Re: [Gendergap] Awards/Merit badges/Barnstars in your language Wikipedia?

2012-06-07 Thread Daria Cybulska
Hi Sarah, Polish Wikipedia has a Gender Gap project http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiprojekt:Gender_Studies but from what I know they don't in fact issue any barnstars (Wikipedia Poland is not quite as hot on awards as English one). There is an userbox that you can post on your userpage saying

Re: [Gendergap] Men's_shelter Re: New WikiProject Feminism Articles from WSG students

2012-06-07 Thread puppy
It is not so much that it would violate civility, as that it would very likely soon violate Undue. Original Message Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Men's_shelter Re: New WikiProject Feminism Articles from WSG students From: Emily Monroe emilymonro...@gmail.com Date: Tue, June 05,

Re: [Gendergap] Men's_shelter Re: New WikiProject Feminism Articles from WSG students

2012-06-07 Thread puppy
Men's shelters would fall under the Men's rights article probation which should help somewhat. A talkpage notice would have to be added, but it certainly fits the category of "Pages related to Men's rights (broadly construed)" which fall under that probation.-kc- Original Message

Re: [Gendergap] Female equality issues and Wikipedia

2012-06-07 Thread Kevin Gorman
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:10 AM, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote: Hi, http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/female-athletes-deserve-better/story-fn6bn88w-1226385263903 is a story that has been making the rounds in Australia for a while now about an elite sportwoman who plays top level soccer

[Gendergap] Thanks for encouraging my WGS students

2012-06-07 Thread Kissling, Elizabeth
I want to thank this group for your encouraging responses to my students' first posts to Wikipedia. They've been wary of this process for weeks, but they were so excited to see their articles go live and to start getting feedback. Several received gifts of virtual baked goods (from members of