[Gendergap] Help write an article about American Airlines' first female commercial pilot

2015-02-04 Thread Jodi Schneider
In 1973, Bonnie Tiburzi became the first female pilot for a major commercial airline in the US. Her article redirects to AA. Want to help fix that? Here's a draft that needs improvement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Bonnie_Tiburzi -Jodi ___

Re: [Gendergap] Help write an article about American Airlines' first female commercial pilot

2015-02-04 Thread Sydney Poore
Hi Jodi, The article is looking good. I deleted the re-direct. You can do a page move into mainspace when you are ready. I think that it will make a great DYK! Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Jodi

Re: [Gendergap] Regular editathons in Sweden about women and literature

2015-02-04 Thread Jane Darnell
Siko, Thanks! I too am very curious what our outcomes will be 78 March. From my experience this will be next to zero for new editors, but it could be quite a lot for experienced editors. I took a look at the edit-a-thon toolkit but we won't be requesting any funding and I don't understand how to

Re: [Gendergap] Help write an article about American Airlines' first female commercial pilot

2015-02-04 Thread Rob
Nice work! And thanks for filling in one of the redlinks on my article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersisters On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jodi, The article is looking good. I deleted the re-direct. You can do a page move into

[Gendergap] Keilana is now a mod

2015-02-04 Thread Kevin Gorman
Hi all - I've now made Keilana a mod. I'm sorry for my complete absence and for any emails I have failed to respond to. Several weeks ago I collapsed in septic shock and was in the ICU for an extended period of time, and am only now even starting to return to even a semblance of normalcy. I

[Gendergap] FW: Need for women as Wikipedians in Residence

2015-02-04 Thread Sara Thomas
Hello there, As a new female Wikimedian in Residence at Museums Galleries Scotland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Museums_Galleries_Scotland) I'd certainly be interested! Sara ThomasUser:lirazelfWikimedian in ResidenceMuseums Galleries Scotland / Glasgow Museums --

Re: [Gendergap] Test Kaffeeklatsch area for women-only

2015-02-04 Thread Bohdan Melnychuk
Is there an area for men only as well? --Base On 16.01.2015 21:20, LB wrote: Based on a discussion at the WikiProject Women IdeaLab talk page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IdeaLab/WikiProject_Women#best_practice.3F, I have started a test Kaffeeklatsch

Re: [Gendergap] Keilana is now a mod

2015-02-04 Thread
On 4 February 2015 at 20:30, Kevin Gorman kgor...@gmail.com wrote: ... emails I have failed to respond to. Several weeks ago I collapsed in septic shock and was in the ICU for an extended period of time, and am only now even starting to return to even a semblance of normalcy. I don't

Re: [Gendergap] Stepping down as list mod - volunteers needed

2015-02-04 Thread Niharika Kohli
I'd be happy to volunteer as moderator. Thanks, Niharika. On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 3:04 AM LB lightbreath...@gmail.com wrote: I might be interested. What all's involved? Lightbreather On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Leigh Honeywell le...@hypatia.ca wrote: Hey Kevin, don't worry about

Re: [Gendergap] press coverage of Gamergate arbcom case

2015-02-04 Thread WereSpielChequers
Hi Marie, Surely this would cover more than just examples where both parties were in the UK? For example if the victim was anywhere in the world but the offender was in the UK, wouldn't the UK law apply? Regards Jonathan Cardy On 30 Jan 2015, at 16:46, Marie Earley eir...@hotmail.com

Re: [Gendergap] Diversity training for functionaries. In London?

2015-02-04 Thread WereSpielChequers
I have been called rather worse than paternalistic on wiki and elsewhere:) The offer still stands, but rather than leave Carrite's thread as the only response I will take the opportunity to expand on it a little. London, for reasons obvious and otherwise is one of the centres of the wiki

Re: [Gendergap] Computational Linguistics Reveals How Wikipedia Articles Are Biased Against Women

2015-02-04 Thread WereSpielChequers
I think this one is worth looking beyond the headline. There are two specific areas where we fail, in the language we use when we write about women and in the relative lack of links to articles on women. The two areas where the study indicates we are doing OK are the two where we have put in a

Re: [Gendergap] Need for women as Wikipedians in Residence

2015-02-04 Thread WereSpielChequers
Re Sydney's point about women and reliable sources, I have been involved in quite a few editathons now (I'm the GLAM organiser for Wikimedia UK). Several editathons I have been involved in were targeting the gender gap, and the issue of women being underrepresented in primary and secondary

Re: [Gendergap] Computational Linguistics Reveals How Wikipedia Articles Are Biased Against Women

2015-02-04 Thread Sydney Poore
Hi, I think that there is a problem of not creating articles about women who are notable in there own right but are mentioned in articles of family members. It is not uncommon to do use Wikipedias search for a notable woman and find a mention of their name in articles about a family member. It

[Gendergap] Thank someone today.

2015-02-04 Thread Kerry Raymond
We talk a lot of about the culture of Wikipedia being negative, critical, abrasive etc; this is a turn-off to a lot of women (and also to a lot of men). But what can we do to change that? Well, I thought about the way that postings get Liked on Facebook. Indeed, most postings get many Likes on

Re: [Gendergap] Thank someone today.

2015-02-04 Thread LB
I agree, Kerry. I try to use the thank button at least once a day. Lightbreather On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Kerry Raymond kerry.raym...@gmail.com wrote: We talk a lot of about the culture of Wikipedia being negative, critical, abrasive etc; this is a turn-off to a lot of women (and also

Re: [Gendergap] Thank someone today.

2015-02-04 Thread Katherine Casey
I have found myself using the thank button more than usual recently. In the middle of all the turmoil that goes on onwiki, a simple hey, that thing you did that you thought no one noticed? Yeah, thanks for doing that goes a long way toward cancelling some of it out. On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 6:52

Re: [Gendergap] Thank someone today.

2015-02-04 Thread Keilana
I love the thanks button, it's such an easy way to add more positivity to the wiki and the world. :) On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Katherine Casey fluffernutter.w...@gmail.com wrote: I have found myself using the thank button more than usual recently. In the middle of all the turmoil that

Re: [Gendergap] Thank someone today.

2015-02-04 Thread Sydney Poore
I agree. I'm especially thrilled when someone notices an article about a notable woman and thanks me for creating it. I usually thank them back!!! Can't have too much wikilove! Sydney On Feb 4, 2015 7:12 PM, Keilana keilanaw...@gmail.com wrote: I love the thanks button, it's such an easy way

Re: [Gendergap] Test Kaffeeklatsch area for women-only

2015-02-04 Thread Leigh Honeywell
This was not a helpful or informative comment. I have unsubscribed Bohdan from the list. On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Bohdan Melnychuk bas...@yandex.ru wrote: Is there an area for men only as well? --Base On 16.01.2015 21:20, LB wrote: Based on a discussion at the WikiProject Women

Re: [Gendergap] Thank someone today.

2015-02-04 Thread Michael J. Lowrey
Although I was ranting earlier today about the attaboy culture of meaningless little rewards and certificates that corporations substitute for any substantive kind of reward, like pay or better treatment, I concur with your message. If it's a good edit, we need to cultivate that kind of thing by

[Gendergap] Fwd: Request to mailing list Gendergap rejected

2015-02-04 Thread George Herbert
Be aware - someone is forging mail to the list in members' names. George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: gendergap-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org Date: February 4, 2015 at 4:05:35 PM PST To: george.herb...@gmail.com Subject: Request to mailing list Gendergap

[Gendergap] FOSDEM report from Wikimedia-l

2015-02-04 Thread Andreas Kolbe
This post from Romaine on Wikimedia-l caught my eye: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-February/076685.html Parts of it touched on the gender gap. Those parts are copied below: ---o0o--- Hi all, The past weekend was great! Wikimedia was at FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source

Re: [Gendergap] Keilana is now a mod

2015-02-04 Thread Keilana
Thanks Kevin! On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Kevin Gorman kgor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all - I've now made Keilana a mod. I'm sorry for my complete absence and for any emails I have failed to respond to. Several weeks ago I collapsed in septic shock and was in the ICU for an extended