Gendergap April 2015

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Article: Wikipedia trolls now vs. women architects
by Carol Moore dc 17 Apr '15

17 Apr '15

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

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Fwd: [wikimedia-dc-internal] Wikipedian-in-Residence at West Virginia University Libraries
by Sarah Stierch 16 Apr '15

16 Apr '15

Cool! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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 To: Wikimedia DC Internal Mailing List < wikimedia-dc-internal(a)googlegroups.com> 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 -- Kirill Lokshin Secretary, Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wikimedia DC Internal" group. To post to this group, send email to wikimedia-dc-internal(a)googlegroups.com. -- Food + Drink Editor, Sonoma Valley Sun suneats.sonomaportal.com Museumist + OpenGLAM advocate www.sarahstierch.com Twitter: @Sarah_Stierch <https://twitter.com/Sarah_Stierch> Instagram: SarahStierch <http://instagram.com/sarahstierch/> Facebook: Sarah Stierch <https://www.facebook.com/sarah.stierch>

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Inspire Campaign Proposal: Request for Feedback
by bored with boards 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

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)

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Outcome of IdeaLab/Inspire campaign
by LB 14 Apr '15

14 Apr '15

WikiProject Women was actually at the top of the Leaderboard: *https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/Leaderboard <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/Leaderboard>* Lightbreather

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Wikipedia and Feminism.
by Lukas Mezger (Wikipedia) 10 Apr '15

10 Apr '15

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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National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) partners with Wiki Education Foundation
by Amanda Menking 09 Apr '15

09 Apr '15

http://www.nwsa.org/content.asp?pl=17&sl=111&contentid=111

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Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Ask questions, give feedback on six annual plan grant proposals for the FDC!
by Sydney Poore 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Katy Love" <klove(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Apr 7, 2015 11:48 PM Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Ask questions, give feedback on six annual plan grant proposals for the FDC! To: <wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: tl;dr:[0] Please join the community review for six annual plan grant proposals requesting USD $1.5 million in movement funds. Add your questions and comments to the proposals until April 30! Hello Wikimedians, Round 2 of the Annual Plan Grants program [1] is underway, and the Community Review process is open for your comments and questions. In this round, six proposals were submitted to the Funds Dissemination Committee, by the Centre for Internet and Society, Wikimedia Armenia, Wikimédia France, Wikimedia Italia, Wikimedia Norge, and Wikimedia ZA -- with total requests of USD $1,531,687. [2] These six proposals, developed based on the organizations' annual plans, include programmatic and operational costs, and are requests for general funding. This year (2014-2015), the FDC has USD $6 million to allocate to movement organizations to help advance our strategic goals. In Round 1, $3,817,956 was allocated to movement organizations, [3] leaving $2,182,044 for Round 2. In mid-May, the Funds Dissemination Committee will meet face-to-face, prior to the Wikimedia conference, to deliberate on and then make recommendations to the WMF Board of Trustees about how to grant funds to these organizations, in order to achieve mission-related impact. We invite you and all other community members to review any or all of the proposals, and to share your thoughts and ask questions on the discussion pages of the proposals. General questions or comments can also be made in the General comments section. [4] The community review period lasts until April 30, 2015. Applicants are also expected to respond to comments and questions during this period, although they are not able to change the proposal form itself after the submission date. The FDC will review the discussion pages and will use the questions and comments as one of their many inputs into the decision-making process. To join other community consultations, visit the noticeboard. [5] You can join in by reviewing the proposals [2] and adding your comments on the discussion pages. Proposals are available in English, but comments and questions can be made in any language. As a member of the Wikimedia community, your review helps make the grantmaking process more transparent, collaborative and robust. Feedback and questions from the community are an important input into the proposal review process, and the FDC considers them seriously. The major milestones for the rest of this round is as follows: [6] * Community review: 1 April 2015 - 30 April 2015 * Staff assessments published: 8 May 2015 * FDC deliberations: 12-14 May 2015 * FDC recommendation published: by 1 June 2015 * Appeals or complaints submitted: by 8 June 2015 * Board of Trustees decision: by 1 July 2015 * Start of new grant terms: 1 July 2015 Please let us know if you have any questions, concerns, or feedback about the process. You can reach the FDC staff at FDCsupport(a)wikimedia.org Warm regards, Katy Love Senior Program Officer Funds Dissemination Committee Wikimedia Foundation [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Too_long;_didn%27t_read [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Information [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2 [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_portal/FDC_recommendations/2… [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/Commu… [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Current_community_consultations [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Information#Calendar _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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Introducing myself
by Spike Lechat 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

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.

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Closing the gendergap in biographies on Wikipedia
by Jane Darnell 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

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

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Interesting new book on trolling
by Jake Orlowitz 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

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)

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