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
Hi,
Since participating in the Inspire campaign, I got interested in the
question of exactly how many women would be needed on Wikipedia to close
the gender gap. I ran some simulations and came up with some fairly
radical numbers. For example, according to my calculations, there are so
few current and new female editors that, even if every current and new
active, female editor stayed active for ten years, we wouldn't close the
gap.
I've posted the results
<https://civilsociology.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/closing-the-gender-gap-on-w…>
to my blog. It's password protected so I can share the results and get
feedback without making it pubic. You can access them by using the
password "wikipedia". I'm looking for feedback to see if I'm missing
anything, if it's unrealistic, or anything else.
Thanks!
Jason
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Visiting Researcher, Lazer Lab, Northeastern University
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I'm sorry for not posting this sooner.
Carol Moore dc: I was sad to learn that you had been banned or barred from
Wikipedia. You edited a lot of the libertarian and more right-wing
flavored political articles, and did a very good job of it. I am surprised
that anyone would have a problem with your editing work. I was in
respectful awe of you, as you were so authoritative and seemed
well-regarded by even the most hard-core Rothbard and Mises fans, many of
whom have strong opinions and are devoted followers of the subject matter.
I mean no disrespect by this, as I have edited some of the Austrian
economics articles and BLPs too.
Lightbreather: I actually was getting to know you a little bit, and am so
sorry to learn that you have been harassed into retiring. That is just
awful of them.
There are so few women who edit Wikipedia, and even fewer people who edit
what I consider serious topics that it is a terrible shame to lose two who
were subject matter experts. Yes, we are all equal in Wikipedia (yadda
yadda...except when we aren't) but there aren't a surplus of editors who
write well and know what they are talking about, of either gender.
I use LinkedIn and am looking for work right now. I would be horrified if
what Risker described happened to me:
"I've had to have three separate LinkedIn accounts purporting to be me
taken down over the last 8 years, for example; others have had their
personal images and names attached to accounts on porn sites, paid editing
sites, and a fair number of other unsavory sites..."
~ FeralOink (Ellie Kesselman)
Awesome!!!
Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
-------- Original message --------
From: Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>
Date:05/14/2015 3:22 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: "Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase the participation of women within Wikimedia projects." <gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Women's health articles
I created a proposal here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals/Women…
Feel free to add yourself as a supporter or discuss the proposal in the discussion section.
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Sydney Poore <sydney.poore(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Set it up and sign me up, too.
Sydney
On May 14, 2015 8:39 PM, "keilanawiki" <keilanawiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Let's do it - I'm happy to help set it up! :)
Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
-------- Original message --------
From: Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>
Date:05/14/2015 1:23 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: "Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase the participation of women within Wikimedia projects." <gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Women's health articles
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Netha Hussain <nethahussain(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Ryan,
Thank you for bringing this to my notice! Could I get the link to the article?
It's a little hard to find (which is actually the subject of the discussion): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidal_vulvovaginitis
Wikiproject: Women's Health has been my personal dream for a long time, but I couldn't yet get myself working on it because of commitments elsewhere. :-(
I would be happy to officially propose such a project (and help set it up) if there is interest from people.
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From: Linked Jazz <linkedjazz(a)linkedjazz.org>
Date: Fri, May 29, 2015 at 3:52 PM
Subject: [OpenGLAM] NYC: Women of Jazz Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon TOMORROW!
To: open-glam(a)lists.okfn.org
Hello!
A reminder that tomorrow is the Women of Jazz Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon,
organized by Linked Jazz and hosted by the New York Public Library for the
Performing Arts. Although remote training is not provided, remote
participation is highly encouraged. If you plan on participating, we
encourage those who do not already have Wikipedia accounts to create them
beforehand: It only takes about thirty seconds to create an account! Just
click on *create an account now *here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account%3F
We hope to see you tomorrow!
-The Linked Jazz Team
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Do you love jazz, blues, funk and anything in between? Are you frustrated
by the gender bias in Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_bias_on_Wikipedia>? Or maybe you
love Linked
Data <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_data>?
Join us for the Women of Jazz Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon! Members of Linked Jazz
<https://linkedjazz.org/> (a research team from the Pratt Institute School
of Information and Library Science) will give you a crash course in
Wikipedia and help you fill in the gaps of Wikipedia's coverage of
musicians who are women. No Wikipedia editing experience necessary. Just
bring your passion and we'll help you do the rest!
Date: Saturday, May 30th
Time: 12-5pm
Location: New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and
Lewis B. Cullman Center, Third Floor Screening Room (40 Lincoln Center
Plaza, New York, NY, 10023)
Please bring: A laptop, your NYPL library card, and a digital camera.
(These will help you do research at the library!)
Informal gathering to follow in Damrosch Park, just outside the library.
Further information: Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/WomenOfJazz>, NYPL’s
website
<http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2015/05/30/women-jazz-wikipedia-edit-th…>,
and Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/WikimediaNYC/events/221710307/> pages.
You can also find us on Twitter @LinkedJazz (we’ll be using the hashtag
#WomenOfJazz).
More About Linked Jazz:
Based at Pratt Institute’s School of Information and Library Science and
directed by Cristina Pattuelli, the Linked Jazz Project
<https://linkedjazz.org/> investigates the vast social network of the jazz
world. Through an interactive visualization and a crowdsourcing tool,
Linked Jazz reveals the multiple relationships between jazz musicians and
their complex web of collaboration. Linked Jazz primarily uses oral history
transcripts as a source for data, but an essential foundation of the
project is its list of jazz artist names pulled from Wikipedia.
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Hello all,
I am a member of Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index (WIGI) project.
WIGI is an Individual Engagement Grant that seeks to automate the production and graphing of statistical presentation of gender in articles by various categories such as date of birth, citizenship, occupation, etc. - in a publicly viewable website with open-data downloads.
We're running a brief survey to find out what kind of information users would like captured, ideally about the state of Wikipedia biographies. We will use it to inform what statistics our portal will show and provide a final report on the observed trends at the end of the year.
Please help us out by completing this brief survey, which should take not more than 5 minutes to complete.
Simply click on the link below, or cut and paste the bare URL into your browser to access the survey:
Survey link
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3OueVOHoRpezvZH
Thank you for your time and cooperation.
Best Regards,
-[[User:Masssly]]
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/WIGI:_Wikipedia_Gender_Index
Lightbreather,
I wish you the best, and I want you to know that I appreciate your voice of
reason. Hopefully, things will change in the future, and you'll return to
wiki activities as no one deserves to be silenced.
Best,
Rosie
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rosiestep
@rosiestepgood
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At last, a story about Wikipedia being used against sexism, as opposed
to BEING sexist!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3089709/Sexist-tech-company-faces…
"When Twitter user Damian Hickey jumped in by sharing a link to
Wikipedia's passage on sexism, the company read it and agreed - but
still didn't apologize." (plus screenshots)
CM
http://carolmoore.net/wikipedia
(Catching up on 8 years of STUFF and may actually beef up that page in
the next few months!)