Re: [Gendergap] Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 mini-conferenceh for te project's 14th birthday

2015-03-23 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Mar 23, 2015 11:41 AM, "Katherine Casey" wrote: > I recognize at least some of the names on the attendance list there as people who don't, to the best of my knowledge, identify as being of African descent, so it doesn't appear to have been an event that excluded anyone. I think that wording wa

Re: [Gendergap] Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 mini-conferenceh for te project's 14th birthday

2015-03-23 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Mar 23, 2015 11:25 AM, "Neotarf" wrote: > I've never seen editithons that exclude people before. I've been to a couple of black history events, and all were welcomed, although of course there was a very high proportion of African descent. I think the point was actually to be extra inclusionar

Re: [Gendergap] x% female, y% male. ???

2014-11-27 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Nov 27, 2014 9:55 AM, "Carol Moore dc" wrote: > The study's talk page has ongoing discussions of people being annoyed about > this issue. Probably first place any updates will show up: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Editor_Survey_2012 I wrote there: > See [http://mako.c

Re: [Gendergap] What's happening at ArbCom re WP:GGTF

2014-11-27 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Nov 25, 2014 2:48 PM, "Sarah Stierch" wrote: > could there ever be any legal repercussion - like the "real" legal system, not an internet community - that could be taken to support a person who should not be "banned" from a website? like carol? If you're called lots of nasty names, if men aren

Re: [Gendergap] Noiva do Cordeiro

2014-08-27 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Aug 27, 2014 1:55 PM, "Krystle" wrote: > Is this for real? http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/town-entire-population-made-up-4113722 > > And if so, should there be a Wikipedia entry about it? I started to draft one but am a little worried because there seems to be only one article about th

Re: [Gendergap] Sexualized environment on Commons

2014-08-02 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Aug 2, 2014 11:01 AM, "LtPowers" wrote: > And then there could be a little chat window allowing real-time communication while the editor walks through her first edit. [originally didn't realize who you were replying to… also haven't read the whole thread yet] That is technically feasible. May

Re: [Gendergap] Zoë Wicomb or Clive Cussler?

2014-07-22 Thread Jeremy Baron
also discussed on the talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:October_(novel) -Jeremy ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Addressing incivility (was: men on lists)

2014-07-04 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Jul 5, 2014 2:18 AM, "Pharos" wrote: > I think the closest thing we have with these capabilities is the Wikimedia OTRS system: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS > > Specific queues can be customized in many ways, I believe, though others will know more about this. Yes, there are plenty

Re: [Gendergap] Moderation and the future of Gendergap-L

2014-07-01 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Marie Earley wrote: > Gosh, I did make a pig's ear out of it didn't I. I didn't realize the list > had two Sarahs on it. More than two I'm sure :-) Thank you Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/make_a_pig%27s_ear_of -Jeremy ___

Re: [Gendergap] Moderation and the future of Gendergap-L

2014-06-30 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Jun 30, 2014 11:14 PM, "Sarah" wrote: > ​Jeremy, which quote is this? I recall someone on this list saying that someone called Sarah was suspended (unclear what's meant) for an off-wiki comment. (Or something like that; I can't find the original.) I can't think of how that might apply to me, an

Re: [Gendergap] Moderation and the future of Gendergap-L

2014-06-30 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Jun 30, 2014 10:27 PM, "Sarah Stierch" wrote: > I've never been "suspended" (whatever that means) by anyone or anything. If you're talking about me..? Before I'm the victim of any BLP violations ;) > > I do know sometimes get Sarah (Slim Virgin) and myself confused (which I take as a compliment

Re: [Gendergap] Wikidata, gamification and gender

2014-05-21 Thread Jeremy Baron
FYI, msg from another list below. -Jeremy -- Forwarded message -- From: "Jeremy Baron" Date: May 21, 2014 11:58 PM Subject: Re: [WikimediaMobile] micro-contributions on mobile via wikidata To: "Magnus Manske" Cc: "mobile-l" > On May 21, 20

[Gendergap] Fwd: [Multimedia] NSFW image searches

2014-05-15 Thread Jeremy Baron
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: "Gergo Tisza" Date: May 16, 2014 2:25 AM Subject: [Multimedia] NSFW image searches To: "multimedia" Cc: > For those of you who are not following wikimedia-l: you might be interested in this discussion about searches with harmless keywords bringi

Re: [Gendergap] Changing the Chelsea Manning article (and how women were shouted down)

2013-09-07 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Risker wrote: > Yeah, I keep hearing those excuses for performance problems, Jeremy. It > takes longer to serve up the original page here in North America on a fast > connection - enough so that it is noticeable on a normal computer. I don't know what that means. (

Re: [Gendergap] Changing the Chelsea Manning article (and how women were shouted down)

2013-09-06 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Sep 5, 2013 6:55 PM, "Risker" wrote: > Secondly, redirects are expensive - not to those in the Western world with fast computers and high speed internet, but to those who are on dial-up or have comparatively high lag times because of distance (lots of people at Wikimania had difficulty getting

Re: [Gendergap] start Porno related list?? can the Commons images thread move?

2013-05-18 Thread Jeremy Baron
On May 18, 2013 2:14 AM, "Carol Moore DC" wrote: > How about starting a list just for these porno related discussions? > > Most women won't find these photos to be turned off by them, so it is slightly off topic. > > Just announce a new thread here and then people who want to discuss can join that

Re: [Gendergap] You Guys Made Me Smile

2013-03-07 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Mar 7, 2013 8:43 PM, "Sandra ordonez" wrote: > So tonight I'm at an event, and begin to chat with two amazing women...at the end of the evening one of them mentions: > > Did you hear that there is a feminist take over of wikipedia event on the 15th? > > It made me smile and think; WOW these

Re: [Gendergap] uk chairman band

2012-08-01 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Sandra Ordonez wrote: > the uk chairman band was mentioned in daily dot today http://dly.do/M9K4Sv Ugh, please, please, please just start a new thread from scratch (send an email to gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org ) if it's unrelated to an existing thread. (You did c

Re: [Gendergap] Thoughts on training and gender and training generally

2012-04-06 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 08:43, Gillian White wrote: > I have reformatted my comments about training so they are less a report and > more of a guideline, added some additional material and posted it here > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Best_practices_in_training_adults > The idea was to make it

Re: [Gendergap] What are the Poles, Slovenes, Russians and Portuguese doing right in regards to the gender gap?

2011-12-29 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 02:45, Béria Lima wrote: > Laura, in pt case I can imagine the wp number to be right (or close enough), > but from where did you took the wikimedia one? pt.wikimedia.org is a > redirect to wikimedia.pt it is a redirect but it's also a wiki with content and therefore a data

Re: [Gendergap] Techies You Decide! You're either a feminist or a misogynist - by Trevor Owens

2011-12-18 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 13:09, Sarah Stierch wrote: > http://www.trevorowens.org/2011/12/techies-you-decide-you’re-either-a-feminist-or-a-misogynist/ evil, evil smart quotes. http://www.trevorowens.org/2011/12/techies-you-decide-you%E2%80%99re-either-a-feminist-or-a-misogynist/

Re: [Gendergap] Deterrent

2011-10-18 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 14:58, Mig wrote: > I believe that men editors have targeted me for and with their biases and > have done everything they could to humiliate me publicly , which acts as a > deterrent to female editors who are not well connected with wikipedia ranks.   > Please refer to m

Re: [Gendergap] Weird lame body fashion whatever website of the, day

2011-09-17 Thread Jeremy Baron
ourmed.org (a MediaWiki wiki) is in NYC and they've come to several of our meetups. (wiki seems kinda dead or at least dormant; per their recentchanges, they seem to have done spam and vandal fighting every day in the last 2 weeks but there's no actual content work for 2 weeks straight AFAICT. of c

Re: [Gendergap] Pregnancy article lead-image RFC

2011-09-06 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 01:33, Daniel and Elizabeth Case wrote: > Do we have an article on that women's club somewhere in England that, one > year, put out their annual calendar showing them going about their regular > club activities (gardening, tea, etc.) nude? IIRC, they were all in their > fift

Re: [Gendergap] ATTENTION MODERATOR- last email

2011-09-04 Thread Jeremy Baron
I also don't see the message you were referring to. Next time, if you want to address just the moderators rather than the whole list you can mail gendergap-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org -Jeremy On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 13:38, Nathan wrote: > I don't see that your message came through. Messages over a