[Gendergap] [For review] The results of Community Reporting System research are ready

2021-06-23 Thread Sydney Poore
osting a link to the report, or translating the report into your language. You can discuss the results or raise questions on Meta or by contacting communityhealt...@wikimedia.org. Warm regards, Sydney -- Sydney Poore (she/her) Senior Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Trust and Safety team Sydney

Re: [Gendergap] In memory of User:Danveg

2017-01-02 Thread Sydney Poore
Hi Tsipi and Michal, Thank you for letting know. I'm sorry for your loss. I'll pass on the idea of editing article about transgender issues in her memory. Warm regards, Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Co-founder Kentucky Wikimedians, Co-founder WikiWomen User Group, Co-founder WikiConference

[Gendergap] Fwd: [Affiliates] AffCom call for new members

2016-12-17 Thread Sydney Poore
For your consideration. It is important to have more diversity in membership of the committee and those giving feedback about the nominees. Sydney -- Forwarded message -- From: "Maor Malul" <mao...@zoho.com> Date: Dec 17, 2016 11:44 AM Subject: [Affiliates] Aff

[Gendergap] Fwd: [hifa] Are there gender differences in access and use of digital health tech?

2016-12-06 Thread Sydney Poore
Thought would be of interest. Sydney -- Forwarded message -- From: "Amy Lee, USA" <amy@jhu.edu> Date: Dec 6, 2016 1:21 AM Subject: [hifa] Are there gender differences in access and use of digital health tech? To: "HIFA - Healthcare Information For All&q

[Gendergap] August 31 Final day to submit program sessions at WikiConference North America

2016-08-30 Thread Sydney Poore
on this mailing list. But we welcome more submissions about increasing participation in Wikimedia projects. Sydney Poore User:FloNight WikiConference North America https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2016/Main_Page Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sydney.e.poore

[Gendergap] WikiConference North America

2016-08-16 Thread Sydney Poore
for academic submissions at https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Call_for_Academic_Presentations. - Sydney Poore (User:FloNight) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (User:Rosiestep), conference organizers ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage

[Gendergap] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Rapid Grants

2016-05-18 Thread Sydney Poore
Sharing the announcement about the new WMF Rapid Grants Program. Go forth and use it to decrease the gender gap! Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wiki Project Med Foundation WikiWomen's User Group Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sydney.e.poore -- Forwarded message -- From: Alex Wang

Re: [Gendergap] Sharing knowledge about notable women from the Central and Eastern Europe

2016-05-05 Thread Sydney Poore
Natalia, That's fantastic to hear. Makes my heart happy. <3 Sydney On May 5, 2016 4:07 PM, "Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska" <antyte...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm not sure if you know the CEE Spring 2016 project. It is an article > writing contest held on 29

[Gendergap] Katy Love promoted to Director of Community Resources

2016-02-26 Thread Sydney Poore
nts programs in order to develop methods to engage more women. https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-February/082499.html https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:KLove_(WMF) Warn regards, Sydney Poore User:FloNight ___ Gendergap mailing l

[Gendergap] Lila Tretikov's resignation, Executive Director search

2016-02-25 Thread Sydney Poore
-l/2016-February/082472.html Sydney Poore User:FloNight ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

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

2016-02-23 Thread Sydney Poore
Rob, Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I think it is a good recap of the situation and I support your overall thinking. Warm regards, Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Rob <gamali...@gmail.com>

Re: [Gendergap] Nice presentation by FloNight on the Cochrane initiative

2015-10-10 Thread Sydney Poore
Thank you, Jane. I agree that reaching out to people in other languages is important to see if we can run the update bot. There are more talks today live or later on video that are focused on the gender gap.The talks have been really good. Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian

Re: [Gendergap] Meeting at the Wikiconference?

2015-10-05 Thread Sydney Poore
Looking forward to seeing you there. On Oct 5, 2015 8:00 PM, "Francesca Tripodi" wrote: > Hello list members! > > I am not sure if any of you are planning on attending the upcoming > conference in DC but it would be wonderful we we could organize a meet up > for those who

[Gendergap] Fwd: [Publicpolicy] Introducing the public policy site

2015-09-02 Thread Sydney Poore
This is significant since good public policy work can make easier for all women around the world to have access to Wikipedia to read and edit, to have less concerns about censorship, and to protect the privacy of women who want to edit on controversial topics. Sydney Poore User:FloNight

Re: [Gendergap] Women's health articles

2015-05-30 Thread Sydney Poore
Thank you, Ryan. Sydney On May 29, 2015 9:32 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: Since the WikiProject proposal got a lot of positive feedback, I've gone ahead and created the page for the WikiProject here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women's_health It's

Re: [Gendergap] Women's health articles

2015-05-14 Thread Sydney Poore
Set it up and sign me up, too. Sydney On May 14, 2015 8:39 PM, keilanawiki keilanaw...@gmail.com wrote: Let's do it - I'm happy to help set it up! :) Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device Original message From: Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org Date:05/14/2015 1:23 PM

Re: [Gendergap] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees (Carol Mooredc)

2015-05-06 Thread Sydney Poore
perpetuates the problem by continuing to treat that group differently. It's sad but not surprising to know that some people feel so strongly about it that they would attempt to sabotage an on campus event. Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Wed

Re: [Gendergap] Women reluctant to comment online - any relation to the WP gender gap?

2015-05-03 Thread Sydney Poore
moderated trolling comments had higher participate by women than most news comment areas. Sydney On May 2, 2015 8:05 PM, Kerry Raymond kerry.raym...@gmail.com wrote: Could this provide any insights into women contributing to Wikipedia? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/23

[Gendergap] Fwd:WVU Gender Wikipedian in Residence for Inspire Campaign

2015-04-18 Thread Sydney Poore
-- Forwarded message -- From: Carroll Wilkinson cwilk...@wvu.edu Date: Apr 18, 2015 7:33 AM Subject: Rejected email To: Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com Cc: Hello - Sydney's observation recently that I would appreciate comments on my proposal to get a Wikipedian in Residence

Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: [wikimedia-dc-internal] Wikipedian-in-Residence at West Virginia University Libraries

2015-04-16 Thread Sydney Poore
/Wikipedian_in_Residence_for_Gender_Equity Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Cool! -- Forwarded message -- From: Kirill Lokshin kirill.loks...@wikimediadc.org Date: Thu

Re: [Gendergap] Wikipedia and Feminism.

2015-04-09 Thread Sydney Poore
members of the community and need special scrutiny to keep them from ruining content. This is exactly the type of attitude that makes Wikipedia an unwelcoming place for people who are not part of the dominant demographic group or are newcomers with enthusiasm for improving Wikipedia. Sydney

Re: [Gendergap] Wikipedia and Feminism.

2015-04-09 Thread Sydney Poore
there is simply no way that Wikipedia's content can be neutral without a large and inclusive body of people creating it. Warm regards, Sydney Poore User:FloNight On Apr 9, 2015 10:27 AM, Lukas Mezger (Wikipedia) lukas.mez...@wikipedia.de wrote: Dear readers of the gender gap mailing list, My

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

2015-03-26 Thread Sydney Poore
are automatically helping the gender gap. They see this aspect as an added benefit of our collaboration. Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Christine Meyer christinewme...@gmail.com wrote: Kerry and all, I've

Re: [Gendergap] Progress of Inspire Grants – Gender gap campaign

2015-03-23 Thread Sydney Poore
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire Main page for campaign. Sydney On Mar 23, 2015 8:07 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: Would someone like to summarize how the campaign is doing now it is (presumably) half way through? From the IdeaLab page[1] there is a week left before

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] Computational Linguistics Reveals How Wikipedia Articles Are Biased Against Women

2015-02-04 Thread Sydney Poore
. It can happen the other way too, but I think there is still more of a a bias towards thinking woman who are notable are daughters or wives of notable men and looking for that link. So, I encourage everyone to look for the link both ways equally. Sydney On Feb 4, 2015 7:07 PM, WereSpielChequers

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] press coverage of Gamergate arbcom case

2015-01-25 Thread Sydney Poore
that they are doing in the face of the harassment and negative publicity in the media. Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: I am now on digest mode with this mailing list. The traffic

Re: [Gendergap] FYI - another trolling? Fwd: Google Groups: You've been added to Wikimedia-l

2015-01-09 Thread Sydney Poore
yes, I've been subscribed several time to it over the past few days. Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Another trolling I think. A Wikimedia Lesbians group this time

[Gendergap] Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Wikimedia Research showcase – October 15 2014, 11.30 PT

2014-10-15 Thread Sydney Poore
Reminder about the Research Showcase today that has an discussion of *Emotions under Discussion: Gender, Status and Communication in Wikipedia.* Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration -- Forwarded message -- From: Dario Taraborelli dtarabore

[Gendergap] The Insane Double Standard for Women Working in Tech

2014-09-09 Thread Sydney Poore
This article is interesting and relevant to the gender gap issue on Wikipedia. Sydney The Insane Double Standard for Women Working in Tech http://www.inc.com/kimberly-weisul/insane-double-standard-for-tech-women.html ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] The Insane Double Standard for Women Working in Tech

2014-09-09 Thread Sydney Poore
Here is a better article about in Fortune. http://fortune.com/2014/08/26/performance-review-gender-bias/ Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote: This article is interesting

Re: [Gendergap] Hi Gender Gap list

2014-07-24 Thread Sydney Poore
Welcome, Georgia. :-) Looks interesting. I'll be sure to check it all out. Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Georgia Guthrie geor...@thehacktory.org wrote: Hi there, I'm messaging from Philadelphia, where

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

2014-07-07 Thread Sydney Poore
) banning people very engaged in the community rarely causes them to go away. Sydney n Jul 7, 2014 3:20 AM, Marie Earley eir...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Risker / Anne, In response to the points you raise: * A panel suggests a group of people who discuss and decide things, it wouldn't be that, it would

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

2014-07-03 Thread Sydney Poore
policy on a global community where cultural norms differ at great deal. So, we need to be careful that an attempt to assist one group of users does not make it harder for other groups of people who are also under represented on Wikipedia English. Sydney Sydney Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight

Re: [Gendergap] A cautionary tale

2014-06-23 Thread Sydney Poore
productive than the average discussion on Wikipedia. Sydney On Jun 23, 2014 2:19 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Derric Atzrott datzr...@alizeepathology.com wrote: * bring back Wikipedia:Wikiquette_assistance since women may not want to got

Re: [Gendergap] A reason to celebrate

2014-06-09 Thread Sydney Poore
I truly appreciate your work on this and related articles. They stand out as an example of the high quality of work that Wikipedians can produce. Warm regards, Sydney On Jun 9, 2014 1:16 AM, Christine Meyer christinewme...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Yes, I'm responsible for the Angelou article

[Gendergap] Asking for volunteers to help assess the WMF FDC Proposal.

2014-04-11 Thread Sydney Poore
. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2 Warm regards, Sydney Poore User:FloNight Member of FDC -- Forwarded message -- From: Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org Date: Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:05 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] WMF FDC Proposal: we invite your

Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: Edit-a-thon for editing articles on violence against women

2013-12-04 Thread Sydney Poore
Hi there Rohini, This sounds like a great idea. I plan to participate too remotely. And I'll be happy to be a resource to help people figure out if specific content meets the content policy and guidelines on Wikipedia English. Or help them to rewrite it so that it does. Warm regards, Sydney Poore

[Gendergap] Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Join the inaugural Wiki Research Hackathon on November 9

2013-10-25 Thread Sydney
FYI Begin forwarded message: From: Dario Taraborelli dtarabore...@wikimedia.org Date: October 25, 2013, 13:55:05 EDT To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org, A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in

Re: [Gendergap] Review of WMF proposals

2013-10-22 Thread Sydney
. So the involvement of volunteers is key to getting this done in a meaningful and timely way. Regards, Sydney Sent from my iPhone On Oct 22, 2013, at 13:38, trueself56 . truesel...@gmail.com wrote: I reviewed some of the proposals that have been submitted for funding from the aspects

Re: [Gendergap] Renewing gender gap conversations on meta

2013-10-17 Thread Sydney Poore
of this thread. One of the key discussion will be the name of the group. So everyone put their thinking caps on so we can make this decision within the next month of so. Sydney Poore On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Sydney sydney.po

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

2013-09-05 Thread Sydney
, support giving a living person a voice in deciding. and I see no harm in using the gender pronouns and name that they prefer. Hope that helps explain why using re-directs is not the first way editors think to resolve this and other similar disputes. Sydney Poore User:FloNight Sent from my

Re: [Gendergap] Chemical Heritage Foundation's new Wikipedian in Residence

2013-04-30 Thread Sydney Poore
Very awesome news!! Sydney On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote: It's official! The Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has a Wikipedian in Residence...and it's a woman! They told me it's official, and encouraged me to share

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

2013-03-30 Thread Sydney Poore
Thank you Liz for volunteering for the extra job. Sydney Poore User:FloNight On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote: Hi everyone, Please welcome Liz Kent Leon, our new co-moderator of the gender gap list. Liz is a librarian at Sweet Brian College

Re: [Gendergap] Final WikiWomen's Collaborative post + end of my fellowship

2013-01-28 Thread Sydney Poore
in the next year!! Warm regards, Sydney On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to share my report about the WikiWomen's Collaborative with you. It's a project I developed as a way to engage and build community around experienced

Re: [Gendergap] Wikipedia Women Workshop in Mumbai Report

2012-11-05 Thread Sydney Poore
Krutikaa, Congratulations. I'm thrilled to hear that the workshop went well. Sydney Poore User:FloNight On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Krutikaa Jawanjal krutika...@gmail.comwrote: A Day Spent well. The Wikipedia Women Workshop which took place on November, 4th 2012 in Vidyalankar

Re: [Gendergap] Maya Angelou

2012-08-01 Thread Sydney Poore
Christine, that's truly awesome. :-) I've watched you working on the Maya Angelou topic for years now, and thrilled to see that you've got her biography to FA. It will be fantastic for her article to be on the main page on her birthday as a feature article! Sydney User:FloNight On Wed, Aug 1

Re: [Gendergap] Surplus women and World War I

2012-06-20 Thread Sydney Poore
Very pleased to see this come out of that Editathon. :-) Sydney Poore User:FloNight On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.comwrote: Dear all, Just wanted to let you know about some interesting contributions to the Wikimedia article gender balance from

Re: [Gendergap] what follows from most editors do not gender-identify

2012-06-18 Thread Sydney Poore
this in the past and found them very approachable and more than willing to listen to ideas. Sydney Poore User:FloNight On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:52 AM, koltzenb...@w4w.net wrote: Sarah, thanks I am focusing my energy on taking action versus research investment. fair enough, the versus reads

Re: [Gendergap] The Dell Summit

2012-05-13 Thread Sydney Poore
some aspects of the situation. IIRC, independent and me, Sue came up with similar thinking that she posted somewhere during Strategic Planning process several years back. Sydney Poore On May 12, 2012 11:01 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure what this has to do with Wikis, but its

Re: [Gendergap] Commons Searches

2011-10-13 Thread Sydney Poore
The first hit is a gallery page. From Wikipedia articles we link to Commons and limit it to galleries images if one exists. But with searches all the images show up. Sydney On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.orgwrote: ** One easy way to fix all of these searches

Re: [Gendergap] washington dc

2011-10-07 Thread Sydney Poore
. People take into account an users past history when they vote for steward or WMF Board members. So, I don't have a problem with someone raising a concern about it in this situation. Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikimedia chapters are not beholden to one specific project. There are hundreds

Re: [Gendergap] washington dc

2011-10-07 Thread Sydney Poore
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: I am saying that you are questioning the decision of an independent body to select a person for membership in the same way that he questioned the WMF

Re: [Gendergap] WikiSym best papers

2011-09-22 Thread Sydney Poore
/ The conference proceedings full papers are not yet available, but when they are I will be sure to send them along. it's so exciting to see great research in this area! congratulations to the authors. -- phoebe Excellent news :-) Sydney ___ Gendergap mailing

Re: [Gendergap] Question for the Foundation about photographs

2011-09-20 Thread Sydney Poore
Thank you for pointing this out, Jutta, and your reply,Lennart. I see this area of improvement as being critical to participation of non-tech minded people. Sydney Poore On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Lennart Guldbrandsson l_guldbrands...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, Thanks

Re: [Gendergap] Kelly Wearstler

2011-09-18 Thread Sydney Poore
remember where. I see that Scott McDonald fixed the article. Scott McDonald rewrites BLP articles to make them adhere to NPOV especially when undue weight is an issue. So he is a good person to ask for help with difficult case if he is active. Sydney Poore User:FloNight

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

2011-09-17 Thread Sydney Poore
I requested the name change for Boobies.jpg today, and was pleased to see that Mattbuck did it quickly. :-) Sydney On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 10:51 PM, The Richardsons dons...@optonline.netwrote: On 9/17/2011 3:00 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote: The choices are really mediocre for the neckline

Re: [Gendergap] Wikiquotes

2011-09-15 Thread Sydney Poore
their published works to Wikisource, and an entry on Wikiquote with good quotes. It is a very efficient way to do it. I've done it in the past for a few people. It is a great way to meet new people on the other projects. Sydney On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote

[Gendergap] Sexual Harassment in Online Communications: Effects of Gender and Discourse Medium

2011-09-14 Thread Sydney Poore
shouldn't generalize this to all people of a gender, but it is worth remembering that at least some women are more uncomfortable with some types of humor and images. Sydney ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Gendergap] Other women's wiki's

2011-09-14 Thread Sydney Poore
I'm creating account on these two wikis to better understand ways that these wikis function since they have more women, and were created more recently than WMF projects. Sydney Poore User:FloNight On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote: These are two

Re: [Gendergap] Consent for photographs on Commons

2011-09-14 Thread Sydney Poore
are discussing the images by citing policy, and admins are closing them with consensus. I know that there has been division about this in the past, but if people use the consent template as you have written it, I think that everything will be fine. Sydney User:FloNight

Re: [Gendergap] CBC Radio on Wikipedia's Gender Gap

2011-09-13 Thread Sydney Poore
in reading the research on the topic, and discussing it. Sydney Poore User:FloNight ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] So this is how Commons works?

2011-09-12 Thread Sydney Poore
discussions so that we get a more globally representative view of what is appropriate for Commons to have on site. Sydney ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] So this is how Commons works?

2011-09-12 Thread Sydney Poore
part of the problems with the images on Commons. Sydney Poore On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 05:17, Arnaud HERVE arnaudhe...@x-mail.net wrote: IMO, the policies need to be tweaked so that admins like him will have better policy

Re: [Gendergap] So this is how Commons works?

2011-09-12 Thread Sydney Poore
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Arnaud HERVE arnaudhe...@x-mail.netwrote: On 12/09/2011 12:18, Sydney Poore wrote: If you look at the full body of his work, this admin truly is trying to follow policy and the customs of Commons and WMF projects in general. Well I might have been too

Re: [Gendergap] So this is how Commons works?

2011-09-12 Thread Sydney Poore
speech, and who will be better able to make more balanced decisions when we must weigh all the differing ideals and ethical considerations. There are some essays around, I think. Read one recently about hosting images of people. Another one would be good on the topic of voyeurism. Sydney On Mon, Sep

Re: [Gendergap] Resolution:Images of identifiable people

2011-09-12 Thread Sydney Poore
practices. Sydney Poore User:FloNight ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Photos of girl-friends

2011-09-12 Thread Sydney Poore
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Arnaud HERVE arnaudhe...@x-mail.netwrote: On 12/09/2011 13:45, Sydney Poore wrote: No, not really. The assumption is toward the uploader having the appropriate permission if it appears to be an amateur image and it has not obvious signs of being a copyright

Re: [Gendergap] So this is how Commons works?

2011-09-11 Thread Sydney Poore
it was done in the name of education and it is wrong for us to do it now. Sydney Poore User:FloNight On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote: This is a NSFW photo http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Korean_Vulva2.jpg Five

Re: [Gendergap] Pregnancy article lead-image RFC

2011-09-07 Thread Sydney Poore
year old breast/nude/buttock etc. is more appropriate for an article. Hope that also engenders a good laugh Carol in dc There have been groups of women who have done to fund raise. Calenders usually. We need to find some of them which would be notable and worth writing about. Sydney

Re: [Gendergap] Pregnancy article lead-image RFC

2011-09-07 Thread Sydney Poore
, then in maintaining them on the pages. Yes, I remember this, too. Sydney ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Nudity vs Islam in Western Europe

2011-09-07 Thread Sydney Poore
. As I mentioned in another thread today, there can be vastly differing opinions among feminists about issues related to sexually topics. Sydney ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Gendergap] Nudity vs Islam in Western Europe

2011-09-07 Thread Sydney Poore
work on this and bringing it to our attention. Sydney User:FloNight ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] High-heeled shoes as a case study

2011-09-05 Thread Sydney Poore
other images of Amber. Including one with the original description You guys can get as ruff as you like. I promise I won't break!! bye for now, Amber http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teen_in_tank_top_and_cut-offs.jpg Sydney ___ Gendergap mailing

Re: [Gendergap] High-heeled shoes as a case study

2011-09-04 Thread Sydney Poore
seem appropriate. This is getting off topic from the core mission of the email list, so if you want more detailed help drop me an email. Sydney User:FloNight Regarding your Flickr question: Whether the account is deleted or not doesn't usually change whether or not the picture is in scope

Re: [Gendergap] High-heeled shoes as a case study

2011-09-04 Thread Sydney Poore
that is promotes an inclusive editing environment. Sydney On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Toby Hudson tob...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sarah, The principle of least surprise is roughly the following: People who go to a category/gallery/encyclopedia-article expecting something (shoes) should

Re: [Gendergap] Females and underrepresented students coming onboard

2011-09-04 Thread Sydney Poore
Thank you Karen for letting us know that you are inviting your students to the mailing list. It would be great to hear their perspective on the topics related to gender and Wikipedia (and Wikimedia). So, I hope that they decide to participate. Sydney FloNight On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:42 PM