Re: [Gendergap] Oh man, I feel like a woman ...

2014-06-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
chological warfare, and is kind-of like a 2013 modernisation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged . Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Freecell Solver - http://fc-solve.shlomifish.o

Re: [Gendergap] A reason to celebrate

2014-06-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
and then gives my interpretation and conclusions: * https://plus.google.com/+ShlomiFish/posts/dDJwvtcGE5N * /r/buffy discussion - http://www.reddit.com/r/buffy/comments/28ixp6/buffy_is_not_a_nobody_she_is_buffy_the_vampire/ Stay cool and smashing and bec

Re: [Gendergap] A reason to celebrate

2014-06-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
hem. > Many thanks for your work on it. Here's a photo of a kitten whom I found very cute as a token of my appreciation: * http://imgur.com/NmQOgTH Love you (♥)! Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----- Shlomi Fish http:/

Re: [Gendergap] Blogger and Wikipedian Adrianne Wadewitz died while rock-climbing

2014-04-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
nne-wadewitz/ > I'm terribly sorry to hear that. My condolences go to whoever knew her - online or in real life. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Optimising Code for Spe

Re: [Gendergap] WikiProject Women artists has launched

2014-01-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
s no such explanation on that page, but by the time my message was accepted into delivery (and you replied), it was added. > If someone wants to start Wikiproject women writers, women actresses, women > farmers, Wikiproject women musicians go for it. > OK. :-) Regards,

Re: [Gendergap] WikiProject Women artists has launched

2013-12-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
reading the description, is which kind of artists it encompasses. Is it limited to art like painting, sculpting, computer graphics, animation, or does it also encompass art such as music, creative writing, acting[1], etc.? Can you please clarify your intentions on the page? Regards, S

Re: [Gendergap] coverage of women philosophers on ENWP

2013-08-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
of women philosophers is very sketchy, so I probably won't be able to help much, but I wish you good luck. Regards, Shlomi Fish > Thanks, > Kevin Gorman > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kevin_Gor

Re: [Gendergap] Liz Henry on women novelists, English Wikipedia, and labelling

2013-04-29 Thread Shlomi Fish
iki/Grammatical_gender (male, female, and sometimes also neuter), including for inanimate objects. So it's not the "rest of the world" - it's only the American English-speaking Feminist-influenced media. Regards, Shlomi Fish > > Ryan Kaldari > -- ---

Re: [Gendergap] Liz Henry on women novelists, English Wikipedia, and labelling

2013-04-26 Thread Shlomi Fish
sunderstanding in the media about it. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- --------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Interview with Ben Collins-Sussman - http://shlom.in/sussman Absolutely. Also: a German dog barks “wau” and a cat

Re: [Gendergap] the results of an editathon at an all women's cooperative in Berkeley

2013-04-10 Thread Shlomi Fish
arch/004518.html * http://www.flickr.com/photos/shlomif/sets/72157633111982891/ Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Perl Humour - http://perl-begin.org/humour/ Emacs is a nice operating sys

Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement *please read*

2013-04-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:17:30 +0300 Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all, > > On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:01:54 -0400 > Carol Moore DC wrote: > > > (Kiddie porn and Network/Cable and internet porn depicting torturers and > > cannibals at play, especially on fema

Re: [Gendergap] I f***ing love science

2013-04-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
her as Asian in one of the Harry Potter films. Regards, Shlomi Fish > On 03/30/2013 03:52 AM, Jane Darnell wrote: > > Did anyone see this? A popular blogger on Science (with more than 4 > > million followers) is a woman. The woman herself, Elise Andrew, had no > &

Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement *please read*

2013-03-29 Thread Shlomi Fish
cles. Their argument, as given by the first two, was that if the world were perfect, it could not improve and so would lack "true perfection," which depends on progress. >>>> Regards, Shlomi Fish -- -

Re: [Gendergap] Please welcome Liz Kent Leon, our new co-moderator

2013-03-29 Thread Shlomi Fish
dies Email > List and brings her experience from that list with her to help > co-moderate Gender Gap-L. > > Welcome co-moderator Liz, and thank you for volunteering. > Welcome aboard, Liz, and thanks for volunteering. What is Liz's Wikimedia projects' user pages? Rega

Re: [Gendergap] Relevant Post “About Female Action Heroes” + Thoughts about empowering women and youth

2013-03-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Ryan, thanks for your E-mail. On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:13:41 -0700 Ryan Kaldari wrote: > On 3/24/13 6:32 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > And all that while not depriving themselves of sexuality and sexiness among > > members of the appropriate sexes (MOTAS), in part because

[Gendergap] Relevant Post “About Female Action Heroes” + Thoughts about empowering women and youth

2013-03-24 Thread Shlomi Fish
lity as it hopefully will become, rather than as I or other people perceive it and take it forward towards better perfection.”. Moreover, I also would rather err on naïvety than on cynicism. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi

Re: [Gendergap] presentation about MediaWiki's participation in Outreach Program for Women

2013-02-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:28:18 +0200 Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Adam, > > thanks for your kind words. Please see below for my response. > > > > > As for your guidelines to persistent engagement, is there a web page where > > you explain in more detail? I f

Re: [Gendergap] presentation about MediaWiki's participation in Outreach Program for Women

2013-02-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Adam, thanks for your kind words. Please see below for my response. On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:12:32 -0800 s...@ludd.net wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 08:29:22AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > On Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:03:11 -0500 > > Sumana Harihareswara wrote: &

Re: [Gendergap] presentation about MediaWiki's participation in Outreach Program for Women

2013-02-10 Thread Shlomi Fish
nk we should change the templates on wikipedia to read something more like “Please find citations from reliable sources for this article.” instead of the much less constructive and more frightening “This article lacks citations from reliable sources. It may be challenged and removed.”. Does anyone a

Re: [Gendergap] Self-introduction

2013-02-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Sumana, welcome aboard. Thanks for your posts - I hope to read them soon. Regards, Mr. Shlomi Fish ( שלומי פיש ) -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ My Favourite FOSS - http://www.shlomifish.org/open

Re: [Gendergap] How Collective Power can be abused on Wikimedia Projects

2013-02-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
oing things “quick” in order to save time, and being an inconsiderate and short-term thinking bastard (see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_a_dick ). Regards, Shlomi Fish > rupert. > > > On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi Ole,

Re: [Gendergap] How Collective Power can be abused on Wikimedia Projects

2013-02-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
to take over the world by mentioning my name on Wikimedia-related resources. Thanks again. Regards, Shlomi Fish > you wrote a solver for black hole solitaire. then you create a > wikipedia article about black hole solitaire, mentioning your name and > your software in it

Re: [Gendergap] How Collective Power can be abused on Wikimedia Projects

2013-02-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
re a lot more work of organisation, cleanup and finding good links and references. Also related is: * http://unarmed.shlomifish.org/909.html (“Dealing with Internet Trolls [= more like flamers or people passing criticism] - the Cognitive Thearpy Approach”). Regards, Shlomi Fish > >

[Gendergap] How Collective Power can be abused on Wikimedia Projects

2013-02-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
in between is also an art. And that we should treat the people who are trying to help us like human beings, not like machines that emit streams of characters, because they are much more than that. Sorry that this message was so long. Comments are welcome. Sincerely yours, Shlomi Fish -- ---

Re: [Gendergap] [Press] The women of Wikipedia: Closing the site's giant gender gap

2013-01-24 Thread Shlomi Fish
these interviews that feature selected quotes from the interviewees with a lot of interpretation and background facts, and prefer those that contain a transcript of the entire text of the Questions and Answers, but this one was not too bad, and it s

Re: [Gendergap] [New Blog] Let’s throw more Wikipedia editing parties by Siko (yes!!)

2013-01-24 Thread Shlomi Fish
on an Israeli open-source-related forum/cause/etc. on Facebook, about how to use IRC and connect to Freenode, and doing it face to face may alleviate some of this. Regards, Shlomi Fish > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Leigh Honeywell wrote: > > > This is an awesome idea. J

[Gendergap] [OT] Princess Bride Misquote [was Re: Gendergap Digest, Vol 16, Issue 12]

2012-05-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
do not think it means what you think it means. >>> which is better than the caption in the meme photo (in my opinion). The meme photo is a photo of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandy_Patinkin playing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inigo_Montoya in the film. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- --

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

2012-04-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Gillian, thanks for the write-up. I enjoyed reading it. I don't have anything particular to comment about it unfortunately. Regards, Shlomi Fish On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 17:47:45 +1000 Gillian White wrote: > Hello all, > > > Following on from recent WP editing worksh

Re: [Gendergap] Giving Women the Access Code

2012-04-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
ing, counter-intuitive (at least for me) and/or difficult (I still have a trauma from Maxwell’s Equations). I've contemplated getting a post-graduate degree, but I've been thinking of getting one in Linguistics instead of in something more technical. However, I'm a little afraid of

Re: [Gendergap] Updating wikimedia Gender Gap page

2012-02-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
stead, compose a new message to gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org or whatever is the mailing list's address. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Understand what Open Source is - http://shlom

Re: [Gendergap] unsubsribe

2011-08-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
ing list > > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Funny Anti-Terrorism Story - http://shlom

Re: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

2011-08-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
ord, I am a heterosexual male, who opposes censoring pornography, erotica, partial pornography, etc. of all kinds[Censorship], but think there are contexts where they are inappropriate. Regards, Shlomi Fish [Censorship] - in fact, I would argue that such calls for censorship undermine a

Re: [Gendergap] FW: Proposal: Forking gendergap: Main list for women and transgender, sublist for male supporters

2011-08-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
ical forking which tended to make discussions less interesting, but I think it doubly holds for target audience forking. Regarding the "Don't be a dick" article - I've skimmed it and found it offensive (even though or because I'm classified according to all of the above

Re: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

2011-05-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
ord, I am a heterosexual male, who opposes censoring pornography, erotica, partial pornography, etc. of all kinds[Censorship], but think there are contexts where they are inappropriate. Regards, Shlomi Fish [Censorship] - in fact, I would argue that such calls for censorship undermine a

Re: [Gendergap] A: a way to encourage new female editors

2011-03-30 Thread Shlomi Fish
of programming shops, or alternatively as a low-cost alternative to Perforce and similar version control systems for developing games, which have huge binary data files in version control (even the kdegames package, which are a far cry from most popular commercial games, have been debati

[Gendergap] Q: How can we encourage people to contribute even when they are "busy"?

2011-03-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
So I think we should brainstorm ways to make people like that young Pakistani (both men, but especially many women from my impression) try to contribute to Wikimedia projects, Wikia wikis, etc. and other such projects as extra- corricular activities. What kind of arguments can we use? ====

Re: [Gendergap] Manifesto

2011-03-25 Thread Shlomi Fish
r of English, and have been studying and communicating in English for many years now, and I wasn't familiar with the word "permeate" and could only guess it from its context: * http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/permeate Perhaps it should be replaced with a synonym.

Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: [Press] : The Hindustan Times ( Kolkata edition) : "Wiki wants Women"

2011-03-22 Thread Shlomi Fish
ease note that the article was written by journo ( err... journalist) > from the media publication and not me. > Yes, I know that. I was not accusing you. They are likely too clueless to tell that it was a mistake. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ---

Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: [Press] : The Hindustan Times ( Kolkata edition) : "Wiki wants Women"

2011-03-22 Thread Shlomi Fish
ul shorthand for "Wikipedia" on IRC/IM/etc. but not simply "Wiki". This kind of mental sloppiness always makes me think that the person who say that is an idiot. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish h

Re: [Gendergap] Wikipedia tshirt

2011-03-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
eview - you should use a version with higher resolution. Regards, Shlomi Fish ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shlomif ). -- ----- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris/etc. Facts - http://www.shlomifish