Gendergap November 2015

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Who are the nicest people on our projects ?
by Fæ 06 Feb '16

06 Feb '16

Hi, After reading an interesting related discussion on GenderGap, I have queried the top 10 users of the thanks feature last month, on both the English Wikipedia and Commons. Snapshot image attached and report link below. Perhaps someone might think of a suitable barnstar and award these folks for "being nice"? :-) Link: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:F%C3%A6/sandbox&oldid=1… P.S. This is a long query to run, taking 20 to 30 minutes due to the nature of the logging tables. However if someone wanted to make a monthly summary on-wiki somewhere, part of an active "be nice" campaign, I would be happy to set up an automated monthly report (if someone discovers this is already reported somewhere, that's cool we can use that). Fae -- faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae

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Arbcom election
by Ryan Kaldari 02 Dec '15

02 Dec '15

Just a head's up that the ArbCom election has started and you can now officially go vote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/398 Members of this list may be interested in Smallbones' voter guide for the election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Smallbones/ACE2015 It focuses mainly on candidate's positions regarding harassment and bullying, especially towards women editors, although it also considers other qualifications such as experience and consistency.

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Re: [Gendergap] [LGBT] Arbcom election
by Fæ 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

Thanks for highlighting it. Unfortunately there are a lot of pages to wade through with user questions, so things like being a woman or identifying as LGBT are handy things to mention in passing in the candidate statement. It certainly would influence my vote... I agree, as this is a critical part of the election this year it would be interesting to see an aggregation of gender and LGBT stats, or a "diversity index", for candidates and the eventual Arbcom elected, and to see this compared to past years. Perhaps if someone is writing up a Signpost article they could include this small bit of research? ;-) Fae On 24 November 2015 at 04:42, LFaraone <wikipedia(a)luke.wf> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 at 04:21 Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> This year sees a much more interesting selection of candidates, though >> a lack of any *openly* LGBT candidates as far as I could tell from the >> statements. > > > Several candidates (myself included) mentioned our queerness in our > responses to the demographics questions asked by some editors. I don't know > if there's been any on-wiki aggregation of that data, however. > > -- Luke // LFaraone -- faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae

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Wikimania 2016: your inputs for gender gap program
by Bishakha Datta 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

Dear all, The organizers of Wikimania 2016 Esino Lario have asked a number of thematic liaisons to contribute to the evolution of the program. I am the thematic liaison for the Gender Gap program. The role of the thematic liaisons is spelt out in more detail here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_bids/Esino_Lario/Program/Lia… In brief, each liaison is expected to focus on "what their group/community is interested in listening to." >From this perspective, I am writing to ask members of this list to input into the gender gap program for Wikimania 2016 by answering three questions: 1. What would you like to learn about the gender gap during Wikimania 2016? 2. What would you like to teach others about the gender gap during Wikimania 2016? 3. Who would be a good 'user digest speaker' for the gender gap community? A 'user digest speaker' is expected to provide an overview of what the gender gap community is about and what is going on in this community. Please do share your thoughts around any or all of these questions - either on this list - or by emailing me. If meta feels like a better place to have this discussion, I can start a page there - this seemed like an obvious starting point to me. Best Bishakha PS: I stepped off the WMF Board in Dec 2014 - the gender gap is something I've always been interested in, so I volunteered to be a thematic liaison.

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Research on Edit-a-Thons
by Francesca Tripodi 19 Nov '15

19 Nov '15

Hello wonderful list members - I had written previously in the hopes of reaching out to Wikipedians who have been involved in Edit-a-Thons who would be interested in participating in my research. Now that my research has been approved by Wikipedia - I'd like to reach out again. I am only in need of about 10 more interviews so if any of you have some time to discuss Edit-a-Thons and the content gap more generally, I'd appreciate it. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia,_Edit-a-Thons,_and_Integ… Warmly - Francesca -- Francesca Tripodi, PhD Candidate (Sociology) PhD Intern | Office of the Dean of Students

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[Gender Gap] Call for Participation in Study on Wiki Women
by Danielle J McDonald 18 Nov '15

18 Nov '15

Hi all, I'm currently conducting some research on self-identified women editors and their experiences on Wikipedia. I know that there have been a few studies on Wiki/GG swirling around lately, but there's still so much more that needs to be known about the experiences of Wiki women. This information is vital to making Wikipedia a more inclusive place! If you are an editor who 1) self-identifies as a woman in Wikipedia, 2) has been actively editing for 3+ years, and 3) would be willing to be interviewed about your experiences, please consider participating. The interview would take place over Skype, phone, or email, and your involvement would be voluntary, confidential, and much appreciated! For more information or to participate in the study, please email Danielle at mcdona51(a)purdue.edu. Warm regards, Danielle Corple Research Assistant, Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence Graduate Teaching Assistant, Brian Lamb School of Communication Purdue University Office: Beering 2167

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Re: [Gendergap] [Gender Gap] Call for Participation in Study on Wiki Women
by Danielle J McDonald 18 Nov '15

18 Nov '15

Hi Pine and Michal, Pine, thanks for the information about the research committee! I will definitely check it out. Michal, I'm sorry for not clarifying at the outset. I'm looking for ENWP women editors. Thanks! Danielle Danielle McDonald Corple Research Assistant, Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence Graduate Teaching Assistant, Brian Lamb School of Communication Purdue University Office: Beering 2167

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Evaluation report: under what conditions are US university students likely to edit Wikipedia?
by Pine W 17 Nov '15

17 Nov '15

Recent info thanks to Wiki Ed and WMF Eval that will inform future endeavors at Cascadia Wikimedians: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Newsletter/2015/2/6#Aweso… Comments welcome! Pine

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Re: [Gendergap] [Wiki-research-l] abuse and online game communities
by Pine W 13 Nov '15

13 Nov '15

Very interesting article, thanks Toby. Forwarding this on. I particularly like this paragraph: "As a result of these governance systems changing online cultural norms, incidences of homophobia, sexism and racism in League of Legends have fallen to a combined 2 percent of all games. Verbal abuse has dropped by more than 40 percent, and 91.6 percent of negative players change their act and never commit another offense after just one reported penalty." Pine On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Toby Negrin <tnegrin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Although this is probably less research-y than usual posts to this list > but I thought the use of ML to analyze a community curated corpus of > positive and negative online behavior was interesting: > > > http://recode.net/2015/07/07/doing-something-about-the-impossible-problem-o… > > -Toby > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >

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Re: [Gendergap] Call for Participation: 2016 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
by Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight 10 Nov '15

10 Nov '15

In addition to the Women in Science, WikiProject Women in Red (WiR) has hosted 3 other virtual edit-a-thons since its founding in July: 1. APA Women - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Women_in_Red/1 2. Women in Leadership - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Women_in_Red/2 3. Women in Architecture and Design - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Women_in_Red/3 Some of WiR's events are sponsored by an organization (Smithsonian, Guggenheim, Art+Feministm), while others aren't. WiR is an Art+Feminism collaborator... we're hosting the online/virtual event during the entire month of March. And we're planning for other events, such as Women in Religion (December), at our Ideas Cafe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Women_in_Red/Events Specifically regarding women in politics, we covered quite a few of them at the Women in Leadership virtual event, but if there's interest in addressing this subtopic, WiR would gladly do a virtual edit-a-thon for Women in Politics (perhaps around the 2016 US elections). WiR events typically run for 10 days, crossing over two weekends. But the current event (Scientists) is running for 21 days, and the first one (APA women) ran for 3 days. But what's become typical of our events is that editors jump in before and/or after the "official" dates and create new articles whenever they please. Metrics? The outcomes, listed on each event's page, give you an idea of the good stuff we're doing. Jump in! Rosie Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight User:Rosiestep Twitter @rosiestep Skype rosiestep

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