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
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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.
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
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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.
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
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Francesca Tripodi, PhD Candidate (Sociology)
PhD Intern | Office of the Dean of Students
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
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
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
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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