Re: [Gendergap] Proposal: Forking gendergap: Main list for women

2011-03-17 Thread The Richardsons
First, I would like to say that, as a male editor of Wikipedia, seeing the discourse of this week, I was upset and I was inspired to look inward, questioning my position here on gendergap. I will refrain from taking a dominant position (if I ever did), and I have something legitimate to say

Re: [Gendergap] Proposal: Forking gendergap: Main list for women

2011-03-17 Thread Marc Riddell
on 3/17/11 8:11 PM, The Richardsons at dons...@optonline.net wrote: Snip Before this, I was mostly opposed to forking. But if this were separated into a female, male, and co-ed group, and perhaps each person could be a member if one or two appropriate ones, then we would not have such a

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

2011-03-16 Thread Béria Lima
I completely agree with Fluffy. _ *Béria Lima* Wikimedia Portugal http://wikimedia.pt (351) 963 953 042 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer.* 2011/3/16 ChaoticFluffy

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

2011-03-15 Thread Fred Bauder
I don't edit Wikipedia because I've never taken the time to learn the system and I'm afraid I'll screw up. I assume it would feel like making a big mistake in a newspaper and having the whole neighborhood scoff, and I think that becomes a part of my Wikipedia profile forever and ever. I'd

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

2011-03-15 Thread Ryan Kaldari
On 3/15/11 9:34 AM, Nicole Willson wrote: Lastly, I had a question about Fred's statement about rules. If following rules isn't that important in the beginning, how come I have only gotten feedback once about what I've done wrong with date formatting and never gotten a message about what

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

2011-03-15 Thread Fred Bauder
On 3/15/11 9:34 AM, Nicole Willson wrote: Lastly, I had a question about Fred's statement about rules. If following rules isn't that important in the beginning, how come I have only gotten feedback once about what I've done wrong with date formatting and never gotten a message about what I've

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

2011-03-14 Thread Amy Roth
Once at an Ani diFranco concert (that my husband took me to) I saw several men wearing a t-shirt that said This is what a feminist looks like. Situations like that have helped me get over my anti-men attitude that was a reaction to an early indoctrination of fundamentalist teaching that women