On 12/21/11 6:41 AM, Michael J. Lowrey wrote:
This discussion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Becritical#Please_don.27t_encourage_bigotry.
This guy is notorious. This person shouldn't even be in the
community for their behavior. It's painful to read and makes *me*
not want to participate in Wikipedia, for godsake. I'm sorry you got
thrown under the bus, as well. It's people like this that scare the
crap out of me in regards to me retaliating or saying anything. I
feel like they'll be placing an Arbcom request against ME, instead
of someone against THEM.
or this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#File:Wikipedia_Change_The_Ratio_Logo.jpg
Yeah, thus far I'm the only woman who chimed in on it. Someone
brought it to my attention last night just as I was preparing to go
to bed. Suffice to say I had to distract myself with other things to
get it off my mind. Obviously just a troll being, well, a troll, and
a bunch of dude-ness. I do think it's interesting that one guy
mentions "third gender," as I'm wondering if he's referring to
[[third sex]] or if he's just creating the concept of those who do
not identify their gender in their preferences are the new Wikipedia
third gender.
I understand not everyone sits around and reads statistical data
about women, Wikimedia, open source communities, etc, but, it's
really weird that in a community that relies on citations
and statistical data, that they repeatedly deny/dimiss the concept
of the gender gap, throw it to the wayside and think its either not
a problem or not worth mentioning. How many times do I have to have
this conversation? I also acknowledge that everyone has their own
individual experience. While I've had remarkable and terrible
experiences in the community, I realize some women have had nothing
but awesome experiences, some men have had sexist experiences, and
that everyone has could end up on both sides of the
victim/non-victim spectrum. But, I also know that if we have 100
examples of painful, terrible, frightening experiences, we have a
problem. We have one of these stories, we have a problem, but,
unfortunately communities like this need 100 of them to make anyone
take notice or make change. And change is comin', baby.
Someone does state that everyone is just sitting around and whining
and not taking action. Perhaps they need to become a bit more aware
about the actions that some of us within the community are taking.
Whether it's WMF's decision to explore options to close the gap, or
the UK and Girl Geeks, the planning conference, the Ada Initiative,
etc. Perhaps I should invite them to this list. :P
And I keep saying "If you want to talk about this, I look forward to
talking about it with you at Wikimania," and then they all get
scared and run into the corner. Perhaps they fear the wrath, but
hey, if you're going to say it on Wikipedia...say it to my face!
Hell, attend Wikimania and I think you'll notice..helloooooo gender
gappppppp....
Sarah
[[User:SarahStierch]]
en.wp