Gendergap November 2012

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Meritocracy, the next generation
by Lennart Guldbrandsson 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

Hello, I am part of the organizing committe at FSCONS, a very cool conference that started off as a free software conference, but now has tracks on free licences and free culture as well, and some Wikimedia presence as well. This year, I found this gem in the schedule under the header "Meritocracy, next generation" (https://fscons.org/2012/schedule/session/meritocracy-next-generation-part-1/): "In the YAPC conference 2012, Michael G Schwern held a keynote speech on "how good, but homogenous, people can create an unwelcoming community without realizing it". Serengeti invites to a seminar, where we watch that keynote speech together and discus its implications. The seminar is divided into two sessions, which can be attended separately. Michael G Schwern writes about the speech: "This is my 'secret' diversity talk aimed at the guys and focusing on how good, but homogenous, people can create an unwelcoming community without realizing it. The solution lies in restructuring how we make decisions, it lies in Kirk vs Picard. And anybody can be a Picard." Further reading can be had at http://bit.ly/YAPC2012_Keynote The video is published at Youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAOxGjNbp_Y" The video is... interesting. "I can make a bet that there's more Michaels here than women." is but one of the quotes. Best wishes, Lennart Guldbrandsson Personlig blogg Presentation Mobil: 070 - 207 80 05

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Minneapolis Wikipedians
by Sarah Stierch 16 Nov '12

16 Nov '12

Hi everyone, The Minnesota Historical Society is hoping to do an edit-a-thon geared towards the participation of women and minorities. They're looking for any Wikipedians in the Minneapolis area and I'd love to have some WikiWomen involved. If you're located in the area, please ping me off list and I can connect you with the staff at the museum. It should be a cool event! Thanks! Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Museumist and open culture advocate/* >>Visit sarahstierch.com <http://sarahstierch.com><<

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Fwd: [Feministsf] FW: Coverage Con: 11/13: Geena Davis Event/ New Study on Gender Roles in Popular TV and FIlm
by Michael J. Lowrey 10 Nov '12

10 Nov '12

MEDIA ADVISORY GEENA DAVIS CONVENES THIRD SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER IN MEDIA Institute Will Present New Study on Gender Roles and Occupations in Media from USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism (Los Angeles)-The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media will host its third Symposium at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 from 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm. The Symposium will bring together leading CEOs, executives and content creators from both commercial and public television, and feature and documentary film, to showcase best practices on how to increase representation and create diverse portrayals of women and girls in popular media. Academy Award -Winning Actor and Founder Geena Davis will host the event. A new research study commissioned by the Institute will be presented by Dr. Stacy Smith, from the USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism, that analyzes gender roles and occupations of female characters in popular TV and film. "The results of this groundbreaking study will center the day's conversation on how female characters are portrayed, and dramatically absent from critical career occupations such as politics, corporate leadership and STEM careers. This data will provide great insights on opportunities for the entertainment community to greatly influence and inspire our children to consider non-stereotypical career paths," said Ms. Davis. In addition, the event will include two panels, one featuring executives from children's film and TV programming, and a second panel focusing on the representation of women in general audience TV and Film programming, featuring content creators and creative executives. The event is co-presented with ITVS-the Independent Television Service and its Women and Girls Lead campaign, and Variety, along with other partners. WHAT: The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, Third Symposium on Gender in Media WHEN: Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 3:00pm-6:00pm (reception to follow) WHERE: SLS Hotel, Beverly Hills 465 South La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048/ (310) 247-0400 WHO: . Geena Davis, Madeline Di Nonno (Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media) . Bonnie Arnold (DreamWorks Animation) . Meredith Averill ("The Good Wife", CBS) . Kim Berglund (PBS Kids) . Maria Hall Brown (PBS SoCal) . Ingrid Haas (writer/producer/actor) . Mary McNamara (LA Times) . Michelle Murdocca (Sony Animation) . Chris Nee (Disney Junior) . Nicole Newnham (Revolutionary Optimists) . Jamie Roberts (Disney Animation) . Dr. Stacy Smith (USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism) . Halle Stanford (The Jim Henson Company) . Amy Ziering (The Invisible War) The Symposium is made possible with support from: ITVS, CPB, Variety, Zion's Bank, National Cable and Telecommunications Association, CBS, and The Walt Disney Studios. PRESS CONTACT: Tiffany Woolf tiffany_woolf(a)itvs.org _______________________________________________ Feministsf mailing list Feministsf(a)lists.feministsf.net http://lists.feministsf.net/listinfo.cgi/feministsf-feministsf.net -- Michael J. "Orange Mike" Lowrey "When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes." -- Desiderius Erasmus

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WikiWomen's Collaborative Report (Phase 1)
by Sarah Stierch 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

Hi everyone, I have released my report about phase one of the WikiWomen's Collaborative. You can find it here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiWomen%27s_Collaborative/Phase_… Any comments or concerns should take place on wiki, preferably. Thank you! (And if you want to get involved, let me know :D) Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Museumist and open culture advocate/* >>Visit sarahstierch.com <http://sarahstierch.com><<

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WikiProject: Women scientists
by Sarah Stierch 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

Hi everyone, A few of us have started a new project on English Wikipedia. We'll have a blog post soon about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_scientists I encourage you in your preferred language to do the same. I'm hoping, when time allows (whenever that is!) to start a Women artists project, too! -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Museumist and open culture advocate/* >>Visit sarahstierch.com <http://sarahstierch.com><<

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Wikipedia Women Workshop in Mumbai Report
by Krutikaa Jawanjal 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

A Day Spent well. The Wikipedia Women Workshop which took place on November, 4th 2012 in Vidyalankar Institute of Technology (VIT), Wadala was indeed a success. The people who volunteered in organizing this workshop were Bishakha Datta, Moksh Juneja, Karthik Nadar, Pranav Curumsey, Pradeep Mohandas, Anshuman Fotedar, Aditi Juneja, Harriet Vidyasagar, Nikita Belavate, Netra Parikh, Noopur Raval, Netha Hussain. All discussions and planning done while organizing this workshop for women paid off. In all, 70+ women participants attended the workshop. The workshop started with a short introduction after which, wasting no time, the women participants moved on to learning how to edit Wikipedia which was though by the present on ground volunteers. The participants were were divided in groups and every group had to create a new article which wasn't already available on Wikipedia. In the process, women interacted with the volunteers, asked question regarding Wikipedia. Every group at least had added introduction to the new article. Having done with the basic editing, a general presentation on Wikipedia was given by some of the volunteers. This was followed by question and answers regarding the same. By this time, it was already 1.30pm, so the lunch was announced. After having lunch, the participants got back to their seats. Pretty much everybody stayed back post lunch. Moksh continued with teaching how to edit Wikipedia. This time it wasn't it in groups though. "References" and "Notability" were the main topics that were covered in this session. Anshuman and Karthik then proceeded with teaching photo uploads on Wikipedia. Quiz was conducted towards the end and Wikipedia-Tshirts were given as prizes for giving right answers. Karthik, then also showcased the winning images of Wiki Loves Momunents 2012 India. The long day came to an end with an overwhelming response and a call for organizing many such activities. The feedback received was positive. The participants enjoyed the workshop. We are thankful to everybody who made this event a great one. Thanks to all the volunteers. Special thanks to Moksh and Karthik who went out of the way to get everything arranged before hand at the venue, to Netha and Noopur for making it to the workshop and for working hand in hand with the Mumbai Community, to Srikanth Ramakrishnan who constantly stayed in touch for online help. Special thanks to whole Vidyalankar team. Vishwas Deshpande, Founder of Vidyalankar, who gave us an opportunity to to do the Mumbai's first Wiki Workshop for Women at Vidyalankar. Milind Tadvalkar (Director) and Seema Shah (Principal), Jayprakash Kurmi and Vivek and the complete IT Team at VIT, Mahesh from Canteen for an awesome Pav Bhaji for Lunch. Another thanks to Netra Parikh, for giving us enough place at her office, Pinstorm, for all out pre-meetings. Thanks to all. Regards, Krutikaa Jawanjal

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] 2012 Editor survey launched
by Sarah Stierch 03 Nov '12

03 Nov '12

FYI - and be sure to take the survey, please! It's all anonymous - it's a great idea to check your preferred gender if you so desire. This is the survey that gives us the gender gap percentage in Wikipedia. I'd love to see if the dial has moved at all since the past two years (where it's virtually been approximately 9% over all languages). Sarah -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Wikimedia-l] 2012 Editor survey launched Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:25:24 -0700 From: Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org> Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all, we have just launched the Foundation's 2012 editor survey; with invitations to participate being shown to logged-in users on Wikipedia and Commons. A few quick facts about the survey (for more refer to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Editor_Survey_2012 ): * This is the third survey of editors as envisaged in the Foundation's 2010-15 strategic plan "in order to take the pulse of the community and identify pressing issues or concerns", after the April 2011 and December 2011 surveys. * The first main purpose of this survey is to continue the work of the 2011 studies (conducted by Mani Pande and Ayush Khanna), with a focus on tracking changes since last year and identifying trends. Which is why many questions are being repeated from last time. * The second emphasis in this instance of the survey is to measure the satisfaction of the editing community with the work of the Wikimedia Foundation. * This is the first editor survey that includes a non-Wikipedia project (Commons, for the questions that are non Wikipedia-specific). * Thanks to everyone who commented on the draft questionnaire after we solicited feedback on this list and in and IRC office hour, as well as to those who commented about the last survey. We made several changes based on the feedback, and tried to reply to all concerns. * Also many thanks to all volunteer translators who reviewed or contributed translations; the questionnaire is available in 14 languages (Italian, Polish and Portuguese will launch a bit later). * As with the previous two surveys, the results will be published in the following forms: A "topline" report detailing the percentage of responses for each question, a series of posts on https://blog.wikimedia.org analyzing the results, and a data set consisting of anonymized responses which others can use to do their own analyses. This time we will also aim to produce language-specific topline reports (an approach we already tested for Chinese with the data from the December 2011 survey). -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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[NEW BLOG] Designing for connection on Wikipedia: An interview with Heather Falls
by Sarah Stierch 03 Nov '12

03 Nov '12

Heather talks about the designing of the Teahouse, the WikiWomen's Collaborative logo, and the gender gap. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/02/designing-for-connection-on-wikipedia… Designing for connection on Wikipedia: An interview with Heather Walls <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/02/designing-for-connection-on-wikipedia…> Posted by Siko Bouterse <https://blog.wikimedia.org/author/siko/> on November 2nd, 2012 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TH_palette.jpg> Teahouse design palette When Heather Walls <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Heatherawalls> designed the Wikipedia Teahouse <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse>, she was inspired by the name to create a space with "a sort of zen feeling" where new editors could relax, have a cup of tea, and get help learning the ropes from experienced Wikipedians. Her design for the Teahouse, which is full of gentle colors and images of people and nature, aims to create a "softer entry point to Wikipedia, where you can see there are other humans, and they're the ones talking to you." When she's asked about the project or about her work as a visual designer, Walls often comes back to the theme of human connection. "The Teahouse gives people a chance to see each other, to see that Wikipedia is other human beings," she said. "I love watching the hosts give patient and supportive answers to all kinds of questions, and how thankful guests are in return." In the eight months since it was launched on English Wikipedia, new and experienced editors have come to enjoy the Teahouse's warm atmosphere. "It's surprising how relaxing the site design is," said Teahouse host Writ Keeper. "I'm not an artsy type...so I never would've thought that site design would make such a difference, but it does." Walls says what she likes best about all the projects that she works on is the purpose and dedication of the people involved. "My hope is that as many people as possible can feel ownership of this mission." In 2011, Walls started contracting with the Wikimedia Foundation, creating outreach materials for hackathons and recruitment, and soon moved on to projects like Teahouse, Wikipedia mobile, a Funds Dissemination Committee portal <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal>, and a portal for new editors <http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%…> on Arabic Wikipedia. With a background in architecture and a degree from Harvard Graduate School of design, she has experience designing both real and virtual spaces. She's also an active Wikipedia editor in her spare time, patrolling new pages and serving as a host in the Teahouse. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WWC-02.png> WikiWomen's Collaborative logo The WikiWomen's Collaborative <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen%27s_Collaborative> logo--which features an image of hands forming a "W" shape--is another one of Walls's designs that focuses on people finding common ground. The WikiWomen's Collaborative project supports women's participation in the Wikimedia movement by celebrating inclusivity and diversity, and this ideal brought some challenges to the design process. "We were definitely going for not-pink," says Walls, "though this logo can be any color and it doesn't change the recognition." The idea for the logo came from a photo <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiWomen%27s_Lunch,_Wikimania_2012.…> taken at the WikiWomen's lunch at Wikimania in 2012, where over 100 women from around the world gathered. "Looking through our hands creates a sort of window we share," she said. "We do things with our hands, everyone around the world, we have that in common. The WikiWomen's Collaborative is about women everywhere contributing to the voice of the world." Addressing Wikipedia's gender gap is, at it's core, about widening representation and incorporating more perspectives into the sum of human knowledge. Walls recognizes the unique perspective that she brings to her own design practice. "Every individual brings their experiences, and as a woman I do have a different viewpoint. My view and experience, the fact that I have learned to understand the importance of invitation, that is in what I do now, even if a project is not specifically aimed at women." <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:06_Heather_Walls_-_Wikimedia_Foundat…> Wikimedia Designer Heather Walls Proving that a Wikimedian's work is never done, Walls just completed a redesign of the Teahouse to make it even easier for guests to find the help they need. "As we added features and explanations to the main pages of the Teahouse over time, simplicity and some of the visibility of the Teahouse organization was lost." Some editors were attached to her old design and initially opposed the updated version, and Walls said she also felt some nostalgia while rolling out the changes. Ultimately, thanks to lots of community input, the original colors and Teahouse logo were retained in the new design, because they play an important role in the emotional connection users have with these pages on Wikipedia. Come stop by for a cup of wiki-tea in the newly revamped Teahouse <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse> on English Wikipedia, or visit the WikiWomen's Collaborative on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/WikiWomensCollaborative> to continue the conversation. Heather Walls and other WikiWomen look forward to meeting you there! /Siko Bouterse, Head of Community Fellowships/ * Copyright notes: "TH palette.jpg" <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TH_palette.jpg> by Heather Walls, under CC-BY-SA 2.5 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/>, from Wikimedia Commons, "T06_Heather_Walls_-_Wikimedia_Foundation_04.jpg" <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:06_Heather_Walls_-_Wikimedia_Foundat…> by Guillaume Paumier, under CC-BY-3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en>, from Wikimedia Commons, "WWC-02.png" <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WWC-02.png> by Heather Walls, under CC-BY-3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en>, from Wikimedia Commons Categories: Profiles <https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/communications/profiles/>, WikiWomen <https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/community/wikiwomen/> -- *Sarah Stierch* */Museumist and open culture advocate/* >>Visit sarahstierch.com <http://sarahstierch.com><<

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