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

2017-09-22 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 22 September 2017 at 18:24, James Heilman wrote: > We know that a sizable proportion of articles > about people are paid for by the individual themselves or their > representative. We do? How? And what size is that "sizable proportion"? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing

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

2017-09-22 Thread Jane Darnell
Yes very interesting, if only to illustrate how difficult it is to get this information reliably. It is also interesting to see those charts dating to the days before Wikidata. One problem with using these stats is that pretty much everything is a moving target. Yes there is a larger gap at the

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

2017-09-22 Thread James Heilman
An interesting paper. We know that a sizable proportion of articles about people are paid for by the individual themselves or their representative. I just looked at the gender of all articles created by this sock involved in undisclosed paid editing

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

2017-09-22 Thread Eduardo Testart
Hi all, One of the members from Wikimedia Chile, independently from the chapter and before he became a member, was directly involved in the development of the following article, that adress the gender inequality (or gender bias), and which gives the title to the email:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Odisha Government's Social media accounts are now under CC-BY 4.0

2017-09-22 Thread Sailesh Patnaik
Thank you, Zach, Hasive, Tanweer and others :) I would like to thank the entire Odia community and also Asaf for playing a major role in this initiative :) --- *Sailesh Patnaik* "*ଶୈଳେଶ ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ "* Community Advocate, Access To Knowledge Program Centre for Internet and Society Phone:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance?

2017-09-22 Thread Anthony Cole
Thank you Adele and Yongmin. I'll ask Barbara to clarify next time we chat. On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 at 12:49 am, Yongmin H. wrote: > I tried quite a lot (around 10 times) and succeded to get one saying > ‘here’s something I found from Wikipedia.’ I have it recorded, but >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Odisha Government's Social media accounts are now under CC-BY 4.0

2017-09-22 Thread Tanweer Morshed
Great news indeed. Thank you Sailesh and other members of the Odia community who worked on this! On Thursday, September 21, 2017, Nurunnaby Hasive wrote: > Wow! Congratulations! > > > > Hasive > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 7:03 AM, Zachary McCune