I will be there in my WMF staff capacity and I would love for there to be a
gendergap meetup! I'm busy from dinnertime onwards on Saturday 10/10, but
other than that I can make time for whenever works for people. A lunchtime
meetup sounds like a good place to start.
-Karen/Fluffernutter
On Sun,
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.
My guess would be that the open to bit is intended to bring in people who
I doubt I'd attend any event purporting to recruit women that nevertheless
limited itself to people who were born female; that's very much a type of
exclusion I'm uncomfortable with. In general, however, there's nothing
stopping you or anyone else from arranging a women-centric (or even
I might be a little punch-drunk from all the gender drama lately,
but...meet some of the women who edit Wikipedia! sounds more like an
introduction to a speed-dating event to me than what is presumably intended
to be a demystification/de-othering blog post. Come meet some women isn't
exactly a
, as one does when one
'meets' women that's part of the cultural baggage of the phrase.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think that is Fabrice's intent. What edits would you suggest?
Pine
On Mar 6, 2015 4:46 PM, Katherine Casey fluffernutter.w...@gmail.com
If memory serves, another survey (not sure if before or after the 9%, or
where to find it, off the top of my head - maybe someone else remembers?)
came up with something like 13% female. So my guess is they added in some
margin of error, and decided less than 20% was the most accurate way to
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
Fae, this is really very off-topic for this thread at this point. Would
mind going off-list if you want to discuss personal history with others?
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
I suggest that as a supporter and administrator of a website that
labels me as a faggot,
*Also note many women consider cis to be an insult that eliminates
womens experience as women, who've been identified as and identify as women
from birth, and are happy and even proud to be women.*
...wha?
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Carol Moore dc carolmoor...@verizon.net
wrote:
On
This is awesome! I can't wait to see what initiatives people come up with.
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
(Changing the perspective on the previous thread a bit)
Well, it's official - the Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) and Project
Event Grants (PEG)
Well, how would you limit participation to just those people? There's no
page-protection option for check person's gender, then allow edits only if
'female', and Wikipedia doesn't currently have any policies that would
allow, like, topic bans from a Wikiproject based on gender rather than
What proportion of the rest had accounts explicitly marked as male? My
first thought is that most people of all genders probably get to that
section of Preferences, go Why would mediawiki want to know my gender in
the first place? This is dumb and skip it. Or they never fiddle with their
I just tried to take it and it ended abruptly with You have already taken
this survey. after about five pages (the last button I filled in was
rating something like I avoid certain areas of the community because I
have been harassed). Does that mean the survey was complete, or did I hit
a bug?
On
I don't think it's appropriate to use this list to link to pages that out
other users. I understand your frustration with nothing onwiki getting
done, Carol, I truly do, but part of the social contract of being a
Wikipedian is that we're expected to not attack the real lives of other
Wikipedians -
Responding to this on my phone, so please excuse what I assume will be
wonky formatting/quoting, but:
Derric, you say you hope your email didn't come across as shouting over the
women or generalizing about them, but to me it did (and I say this not
just to make you feel bad - I see you've
Actually, I think there's something to be said for downvoting. Not in the
reddit i disagree sense, but in the slashdot/ meta filter comments
downvoted/flagged past a certain point will be hidden/deleted sense. It
would obviously take a lot of work to make that work within the media wiki
software
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/06/love-and-drama-at-the-wikipedia-conference.html
One quote, of many possible ones:
“We're really the typical demographic, actually,” says Alex Stinson, back
on the leather couches.
“White, male techies with college degrees,” agrees Kevin
I've looked into this a bit. The page history is difficult to interpret,
because it now shows non-contiguous edits as contiguous (a side effect of
the attending administrator trying to delete versions that contained
copyright violations and keep ones that didn't), but the upshot is that the
I'm not sure I see the pressing reason why this thread needs to go on-wiki.
Commons doesn't have a venue for discussing problems this fundamental with
it as far as I know, and people have spoken in this thread who either do
not or will not participate on-wiki on Commons. Moving the thread on-wiki
(Correction: the first abstinence userbox reads This user practices
abstinence, not This user practices abstinence but still has a healthy
sex drive thank you very much.)
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Katherine Casey
fluffernutter.w...@gmail.com wrote:
I've noticed that enwp has a *lot
Phoebe, I would really suggest reading the emails if you're interested in
the discussion (or, conversely, not asking for a summary if you're not),
but here's a quick-and-dirty condensation off the top of my head:
I started the thread to discuss how disposition of topless photo of a woman
on
Russavia and Andreas, I want to take this opportunity to point out that the
style of argument the two of you have been engaged in since last night is
exactly what some of us mean when we refer to an aggressive atmosphere
that makes us uncomfortable on the projects. Turning a disagreement over
how
Allegations of prostitution are allegations of illegal activities in many
jurisdictions, which makes any unsourced edits accusing people in
those jurisdictions of prostitution potentially libelous. I'm going to look
over the category myself, but please please, anyone else who does so (or
already
on the project, noting that
you don't have many contributions there (
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Fluffernutter),
and I am again urging you to come and join us.
Are you up for that challenge?
Cheers,
Russavia
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Katherine Casey
From a common-sense perspective, Pete, I'd say that if the image was taken
in a private place, shows an identifiable person, and that person does not
give permission for us to be using their likeness, it should be a
no-brainer that we don't have the right (ethically, at least, in light of
the
Oh dear, I'm not sure there's enough vodka in the universe for us all to
play that drinking game, Daniel! Especially given that closed by Mattbuck
as delete probably ought to be a finish your drink qualifier...
-Fluffernutter
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case
Came across this kerfuffle today. I'd love to see what more
gendergap-focused people think about the following progression of events
(note: the image is NSFW, but each of the links I'm providing are SFW if
you don't click through to the image/article):
-
that I let this argument - being made by male
Commonists - trigger me to not participate in the conversations is an
entirely different psychological issue in itself! Oy vey.
Gah. :(
-Sarah
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Katherine Casey
fluffernutter.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Came across
Having an ungendered username gets me some interesting interactions when
people assume that because I'm not explicitly female, I must be male. Had a
fun experience on IRC last night where I asked someone to stop making jokes
about women's boobs because it sounded pretty creepy toward all women,
Hi all,
I'm not a listmod, so this is no sort of an official communication, but I
want to remind everyone that this is a publicly-archived mailing list under
the umbrella of the WMF. This means that what you say here can, and
probably will, be seen by people not involved in the list, including
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