Re: [Gendergap] more women's voices

Most health articles on Wikipedia are about men's health. I think you will find lots of stuff still covered by good 'ol 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, except for the work done by the Medical Project, which needs more volunteers and is of course ongoing. In cases where articles get lots of traffic,

[Gendergap] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia

reposting here - I read the English article and found it very interesting, if only to remind us how far we have come on enwiki (from 15.5% to 17%) -- Forwarded message -- From: Eduardo Testart Date: Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 6:55 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Women

Re: [Gendergap] They want to delete First Ladies now?

Thanks for that! I have always wondered about that myself. On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 5:49 AM, Risker wrote: > Well, in fairness, Nell Arthur was never the U.S. First Lady because she > died before her husband became president. > > On the other hand, anyone can remove a PROD,

Re: [Gendergap] Guardian article on cyber harassment

It could be an interesting Wikimedia blog post to write a history of moderationon Wikipedia projects. I'll bet that various communities have developed in different ways because of crucial early choices in moderation policies... On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:57 PM, Neotarf wrote:

Re: [Gendergap] journalist versus troll story

Just. Wow. On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:14 PM, J Hayes wrote: > http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-benjamin-wey/ > > ___ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > To manage your subscription preferences,

[Gendergap] Fwd: [libraries] Why GLAM Wiki:

forwarding to this list -- Forwarded message -- From: Bob Kosovsky Date: Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 2:00 PM Subject: [libraries] Why GLAM Wiki: To: Wikimedia & Libraries Nice post on ACRL's blog about one person's change in

[Gendergap] Fwd: [Wikidata] Wikidata Analyst, a tool to comprehensively analyze quality of Wikidata

Interesting to compare male vs female data on Wikidata: http://tools.wmflabs.org/wd-analyst/index.php?p=P21=Q6581097%7CQ6581072 -- Forwarded message -- From: Amir Ladsgroup Date: Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 6:48 PM Subject: [Wikidata] Wikidata Analyst, a tool to

Re: [Gendergap] Commons and censorship from raising complaints

OMG Fae you are such a bad boy, but I must admit I love your dramah - Toi Toi Toi! I would never have the guts to do what you do in a lifetime of edits. On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 12:54 AM, Fæ wrote: > I thought it would be worth giving a head's up on this attempt to stop > me

Re: [Gendergap] Call for Participation: 2016 Art+Feminism Wikipedia

Interesting! I always assumed that the reason was because that though many women work in the arts, the "gendergap" in content is larger than for any other field. So for example, in education, many women work as teachers and there are lots of women who write books and run schools. In hospitals,

Re: [Gendergap] Video Q discussing Arbcom and gender/orientation harassment cases

Yes, that was an interesting Q - I was familiar with most of the material discussed in the talk (and a lot of it has been discussed here before), but I was surprised by the emotional response afterwards and the number of comments/questions. On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Fæ

[Gendergap] The "Canon" of Literature and the lack of women's names in it

Hi all, Please see this call for papers at Oxford University. Closing time for submissions is this Sunday, conference is on 22-23 January 2016. https://womenandthecanon.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/ Anyone interested? Maybe WMUK could sponsor a short talk about their work resurrecting the women

Re: [Gendergap] Does openly declaring your gender change the probability of having an upload overwritten?

is normal and can be corrections, crops etc. as part of general healthy and productive collegiate work. Only a small proportion of the time is it part of a dispute on Commons. Fae On 14 August 2015 at 09:11, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting idea to measure this, but I am

[Gendergap] Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Wikimedia Nederland surveys among editors and readers of Wikipedia

posting here because this shows the Dutch Wikipedia to only have 11% women editors, which is less than the English Wikipedia. WMNL is actually happy about this number as it shows almost double improvement from 2013 when only 6% of survey respondents identified as female. -- Forwarded

Re: [Gendergap] Slate on Wikipedia and the gendergap

, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote: An interesting set of questions, Lennart! Let me first explain why I am looking for reliable sources on the Gendergap. I have been involved with efforts to reduce the Gendergap in the Netherlands since 2011. Our big news today is that we

[Gendergap] Nice piece by Andrew Lih in NYT mentions gendergap

Another reliable source for use in the Gendergap Wikipedia article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/opinion/can-wikipedia-survive.html ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including

Re: [Gendergap] Retired

I wish you all the best, and thanks for your efforts! On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 2:35 AM, LB lightbreath...@gmail.com wrote: Due to off-wiki harassment, I have retired. Thank you to those of you who have been friendly with me over the past year. Lightbreather

Re: [Gendergap] Article: Wikipedia trolls now vs. women architects

recreated data though On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Joseph Reagle joseph.2...@reagle.org wrote: On 04/13/2015 01:18 PM, Jane Darnell wrote: Actually I think it would be useful to measure all existing female bios vs all existing male bios for the proportion of those which have been previously

Re: [Gendergap] Article: Wikipedia trolls now vs. women architects

Actually I think it would be useful to measure all existing female bios vs all existing male bios for the proportion of those which have been previously deleted and recreated. I have a theory that it is much more difficult to create bios of females in whatever category due to the systemic academic

Re: [Gendergap] Closing the gendergap in biographies on Wikipedia

. If we create an overview, it is more likely that the missing articles and wikidata items will be created. Romaine Op dinsdag 31 maart 2015 heeft Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven: Lennart, You have every reason to be proud and I honestly don't know why, I can only

Re: [Gendergap] Closing the gendergap in biographies on Wikipedia

effort and feedback. Make a great day, Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/ On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote: Max, Hmm, interesting proposal! I am not sure whether it can be very useful as it reads now. I have thought a lot about this and have looked

Re: [Gendergap] Do I sound gay?

Fae, Interesting, thanks! I will try to go see it. Jane On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: If you get a chance to see this film/documentary I can recommend it, interesting and funny. The film (funded via Kickstarter) had its European premier this week at BFI Flare,

Re: [Gendergap] Some motivation (:

Kerry, Thanks for that effort and I totally agree. Dyed-in-the-wool Wikipedians quickly develop a blind eye for other ways of approaching the topic of an edit-a-thon and it is the fresh perspective of the attendees that keeps us up-to-date and challenges the workflows we currently keep in place.

[Gendergap] Closing the gendergap in biographies on Wikipedia

Hi everyone, I have been checking how we are doing on closing the gendergap on biographies of women artists for a while. Part of the problem is collecting the data, and Wikidata is a great help. Unfortunately there are still lots of women artists with Wikidata items without any statements at all,

Re: [Gendergap] Inspire Campaign launches today!

Yes and all of those numbers are just about the English Wikipedia. The Dutch Wikipedia has only 6% of its editors who identify as female On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Su-Laine Brodsky sulai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I too am uncomfortable with the under 20% message. I would say

Re: [Gendergap] Upcoming Women's History Month edit-a-thons in San Francisco

Rosie, I just updated the Women artists project on the English Wikipedia and included lists of redlinks from last year's Art and Feminism edit-a-thon, along with a list of redlinks from Wikidata. One of the lists is of artists active in San Francisco (from the rkd - ULAN will give more results I

Re: [Gendergap] Feminists aim to fix the Wikipedia gender gap

Yes, very good story! Nice work On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Carol Moore dc carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote: http://dailyuw.com/archive/2015/02/16/news/feminists-aim-fix-wikipedia-gender-gap#.VONoci58uSo Feminists aim to fix the Wikipedia gender gap Good story about Amanda and Monika's

Re: [Gendergap] Wikipedia readers

In 2013 the Dutch Wikimedia chapter hired an external party to conduct a survey and the results (translated to English) are here: https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Motivaction_report_translation_v02.pdf The study was split into two parts; one on the contributors and one on the users, aka

[Gendergap] Please help prepare for the international Art Feminism Challenge 7 8 March

Hi everyone, Please help me create lists and categories on the English Wikipedia that may inspire people to write articles on their own native Wikipedia during the challenge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Challenge Such lists and categories can be used as resources

Re: [Gendergap] Thank someone today.

Well Jonathan, thanks for doing that! I am not an administrator, so I couldn't do those things you mentioned, but I often think that in some cases I wish I could do more than just thank the person. I know however that I was very suspicious of anyone posting on my talk page in the beginning, so I

Re: [Gendergap] Regular editathons in Sweden about women and literature

Siko, Thanks! I too am very curious what our outcomes will be 78 March. From my experience this will be next to zero for new editors, but it could be quite a lot for experienced editors. I took a look at the edit-a-thon toolkit but we won't be requesting any funding and I don't understand how to

Re: [Gendergap] Regular editathons in Sweden about women and literature

Thanks! I was told we are using some tools internally to track specific edit-a-thon outcomes - is this what you mean? We want to track more than just edit-a-thon outcomes though On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson l_guldbrands...@hotmail.com wrote: Very cool! Good luck to

Re: [Gendergap] Reframing...Re: Wikimedia Conference (was - Diversity training forfunctionaries)

Hmm. I stopped editing the Dutch Wikipedia because it just wasn't any fun anymore. I would never say I experienced barriers to entry or that there were barriers to continued participation. It is more that there was a continuous vacuum of silence that made participation feel like I was on an island

Re: [Gendergap] Reframing...Re: Wikimedia Conference (was - Diversity training forfunctionaries)

- choose to ignore women even when they are disagreeing with them or, in their eyes, acting outrageous, then that observation would not hold. CM On 12/30/2014 10:21 AM, Jane Darnell wrote: Hmm. I stopped editing the Dutch Wikipedia because it just wasn't any fun anymore. I would never say I

Re: [Gendergap] Reframing...Re: Wikimedia Conference (was - Diversity training forfunctionaries)

- as where Jane was editing - choose to ignore women even when they are disagreeing with them or, in their eyes, acting outrageous, then that observation would not hold. CM On 12/30/2014 10:21 AM, Jane Darnell wrote: Hmm. I stopped editing the Dutch Wikipedia because it just wasn't any fun

Re: [Gendergap] Reframing...Re: Wikimedia Conference (was - Diversity training forfunctionaries)

totally! On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Wikidata is the bommbbb!! :) On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry to read that, Sarah. But maybe you just need a new project! I must admit I make way more

[Gendergap] Obama only took questions from women in his end-of-year press conference

According to this report Obama only took questions from women in his end-of-year press conference. Anyone know what the story is behind this? I find it notable that he omitted questions from major networks - are there no women reporters for major networks? I spend a lot of time on the gendergap in

Re: [Gendergap] Moving forward

For the record: the percentage of female editors on the Dutch Wikipedia is only 6%. In the Netherlands, edit-a-thons seem to be useless in terms of recruitment vehicles and many long-term Wikipedians seem to have a long-tail interest that they tend to spend most of their time editing. The eternal

Re: [Gendergap] previous (structural) collaboration with organisations on women's history?

Hi Sandra, I don't think there have been any in the past unless you count my discussions with Els Kloek about the 1001 vrouwen project. She is not a technical person and couldn't help me with the metadata but loves Wikipedia and arranged for me to meet up with the Biografischportaal website

Re: [Gendergap] Look who's in the paper!! :)

I was thinking the same thing - who knows, maybe she really poked around Wikipedia while writing the piece and you may even have a convert on your hands! (one can always hope) On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:04 AM, Christine Meyer christinewme...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Sarah. I'm actually

Re: [Gendergap] Polish Wikipedia momument has two women

Natalia, I agree - that is definitely significant news, so thanks for sharing! I noticed while collecting some slides for a Gendergap lounge I will be manning this Saturday that though there is an article in most language wikis for the Wikipedia monument, there is no link to it from the Gendergap

[Gendergap] Percentage of articles about women artists vs # of articles about men, using Wikidata

Hello, I am preparing some slides for the Dutch Wikiconference this Saturday and wanted to share some interesting data on female artists. This year I have been working on various museum collections of paintings, while continuing to work on painter biographies. I am a big user of the Dutch RKD

Re: [Gendergap] Update: Re: Polish Wikipedia Monument shows only men

Well I suppose it would be more technically accurate if 1 of 4, not 2 of 4 were women On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: WOOHOo! On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Natalia antyte...@gmail.com wrote: I have just recived an e-mail from the organizers

Re: [Gendergap] WikiWomen's Collaborative Social Media + some other stuff

Sarah, I'm glad to see you being more active, and I appreciate all the work you have done and your recent work on Wikidata. I hope the media viewer and other wiki-snafus don't get you down! Jane On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I've

Re: [Gendergap] [Spam] Re: Sexualized environment on Commons

I totally agree, and no offense to the people who have contributed to help pages, but I find them very unhelpful and sometimes downright wrong. Sent from my iPad On Jul 31, 2014, at 4:55 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com I Still stand by hand holding...personal out weighs what we

Re: [Gendergap] men on lists

Lennart, That's too bad. One of the biggest causes of the gendergap is the lack of reliable sources to move new articles through the Wikipedia recent changes page patrol on any given project. The academic bias inherent in women-related subjects (and I mean anything from knitting patterns to health

Re: [Gendergap] Article about super-spreader might need help (enWP)

editors dislike and wouldn't use these features, that doesn't mean it could potentially have a major impact on converting novice and shy editors. By the way, is there any plan to formally reach out to the teacher and student? -mvolz On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com

Re: [Gendergap] Article about super-spreader might need help (enWP)

resources on how to support students navigating these waters -- if they exist. I've been lurking on this list for a while and haven't posted before, but I hope these thoughts are helpful. Megan On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote: Marielle, Good point and I

[Gendergap] Blogger and Wikipedian Adrianne Wadewitz died while rock-climbing

This is to inform you that one of the contributors to this list who spent a lot of time working on the Gendergap issue and ways to solve it, has died in a rock-climbing accident. http://femtechnet.newschool.edu/blog/adrianne-wadewitz/ ___ Gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Blogger and Wikipedian Adrianne Wadewitz died whilerock-climbing

All I know is what is reported on her Wikipedia userpage 2014-04-11 18:32 GMT+02:00, Daniel and Elizabeth Case danc...@frontiernet.net: Subject: [Gendergap] Blogger and Wikipedian Adrianne Wadewitz died whilerock-climbing This is to inform you that one of the contributors to this list who spent

Re: [Gendergap] [Blog]: [Huffington Post U.K] : An interview with Emily Temple-Wood

That is nice, and includes a nice plug for the IEG grant process as well! 2014-04-01 19:28 GMT+02:00, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com: Nice work Netha and Emily! -Sarah On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.comwrote: Dear all, Here is a blog post

Re: [Gendergap] German Wikipedia: straw poll against woman rights

I was just talking about this yesterday - In the Dutch Wikipedia, gender-neutral language is used for occupations and during the ArtFeminism edit-a-thon we remarked on how difficult it is to track down female artists if the lead sentence is gender neutral. This is compounded by the fact that the

Re: [Gendergap] NY Times: Wikipedia, What Does Judith Newman Have to Do to Get a Page?

very funny, thx for posting! 2014/1/11, Carol Moore dc carolmoor...@verizon.net: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/fashion/Wikipedia-Judith-Newman.html?_r=1 FYI ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Gendergap] Changing the Chelsea Manning article (and how women were shouted down)

It's an interesting discussion on that move request page. I noticed the Wikibump for the Bradley Manning page peaked at 173,000 views on 22 August and went down to less that 3,000 per day a week later. I think the current situation (today I see an article named Bradley Manning, and an article

[Gendergap] Results of Dutch editor survey indicate 6% female participation

http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Motivaction_report_translation_v02.pdf See page 26, headed by the understatement The large majority of members and contributors are male ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Gendergap] Women on the list: what have you been editing lately?

wrote: Wow, that's an amazing list! I wish all artists had lists like that. Ryan Kaldari On 5/18/13 9:35 AM, Jane Darnell wrote: Good luck with the AfC backlog Sarah - it depresses me to just think about that. Here in Haarlem we are celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the Frans

Re: [Gendergap] Category:Nude portrayals of computer technology

are actually used in sister projects, no idea, but I suspect it's less than 50% On May 23, 2013, at 11:27 PM, Joseph Reagle wrote: On 05/23/2013 02:58 PM, Jane Darnell wrote: How strange that people take the trouble to upload those! I've been wondering about this myself. Why do people port collections

Re: [Gendergap] Category:Nude portrayals of computer technology

Yes, I totally agree with the beer spitting part, and also wish you lots of luck and patience with your adminship! Most people don't realize that of the 15 million files on Commons, 99% of the ones *not* linked into a sister project are pretty well unfindable unless you happen to google the

Re: [Gendergap] Women on the list: what have you been editing lately?

Good luck with the AfC backlog Sarah - it depresses me to just think about that. Here in Haarlem we are celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the Frans Hals Museum. There are copies of Frans Hals paintings placed strategically around town to show what the museum has to offer. One of the men who

Re: [Gendergap] Breast cancer related information

true that it's an impressive PR stunt though - check the stats pn the Jolie article and the BRCA1 article, which links to the lawsuit in the lead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_Molecular_Pathology_v._Myriad_Genetics 2013/5/15, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com: It would be nice

Re: [Gendergap] Breast cancer related information

stuff... I wouldn't trust their analysis much :/ On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, there seems to be much more behind this scary story about Jolie: http://www.naturalnews.com/040365_Angelina_Jolie_gene_patents_Supreme_Court_decision.html#ixzz2TVCldugn

Re: [Gendergap] Breast cancer related information

It would be nice if someone could make an analysis of the presence depth (treatment, protocol, prevention) of articles on breast cancer vs prostate cancer on Wiki(p/m)edia, as both are becoming about the same threat in terms of live expectancy after diagnosis. We could work from there on a to-do

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

For what it's worth, I added my comments to your page on Meta 2013/5/9, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com: Yay! Erik replied. Seriously, I was beginning to think no one from the Foundation read this mailing list anymore aside from me and Kaldari (and we read it as volunteers!). See

Re: [Gendergap] Joseph Reagle on Wikipedia's category taxonomy

As more people have noticed on this list since this incident, the problem is not with sexism, but with the way categories are managed on Wikipedia. For example the German painter Caspar David Friedrich, who many would argue is in a category all his own, is in both categories German romantic

Re: [Gendergap] Sue's blog about Categorygate

Well I for one feel the category system is broken, though as I have delved deeper into it I realize it was probably never working to begin with. Sexism is as good as any other reason to do something about it, and if we gain one or two more outraged female editors, then I think we'll be the better

[Gendergap] I f***ing love science

Did anyone see this? A popular blogger on Science (with more than 4 million followers) is a woman. The woman herself, Elise Andrew, had no idea it was a secret, and she was outed when she announced her twitter account featuring a picture of herself. Apparently the bias occurred because of the

Re: [Gendergap] I f***ing love science

WP:NOTNEWS. On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:52 AM, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com mailto:jane...@gmail.com wrote: Did anyone see this? A popular blogger on Science (with more than 4 million followers) is a woman. The woman herself, Elise Andrew, had no idea it was a secret, and she

Re: [Gendergap] Meritocracy, the next generation

Thanks for posting, that is an interesting talk. Of course, picking up the 6% women problem is a good thing, but it's quite sad to see that the homogenous bias in the room was not only overwhelmingly male, but also white American young male, i.e. fewer black or asian or older people than women...

Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] 2012 Editor survey launched

I saw the notice on enwp and filled it out, but still see the notice in other projects (meta, nlwp, wiki source), so just keep on clicking on other projects and you can pick up where you left off Jane 2012/11/2 Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com Yeah I only saw it on Wikidata and did it

Re: [Gendergap] Binders full of women

Very funny to read those delete and keep reasons, thanks! 2012/10/23 Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com Amusingly enough…I did a Wikipedia presentation Thursday at the Open Education conference, and as I often do, asked for a suggestion of a current issue. Binders full of women was the topic

Re: [Gendergap] WikiWomenCamp: National perspectives on women and the movement

Hi all, Actually, I would also love to write a book with no rigor, so I sympathize with the idea. Sorry I missed this. As one of the two female board members of the Dutch Wikimedia organization I feel compelled to contribute to this page. Unfortunately I am not sure when I will have time. I

Re: [Gendergap] WikiProject Women's History

History. There is also Projekt kvinnor on the Swedish Wikipedia which has a similar scope. I'm not aware of any foreign language WikiProjects devoted specifically to Women's History, but it sounds like a great idea to spread around. Ryan Kaldari On 12/27/11 7:50 AM, Jane Darnell