Getting women to stick around...
I had a class of 25. About 20 women and 5 men. The women, especially Latina
women, expressed much anxiety over various treatments--all over the map.
Esp. comments and tone of talk pages.Lack of politeness and common
courtesies.
Today, a year later, only 2 (of 20) women are editing, but the men have
become engaged contributors.
Should we tell people at the outset that this is sort of an Outward Bound
experience? Survival only of the thick skinned? I do believe this is too
bad. As a teacher if I treated students the way Wikipedians treat new
contributors, I would be sent for continuing education. Most people want to
edit to contribute, not to be wrangled to the mat.
Too many women who begin to edit are made to feel belittled, stupid and
small. This is crazy. So much talent and good will is nattered away.
--Kathleen.
Kathleen de la Peña McCook
Distinguished University Professor of Librarianship
USF/SI:
http://si.usf.edu/faculty/kmccook/
Academia.edu:
https://usf.academia.edu/KathleendelaPe%C3%B1aMcCook
Library Thing::
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/klmccook/allcollections
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Keilana,
J-mo discussed similar thoughs in the presentation videos that I just sent
to some of the other email lists. Perhaps you could brainstorm ideas with
him and other interested people at Wikimania?
Pine
On Aug 1, 2014 10:37 PM, "Keilana" <keilanawiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
To briefly go back to what Sarah and Marie have
said, I do find that in
person hand-holding and social support are the most effective factors in
getting women to stick around. I don't know how to translate that from the
real-world environment I teach newbies in to the virtual environment of new
users' talk pages. I'd love to brainstorm something in that vein, though. :)
-Emily
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:40 PM, A. Mani <a.mani.cms(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Carol Moore dc
<carolmooredc(a)verizon.net> wrote:
I think nobody has bothered to write much on the movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courageous_Cunts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labia_pride_movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Labia_Project has no content
Contrast that with the content on this site:
http://largelabiaproject.org
Best
A. Mani
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