Re: [Gendergap] Visible female faces for Wikim/pedia

2011-03-28 Thread Andreas Kolbe
As someone pointed out in the discussion at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Jumping_Wikipe-tan.svg#File:Jumping_Wikipe-tan.svg (which is heading for a keep) Stephen's - in my view - quite sensible deletion of

Re: [Gendergap] Visible female faces for Wikim/pedia

2011-03-21 Thread Susan Spencer
I've seen Japanese text books which have happy, healthy, young male and female faces that are utilized to comment upon the text. More like Ash from Pokemon (not the Nurse, lol!) Why couldn't the personification of Wikipedia a pair of happy, healthy, young people, a male and a female? Always seen

Re: [Gendergap] Visible female faces for Wikim/pedia

2011-03-21 Thread Samuel Klein
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Susan Spencer susan.spen...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen Japanese text books which have happy, healthy, young male and female faces that are utilized to comment upon the text. More like Ash from Pokemon (not the Nurse, lol!) Why couldn't the personification of

Re: [Gendergap] Visible female faces for Wikim/pedia

2011-03-21 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Mon, 21/3/11, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Why couldn't the personification of Wikipedia a pair of happy, healthy, young people, a male and a female? Always seen together, side by side? This is a lovely idea. Yes. I like the always seen together aspect. I wouldn't

[Gendergap] Visible female faces for Wikim/pedia

2011-03-20 Thread Juliana da Costa José
Hello, my problem in Wikipedia is, that we have not many rolemodels who are not very known outside of the Wikim/pedia world. The only one, who is constant in media is Sue. Sue is wonderful, but where are the other faces of Wikim/pedia? Where are the other women, why are they hiding? Ok, we had a

Re: [Gendergap] Visible female faces for Wikim/pedia

2011-03-20 Thread Lennart Guldbrandsson
://mrchapel.wordpress.com/ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:00:15 +0100 From: julianadacostaj...@googlemail.com To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Gendergap] Visible female faces for Wikim/pedia Hello, my problem in Wikipedia is, that we have not many rolemodels who are not very known

[Gendergap] Visible female faces for Wikim/pedia

2011-03-20 Thread Juliana da Costa José
Användarsida: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%C3%A4ndare:Hannibal Blogg: http://mrchapel.wordpress.com/ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:00:15 +0100 From: julianadacostaj...@googlemail.com To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Gendergap] Visible female faces for Wikim/pedia Hello, my

[Gendergap] Visible female faces for Wikim/pedia

2011-03-20 Thread Juliana da Costa José
hehe ;) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipe-tan%27s_past,_now_and_future2.png 2011/3/20, Carol Moore in DC contac...@carolmoore.net: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Wikipe-tan I started a debate here. Uh oh, sexual innuendo warning.

Re: [Gendergap] Visible female faces for Wikim/pedia

2011-03-20 Thread carolmooredc
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Wikipe-tan Might be more appropriate. Ways of dealing with it: come up with much more appropriate and popular symbol widely disseminated. Come up with male and female wikipe-tans and put those up. Try to delete all the female only ones. On

Re: [Gendergap] Visible female faces for Wikim/pedia

2011-03-20 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Sun, 20/3/11, carolmoor...@verizon.net carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote: Come up with male and female wikipe-tans and put those up. Thinking out loud here: Having images that contain both a female and a male figure might actually be useful for young men, on a subliminal level. Having

Re: [Gendergap] Visible female faces for Wikim/pedia

2011-03-20 Thread carolmooredc
I noticed that the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan just survived a second deletion attempt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan_%282nd_nomination%29 The main Wikipe-tan image obviously should be the focus of *Change*.