https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/339?setlang=en&usel…
Are happening now. I see one candidate who needs a good kick in the
pants opposition on the gender gap issue and a couple others who may be
using code words in that regard. (But what do I know?) Lots of "global
south" types running too, so at least diversity is represented on that
front.
Forwarding an interesting blog post in which the author shares thoughts
about the Wikimedia communities, including the editor engagement roles and
attributes of offline meetups for Wikimedians. Some of this blog post might
also be relevant for those who are involved in thinking about creating a
project-wide "friendly space" policy.
Pine
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Andrew Sherman <asherman(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:18 PM
Subject: [Social-media] Wikimania and the differences between online and
offline cultures
To: lionel(a)scheepmans.be, Social media discussion list for Wikimedia
projects <social-media(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello Everyone,
We just published "Wikimania and the differences between online and offline
cultures" to the blog. URL:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/12/wikimania-online-and-offline/
Thanks to Lionel for writing and helping us edit this post.
Below are some proposed social media messages. Tweak as needed.
*Twitter (@wikimedia/@wikipedia):*
• .@Wikimania, @Wikipedia and the differences between online and offline
culture (link)
• A French anthropologist observes the differences between online and
offline participation at @Wikimania (link)
*Facebook/Google+*
• A French anthropologist observes the differences between online and
offline participation in the Wikimedia movement, based on a visit to the
Wikimania 2014 conference in London. (link)
Thanks,
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Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation
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Let's do it - I'm happy to help set it up! :)
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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.
Should I be surprised that only one of the six participants in the current
discussion at the vaginal yeast infection article is a woman? Maybe it's
time to create a 'Women's health' WikiProject!
Kaldari
I would be very interested in such a project, women's health articles need a *lot* of attention!
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-------- Original message --------
From: Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>
Date:05/14/2015 1:03 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects <gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Subject: [Gendergap] Women's health articles
Should I be surprised that only one of the six participants in the current discussion at the vaginal yeast infection article is a woman? Maybe it's time to create a 'Women's health' WikiProject!
Kaldari
1. Thank you, Carol Moore dc, for writing an excellent response to what (I
agree) was a very silly and irritating comment at the
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/01/meet-the-inspire-grantees/ post.
2. Regarding the edit-a-thons, you said:
> Hmmm, looks like some guys even object to edit-a-thons, trashing their
posters on campus...
http://www.newsrecord.org/news/students-combat-gender-imbalance-online/arti…
Actually, the male students didn't trash the wiki women posters, but made
and posted separate "wiki dudes" posters of their own. The NewsRecord post
said that doing so didn't constitute a Title IX violation, yet.
I find it kind of disturbing that male students would feel the need to
react that way, by making the wiki dudes posters. It is obvious that there
is less coverage of women in Wikipedia than of men, and that most notable
figures in American and European (in fact, global) arts, history and
science have been men, who have received plenty of attention and
biographical scholarship already!
The fact that the anonymous male students went to the trouble of creating
separate posters, rather than vandalizing the existing wiki women posters,
indicates a level of forethought that is beyond mere impulse trolling. If
I were to wear my politically correct hat, I would say that even members of
the patriarchy realize and acknowledge that there is more scholarship
devoted to notable men than notable women. The truly oppressive patriarchy
would believe that that is appropriate, and go about their business. Do the
wiki dudes guys truly believe that men are being overshadowed and
under-represented on Wikipedia and elsewhere, I wonder? If so, that
demonstrates a troubling lack of awareness of reality, especially on a
college campus.
I don't have any suggestions for remedying the situation, nor am I
condemning anyone's actions e.g. for "making men feel marginalized"; I
suspect that these men are deliberately choosing to marginalize themselves.
It is just a remarkably peculiar reaction to wiki women edit-a-thon's, and
I hope we don't see more of it.
~Ellie Kesselman a.k.a FeralOink
Hi all,
this new blog post might be of interest to this list:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/30/how-many-women-edit-wikipedia/
On the occasion of the recently concluded Inspire campaign, it gives
an overview over existing data that informs what we know about the
size of the gender gap, including gender-related results from the 2012
WMF editor survey that some people on this list have been asking
about. Most is about Wikipedia editors, but there is also a bit about
Commons and Wikibooks. The post also lists some important caveats that
should be kept in mind when discussing these percentages.
(Many thanks to Aaron Shaw, Skud, and Siko Bouterse for their help
with this post.)
While I was at it, I also created a new documentation page for the
2008 UNU-MERIT survey which put the gender gap on the map, and still
received quite a bit of attention recently:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:UNU-MERIT_Wikipedia_survey
--
Tilman Bayer
Senior Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation
IRC (Freenode): HaeB