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Today's Topics:
- Women's Voices Women Vote | feminist lobby group wants help (Audrey Cormier)
- Women, collective intelligence, and Wikipedia (Pete Forsyth)
- and to contrast...one stop Commons hosiery shopping! (Sarah Stierch)
- "anonymous (street meat)" (Migdia Chinea)
- Re: "anonymous (street meat)" (Nathan)
- Re: "anonymous (street meat)" (Michael J. Lowrey)
- Deterrent (Mig)
- Re: Deterrent (Jeremy Baron)
- From Jezebel: "Men?s Rights Fight Breaks Out On Wikipedia" (Sarah Stierch)
- Re: "anonymous (street meat)" (Dominic)
Message: 1 Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:57:12 -0400 From: Audrey Cormier cormier.home@yahoo.ca Subject: [Gendergap] Women's Voices Women Vote | feminist lobby group wants help To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: EC558D9B-4CC3-4B8B-9B8D-09C93ADEEB72@yahoo.ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
I can add info from the draft to the article (under new title to reflect the organization's new name) this evening, if no one else has done it already. Will copy edit as well if needed.
Message: 2 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:42:18 -0700 From: Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com Subject: [Gendergap] Women, collective intelligence, and Wikipedia To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: C3A999FC-5154-4225-9B54-8396642CC390@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
Hi all,
Eugene Kim, the consultant who facilitated Wikimedia's amazing five-year strategic planning process, has just posted an interesting blog post (with his new consulting agency, Groupaya).
http://groupaya.net/blog/2011/10/do-women-make-groups-smarter/
An excerpt:
Tom Malone is the director of MIT?s Center for Collective Intelligence. A few months ago, he published research with Carnegie Mellon?s Anita Woolley suggesting that groups with more women exhibited greater collective intelligence. It?s not that women have higher IQs than men. (Individual IQ had little correlation with collective intelligence.) It?s that women tend to exhibit more social sensitivity than men, and social sensitivity is a much stronger contributing factor to group intelligence.
Kim goes on to discuss the implications for Wikipedia, a project that is highly collaborative and mostly male. He concludes with the idea that, in the interest of pursuing more effective collaboration, Wikipedia would benefit from more participation by women.
A good read, I recommend it. -Pete
Message: 3 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:20:16 -0400 From: Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.com Subject: [Gendergap] and to contrast...one stop Commons hosiery shopping! To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: CAKiGLfqA_RUi9_X8US3c=krc34k8XOAmDoh1NAD+6Y_jHt+5KQ@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
While reviewing new content for my scoop.it ( http://www.scoop.it/t/women-and-wikimedia), where I posted the recent blog link that Pete shared..I was suggested this: (safe for work)
http://hosieryadvocate.blogspot.com/2011/10/hosiery-in-wikimedia-sexy-hallow...
The blog writer has an entire set of tags devoted to photographs of women in hosiery that are found on Wikipedia/Media/Commons.
Here is the blog when the writer praises Commons for it's excellent job at categorizing hosiery.
http://hosieryadvocate.blogspot.com/2011/05/hosiery-in-wikimedia.html
"Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/ does a great job of finding hosiery photos for you, when you search for hosiery, pantyhose, tights and stockings, but there are many photos on the site, that do not turn up with those searches. Those photos show up under different searches, and will do just fine."
-- On a personal note, my first high end retail job, at 18, was working in the hosiery department at Nordstroms. I became well aware of the fetish around hosiery due to a selected clientele we had. But this gave me quite a chuckle and brought back "Early retail" memories.
I'm impressed that so many men know so much about women's hosiery on Commons, presuming that the majority of categorizers handling that department are males....(I could be wrong, but statistically...)
Sarah
-- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for Wikimedia http://www.glamwiki.org Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Arthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch and Sarah Stierch Consulting
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