Hello!
First congrats to all for the great progress on the gender gap!
I am looking for data or research on: If and how the adoption of inclusive language (or non-sexist language) tend to favor or not more woman participation/gender balance participation in wikis? Sarah Stierch (thanks!) suggested me that someone in this list might have insights on this question.
In the romanic languages (Spanish, Italian, Catalan, etc), contrary to English, the language has much more "gender" references. So in this languages, it emerges more the debate if there should be adopted an inclusive language (Ej. not taking male as generic, but making both references to woman and men, etc such as “usuarios” (male) and “usuarias” (women)) as a way to favor woman participation. Does Wikipedia experience in some way this?
I am wikipedian (and also a researched on wiki and gender), but I am asking this in regard to another experience that would like to build upon Wikipedia experience - an encyclopedia of the 15M movement in Spain (http://wiki.15m.cc), that just started. I am looking to see ways in order to not reproduce the horrible data on gender balance of other wiki experiences.
I would appreciate any insight on this. Thank you and congrats again! Mayo/Lilaroja
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The "@" device is very clearly anti-sexist, for example "l@s maestr@s quienes lo organizaron", and in my opinion it really encourages the language to evolve. How would you promote these guidelines?
Otherwise, using the feminine form as generic sounds like a good idea to me. Anyone who is offended by that convention can start a productive discussion about their concerns.
Saludos, Adam Wight
Mayo.Fuster@EUI.eu:
Hello!
First congrats to all for the great progress on the gender gap!
I am looking for data or research on: If and how the adoption of inclusive language (or non-sexist language) tend to favor or not more woman participation/gender balance participation in wikis? Sarah Stierch (thanks!) suggested me that someone in this list might have insights on this question.
In the romanic languages (Spanish, Italian, Catalan, etc), contrary to English, the language has much more "gender" references. So in this languages, it emerges more the debate if there should be adopted an inclusive language (Ej. not taking male as generic, but making both references to woman and men, etc such as “usuarios” (male) and “usuarias” (women)) as a way to favor woman participation. Does Wikipedia experience in some way this?
I am wikipedian (and also a researched on wiki and gender), but I am asking this in regard to another experience that would like to build upon Wikipedia experience - an encyclopedia of the 15M movement in Spain (http://wiki.15m.cc), that just started. I am looking to see ways in order to not reproduce the horrible data on gender balance of other wiki experiences.
I would appreciate any insight on this. Thank you and congrats again! Mayo/Lilaroja
«·´`·.(*·.¸(`·.¸ ¸.·´)¸.·*).·´`·» «·´¨*·¸¸« Mayo Fuster Morell ».¸.·*¨`·» «·´`·.(¸.·´(¸.·* *·.¸)`·.¸).·´`·»
Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info
Fellow Berkman center for Internet and Society. Harvard University. Researcher. Institute of Govern and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Ph.D European University Institute
E-mail: mayo.fuster@eui.eu Twitter/Identica: Lilaroja Skype: mayoneti Phone United States: 001 - 8576548231 Phone Spanish State: 0034-648877748
Berkman Center 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 +1 (617) 495-7547 (Phone) +1 (617) 495-7641 (Fax)
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