Re: [Gendergap] more women's voices

2017-11-12 Thread Neotarf
all the information she > needs to make a decision. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPV_vaccines > > > > On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 10:25 PM, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm not sure that disaster response and public health are mutually >> exclusive, or how

Re: [Gendergap] more women's voices

2017-11-12 Thread Neotarf
sponse, but the vital chronic public > health topics are relatively neglected. > This infant sleep article got elevated by our oclc friends. Much criticism > of the start by the librarians. > > > On Nov 1, 2017 8:41 PM, "Neotarf" <neot...@gmail.com> wrote: > >

[Gendergap] Fwd: "Selective incivility"

2017-11-01 Thread Neotarf
://www.researchgate.net/publication/318911812_Witnessing_wrongdoing_The_effects_of_observer_power_on_incivility_intervention_in_the_workplace -- Forwarded message -- From: Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 9:16 AM Subject: "Selective incivility"

Re: [Gendergap] more women's voices

2017-11-01 Thread Neotarf
Health professionals thinking about what belongs in an educational video might want to walk down the hall to the outpatient department and see what kind of films are being shown to family members while they wait. Who knows, there might even be something out of copyright that can be made available

Re: [Gendergap] FYI - GGTF case appeal

2017-08-07 Thread Neotarf
ss allegations is quite damaging to the very causes you profess to > care about.Please consider that before you continue to double down on a > baseless allegation. There are plenty of legitimate criticisms to level at > the Foundation and this community for ineptness and inaction in these

Re: [Gendergap] FYI - GGTF case appeal

2017-08-07 Thread Neotarf
term "fake news". Please retract your statement. > > Risker/Anne > > On 7 August 2017 at 08:21, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have no way of investigating something I was not supposed to find out >> about in the first place. Given Wikipedi

Re: [Gendergap] FYI - GGTF case appeal

2017-08-07 Thread Neotarf
it) I actually recently left Google..." https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-manifesto-1e3773ed1788 On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 3:16 AM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 6 August 2017 at 23:08, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wrote: > >

Re: [Gendergap] FYI - GGTF case appeal

2017-08-06 Thread Neotarf
I doubt very much whether anyone who has been paying attention to this thread still thinks it's about me. The problems with arbcom have been very public since at least the 2015 Wikiconference USA. [1] But JJ Marr does have a point. The Arbcom does label this a "finding of fact", although the WMF

Re: [Gendergap] FYI - GGTF case appeal

2017-07-15 Thread Neotarf
F's > interpretation of its privacy policy. > > Pine > > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The privacy policy as written certainly leads users to expect their PII >> is safe. There is nothing I can find in the writt

Re: [Gendergap] article for first women's political party in Pakistan is about to be deleted

2017-07-10 Thread Neotarf
wrote: > Thank you Neotarf, hope with these sources the article will be safe for > deletion. > > Best, > Camelia from WikiDonne > > > > -- > *Camelia Boban* > *Wikimedia *Foundation *Affiliations Committee* > > Freelance developer | WikiDonne founder > T.

Re: [Gendergap] FYI - GGTF case appeal

2017-07-10 Thread Neotarf
The privacy policy as written certainly leads users to expect their PII is safe. There is nothing I can find in the written policy that would back the idea that the ombuds should refuse to remove PII if they think it might have been posted in good faith. If it could be used to identify someone, it

Re: [Gendergap] FYI - GGTF case appeal

2017-07-09 Thread Neotarf
ttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman_commission > > > Pine > > > On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 11:47 PM, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The arbitration committee has never responded to any of my emails, >> although some individual arbitrators were willi

Re: [Gendergap] FYI - GGTF case appeal

2017-07-09 Thread Neotarf
sn't want to get involved in > community processes. Sorry to be blunt, but you should try emailing ArbCom > before making this type of posting. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_ > Committee/Procedures#Standard_provision:_appeals_and_modifications > > > > &g

[Gendergap] FYI - GGTF case appeal

2017-07-08 Thread Neotarf
Hello, this is to let everyone know that I have submitted an appeal to the GGTF case. It has been very difficult to try to respond to the accusations in this arbitration case, because I don't understand them. Everyone who has looked at the diffs has found nothing. Kevin Gorman called them

Re: [Gendergap] article for first women's political party in Pakistan is about to be deleted

2017-06-29 Thread Neotarf
n 2011, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Yann_Borgstedt but has just been nominated for deletion. On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 6:54 PM, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wrote: > Looking at the discussion, it seems they are using the wrong notability > guideline, the first one, WP:COMPANY, w

Re: [Gendergap] article for first women's political party in Pakistan is about to be deleted

2017-06-29 Thread Neotarf
undation=utf-8=utf-8#q=The+Womanity+Foundation=nws Aren't they supposed to check that before they nominate it for deletion? Can the new community culture group help with that? On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 11:43 PM, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here is the archived article: "Women’s polit

Re: [Gendergap] article for first women's political party in Pakistan is about to be deleted

2017-06-26 Thread Neotarf
Here is the archived article: "Women’s political party launched Pakistan Women Muslim League (PWML)" January 6, 2014 http://archive.is/V3Vpk Party registered with PEC Pakistan Election Commission:

Re: [Gendergap] Let's go gender neutral

2017-05-27 Thread Neotarf
>>> "that's very good i have not had any luck engaging partollers." Ha, did you try barnstars? So here is a link to my article tutorial, feel free to introduce it to patrollers or anyone else. https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Neotarf=prev=16635615 @Fae, congratulations on

Re: [Gendergap] Wiktionary *desperately* needs more gender-aware editors

2017-05-27 Thread Neotarf
Hello all, I first saw this on the mailing list and not through email, so the links did not come through and I had to search around the edit histories for a while. What I saw was a lot of errors--errors in pronunciation markings, in wiki text markup, and in not knowing where the first attributed

Re: [Gendergap] GenderGap admin update

2017-04-27 Thread Neotarf
in, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-08-04/Obituary > > Fae is right to point out that we should replace him at the least. > > On 27 April 2017 at 20:15, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I believe the second one has been active recently, maybe s

Re: [Gendergap] GenderGap admin update

2017-04-27 Thread Neotarf
I believe the second one has been active recently, maybe someone could ping them. On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 1:26 PM, Fæ wrote: > Hi, it was pointed out that > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap has an out of > date list of admins. > > Can we confirm how many

Re: [Gendergap] "A Call to Men UK " manhood workshops

2017-04-13 Thread Neotarf
to face with their harassers instead. On 4/12/17, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had meant to revisit this discussion after my thinking on the > subject had come together a little better, unfortunately that isn't > happening, so I will just express my concerns. > >

Re: [Gendergap] "A Call to Men UK " manhood workshops

2017-04-12 Thread Neotarf
admins on English Wikipedia were still under 21 I would be stunned. Far > more admins are over 60 than could possibly be 11-19. > > > > On 20 February 2017 at 18:53, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> "A Call to Men UK has 55 coaches working in schools, youth jus

Re: [Gendergap] Good sources for criticism of sexism in traditional media

2017-03-28 Thread Neotarf
@Chris, if you're just interested in that specific event, try a different search term: this one should bring up BBC News, NYT, WaPo, Gruniad, CNN, Newsweek, Time, etc.

[Gendergap] Wikimedia Foundation updates non-discrimination policy

2017-03-17 Thread Neotarf
This is very encouraging to see. It is so frustrating to try to have a conversation about harassment with WMF employees and realize that so many of them have no frame of reference for Title IX, sexual harassment training, or other HR fixtures for onboarding new employees that have been standard in

Re: [Gendergap] US government website for International Women of Courage Award is down

2017-03-08 Thread Neotarf
I'll make this short for anyone who's observing the "day without a woman" boycott (or looking for something red to wear) but I have compiled a list of active archives for International Women of Courage Award at https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Neotarf/Relinking_US_gov They are listed

Re: [Gendergap] Craigslist founder donates $500K to curb Wikipedia trolls

2017-02-08 Thread Neotarf
The assumption here is that harassing users are the same as blocked users, to which I say a great big "citation needed". As I recall, one of the big reasons Kevin gave for moving discussion of gender to this mailing list is that list moderators are able to keep out harassment, which they were

Re: [Gendergap] U.S. government website for International Women of Courage Award is down

2017-02-02 Thread Neotarf
e within the US >>> government sites. >>> >>> >>> >>> Risker/Anne >>> >>> (Who lives in Canada, which does not have the same applicable >>> legislation as exists in the US to require the federal government to retain >

Re: [Gendergap] In memory of User:Danveg

2017-01-09 Thread Neotarf
nVeg page, but I can't read Hebrew and am afraid of screwing up... > > - Pax aka Funcrunch > > > On 1/4/17 9:52 PM, Neotarf wrote: > > I'm noticing that most, if not all of the articles on that page already > have English translations. Is there a list of redlinks

Re: [Gendergap] Research Showcase, December 21, 2016

2017-01-01 Thread Neotarf
When I saw the "Privacy, anonymity, and perceived risk in open collaboration" paper in the Signpost a while back, I thought it was about Tor. But it's actually about threat models, and should be of interest to anyone who has been following the harassment discussion. The presentation is in the

[Gendergap] "Paradigm for Parity" group for gender process

2016-12-19 Thread Neotarf
"How A Group Of CEOs Plans To Solve Gender Inequality At Their Companies" https://www.fastcompany.com/3066402/the-future-of-work/how-a-group-of-ceos-plans-to-solve-gender-inequality-at-their-companies Includes a roadmap https://www.paradigm4parity.com/solution#plan and toolkit.

Re: [Gendergap] New publications on harmful online speech

2016-12-16 Thread Neotarf
: > Thanks for the updates. I'm pinging Patrick Earley, who is tracking > this kind of research for WMF, in case he has yet to see this info. > > Pine > > > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The Berkman Klein Center for Inter

[Gendergap] A List of Female Technology Policy Experts

2016-08-23 Thread Neotarf
When was the last time you saw a woman on stage talking about something other than gender? This list is meant to be "a list of female experts to talk to when assembling panels, researching, or reporting on issues at intersections of technology, the law, privacy, civil liberties, and national

Re: [Gendergap] Marfan syndrome image

2016-08-12 Thread Neotarf
Some comment on Lane Rasberry's "model release" question: first it seems from the supporting essays, the underlying purpose of a "model release" is legal protection for a photographer selling photographs, which wouldn't apply to Commons. The "model" terminology is somehow not quite right for the

Re: [Gendergap] Marfan syndrome image (Neotarf)

2016-08-12 Thread Neotarf
article bothers > me a lot, as she is an almost entirely naked 13 year old girl with an IQ of > 50 according to the research article. I wish that it was not uploaded to > Commons to begin with. Doc James was the user who uploaded according to the > log. I can't find any reason to get it

[Gendergap] Marfan syndrome image

2016-08-05 Thread Neotarf
Would someone look at the copyright issues surrounding the image in Marfan syndrome? This article was mentioned in the Signpost as being worked on in honor of Kevin Gorman. The image shows a pubescent child, partially clothed, apparently during a medical exam. The image was uploaded with a

[Gendergap] the passing of Kevin Gorman

2016-07-30 Thread Neotarf
It breaks my heart that I am not able to post condolences to his talk page. I wanted to say so much about what he did for people behind the scenes, how he kept this forum moderated and open for discussion after arbcom closed down the gender gap project, and how when he talked, the ideas rushed out

[Gendergap] DARVO and harassment tactics

2016-07-05 Thread Neotarf
These are mostly TL:DR and not tailored specifically to online communities, but are mainly valuable for their overviews DARVO "DARVO stands for "Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender." The perpetrator or offender may Deny the behavior, Attack the individual doing the confronting, and

Re: [Gendergap] Ruth Barrett bio

2016-06-27 Thread Neotarf
Speaking of drive-by tagging, is there some reason for the existence of this page about a "game" that encourages tag-spamming of articles about women? It seems there has been some concern about that user's account being compromised as well..

Re: [Gendergap] Ruth Barrett bio

2016-06-27 Thread Neotarf
Interview published yesterday: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/aloneinherpresence/2016/06/interview-ruth-barrett-on-feminism-erasure-and-the-future/#disqus_thread On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 12:46 AM, Kevin Gorman wrote: > You're absolutely correct that the article does not have

[Gendergap] Panel: "We Belong Here: Pushing Back Against Online Harassment"

2016-05-20 Thread Neotarf
Haven't had time to listen to the whole thing yet, but this panel looks promising. Sampling a few sound bites, the speaker at 19:00 is Dr. Michelle Ferrier: "The terrorism that these groups inflict on you is very deep and very powerful and very real, and so literally after three years I...changing

Re: [Gendergap] Defining harassment: the first empirical investigation into the nature of creepiness

2016-05-12 Thread Neotarf
PM, "Nathan" < <nawr...@gmail.com>nawr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> It boils down to "people with aberrant behavior or bearing produce >> anxiety in women." This is drawn from a Facebook survey. It's interesting, >> even if the "study" doesn't

Re: [Gendergap] Study: men who receive harassment training “significantly less likely” to recognize harassment

2016-05-10 Thread Neotarf
requently mandatory. I would add government sector to that list, especially since WP is more and more partnering with government agencies. Neotarf, I'd actually question whether there's any validity to the > *perception* that training works; in fact, there are a lot of studies that > in

[Gendergap] Defining harassment: the first empirical investigation into the nature of creepiness

2016-05-10 Thread Neotarf
A study published in the journal New Ideas in Psychology, unfortunately behind a paywall, reviewed by Dr. NerdLove. [1] Some highlights: *"*So we’re not allowed to give women compliments? – *No, telling a woman how sexy she is isn’t a compliment, especially when you don’t have that level of

Re: [Gendergap] Study: men who receive harassment training “significantly less likely” to recognize harassment

2016-05-04 Thread Neotarf
uture direction of the Project. We need to understand this. On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2...@reagle.org> wrote: > On 05/04/2016 09:24 AM, Neotarf wrote: > > although you would think the Gruniad would not report on something > > that was obviously flawe

[Gendergap] "Danielle Citron speaks at WikiConference USA 2015" transcript posted

2016-05-04 Thread Neotarf
The transcript of law professor Danielle Citron's online harassment speech to Wikiconference USA has been posted to WikiSource: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Danielle_Citron_speaks_at_WikiConference_USA_2015 ___ Gendergap mailing list

Re: [Gendergap] Study: men who receive harassment training “significantly less likely” to recognize harassment

2016-05-04 Thread Neotarf
g those who don't attend with those who do would only make > sense if the attendees were randomly chosen. > > WereSpielChequers > > > On 3 May 2016, at 15:53, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wrote: > > "A study in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science > <http://jab.

[Gendergap] Study: men who receive harassment training “significantly less likely” to recognize harassment

2016-05-03 Thread Neotarf
"A study in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science found men who participated in a university staff sexual harassment programme were “significantly less likely” to see coercive behaviour as sexual harassment."

[Gendergap] Firefighter woman suicide after online harassment

2016-04-30 Thread Neotarf
“I was alarmed and wanted to let the public know that there was this blog out there that was defaming these female firefighters and medics, not only Nicole but others as well.” http://www.statter911.com/2016/04/23/sexist-lurid-online-comments-come-light-fairfax-county-firefighters-suicide/ [The

[Gendergap] Harassment panel video

2016-04-28 Thread Neotarf
>From Berkeley School of Information,"Toward a gender-inclusive internet: countering harassment, revenge porn, threats and online abuse", [1] a panel that was streamed yesterday is now online. Panelists were: Patrick Earley, Sahar Habib Ghazi, Lena Gunn, Leslie Harris, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews,

Re: [Gendergap] Guardian article on cyber harassment

2016-04-19 Thread Neotarf
@Chris, yes that Verge link keeps coming across my screen from various sources, but for some reason I can't seem to get past the first anecdote, if anyone can give a synopsis for the TL:DR challenged. There is a great response to the piece here [1] "Then they throw people at the problem but never

[Gendergap] Guardian article on cyber harassment

2016-04-15 Thread Neotarf
Guardian article "We will look back at cyber-harassment as a disgrace--if we act now", by Danielle Citron. Excerpt: "Whether it is thanks to commercial interests or social responsibility, some online platforms have taken a stand against cyber-harassment. Social media providers, including

Re: [Gendergap] Systematic tagging for deletion of articles created at Art And Feminism editathon

2016-03-31 Thread Neotarf
to find sources for and improve), but many of them >>>>>>>> are >>>>>>>> also legitimately on the notability borderline. At all of the Art and >>>>>>>> Feminism editathons that I've volunteered at, I've discouraged people >>>&

Re: [Gendergap] contents of Gendergap Digest, Vol 62, Issue 10

2016-03-14 Thread Neotarf
There is a lengthy thread about this on Facebook, starting March 12: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/ On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Jacqueline Mabey < jacquel...@failedprojects.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wanted to let you know that we are aware of the anomaly in Regina,

Re: [Gendergap] Intnl Womens Days articles about sexism in Wikipedia

2016-03-09 Thread Neotarf
Wikimedia blog: "The new alchemy: turning online harassment into Wikipedia articles on women scientists" by Ed Erhart http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/08/alchemy-turning-harassment-into-women-scientists/ On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Carol Moore dc wrote: > >

Re: [Gendergap] 2 Rachel Feinsteins confused

2016-03-04 Thread Neotarf
In that case it might be more complicated. The disambiguation guideline for primary topic is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Primary_topic If you go by page views and incoming wikilinks, the comedian would be primary with respect to usage, at least right now, but the

Re: [Gendergap] 2 Rachel Feinsteins confused

2016-03-04 Thread Neotarf
Why is the comedian in the secondary spot? According to the pageview history, this article, "Rachel Feinstein (comedian)", gets more than 200 pageviews a day, so this should be the primary topic, and does not need disambiguation, i.e. "Rachel Feinstein".

[Gendergap] Community council proposal

2016-02-25 Thread Neotarf
I just went back and looked for this--it was proposed a couple of months ago, but got dropped in all the excitement of the last few weeks. I don't think I have to tell anyone on this list how difficult it is for women's voices to be heard, and how having some kind of representation on an elected

[Gendergap] Sumana on codes of conduct

2016-02-22 Thread Neotarf
This may be the article I remember--the part towards the end caught my attention: "The Dangerous Speech Project has gathered typical hallmarks of speech that seems to catalyze just such mass violence and has developed guidelines for analyzing the level of danger posed by a particular turn of

Re: [Gendergap] Signpost op-ed (NSFW)

2016-02-22 Thread Neotarf
@Risker, if your high school student are that benign, perhaps I will move to Canada. On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > Give me a break, Neotarf. I am critiquing the article and the decisions by > its author and its publisher. It doesn't

Re: [Gendergap] Signpost op-ed (NSFW)

2016-02-22 Thread Neotarf
gt;> any Signpost column inspiring so much passion, say, five years ago. Above >>>>> all, I think this constitutes a strong endorsement of the general value of >>>>> the Signpost. >>>>> >>>>> -Pete >>>>> >>>>

[Gendergap] Sumana on codes of conduct

2016-02-22 Thread Neotarf
Some notes from Sumana Harihareswara framing codes of conduct, also on the spectrum of liberty versus hospitality. There is another piece I saw somewhere associated with the Berkman Center, that this group might find useful, that gives a framework for evaluating types of speech. I will try to

[Gendergap] Signpost op-ed (NSFW)

2016-02-21 Thread Neotarf
Op-ed about systemic bias and articles created. Interesting double standard about profanity in the comment section. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-02-17/Op-ed ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To

Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Another goodbye

2016-02-16 Thread Neotarf
This is the third departure of a WMF employee who was involved with the 2015 Inspire Campaign. The other two were Luis Villa [1] and Anna Koval [2]. The response to that ideaLab campaign [3] figured significantly in the program of Wikimania 2015. [4] The Wikimania 2016 schedule for Esino

Re: [Gendergap] Lists of notable deaths of 2015

2016-01-25 Thread Neotarf
ww.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/obituaries/notable-deaths-2014.html > > this is a nice task for newbies, like the 1lib1ref for everyone, just > sprinkling nytimes notability dust throughout. > > cheers. > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 3:51 AM, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com>

Re: [Gendergap] Lists of notable deaths of 2015

2016-01-25 Thread Neotarf
Yes, a bot-driven list would be quite helpful, if for no other reason than being standardized and therefore race- and gender-blind as far as selection criteria. I have just finished compiling a list from the NYT article, and it was very labor intensive just to generate the list, before even

[Gendergap] Lists of notable deaths of 2015

2016-01-19 Thread Neotarf
Links to lists in major news outlets (NYT, BBC, LA TImes, Toronto Star, etc.) along with commentary on gender bias in obits: http://forward.com/sisterhood/330631/for-women-gender-bias-continues-even-in-death/ The three women listed in the article do have WP articles. It would take some

Re: [Gendergap] Women's rights in 2015

2016-01-01 Thread Neotarf
a separate project? On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 9:05 PM, SarahSV <sarahsv.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Neotarf, > > I saw that Smallbones suggested that article on WT:GGTF > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias/Gender_gap_task_for

[Gendergap] Women's rights in 2015

2015-12-31 Thread Neotarf
I notice someone suggested a followup to last year's Women's rights in 2014 article. I was hoping someone would write one, mostly because I don't usually follow these issues, and I found the last one rather informative. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_rights_in_2014 The only gender-related

Re: [Gendergap] Arbcom election

2015-12-02 Thread Neotarf
Something should be said here about the importance of "oppose" votes. Because of the way the votes are counted, oppose votes can have a huge impact on the outcome. Andrew Lih (Fuzheado) also has a very interesting voter guide, and explains "strategic" voting in more detail.

[Gendergap] Voting information RFC

2015-10-27 Thread Neotarf
There is a proposal to inform users about their eligibility to vote in the upcoming Arbitration Committee elections here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Enfranchising_voters_in_arbcom_elections I seem to remember some hard feelings last year when some users

[Gendergap] Voting information RFC (correcting link)

2015-10-27 Thread Neotarf
Sorry, something happened to the link in my previous post. (Crossing fingers) this should be the link to the RFC on arbcom election information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Enfranchising_voters_in_arbcom_elections

Re: [Gendergap] Three hours left to register your account for Arbcom elections

2015-10-27 Thread Neotarf
tion queue > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:BLP_articles_proposed_for_deletion> > you can remove the deletion tag of anything in that queue if you add a > reliable source that references something about the subject of the article. > There are usually a few articles on women

[Gendergap] Three hours left to register your account for Arbcom elections

2015-10-27 Thread Neotarf
Just noticed this voting requirement: "... An editor is *eligible* to vote who:...(i) has registered an account before 28 October 2015" Reading between the lines, I would guess that means before October 27, 23:59 PM UTC (just type "time UTC" into Google).

Re: [Gendergap] Atlantic article..."How Wikipedia is Hostile to Women"

2015-10-25 Thread Neotarf
The Signpost has an article, "Women and Wikipedia, the world s watching" and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-10-21/Editorial and "In the media: Wikipedia's hostility to women" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-10-21/In_the_media On

[Gendergap] Harassment video from India: "Actually your creep isn't even a legit creep"

2015-10-25 Thread Neotarf
In this soft commercial from Bollywood for a match-making app, actresses Shweta Basu Prasad and Mansi Multani face off in a competition to describe the creepiest guy currently stalking them on the internet: "Actually your creep isn't even a legit creep, For my shaadi he is someone my mom would

Re: [Gendergap] Video Q discussing Arbcom and gender/orientation harassment cases

2015-10-22 Thread Neotarf
A transcript of the speech is now available: https://neotarf.wordpress.com/2015/10/23/danielle-citrons-wikicon-online-harassment-speech/ The other links again: https://neotarf.wordpress.com/2015/10/19/danielle-citrons-wikicon-online-harassment-speech-qa/

Re: [Gendergap] Video Q discussing Arbcom and gender/orientation harassment cases

2015-10-22 Thread Neotarf
on Commons. No doubt these will also be processed in due course and magically appear somewhere with all the proper attributions. On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Amanda Menking <amenk...@uw.edu> wrote: > Thank you for doing this work, Neotarf! > > ~Amanda/Mssemantics > > On Oct

Re: [Gendergap] Atlantic article..."How Wikipedia is Hostile toWomen"

2015-10-22 Thread Neotarf
If the editing metrics are still up, could this a reflect a shift in the type of user to coordinated offsite editing. Judging by the huge amount of interest in a certain obscure IdeaLab proposal, we could be looking at a new editing paradigm. On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Kevin Gorman

Re: [Gendergap] Video Q discussing Arbcom and gender/orientation harassment cases

2015-10-19 Thread Neotarf
gt; > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have posted a transcript of the Q portion: >> https://neotarf.wordpress.com/2015/10/19/danielle-citrons-wikicon-online-harassment-speech-qa/ >> and added links to the documents refer

Re: [Gendergap] Video Q discussing Arbcom and gender/orientation harassment cases

2015-10-19 Thread Neotarf
I have posted a transcript of the Q portion: https://neotarf.wordpress.com/2015/10/19/danielle-citrons-wikicon-online-harassment-speech-qa/ and added links to the documents referenced. @Fae thanks for the link, I didn't know you could link to a specific point in a video @J Hayes "cultural

Re: [Gendergap] WP:Harassment finally links to solution for threats!

2015-09-29 Thread Neotarf
Could you post a link to one or two of the discussions, and how they went down? I really need to read something like that right now. On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wro

Re: [Gendergap] WP:Harassment finally links to solution for threats!

2015-09-28 Thread Neotarf
@Risker: "I have a simple question to ask: How many people in this thread have publicly or privately requested to the Wikimedia Foundation ED that additional resources be assigned to trust and safety issues such as death threats?" Answer: 26.

Re: [Gendergap] WP:Harassment finally links to solution for threats!

2015-09-26 Thread Neotarf
@Carol Moore, I believe that link is about suicide threats. Did you mean to link to something else? On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Carol Moore dc wrote: > Because of an offline discussion about the 1000 odd death threats I got > directly through the Wikimedia

Re: [Gendergap] "Harvard students edit Wikipedia in effort to ‘dismantle the patriarchy’ "

2015-09-10 Thread Neotarf
A little quick fact-checking, on the original Crimson article, not the spin-off articles: 1) "Erica X. Eisen ’16, a former Crimson arts chair, beefed up the text on the Wikipedia page on American feminism, deeming it 'too short' and what the site considers a 'stub'...” A quick check of "Feminism

[Gendergap] Another Amazon story

2015-08-27 Thread Neotarf
You can’t claim to be a data-driven company and not release more specific numbers on how many women and people of color apply, get hired and promoted, and stay on as employees. In the absence of meaningful public data — especially retention data — all we have are stories. This is mine.

[Gendergap] The Virginia killings: he says bitch as he aims the weapon at her

2015-08-27 Thread Neotarf
Is there any doubt what this kind of language is for? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIdrUHKkG6Y It's not for a collaborative environment, that's for sure. ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences,

[Gendergap] Amazon petition

2015-08-21 Thread Neotarf
Does anyone know anything about these petition things? I usually ignore them, but this one is...strange. And how is this guy, with a self-published blog and self-published books, notable enough for a WP article, when a list of black PhD's gets deleted?

[Gendergap] What on earth is second generation gender bias?

2015-08-18 Thread Neotarf
For anyone who has a hard time keeping up with current permutations of gender theory, the* Harvard Business Review* has a useful explanation of What Is Second-Generation Gender Bias? in this article side box. An excerpt: Research has moved away from a focus on the deliberate exclusion of women

Re: [Gendergap] Research: men who harass women online

2015-07-24 Thread Neotarf
and statistical analysis doesn't correspond to the experience women players may have. That is, I believe, if we excluded 5% of the most awful people online as outliers, the Net would be lovely! [1]: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0131613 On 07/22/2015 10:02 PM, Neotarf

Re: [Gendergap] sexual harassment policy for English Wikipedia

2015-07-24 Thread Neotarf
I addressed these issues in my proposal at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Comprehensive_harassment_and_privacy_policy Sexual harassment policy has been around for a good 30 years or so and by now is pretty much boilerplate stuff. Every company has something, whether they have new

Re: [Gendergap] Semi-retirement retirement

2015-07-02 Thread Neotarf
LB, if you don't want to answer this question it's totally understandable, but I hope the WMF has offered you legal assistance with the situation you had off-wiki. It happened because you are a woman and it happened because you edit Wikipedia. Unless it is dealt with, it could easily happen to

[Gendergap] Silencing women

2015-06-23 Thread Neotarf
Got a RS for this now: In this environment, revenge pornography and other abusive behaviour, like trolling, constitute a kind of gendered hate speech – designed to silence women and other gender, sexual and racial minorities...Trolling tells women (and others) that the digital space, a communal

Re: [Gendergap] Retired

2015-05-26 Thread Neotarf
Totally understandable. I too have also been sexually harassed and doxxed, on at least two other sites besides WP. The ArbCom and the WMF are well aware of it, and have been unwilling to lift a finger against it. There is a book about cyber harassment making the rounds: Hate Crimes in

Re: [Gendergap] Retired

2015-05-26 Thread Neotarf
/Grants:IdeaLab/Community_discussion_on_harassment_reporting Instead we now have the English Wikipedia's Arbcom taking on their third or fourth sexual harassment within the year, without having even established a working definition of what it is. On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:06 AM, Neotarf neot...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Gendergap] Article: Wikipedia trolls now vs. women architects

2015-04-17 Thread Neotarf
Does anyone know what's going on with the Spanish Wikipedia? The last two articles I created, of Laxmi_Aggarwal and Maha Al Muneef--women who have been awarded the International Women of Courage Award--have been nominated for speedy deletion as not being encyclopedic. See my talk page

[Gendergap] Sexual harassment proposal

2015-03-31 Thread Neotarf
welcome, or feel free to email me with any private suggestions. Regards, Neotarf ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

[Gendergap] Metrics

2015-03-29 Thread Neotarf
It is perhaps a truism that if you want to concentrate on fixing something (i.e., gendergap) , first you need to measure it. Has anyone looked at the Inspire grant proposals to see if any of them include metrics? So far, we have the 2008 survey, conducted by UN University in Maastrict

Re: [Gendergap] Sorted by category... Progress of Inspire Grants – Gender gap campaign

2015-03-29 Thread Neotarf
There were several proposals made before the Inspire campaign was officially announced, but most of them have now been included in the campaign. Still missing is: Grants:IdeaLab/Code of conduct synchronization

Re: [Gendergap] A path back for day-two editors (was: Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 mini-conferenceh for te project's 14th birthday)

2015-03-28 Thread Neotarf
Someone should ping Kevin Gorman on this, I believe he knows of some research. Does anyone know about his health? Is he able to respond? On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Christine. There is good work being done as learning has taken

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