Frankly, given the hostility to the
Gender Gap project, I have to wonder about this Hashtag effort.
Lightbreather quoted some obnoxious guy statements a month ago
out of her own account and was roundly criticized. Forum shopping
and canvassing issues were raised while others applauded it. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_170#Fed_up_with_the_status_quo...
I personally wouldn't do it because the wrong Admin who was
friends with people you quoted (or people who don't like you)
probably would get you blocked for weeks or months at a time. So
it could be a way to trap editors whose twitter accounts are
somehow linked to their user names.
I know at least one guy at an ANI got away with criticizing a
woman editor on her editing at a number of off wiki-sites. But
that doesn't mean any of us would get away with it.
And this also can be turned about the Gender Gap Project
"#GenderGapStupidity" or whatever.
So unless there was some community consensus on an appropriate way
to do this, I would tread carefully...
CM
On 9/9/2014 6:05 AM, Gender Gap wrote:
Hey, I've been following this list for a while. I'm pretty
sick of the constant sexism on Wikipedia, and depressed
because it's not just a few users, but seen in the opinions
and suggestions of so many. I've started a twitter account (
https://twitter.com/SaidOnWP)
to give some examples of what I think the most egregious
things said are. This will probably upset some users,
especially users that meant well, but many things that are
said that are "well-meaning" have some offensive underlying
ideas.
I want to show the mass of evidence that sexism exists on
WP in a venue where it doesn't have to be interrupted by users
demanding proof. I know that this is more confrontational than
some users will want, but I'm sick of the
anti-interventionalist sentiment from different quarters in
WP, with the attitude "oh! well it's up to what the community
wants...!" This is a problem with the community and I hope to
shed some light on it.
I'm going to be posting things every day and have enough
content planned for about a month, repost, send me examples or
follow my twitter. I'm only posting content from this year,
and include analyses, discussions, commentary and incidents.
#saidonWP
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