Hi,
WikiWomenCamp starts tomorrow in Buenoes Aires. It is the first women in
wikimedia empowerment related conference in the movement's history. A major
thanks are owed to Wikimedia Argentina for hosting and Wikimedia Australia
and Wikimedia Deutschland for providing scholarships that have allowed
women from all over the globe to attend. Representatives have come from
Spain, India, Cambodia, Portugual, Germany, Russia, South Africa,
Indonesia, Canada, Argentina and Australia. (apologies to anyone I missed.)
Sue Gardner will also show up and be presenting at the gendergap conference
immediately following the conference.
We've been staggering in since Friday night. The energy in our early get
togethers in a social sense has been fantastic and largely free of stress.
:) we've already started to have fantastic conversations About possibly
doing future projects together. (It might be fun to try to do something in
Russia for the 2014 Olympics/Paralympics.) we have had conversations on
copyright and how local copyrights impact the ability to do projects like
WikiLovesMonuments, discussed stupid names for potential projects we would
like to do... Like WikiLovesWar. We have discussed local responses to the
camp and re-affirmed the need to host this event, discusses with pride how
we managed to get these fantastic women to Argwntina for this conference
with less than six months of planning and a limites budget and visa issues,
discussed our GLAM work and apologizes for toes we may have inadvertently
stepped on recently. We met with our facilitators and began to translate
things from French into English which taught new comers more about open
space. We looked at the venue space. The non-Spanish speakers have tried to
learn some local words. We learned a word or two of Russian and Portuguese.
:)
Sincerely,
Laura Hale
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Dell held their annual summit this week in Europe. They hired a
moderator for the opening day named Mads Christensen who is a media
personality that is described as "very conservative" and this also is
regarding his views towards women.
Excerpts from a blog by a woman who attended:
" So here I am at Dell's huge and very professional summit with founder
Michael Dell, top people from Microsoft and Intel, impressive power
points, expensive commercials, matching polyester ties and all that
jazz, and then the -- by Dell chosen -- moderator starts to rejoice the
lack of women in the room. /"The IT business is one of the last
frontiers that manages to keep women out. The quota of women to men in
your business is sound and healthy"/ he says. /"What are you actually
doing here?"/ he adds to the few women who are actually present in the
room./"
"/ Dell's moderator continues talking about his two Rolex watches and he
then presents the next speaker from Intel. After the break Mads
Christensen shares with us his whole "show" about the bitchy women who
want's to steal the power in politics, boards and the home. "Science" he
calls it and mentions that all the great inventions come from men. /"We
can thank women for the rolling pin"/ he adds. And then the moderator
of the day finishes of by asking all (men) in the room to promise him
that they will go home and say "Shut up bitch!"."
http://elektronista.dk/kommentar/dresscode-blue-tie-and-male/
I feel sick to my stomach.
-Sarah
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Hi,
I had a chance to chat with some one today who is involved in the public
sector about the potential importance of Wikimedia related projects to
developing dialog, resources related to, and having a larger societal
impact on women as it pertains to women's related coverage on Wikimedia
related projects. Page views are one way to measure, and exposure for
women's topics on the front page of Wikipedia through Featured Article, Did
You Know, Featured Picture and In The News is certainly valuable in terms
of total page views on the day for that content but the value is not very
clear from a return on investment point of view. The same can even be said
about taking an article from Stub to C class. There is some inherent value
in doing this, but institutionally, getting support for it can be
problematic unless you can begin to figure out a tangible way of assessing
the value that can justify institutional resources into a project that is
nominally for a greater good of promoting a topic such as women's health,
women's sport, women's rights by just improving the ease of access to
reliably sourced, neutral materials that adequately cover these topics.
Has anyone done any research on or developed a framework work doing
research to measure the impact of Wikipedia and its projects on thought
formation and how to measure the influence of Wikipedia in our society?
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In the United States, and many other countries[1] it is Mother's Day
today! So happy Mother's Day to those here and beyond who edit Wikipedia
and related projects. And if it is not Mother's Day where you live, take
this as a well wish!
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Interesting story about the founding of Mother's Day:
Mother's Day was "founded" by Anna Jarvis, who held a memorial for her
mother who founded the Mothers' Day Work Clubs. These clubs cared for
Union and Confederate soldiers, regardless of affiliation (keepin' it
neutral! ;) ) during the American Civil War. Jarvis held a memorial,
and decided to make Mother's Day a national holiday.
Many of us often send flowers, have brunch or bring mom a nice gift.
Jarvis disliked how commercialized Mother's Day became:
" A printed card means nothing except that you are too lazy to write to
the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the world. And candy!
You take a box to Mother---and then eat most of it yourself. A pretty
sentiment."[2]
Touche! Jarvis also remained unmarried and childfree until her death.
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Her home is on the National Register of Historic Places and we need a
photo for the article. Perhaps there is a Wiki Loves MOMuments challenge
here ;) (Ba-du-dum..)
Happy Mother's Day!
-Sarah
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day#Dates_around_the_world
(scroll down a bit)
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Jarvis
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Hi everyone,
Please welcome Wikipedian User:Cindamuse as our new co-moderator on the
list. Cindy has been involved in Wikipedia for just over 5 years and is
most active on English Wikipedia. She is highly active in the Global
Education Program and has helped shape the program as a volunteer on
various committees. She's a professional writer and is highly active in
women's human rights programs in the North America, Southeast Asia, and
Western Europe. She's quite a force to be reckoned with when it comes to
the passion of women's rights, minding the gap and Wikipedia.
Thanks Cindy for volunteering to join the moderator team for this list,
and please give Cindy a warm "thank you" and welcome!
You can visit Cindy's userpage here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cindamuse
-Sarah
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Hey everybody,
a friend of mine sent me a notice: the Wikipedia article "Cumshot" has a
picture which in my humble opinion is nothing else than pornography.
once again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumshot
I already tried to delete it from the German Wikipedia - but its being
restored immediately ...
there has already been a great discussion about it in the German
Wikipedia (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskussion:Cumshot) and its the
usual thing: moralty, a narrowed mind and everything is being used
against critics of the picture...
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskussion:Cumshot
its almost the same in the English Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cum_shot arguing you need to have it,
because it's an encyclopedia - to me seems really bizarre.
I really doubt, that there is ANY need for a picture in articles like
this one.
I really doubt if there is ANY need of the article... but I would be
able to get along with it. accept it. especially if it has - like the
English one has, the German one not - a more deeper view of the
intellectual discussion, like the critique of Dworkin und the answer of
Moore. (And I really like to have this in the German Wikipedia too -
when i find the time, I'm going to edit it).
So what do you think could be done, that articles like this are not seen
as an invitation and perfect explanation for using pornographic
pictures... ?
Maybe we can come back to some points Sue Gardner made several Months
ago (talking about the picture of the naked woman in the pregnancy
article): What are the quality-rules we want to have for Wikipedia, to
make it an encyclopedia? what kind of picturing does a good encyclopedia
need - which not?
Maybe the best way of discussing such issues really is from a neutral
point of view and generally discussed for all kinds of pictures - not
only those few pornographic examples.
Katrin
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Meine Kolumne beim Freitag <http://www.freitag.de/community/blogs/katrin>
Hilfskraft am Lehrstuhl für Politische Theorie
<http://www.social-science.hu-berlin.de/lehrbereiche/theorie-der-politik/mit…>
Just thought I should pass this on.
Today, Wikimedia UK elected its first female director: Joscelyn
Upendran is the Public Project Lead for Creative Commons UK.
In addition, three other women stood for election to the board.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: James Farrar <james.farrar(a)gmail.com>
Date: 12 May 2012 18:50
Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Election and resolution results
To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Dear all,
Here are the results of the resolutions and elections held at the
Wikimedia UK AGM today:
Resolutions
1. Change of name: passed with 2 votes against and 4 abstentions
2. Registration in Scotland: passed with 1 vote against and 5 abstentions
3. Increasing the term of Board members: passed with 46 votes in
favour, 10 against and 5 abstentions
4. Membership fees: passed without objection (1 abstention)
5. Appoint Board members: passed without objection (2 abstentions)
6. Approve 2011 accounts: passed without objection (7 abstentions)
7. Approve 2012 accounts: withdrawn
8. Re-appoint auditors: passed without objection (6 abstentions)
Please note that for all resolutions except number 3, the actual tally
of votes in favour was not kept as the show of hands and number of
proxy votes given to the Tellers was sufficient to show an
overwhelming majority in favour.
Election of Board members
The number of votes given for each candidate was as follows:
Christopher Keating 52
Michael Peel 50
Ashley Van Haeften 49
Joscelyn Upendran 48
John Byrne 46
Roger Bamkin 46
Doug Taylor 40
Steve Virgin 38
Saad Choudri 34
Roshana Gammampila 27
Katie Chan 26
Alison Fayers-Kerr 11
Christopher Allen 10
Thomas Nichols 6
Gary Hayes 2
Junior Campbell 1
The total number of votes cast was 61, and therefore candidates
required a minimum of 31 votes to be eligible for election.
Therefore Christopher Keating, Michael Peel, Ashley Van Haeften,
Joscelyn Upendran,John Byrne, Roger Bamkin and Doug Taylor have been
duly elected to serve as Directors of Wikimedia UK.
James Farrar
For and on behalf of the Tellers
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Dear colleagues,
As for the 'Wikipedia: Mailing Lists' page [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mailing_lists ] I too would expect to see the gendergap list there. I propose it be described as follows - anyone can improve it, please - as this is wordy...:
"gendergap list focuses on female contributors' concerns, and topics likely to be of interest to people who are female, identify female, and those with particular interest in female voices. The female perspective is and was historically - and even in Wikipedia - minimized in multivariate ways not (yet) well understood. As such, gendergap is intended to be a safe place for controversial or difficult ideas and values."
KS Rolph
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> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. interesting data for study? glass ceiling - or glass floor?
> (koltzenburg(a)w4w.net)
> 2. add gendergap list? / what stats hide (koltzenburg(a)w4w.net)
> 3. Re: add gendergap list? / what stats hide (B?ria Lima)
>
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 06:31:40 +0100
> From: koltzenburg(a)w4w.net
> To: gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Gendergap] interesting data for study? glass ceiling - or
> glass floor?
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> Hi @all,
>
> I recently mailed an inquiry to a wikipedia list and it seems to me that the thread that ensued might be
> interesting data for study, possibly in the light of gender gap issues
>
> the thread starts here: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/pywikipedia-l/2012-May/007514.html
>
> btw, let me know if you have any idea (or know of someone who might have) for the actual topic of my
> inquiry, I mean: how to figure out the right query and where start the query etc.
>
> thanks & cheers,
> Claudia
> koltzenburg(a)w4w.net
>
>
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