Gendergap October 2025

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GLAM-Wiki in Lisbon - Gender + GLAM workshop
by Tila Cappelletto 29 Oct '25

29 Oct '25

💫 For those attending GLAM-Wiki Lisbon, Lucy Hinnie and I are delighted to invite you to our collaborative, in-person workshop on 'GLAM and Gender - Harnessing knowledge and practices to shape our collective future' 📆On Thursday, 30th October, from 1630-1745, in Room 3, we will work together to address the challenges posed to gender equity in GLAM practice. 📆 🌏This session will be multilingual in EN, ES, PT 🌏 ✅ You can sign up here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Wiki_2025/Program/GLAM_and_Gender>. ✅ 💙All best wishes and solidarity, Tila Cappelletto and Lucy Hinnie. Please circulate to anyone you think may be interested!

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Friendly Reminder: SheSaid Training Today at 4 PM UTC.
by Afek Ben Chahed 23 Oct '25

23 Oct '25

Dear all, This is a friendly reminder about our *#SheSaid <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women/SheSaid/SheSaid_2025>* training session today at *4:00 PM UTC*. The session will focus on *how to document SheSaid stories through different platforms*. *Trainer:* Chris Koerner <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)> *Register here:* link <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:SheSaid_2025_-_How_to_document_your_S…> Looking forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Afek

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Invitation to Training Session – How to Write a Diff Article about Your SheSaid Event
by Afek Ben Chahed 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

Dear all, On behalf of the *Wiki Loves Women team* <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wiki_Loves_Women/Team>, I’m delighted to invite you to a *training session on how to write an article on Diff* to document the beautiful stories from your local #SheSaid <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wiki_Loves_Women/SheSaid…> events. - *Date:* 23rd October - *Time:* 4 PM UTC - To register, please click here <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#> We look forward to seeing you there and sharing inspiring stories from across the SheSaid community! Warm regards, *Afek**Wiki Loves Women Team*

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Fwd: Rambling Rambler userspace harrassment, edit warring, hounding, suppression of women's achievements on wikipedia
by V C 18 Oct '25

18 Oct '25

We have declared all multiple accounts of people brought in with no COI only to be accused of socking. Is there a “correct” way to handle this? HTTPS://viki.wiki ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: V C <campbellvi.e(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM Subject: Fwd: Rambling Rambler userspace harrassment, edit warring, hounding, suppression of women's achievements on wikipedia To: <artandfem(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Edit warring affecting women artists victoria campbell <http://victoriacampbell.io> +12108975814 ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: V C <campbellvi.e(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM Subject: Rambling Rambler userspace harrassment, edit warring, hounding, suppression of women's achievements on wikipedia To: <gendergap-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Can anyone give advice on this? I am writing from a gallery trying to update pages with contributions from recent scholarship and the other editors are SPA's with good intent but new. We have faced serious hounding, harassment, etc, and any attempt to declare COI or SPA is subject to predictive policing of edits, not quality of content or sources. Thank you, VC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incid… This user has blanked out their talk page history which reveals repeated persistent assumption of bad faith, repeated arbitrary or unmotivated removal of any content without appropriate discussion or providing explanation, filing incident reports intended to marginalize or ostracize, stonewalling and the abuse of editor tools or other forms of algorithmic governance to prevent deletion discussions or consensus. User is hounding expert editors with "evidence" as to canvassing, sockpuppetry, etc, while masquerading as an administrator. This user is not an administrator. Diff comparison exhibits the usual mistakes of a new editor and traces of a clean start but no evidence of bad faith contribs from an undesired fidelity <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=An_undesired_fidelity&action=edi…> A call to improve pages related to Marcel Duchamp and his peers was broadcast over art world mailing list with links to diffs. No specific instruction to promote a certain point of view but the need to ensure legacy sources already cited in article was emphasized. Materials (like images) sourced from toutfait don't give proper attn to the scholarship they are sourced from; this is in breach of fair use of these resources for educational purposes. If Wikipedia wants to suppress recent scholarship, they can pay royalties -- but I'm not the person they would be dealing with to do so because I'm actually not affiliated beyond the art world with any of these subjects, alive or dead. I have checked Wikipedia policy and this does not seem to be in violation of rules, might be better to host an edit-a-thon than pull in new editors but otherwise in the range of acceptable behavior on Wikipedia. Cloaked redirect to avoid discussion to delete <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spiritual_America&action=history> despite this affecting female-founded art gallery with notability for mounting first presentation of artwork by Richard Prince <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Prince>; page erases women's contributions to redirect to RP with a focus on illicit content rather than historical exhibitions by well known artists of the Pictures Generation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_Generation>. Ownership behavior. Rhonda Roland Shearer <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rhonda_Roland_Shearer&oldid=1316…> now features unsourced lede, suppression of content, damage to context for appreciation for 'womens work' <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rhonda_Roland_Shearer&oldid=1317…> ; Rambling Rambler <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rambling_Rambler&action=edit&red…> is now calling for protected status of page after demonstrating ownership behavior <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership_of_content#Examples_of_ow…> with no evidence of actual abuse wrt SPA <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPA>'s or indication that updates to these pages was excessively promotional, unbalanced this edit provides only empirical object data for this readymade <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Hat_Rack_(Duchamp)>, but drafted without concern for this work as currently part of an educational effort on the part of many editors In advance of the broken arm <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_Advance_of_the_Broken_Arm&old…> now has a confusing photograph with questionable copyright: how is it a digital rendering and also a photograph (with camera data)?? confusing as to how this is an "ordinary manufactured object" LHOOQ <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=L.H.O.O.Q.&oldid=1316838120> has had its version history removed despite the size of the object referenced in article is obviously too big to be a found postcard and so watered down to previous version <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.H.O.O.Q.> This is but a selection of the biased, false, inaccurate or inappropriate content, or hindering, impeding or otherwise hampering the creation (and/or maintenance) of content that seems to be a pattern of behavior for Rambling Rambler <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rambling_Rambler&action=edit&red…> . Asking for audit of sock accounts & quality of contributions be weighted wrt pattern of revert warring on RRS page since July/August and lots of hostility when "socks" are asked to disclose COI's. Unclear how a COI can exist at the same time as copyright violations: either socks are working for ppl that would give them permission to use pics for promotional purposes, or pics are being used w/o permission and therefore no COI. Please pick one and consider the impact of these changes on the state of the field and for the experience of new editors on wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signatures> comment added by Alyssadavisgallery <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alyssadavisgallery> (talk <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alyssadavisgallery#top> • contribs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Alyssadavisgallery>) 22:14, 16 October 2025 (UTC) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incid…> Without comment as to the above complaint, I want to note that slightly earlier I filed a sockpuppet investigation related to OP's account: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/An undesired fidelity <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/An_undesi…>. — *rsjaffe* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rsjaffe> 🗣️ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rsjaffe> 22:22, 16 October 2025 (UTC) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incid…> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Clean_start all have the right to clean start but userspace harrassment, hounding and abuse of consensus are universally against conduct. I am getting involved because my IP is used for multiple purposes by multiple people and am not connected to other people trying to improve pages on the subject matter. Alyssadavisgallery <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alyssadavisgallery> (talk <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alyssadavisgallery>) 22:25, 16 October 2025 (UTC) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incid…>You were blocked, so, no, you do not, in fact, have the right to a clean start. Any uninvolved administrator should feel free to close this nonsense immediately. See User:An undesired fidelity <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:An_undesired_fidelity>. *Bgsu98* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bgsu98> (Talk) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Bgsu98> 22:30, 16 October 2025 (UTC) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incid…> victoria campbell <http://victoriacampbell.io> +12108975814

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