Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020

2020-01-24 Thread Marc Miquel
Hi Gerard, Yes, diversity is a lens you can apply to every area (content, people, governance, etc.). I don't think it is more used for people than for content (actually, I do research cultural diversity in content). The question you posed on how the lack of diversity in content affects the needs

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020

2020-01-23 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The issue then is that diversity is seen as an issue with our collaborators and not so much as an issue of the needs of our audience. Having said that, has there every been done a study on how and where the lack of our diversity in our content exists and how it affects our audience? Thanks,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020

2020-01-23 Thread Marc Miquel
Hi Gerard, I agree it is a good practice to try to find a definition. In my understanding, diversity is the range of differences in a series of things, people, cultural traits, etc. So, diversity applied to Wikimedia, it can be understood as to how well the different profiles in society are engage

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020

2020-01-23 Thread Astrid Carlsen
iginal Message- > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On > Behalf Of Nick Wilson (Quiddity) > Sent: 22 January 2020 00:24 > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity > Conference 2020 > > Gerard, you

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020

2020-01-23 Thread Peter Southwood
Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Sent: 22 January 2020 00:24 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020 Gerard, you can read about the previous events

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020

2020-01-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Ah yes, I can read. In my mind when conferences are held on a particular subject and it is not clear what the subject is, "how can there be a solution or progress. It will be whatever people think it is and results will not be results, they are what happens anyway. Not knowing what your subje

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020

2020-01-21 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Gerard, you can read about the previous events (which include answers about scope), at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 10:43 AM Gerard Meijssen wrote: > I am not interested when I do no have a clue about the scope > > > Op ma 20 jan. 2020

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020

2020-01-20 Thread Gerard Meijssen
I am not interested when I do no have a clue about the scope Op ma 20 jan. 2020 15:09 schreef Ilario Valdelli : > That can be an output of the conference. Is not it? > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, 13:57 Gerard Meijssen, > wrote: > > > Hoi, > > How do you define diversity? > > Thanks, > > GerardM

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020

2020-01-20 Thread Ilario Valdelli
That can be an output of the conference. Is not it? On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, 13:57 Gerard Meijssen, wrote: > Hoi, > How do you define diversity? > Thanks, > GerardM > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 13:44, Jon Harald Søby wrote: > > > Hi all, and apologies if you receive this email several times – I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020

2020-01-20 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, How do you define diversity? Thanks, GerardM On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 13:44, Jon Harald Søby wrote: > Hi all, and apologies if you receive this email several times – I will be > posting it to multiple mailing lists. > > Wikimedia Norge would like to organize a regional Wikimedia Diversit

[Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020

2020-01-20 Thread Jon Harald Søby
Hi all, and apologies if you receive this email several times – I will be posting it to multiple mailing lists. Wikimedia Norge would like to organize a regional Wikimedia Diversity Conference in 2020 for Europe, with the hope of many other regional conferences on the same topic being held in the