Re: [Gendergap] Tweet on Paula England

2014-08-03 Thread Tom Morris
don't have a category for 'Sociologists of gender' or whatever the appropriate term is for sociologists who study the role of gender. Or indeed for sociologists of family or sexuality or race/ethnicity etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sociologists_by_field_of_research You

Re: [Gendergap] Adrienne Wadewitz featured in short piece about Gendergap on the English Wikipedia

2014-07-07 Thread Tom Morris
That’s really cool. (Just don’t read the comments. Awful misogyny contained therein. Is there any way we can get that crap removed?) -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> - Original message - From: Jane Darnell To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects S

[Gendergap] Wikidata, gamification and gender

2014-05-21 Thread Tom Morris
prove coverage across Wikipedias. Wikidata is still at very early stages and you sort of have to have faith in what it could end up being in a few years time rather than being able to see immediate results now. But getting there might be quite good fun. Yours, -- Tom Morris <http://

Re: [Gendergap] coverage of women philosophers on ENWP

2013-08-29 Thread Tom Morris
oesn't have one, improving the article of one who does, adding another name to the list of redlinks currently on my page, or in any way you can think of.   Thanks, Kevin Gorman [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kevin_Gorman/philosophers  (WP:ACADEMIC and WP:AUTHOR are the generally rele

Re: [Gendergap] how sewing circles became secret queer celebrity love fests

2013-06-03 Thread Tom Morris
circles used in the original sense from sewing circles used in the lesbian sense... -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Sexuality-related userboxen: give me your thoughts!

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Morris
a userbox, and beyond that, I can't quite see any real use for them. I just hope that we don't throw the useful baby (things like LGBT userboxes) out with the bathwater. Yours, -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> On Tuesday, 14 May 2013 at 16:01, Katherine Casey wrote:

Re: [Gendergap] Topless image retention -don't give up

2013-05-10 Thread Tom Morris
might be made to feel as welcome as Christians in lion enclosures, but that's another matter...) -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Topless image retention -don't give up

2013-05-10 Thread Tom Morris
ete." Ideally, we'd do this through OTRS rather than on-wiki so we can confirm that the people requesting deletion are who they say they are. Until we have enough people to handle these issues, we should err on the side of caution -

Re: [Gendergap] You Guys Made Me Smile

2013-03-10 Thread Tom Morris
t on the > 15th? Does anyone know if there is going to be an online component? I'd be happy to sit in IRC and help people remotely and/or do en.wp adminnish things as needed to help the sisterhood in their takeover of Wikipedia. ;-) -- T

[Gendergap] Mozilla Community Participation Guidelines

2013-01-16 Thread Tom Morris
uding, but not limited to people of varied age, culture, ethnicity, gender, gender-identity, language, race, sexual orientation, geographical location and religious views." -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> ___ Gendergap m

[Gendergap] Violentacrez and civility

2012-10-12 Thread Tom Morris
ow, it's like Wikipedia's civility vs. established editors dynamic but with more misogyny, homophobia and racism... -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] List of celebrity hairdressers

2012-10-09 Thread Tom Morris
On Wednesday, 10 October 2012 at 01:36, Juergen Fenn wrote: > 2012/10/9 Tom Morris mailto:t...@tommorris.org)>: > > We have an AfD nomination for 'List of celebrity hairdressers', on the > > basis that it is "trivial". > > > > https://en.

[Gendergap] List of celebrity hairdressers

2012-10-09 Thread Tom Morris
or deletion on the basis of triviality. Apparently, stereotypically masculine trivial things are fine but stereotypically feminine trivial things aren't. Le sigh. -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> ___ Gendergap mailing list

Re: [Gendergap] uk chairman band

2012-08-02 Thread Tom Morris
ncerning... This is not to excuse what Fae has done. Two wrongs don't make a right. But let's not pretend that there's not another side to this sad tale. -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] women on wikiHow (talk at #wikimania)

2012-07-14 Thread Tom Morris
ahouse and other editor engagement projects. [1] http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Philosophy-Paper -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] LGBT mailing list

2012-07-06 Thread Tom Morris
make the wiki better" too. (Not that those are mutually exclusive, obviously.) -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] recognition of gender gap*s* (in the plural) Re: LGBT mailing list

2012-07-06 Thread Tom Morris
On Friday, 6 July 2012 at 07:11, koltzenb...@w4w.net wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 09:47:58 +0100, Tom Morris wrote > > I'm not sure I agree that LGBT is another gender gap. > > > > my impression is that there certainly are gender gaps in LGBTIQA* communities &g

Re: [Gendergap] LGBT mailing list

2012-07-06 Thread Tom Morris
Instead, it's simply a space for co-ordination and collaboration. -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] recognition of gender gap*s* (in the plural) Re: LGBT mailing list

2012-07-02 Thread Tom Morris
, but I wouldn't otherwise want to draw comparisons with what gendergap is doing and what the LGBT list is doing. * To quote Lady Gaga: if I have a POV or a COI, I was born that way. -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] LGBT mailing list

2012-07-01 Thread Tom Morris
On Sunday, 1 July 2012 at 22:30, Tom Morris wrote: > I'm happy to announce that a new Wikimedia LGBT mailing list has been setup. > For the time being, it is being hosted on lists.wikiqueer.org > (http://lists.wikiqueer.org). > > http://lists.wikiqueer.org/mailman/lis

[Gendergap] LGBT mailing list

2012-07-01 Thread Tom Morris
asing the coverage of LGBT history, issues and culture, and any other issues that specifically affect LGBT editors. You don't have to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender to join. -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> ___ Gender

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

2012-06-18 Thread Tom Morris
ought to be done is to demand of the Foundation and of chapters that any studies they do into the effectiveness of outreach and intervention programmes include gender inclusiveness as a measure in stats-gathering where possible. -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> __

[Gendergap] Guns, Girls and Games

2012-06-04 Thread Tom Morris
lve these kinds of problems. They simply made it so users couldn't express their sexual orientation on their profiles. 'Cos, you know, the best way to make gay users feel like comfortable and welcome members of a community is to force them back in the closet for their own protect

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Should there be a Wikipedia boycott over the lack of an image filter?

2012-06-01 Thread Tom Morris
sex". Breast cancer awareness/information sites get hammered for the word "breast". What message does this send to young people? We care so much about "protecting" you from something you can probably get anyway, that we'll suggest to you that breast cancer or being LGB

Re: [Gendergap] The Dell Summit

2012-05-13 Thread Tom Morris
On 13 May 2012 23:36, Cynthia Ashley-Nelson wrote: > I would think it could certainly be added to the Mads Christensen article on > Wikipedia, found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mads_Barner-Christensen. > Have we any sources other than the blog post? -- Tom Morris <http://t

Re: [Gendergap] The Dell Summit

2012-05-13 Thread Tom Morris
scribes as a "well-known Danish misogynist commentator" to emcee their event. This isn't so much shooting themselves in the foot as machine gunning their whole leg off. -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> ___ Gende

[Gendergap] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] Election and resolution results

2012-05-12 Thread Tom Morris
the Tellers ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> ___ Gen

[Gendergap] Austin All-Girl Hack Night

2012-05-10 Thread Tom Morris
This just came across my radar: http://www.meetup.com/Austin-All-Girl-Hack-Night/ It's an event for female coders in Austin, TX. I wonder if there are technically-inclined female MediaWiki developers and assorted Wiki[pm]edia code slingers in the Austin area who might want to attend. --

[Gendergap] Asking Reddit's /r/asktransgender about Wikipedia

2012-05-09 Thread Tom Morris
It almost feels like how we handle gender identity and transgender issues on-wiki is a nice little litmus test for the community's wider attitudes to inclusion (as well as handling of sensitive BLPs). -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/>

Re: [Gendergap] Photo accreditation for the Lesbian Spring in Toulouse (France)

2012-04-02 Thread Tom Morris
Caroline, I've responded on the talk page with some further advice on how to do OR notes. Pi zero is giving you accurate advice about Wikinews original research publishing. -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> ___ Gendergap m

Re: [Gendergap] Newsflash: sexism in geek communities demeans everybody - by Tom Morris

2012-03-24 Thread Tom Morris
who are dedicated or weird or passionate enough to spend their weekends talking about their geeky obsessions. -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Wikinews and women's topic on the front page :)

2012-03-20 Thread Tom Morris
in_London https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_interviews_Sue_Gardner_on_Wikipedia_blackout If you are going to an event, a protest, or pretty much anything interesting and newsy, please, grab a camera, grab a notebook, interview, photograph, video and help improve Wikinews. -- Tom Morris <h