https://sourceable.net/advocates-for-women-architects-battle-wikipedia-trol…
.....
According to event organizer Lori A. Brown, one of the event organizers
and an associate professor of the Syracuse University School of
Architecture
<https://sourceable.net/womens-architecture-survey-reveals-rise-in-discrimin…>,
the project was a timely response to online trolls in the Wikipedia
community who would seek to diminish the contribution of women to the
architecture profession.
“We realized it is time to take action,” said Brown, pointing to “a
friend’s experience this summer linguistically wrestling with Wikipedia
editing trolls who were doing their utmost to un-write women out of a
certain section of activism.”
....
CM DC
Cool!
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From: Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin(a)wikimediadc.org>
Date: Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:54 AM
Subject: [wikimedia-dc-internal] Wikipedian-in-Residence at West Virginia
University Libraries
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Hi everyone,
FYI, West Virginia University Libraries are planning to set up a
Wikipedian-in-Residence program focused on women and gender issues:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedian_in_Residence_for_…
.
I'm not sure whether they'll be funded by IEG, but we should reach out to
them in any case, given that WV is technically in our region; we would
probably want to collaborate with them in one fashion or another regardless
of the funding situation.
Cheers,
Kirill
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Hi everyone,
I would really love your feedback on my Inspire Grant proposal, "Bored with
Boards: Attract Pinterest Users to Wikipedia
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Bored_with_Boards:_Attract_Pi…>
."
The project would entail initiating a match-making program between
Wikipedia articles and women who are actively engaged in content creation
and evaluation on female-dominated social networks, such as Pinterest.
Thanks a lot!
Bored with Boards
(a.k.a. user:Hahahammond)
Dear readers of the gender gap mailing list,
My name is Lukas and I am a German Wikipedian (User:Gnom).
I recently wrote a blog post on Wikipedia and feminism
<https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Gnom/Blog#2_April_2015:_A_blog_post_….>
and was encouraged to share it with this list.
As I am very new to the gender gap debate, I would appreciate your comments.
Regards,
Lukas Mezger
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Hello everyone. The email I received says I should introduce myself, so I
guess I'll say a little something. I'm ekips39, or Spike, and I joined
this list because I'd like to help with the gender gap and this might
provide more opportunities for that. Looking forward to participating in
the mailing list if I can think of anything to say.
Hi everyone, I have been checking how we are doing on closing the gendergap
on biographies of women artists for a while. Part of the problem is
collecting the data, and Wikidata is a great help. Unfortunately there are
still lots of women artists with Wikidata items without any statements at
all, but since this is also true for male artists, looking at the stats is
useful. What I did was to collect data for all female artists and all male
artist and came up with percentages for painters versus various matched
data bases in Mix-n-Match.
Thanks to our push on Art & Feminism, the score is better (12.5%) on
Wikimedia projects than for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(10.1%). The ODNB is currently the only database that is completely
matched. The other databases are still being matched, but still, it's
interesting to see how we currently stand with those. Here are the scores:
Wikidata painters - 12.5%: 45016 male, 6430 female
RKD - 11.4%: 21809 male, 2795 female
United List of Artist Names - 8.6%: 32993 male, 3091 female
BBC Your Paintings - 7.7%: 6535 male, 545 female
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - 10.1%: 49419 male, 5581 female
http://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/
These stats were gathered this morning using Autolist:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/autolist1.html
This looks worth reading.
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between
Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture (Information Society Series)
Hardcover – February 27, 2015by Whitney Phillips
<http://smile.amazon.com/Whitney-Phillips/e/B00TR4REOK/ref=dp_byline_cont_bo…>
(Author)
http://smile.amazon.com/This-Cant-Have-Nice-Things/dp/0262028948?sa-no-redi…
"Internet trolls live to upset as many people as possible, using all the
technical and psychological tools at their disposal. They gleefully whip
the media into a frenzy over a fake teen drug crisis; they post offensive
messages on Facebook memorial pages, traumatizing grief-stricken friends
and family; they use unabashedly racist language and images. They take
pleasure in ruining a complete stranger's day and find amusement in their
victim's anguish. In short, trolling is the obstacle to a kinder, gentler
Internet. To quote a famous Internet meme, trolling is why we can't have
nice things online. Or at least that's what we have been led to believe. In
this provocative book, Whitney Phillips argues that trolling, widely
condemned as obscene and deviant, actually fits comfortably within the
contemporary media landscape. Trolling may be obscene, but, Phillips
argues, it isn't all that deviant. Trolls' actions are born of and fueled
by culturally sanctioned impulses -- which are just as damaging as the
trolls' most disruptive behaviors.
Phillips describes, for example, the relationship between trolling and
sensationalist corporate media -- pointing out that for trolls,
exploitation is a leisure activity; for media, it's a business strategy.
She shows how trolls, "the grimacing poster children for a socially
networked world," align with social media. And she documents how trolls, in
addition to parroting media tropes, also offer a grotesque pantomime of
dominant cultural tropes, including gendered notions of dominance and
success and an ideology of entitlement. We don't just have a trolling
problem, Phillips argues; we have a culture problem. *This Is Why We Can't
Have Nice Things *isn't only about trolls; it's about a culture in which
trolls thrive."
Jake (Ocaasi)