Re: [Gendergap] Women on Wikimedia group

2011-10-02 Thread Béria Lima
Let's not reinvent the wheel, shall we? A group like Maggie described already exist - for years - under the name Wikichix-l (see http://lists.modernthings.org/listinfo.cgi/wikichix-l-modernthings.org ) Is a mailing list who exist since December

Re: [Gendergap] Women on Wikimedia group

2011-10-02 Thread Béria Lima
I'm there for months and I must say is a pretty quiet mailing list. And we have around 60 members. No dia 2 de Out de 2011 09:32, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com escreveu: On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Béria Lima beria.l...@wikimedia.pt wrote: Let's not reinvent the wheel, shall we? A

Re: [Gendergap] Women on Wikimedia group

2011-10-02 Thread John Vandenberg
Have wikichix-l talked about possible solutions to the gender gap? -- John Vandenberg ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Women on Wikimedia group

2011-10-02 Thread Béria Lima
I'm not sure if I can talk about wikichix-l here (since is a private ml after all). Let me ask them and them I come to you with a answer :) _ *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

Re: [Gendergap] Women on Wikimedia group

2011-10-02 Thread Risker
The reason you can't find the archives is that it is a non-archiving list, and there are none. I too have been a member of this list for many years. It is used infrequently, and I believe its intention was to draw issues of interest to women editors to their attention, and to provide support to

Re: [Gendergap] Women on Wikimedia Group

2011-10-02 Thread Maggie
@Sarah If the woman on the list would prefer it to be private, I have no problem with that. I just didn't want it to seem like we were trying to hide anything. I am really familiar with all the issues in the gender community, and I know how feminism has tended to exclude non-white, disabled, or

[Gendergap] Women on Wikimedia group

2011-10-01 Thread Maggie
I've created this group as a women's-only group to discuss things without being inhibited by a male presence, if anyone is interested in joining. This group was not created with the goal of competing with Gender Gap, more as a companion or a friendly place for women to discuss their views. I would

Re: [Gendergap] Women on Wikimedia group

2011-10-01 Thread Marc Riddell
on 10/1/11 7:37 PM, Maggie at rockerre...@gmail.com wrote: I've created this group as a women's-only group to discuss things without being inhibited by a male presence, Maggie, ...inhibited by a male presence [?] Isn't this a personal issue that, I hope, each person would want to address within

Re: [Gendergap] Women on Wikimedia group

2011-10-01 Thread Nathan
A resurrection of the previous most controversial discussion topic on this list. Personally I don't have a problem with it if women want a women-only place to discuss gender gap issues (although there are some immediate challenges: (1) this is the Internet, and (2) some might argue that

Re: [Gendergap] Women on Wikimedia group

2011-10-01 Thread Lika Tika
Hi, This is my first time contributing to this list. First, I'd like to say that I don't think it's inappropriate to create an optional women only space. As Maggie mentioned, she is not interested in replacing this discussion. Protected spaces for minorities may be useful, especially considering