So perhaps the question is how many women would be interested in participating in off-wiki...I'm not really sure entirely what exactly it is, although hypothetically it's mentoring and... well, I keep coming back to I'm not sure what it is.

I have a hard enough time keeping up with my current load, and am not particularly interested in going to more venues, but I may be the exception.

Risker/Anne

On 1 January 2015 at 19:49, LB <lightbreather2@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you, Heather! This is what we run into on the WP GGTF every time we open something up for discussion.

All I wanted to discuss the possibility of such a group. Are there any policies that would make it impossible? How would we determine who is a woman? Could inclusion/exclusion be automated? What might the benefits of such a group be? The liabilities? What would its scope be? It's goals?

Can we discuss this?

On Jan 1, 2015 5:30 PM, "Heather Walls" <hwalls@wikimedia.org> wrote:

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Tim Davenport <shoehutch@gmail.com> wrote:

I for one would immediately be running the project through the Miscellany for Deletion process.

You don't see anything slightly wrong with this idea? Really?!?

This is 100% unadulterated identity politics. 

You say that as if identity politics is somehow inherently negative.

Tim Davenport

Carrite on WP /// Randy from Boise on WPO

Corvallis, OR

>>Is it simply impossible to start a Wikipedia project that's open to women,

or people who identify as women? (I'm sorry if I don't use the correct
terms, but I haven't kept up with them in recent years.)

>>I mean if we did it... what would the consequences be?

>>Lightbreather

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