Very interesting thoughts. Myself, I avoid Facebook and Twitter like the
plague, but I realise I'm very much in the minority there. I don't object
to their existence, don't get me wrong, and I know some people find it
useful.
Having said that - it's interesting to read what another woman has written
about "Wikipedia's notoriously gangsterish back channels" in a tribute to
our former colleague Adrienne Wadewitz published by the New York Times.
(While the writer doesn't seem to think much of Wikipedia, it's still a
great tribute to Adrienne.)
Risker/Anne
On 29 December 2014 at 17:25, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com> wrote:
+1 to that.
My tips are:
1) No talk pages if I can avoid it
2) Other channels (sorry people, but not all revolutions can take place in
front of everyone)
3) Social media
I get more value asking for help on Twitter and Facebook than I do on any
other medium.
ANd that's why the WikiWomen's Collaborative was created - social media
brings more females (since we use it more than males!).
-Sarah
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 2:07 PM, disgruntled grognard <slowking4(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> yep,
> let's study some more, not all men, let's recruit more pipeline...
>
> i tend to edit in article space.
> talk space and even project talk are dysfunctional (waste of time)
> people seeking to disrupt, can only on wiki.
>
> i tend to organize on facebook, twitter, meetup etc.
> where there is adult supervision.
>
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Carol Moore dc <carolmooredc(a)verizon.net
>
wrote:
>
>> On 12/29/2014 12:31 PM, Marie Earley wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible to post some of the stuff that has been mentioned on here
>> on the GGTF talk page
>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Countering_systemi…
>>
>> It feels like the two have nothing in common at the moment. There's a
>> whole load of "why don't we survey women and find out what they like to
>> edit / give women their own noticeboard / review the scope of the project"
>> - type rhetoric.
>>
>> Rather than wade in and argue (it's pointless, I got accused of 'radical
>> feminism' POV pushing for my trouble), can some of the stuff about grants,
>> meet ups etc. and replies be posted so we can move on, and all of the
>> "let's rip it up and start again" stuff can make its way into the
archive?
>>
>> Marie
>>
>> Everything you see is just a variation of what was happening all summer,
>> with the pro-GGTF editors managing to keep their tempers against various
>> attempts by anti-project editors to disrupt the project by trying to narrow
>> and control the scope (as some women explicitly have complained):
>>
>> *general nitpicking of statement by a woman/supporter of project that
>> supports the original vision of being both about increasing number of
>> articles about women/topics of interest to women and increasing number of
>> women, including by dealing with issues that turn women off (both software
>> and behavior issues). (One editor summarized these past comments here:
>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:The_Vintage_Feminist/GGTF%27s_re-boot
>> The comments are being challenged.) And of course various accusations of
>> defacto sexism for those who complain about this, as Marie alludes to above
>>
>> *Opposition to the idea of using the page to get other editors to help
>> with new articles about women unless the articles are already 100% in
>> compliance with every policy imaginable.
>>
>> *proposal to divide GGTF into two projects, one for articles about
>> women, the other for getting more women and "behavior"problems; divide
and
>> conquor is the strategy here and I'm sure the second would quickly be put
>> up for deletion, widdling the project down to nothing
>>
>> *proposal to invite anything and everything regarding women (including
>> perhaps through womens noticeboard), which could be used to water GGTF down
>> to nothing regarding a gender gap by flooding with less relevant concerns
>>
>> *continuing contention that there is no evidence that there's a problem
>> despite these two existing pages:
>>
>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bia…
>>
>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bia…
>> It would help if
>>
>> *Past edits at GGTF show that one or more of the alleged women posting
>> now are recruits of editors against the project from the arbitration.
>>
>> We'll see what happens...
>>
>> CM
>>
>>
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