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

2015-05-03 Thread Sydney Poore
Likely yes. Women not making public statements in the same way as men is not isolated to Wikipedia or the internet. The article mentions the use of a respect button in addition to) a like button to encourage people to stop trashing other peoples opinions. The newspaper that did this and heavily

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

2015-05-03 Thread LB
A reminder to women on this list, if there is something you want to discuss privately with other women Wikipedia editors, go to this page - Anita Borg Institute - Systers Technical Interests http://anitaborg.org/get-involved/systers/technical-interests/ - and scroll down, you will see a link to

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

2015-05-03 Thread Daniel and Elizabeth Case
The newspaper that did this and heavily moderated trolling comments had higher participate by women than most news comment areas. Like. Like. LIKE. It never fails to amaze me that, for all the complaining people do about barely-moderated comment sections and the driveby hate speech they

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

2015-05-02 Thread Kerry Raymond
Could this provide any insights into women contributing to Wikipedia? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/23/women-are-silenced-onli ne-just-as-in-real-life-it-will-take-more-than-twitter-to-change-that Kerry ___ Gendergap