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
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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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).
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Tilman Bayer
Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications)
Wikimedia Foundation
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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
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