Hi everyone,
I recently mentioned the idea of the "Mind the Gap" barnstar/award. The term
"mind the gap" is in reference to the warning set forth by the London
underground to warn people to make sure they pay attention the space between
the train door and the station platform (learn more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_the_gap).
*Are you a designer? Or do you know a designer* who would be happy to
volunteer their time to creating an award for Wikimedians who work hard to
close the gap within Wikimedia through outreach, welcoming, standing up for
others, writing about and maintaining women's articles or related images,
and forth....?
Here is the original "Mind the Gap" logo...which I believe is under
copyright?:http://www.earthpm.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/mind_the_gap.p…
Here is a cool feminist spin on it:
http://londonstudentfeminists.blogspot.com/
Another fun piece of inspiration - the German women's movement logo of the
1970: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Womanpower_logo.svg
I tried to develop something myself, but, my own skills are rather pathetic
in regards to design. I will award you with a barnstar of your own and a
beer if I ever meet you (or a beverage of your choice) - or the designer you
recruit!! And of course fanatically praise the awesome-ness you or the
designer are through Twitter, Wikipedia, mailing lists and beyond.. <3
THANK YOU for your consideration!
-Sarah Stierch
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Hi Folks - I just posted my thoughts on a "Change the Ratio" campaign for
Wikipedia<http://1x57.com/2011/09/30/changing-the-ratio-wikipedias-battle-for-diversi…>,
that includes a logo my company created with the design help of JESS3 (who
did that State of Wikipedia video: http://jess3.com/the-state-of-wikipedia/
).
In it I mention a Facebook event that I'll be promoting this weekend for
people to change their profile pic to the Change the Ratio logo on Ada
Lovelace day (one week from today, Friday Oct 7):
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154261054664442
I'd love to hear your thoughts/comments. There have been so many great ideas
generated on how to address the gendergap issue. I'd love to see more people
executing ideas at the grassroots level and seeing what works:)
Best,
Amy
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Hi folks,
I'm wondering if anyone here has examples of articles that contain
potentially-objectionable imagery being significantly improved
following normal discussion among editors?
I'm looking for examples of good editorial judgment being exercised in
the normal article improvement processes -- like, an upskirt image
being removed from the 'skirt' article, or, commercial porn being
replaced by images that are more informative/educational. That kind of
thing.
I know that kind of editing happens all the time -- I'm hoping people
here can point me towards particularly good examples.
Thanks,
Sue
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Hi everyone,
As Sue mentioned, I am the co-moderator for the list. Thanks Sue for
entrusting me with such.
This list has been a remarkable place for brainstorming, sharing opinions,
discussion, rabble rousing, and inspiring for many - active or not - who
subscribe. While we have had some really intense and emotional discussions,
and we have lost a few subscribers because of it, I know personally, I have
found the first safe place in the Wiki-world where I can be myself, share my
thoughts, and partner with fellow Wikimedians passionate about not only
closing the gender gap, but other subjects. This list has been highly
productive, and in the next few months we have the opportunity to develop
policy and documentation changes that will allow for a better and healthier
community within Wikimedia as a whole, and look at what we're doing - we are
already planning outreach programs, we're examining what makes this problem
exist and how representation is being handled in Wikimedia projects. We
might not be the first, but, we surely are make firsts.
On that note - this week has been high strung for sure. We've seen heads
butt and words used that aren't always the nicest (and I'm guilty at that
also!).
I think the best thing we can do to keep this list drama free (at least, in
poo-slinging manner) is to take a look at WP:Civility. While it's not
perfect, and I understand not every culture, community or Wikipedian might
agree with it - I do think that it can provide a nice skeleton for the
mailing list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Civility without having
to develop a "special" set of rules.
For me, *this is about respect, good manners, good conversation/argument,
and wikilove - and a revolution. And being nice is not hard,* and a good
argument (in that passionate over a bottle of wine type of way) can be
friendly and healthy - so let's remember that.
In the past week we've seen things that some might categorize as "personal
attacks <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks>,
rudeness, disrespectful comments, and aggressive behaviours that disrupt the
project and lead to unproductive stress and conflict." (From WP:Civility)
We're all rather mature people here, and I think we need to remember - we
are colleagues in a way - this is research, exploration, and education - the
activity and behavior that we've seen and some (including me) have
participated in over the past week is not healthy or normal for educational
environments (sorry people we're writing an encyclopedia/dictionary/media
library/etc., here!). Much of it is the type of behavior that we have been
complaining about that takes place on other mailing lists and on-Wiki.
So, let's all have a big breather and remember that some of us will
disagree, that some of us might not (always) like each other, and return to
being civil, understanding, creative and passionate about closing the gender
gap!
Thanks everyone,
Sarah
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Hi folks,
This past weekend, two people wrote me off-list to say they're planning to
unsubscribe because they don't like the fightiness we've seen over the past
week here. And a number of people have commented off-list and on, about how
this list is normally more constructive than foundation-l. I have the
impression that people appreciate the constructive tone, and would like to
retain it.
So I wanted to say a couple of things about that.
One, this isn't my list, and I'm not going to moderate it. I did ask for
this list to be created, and I've been really happy to see good, useful
conversation here. But I created it for you, and it's up to you what kind of
standards you want to have here.
Second: typically, the Wikimedia community is pretty hands-off when it comes
to behavioural standards on its lists. Personally I think that's a mistake.
We've seen how it's played out on for example foundation-l: over time,
destructive behaviour, if unmoderated, tends to drive out constructive
discussion. Maintaining a productive, collegial environment takes time and
effort: people need to want it, and they need to be committed to achieving
it.
A couple of months ago, I asked Sarah Stierch to help me administer this
list. AFAIK, she's the only other list owner, at the moment. So I am going
to leave this question in her hands, and in the hands of subscribers here.
It's up to you, what kind of space you want this to be. I'd encourage you to
talk about it :-)
Thanks,
Sue
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Romsey Town
Rollerbillies<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Romsey_Town_Ro…>
If people are interested, can they weigh in one way or another on that
article for deletion request? Just one of those tricky issues of how to
come down on that, with the possibility of setting bad precedent either way
and it could probably use more opinions.
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On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Michael J. Lowrey <orangemike(a)gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Back in the day, I was the Wise Old Man (early 20s) who
> dungeonmastered for a bunch of high-school boys in the Nashville
> Science Fiction club. I was careful to put several traps into my
> dungeon which switched genders on their player characters, and used
> the results to do some consciousness-raising on issues ranging from
> menstruation to rape.
>
> I take no real credit for the fact that one of those kids is now a
> multiple Hugo-winner (8 nominations, 3 wins, I think) who handles
> women characters pretty well.
>
That's pretty awesome (especially the outcome - a Hugo winner, nice!). My
first paid job was at a gaming store called The Game Preserve, and yes, I
peddled dice, Magic cards, tarot decks, RPG books and board games to gamers
for two years. Then again, I also had a compute in my bedroom by the time I
was 10 and was raised by my father, so I suppose I have a little bit of a
different "growing up" than some.
I haven't played D&D and whatnot in 10+ years, but every now and again I
have a craving for pizza, geek parlaying, deciding who walks in what order
into a dungeon and celebrating the fact that now I can buy beer legally and
not have to beg the older kid in the group to go buy it for us. Sadly, out
of my youth I don't know any Hugo-winners personally.
Perhaps we need to add a AD&D game into the mix after the netball game
Kaldari, Pete and I were joking about putting together. Heh.
-Sarah
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