By the way, I am constantly surprised at the tone in some of the discussions on Commons. I rarely meet that normally on Swedish WIkipedia. But I am not naive about it. I know that it exists. Some time ago, I wrote a blog post about how there is actually several encyclopedias all rolled together under the same trademark. Each encyclopedia has its own culture, and quality. For instance, the articles about birds on svwp are second to none, even enwp. That's because we have a large ornithologically interested group of Swedish Wikipedians. There, the discussion climate is friendly and result oriented. In other areas, the quality is lower, but so is the level of discussion.

http://wikimediasverige.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/det-finns-inte-bara-en-wikipedia/

Here the tone seems hostile and the level of quality low. I wish I had a good answer on how to counter that.

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From: l_guldbrandsson@hotmail.com
To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 22:20:09 +0000
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Category:Nude portrayals of computer technology

Wow, that escalated fast. All caps and demands. I can in some fashion understand the argument made in the section above (without caps lock), but still, nah. It's gratuitous.

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Jimmy Wales

From: cooties@mac.com
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 15:09:49 -0700
To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Category:Nude portrayals of computer technology

Hi again,

Admin User:Evula attempted to delete them per COM:SCOPE but every single one was immediately restored. People are now yelling at him on his talk page.

-- Allie

On May 17, 2013, at 3:05 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson <l_guldbrandsson@hotmail.com> wrote:

Oh, this was not good. I wonder how many of these were taken and uploaded voluntarily.

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Lennart Guldbrandsson

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"Tänk dig en värld där varje människa på den här planeten får fri tillgång till världens samlade kunskap. Det är vårt mål."
Jimmy Wales

From: cooties@mac.com
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 14:58:12 -0700
To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Gendergap] Category:Nude portrayals of computer technology

Hi all,

Can someone please explain to me why Category:Nude portrayals of computer technology (NSFW) even exists? How is a category like this, whatever about the image, remotely encyclopedic or useful to the project? It is populated entirely with sexualized images of women - almost all naked or semi-naked - with only tangential references to computer technology.

I'm a computer engineer myself, and a paid-up member of SWE. Given the drive to get more women involved in STEM fields, I see stuff like this as being really damaging. And this is just one single example.

-- Allie

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