[Gendergap] Wikipedystka

2011-10-04 Thread Erik Moeller
"Wikipedystka", in Polish, describes a female Wikipedian (as opposed to the male "wikipedysta"). As of today, Polish female Wikipedians are no longer called "wikipedysta" if they choose to publicly identify their gender as female. Here are a few examples: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedystka:

Re: [Gendergap] More Dangerous to be a Woman Than a Soldier

2011-10-04 Thread carolmooredc
Great. I'll take it. And just a plain old google search yields riches; http://www.google.com/search?q=rape+in+the+U.S.+military&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a books google even more. Of course, google news archives ain't what news google used to be ...sigh.

Re: [Gendergap] "Mind the Gap" Barnstar/Award - I need your help!

2011-10-04 Thread anna jonsson
yes, I can see your point,no problem I just wanted to try to contribute with something Anna Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 11:39:19 -0400 From: sarah.stie...@gmail.com To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Gendergap] "Mind the Gap" Barnstar/Award - I need your help! Hi Anna - Cool drawin

Re: [Gendergap] More Dangerous to be a Woman Than a Soldier

2011-10-04 Thread Sarah Stierch
Hey everyone, I'm gathering a large collection of resources for this subject - specifically "United States Military and rape" - from the incident in Okinawa to Civil War period rape, to sexual assault and attack within the US military against women and men. If you wish to have access to the Dropb

Re: [Gendergap] More Dangerous to be a Woman Than a Soldier

2011-10-04 Thread Chris Keating
On the whole I think our military history articles aren't great at dealing with sexual violence, on a number of dimensions. For instance, there was a large amount of well-documented rape and sexual mutiliation of Vietnamese women by U.S. forces in Vietnam, but the Vietnam War article doesn't cover

Re: [Gendergap] "Mind the Gap" Barnstar/Award - I need your help!

2011-10-04 Thread Sarah Stierch
I think it's pretty cool too! I'm not sure...the blog hasn't been updated in a while, but they have a Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=59200549800&ref=ts They are the London Student Feminists. Should I write to see what they think? Panyd - Do you know anyone there? -Sarah

Re: [Gendergap] "Mind the Gap" Barnstar/Award - I need your help!

2011-10-04 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Do you think the symbol at http://londonstudentfeminists.blogspot.com/ is copyrightable? I like it. Andreas --- On Mon, 3/10/11, Sarah Stierch wrote: From: Sarah Stierch Subject: [Gendergap] "Mind the Gap" Barnstar/Award - I need your help! To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia pro

Re: [Gendergap] More Dangerous to be a Woman Than a Soldier

2011-10-04 Thread Fred Bauder
>> >> *This is something that's been on my mental list of articles to write >> someday... "Rape in the U.S. Military" >> * > > > Can you find sources for this article Carol? We all know that exist, but > I > don't see many people talking about it. > _ > *Béria Lima* > Wikimedia Portugal

Re: [Gendergap] More Dangerous to be a Woman Than a Soldier

2011-10-04 Thread Béria Lima
> > *This is something that's been on my mental list of articles to write > someday... "Rape in the U.S. Military" > * Can you find sources for this article Carol? We all know that exist, but I don't see many people talking about it. _ *Béria Lima* Wikimedia Portugal (35

Re: [Gendergap] More Dangerous to be a Woman Than a Soldier

2011-10-04 Thread Sarah Stierch
Carol - I'll take a look on Jstor and some other online resources I use for research and see if I can scrap anything up. And on a side note - folks, you can always ask me for research assistance if you are ever looking for resources, I have access (like others here probably do in education/researc

Re: [Gendergap] More Dangerous to be a Woman Than a Soldier

2011-10-04 Thread carolmooredc
This is something that's been on my mental list of articles to write. Someday... "Rape in the U.S. Military" Just searched rape U.S. military in wikipedia and just a mention of Okinawa, not the horrific statistics. "Crime and U.S. military" (safer article to start with to avoid AfD) showed nothi

[Gendergap] More Dangerous to be a Woman Than a Soldier

2011-10-04 Thread Sarah Stierch
Intense (and brief) piece from Forbes about women as victims in war in Africa: http://www.forbes.com/sites/shenegotiates/2011/10/04/more-dangerous-to-be-a-woman-than-a-soldier/ You'll also notice that Forbe's cites Wikipedia's article about micro-lending! -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for

Re: [Gendergap] Gender neutrality template

2011-10-04 Thread Sandra ordonez
plus 1 pharos idea!! i think might be passive but powerful way to inform people. On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Pharos wrote: > On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case > wrote: > > > > > > I love the idea of having articles of gender concern in a one stop > shopping > > space

Re: [Gendergap] Gender neutrality template

2011-10-04 Thread Sarah Stierch
Just a reminder, we have a conversation started here about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Feminism#Gender_neutrality_template I also brought up the use of some templates used for gender studies. If we can start contributing to the wiki about this, that'd be wonderful!

Re: [Gendergap] Gender neutrality template

2011-10-04 Thread Pharos
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case wrote: > > > I love the idea of having articles of gender concern in a one stop shopping > space. Going through the NPOV collection is long, painful and is filled with > lots of advertising articles for tech companies. Blarg > > -Sarah

Re: [Gendergap] "Mind the Gap" Barnstar/Award - I need your help!

2011-10-04 Thread Sarah Stierch
Hi Anna - Cool drawing! In my original email I was actually seeking something inspired by the "Mind the Gap" theme from the London underground. It is a cool drawing - but I do think having something more gender neutral will be ideal for this award (you can learn more about barnstars here: http://