as I understood drjunges remarks, post-it notes bring a personal, non-public component, which lowers the edit barrier. depending on the implementation, they are able to extend, replace or provide e.g.: page watch, classical note glued onto or over text or images, categories, tags, bookmarks, share the post-its to me, groups or public, editing templates (a la "this article needs help"), quality categorisation to select contents for offline.
in a summary, while I always thought wikipedia is not facebook, such notes offer a wealth of new applications, which we are not even able to enumerate currently.
rupert
I don't think women are "scared" or disinterested to participate because of images on Wikipedia. People are uncomfortable about certain images regardless of gender, just like people having a hard time with wiki-mark up is genderless. But, that's just speaking for my experiences, research and role in English Wikipedia.
I don't really think post-it note type tools would benefit Wikipedia any more or less than the image filter would, and that idea has basically been shot down. It also sounds like the user of the post-it note would have to view the image to place the post-it on top of the image, so I'm not too sure what the benefit would be.
-SarahOn Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote:* rupert THURNER wrote:
>to increase female participation, drjunge suggests to implement "post-it"s.
>they can be placed on any position into wikipedia pages, and are only
>personally viewable in a first step. later the visibility might be extended
>just like with other social networks. one funny side-usage of these
>post-its is that they of course can be placed onto images one does not like.
>
>as i am not female and not non-participating, i'd wonder what you think
>about such an idea?
If you want to close the "gendergap" then you have to think about how to
turn 10% female participation into 90% female participation.
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