The three FA's are popular culture icons (the Queen of England, Angelina Jolie and JK Rowling - the latter Sue beat out on the list ;D ). Two of the top five are in that area (...as is Sue's article). You'll also find a few red links, and who knows what this list looks like in your preferred language or project. A nice starting point for edit-a-thons, personal wiki-agendas, and improvement. -Sarah -- *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
