Hello,
My name is Marc Riddell (User:Michael David) My work is in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. I spent the 60's (rather passionately) at UC Berkeley. Gender, and the issues it presents, are a large part of my work. I came to the List to learn, and to be of any help that I can. I am interested in learning how and why people and things work the way they do.
Marc
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
My name is Marc Riddell (User:Michael David) My work is in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. I spent the 60's (rather passionately) at UC Berkeley. Gender, and the issues it presents, are a large part of my work. I came to the List to learn, and to be of any help that I can. I am interested in learning how and why people and things work the way they do.
I'm here for the same reasons Marc is, mostly just to learn and be helpful if I can. I'm Casey Brown (User:Cbrown1023), a male student who is pretty active in lots of different areas in Wikimedia. :-)
Hi,
I looked through the archives before jumping in, and the lively introductions and enthusiasm persuaded me to join.
I'm Bishakha Datta (user Bishdatta) and I edit english wikipedia off and on. I've been a trustee since last year, I live in Mumbai/India, and in my non-wiki life I make documentary videos, write non-fiction and run a small non-profit called Point of View which promotes the points of view of women through media, art and culture.
All of which will (I hope) explain why I am interested in this list - and in thinking about how to go beyond the 13% stat. (Suspect it is much lower in some Indian language wikipedias)..
Like many of you, I am also very interested in GLAM activities. Hoping for more focused discussions on how to get more women to edit on this list, and also look forward to meeting some in person at the women in wikipedia cocktail hour in Haifa!
Cheers Bishakha
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Casey Brown lists@caseybrown.org wrote:
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
My name is Marc Riddell (User:Michael David) My work is in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. I spent the 60's (rather passionately) at
UC
Berkeley. Gender, and the issues it presents, are a large part of my
work. I
came to the List to learn, and to be of any help that I can. I am
interested
in learning how and why people and things work the way they do.
I'm here for the same reasons Marc is, mostly just to learn and be helpful if I can. I'm Casey Brown (User:Cbrown1023), a male student who is pretty active in lots of different areas in Wikimedia. :-)
-- Casey Brown Cbrown1023
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Hi. I'm Angela Beesley Starling. I've been involved with Wikipedia for almost 8 years.
I created the WikiChix.org mailing list in 2006. This was a list just for females to join. The idea was it might encourage women to post when they weren't comfortable publishing on a public mailing list, especially if they felt their posts were being met with sexist responses on those lists. It hasn't been recently active so it's good to see a new list dedicated to gender issues which I hope will revive this area of discussion.
I'm also interested in the gender gap on wikis other than Wikipedia. On Wikia we have some wikis where the majority of readers are female but not yet good stats on what proportion of editors on those sites are female.
Angela