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

2012-07-06 Thread John Vandenberg
Hi Claudia. There are good numbers for LGBT in real world populations, and the people doing the studies are all to aware of the problems with their numbers - there are journals dedicated to research in this discipline. i havent seen similar quality academic studies about LGBT within the

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

2012-07-06 Thread koltzenburg
Hi John havent seen similar quality academic studies about LGBT within the wikimedia community - these studies tend to be very simplistic due to lack if understanding or inadequate funding, and/or riddled with bias without explanation. so here we can definitely point to a common concern

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

2012-07-06 Thread John Vandenberg
WMF could put up funding for research to be done by experts. On Jul 6, 2012 2:06 PM, koltzenb...@w4w.net wrote: Hi John havent seen similar quality academic studies about LGBT within the wikimedia community - these studies tend to be very simplistic due to lack if understanding or

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

2012-07-02 Thread Tom Morris
On Monday, 2 July 2012 at 06:24, koltzenb...@w4w.net wrote: Hi Tom, hi @all Wikimedia have decided to allow the list to be created since we are addressing not only one gender gap but, seemingly quite a few, including those that come alonf the lines of what has come to be called sexual

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

2012-07-02 Thread koltzenburg
thanks, Ryan so this seems clear now: there may be different kinds of difficulties in a list creation process and all of these are now solved as regards the new lgbt list, is that it? cheers Claudia On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:51:57 -0700, Ryan Kaldari wrote Just to clarify, Phillipe expressed

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

2012-07-01 Thread koltzenburg
Hi Tom, hi @all Wikimedia have decided to allow the list to be created since we are addressing not only one gender gap but, seemingly quite a few, including those that come alonf the lines of what has come to be called sexual orientarion, I have a question about the creation process of the