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Gender gap propaganda

Inspired by Sarah's work on gender issues, I thought I'd make a nice propaganda poster...

—Tom Morris (talk) 20:40, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Laura Zigman

I put her up at DYK. Happy days, Drmies (talk) 04:32, 10 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Emo

Nice to see you in the article space. I moved your link. Cheers --Guerillero | My Talk 01:35, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Laura Zigman

The DYK project (nominate) 15:12, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Editor's Barnstar
For your editing spree this weekend, and the great article Emo killings in Iraq. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 16:23, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Homophobic attacks and abuse on Wikimedia projects

Hi Sue,

I asked Jimbo the following question on his user talk page but he has declined to answer and instead collapsed the discussion:[1]

Jimbo, this was a blatant and malicious homophobic attack, discrediting an editor's opinion during a community consensus process. Regardless of all other considerations of claims about Russavia's involvement in difficult topics (such as the Zhirinovsky's ass nonsense), the wider community and the Wikimedia Foundation does not accept any form of homophobic abuse against volunteers on our projects and must be seen to take action. You know I am a long term active supporter of the Wikimedia movement who happens to be openly gay, and as a result I have been subject to nasty on-wiki and off-wiki homophobic attacks, stalking and abuse in sustained attempts to frighten me off the projects. I look forward to your public statement supporting and valuing LGBT contributors to Wikipedia and your personal active involvement and leadership in this case.

I would be interested to hear if you or the Foundation has a position on the general issue and if you have any current plans to make Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, a safer environment for our LGBT editors who currently fear attack, stalking and harassment merely for improving our open knowledge content on gay related topics. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 13:58, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As someone involved with Wikimedia LGBT outreach efforts and third-party wiki projects that support Wikimedia Projects whenever they can - I would also be interested in any response to this. --Varnent (talk) 20:32, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Sue, as an illustration of what can happen when Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation have no firm position on homophobia, you may want to see the problems that offensive essays such as WP:HOMO created by Wikid77 cause for our editors, as per the discussion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Avoid word homophobic. It has been 10 days since my first note here, I know you have been very busy (it was lovely seeing you in Berlin), but I am certain you understand why this issue is highly significant for many of our contributors. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 03:14, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
To deter abuse and drama, I have removed redirect "WP:HOMO" (now "WP:Homophobic"). -Wikid77 (talk) 18:53, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, Fæ. I just wanted to let you know that Sue has not yet returned to the office after the Berlin meetings. She is not expected back to work until next week, and may be spending some time catching up before she is able to turn her attention to her talk page. --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 13:19, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the update Maggie. When Sue has caught up, she might enjoy taking a look at outreach:LGBT Outreach Project where things are progressing in this area. Cheers --Fæ (talk) 13:27, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sue, well, it's been more than a month since my original post here so reluctantly I'm going to assume that for reasons I do not understand, either you to prefer to be seen as not saying anything on the issue of homophobic attacks on Wikipedia, or at least it is not a personal priority for you. If over the coming months you do find enough time to reply, don't forget to email me a note as I'll probably miss it otherwise. You may see me at Wikimania, by then I might be wearing a highly visible teeshirt as part of the LGBT Outreach Project in order to draw more public attention to these problems, and to bring them into sharp focus for the Wikimedia Foundation. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 06:24, 1 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Fæ. Sorry for not responding -- I saw your note and meant to reply, but got caught up in other things and forgot. Sorry about that. (I also know that other Wikimedia Foundation staff have been talking with you about this issue, and figured you might have gotten what you were looking for from them.) So, I am sure you know that the Wikimedia Foundation has always encouraged editors to collaborate with each other in healthy ways, and to maintain a safe and civil environment for everyone. The Code of Conduct on the Wikimedia Foundation wiki is explicitly intended to provide guidance for volunteers as well as to regular staff and contractors, and it calls for respectful treatment for everyone, without discrimination on the basis of a number of factors including gender and sexual orientation. The newly adopted Terms of Use policy, which goes into effect on May 25, also encourages civility and politeness and forbids harassment. But as you know, we rely on the volunteer community of editors to set and enforce local policies based on these general principles. I'm not familiar with the Russavia situation you mentioned on Jimmy's talk page, but I'm sure you know the Wikimedia Foundation does not typically get involved with editorial or behavioural disputes: there are community mechanisms for handling that kind of thing, as there should be. I have a lot of faith in editors, and I am confident they will listen and adjust the current policies/practices if that's needed. I'd encourage you to work through those normal channels. Thanks Sue Gardner (talk) 18:39, 1 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Sue, thanks for getting back to me. I read your reply as that the Foundation has the code of conduct and the terms of use, but has no plans, such as a communications or outreach programme, to take any direct action to implement these to make Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, a safer environment specifically for our LGBT editors who currently fear attack, stalking and harassment merely for improving our open knowledge content on gay related topics. Rather, you have faith that the community will find a way to take this responsibility upon itself. No doubt you will see the LGBT Outreach Project as such a community initiative to address that gap (apparently the first one), and when I and my colleagues ask for it to be funded, you will be able to personally support the justification based on the fact that it is a clear way for the community to implement Foundation policy for itself and for the Foundation immediately to benefit by being able to demonstrate compliance of its projects against its existing policies. Thanks again. --Fæ (talk) 20:57, 1 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback for Wiki Ambassador Program Student

Hey Sue,

I am a student at Clemson University participating in the Wiki Ambassador Program and the page I have "taken under my wing" is Design elements and principles. I made my first edit tonight but there are many more changes to come. As I read on your page you are a fan of graphic design principals and this topic needs guidance of an expert. Thank you for you consideration hope to hear from you soon!. Andybolin (talk) 06:01, 30 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Andy. Welcome to Wikipedia! :) While I'm not Sue, I did want to let you know that she is in Germany attending meetings right now and may not be getting to Wikipedia for a while. In the meantime, you might want to pop in at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, where people should be able to respond to you quickly. Good luck with your work, and thanks for your interest in helping out that article! --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 12:33, 30 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Andy, what a coincidence --- I happened to be reading that page a few weeks ago, when I was working on the article about the flexibility-usability tradeoff, and it did look like it could use some work. I'm really glad you're doing it -- I can tell it's significantly better already than it was a month ago. I don't think I actually could help much --- I am not at all a design expert and I've never studied design: I'm just an enthusiast. But maybe this weekend I can try to help a little :-) Thanks Sue Gardner (talk) 21:58, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Barnstar and offer

Thanks so much I have been contacted by several WMF staff today and it's been overwhelming with the press and my personal correspondence as well. I've literally been doing interviews, e-mails, and texts since I awoke! Thanks for your kind words and for your offer--it's very generous. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:05, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikimania

Hello Sue: apparently some people were crazy enough to give me a scholarship to go to Washington. I don't know what all's playing in July, but I've asked Sage Ross to reserve a box for you and me at the opera. Shall I ask him to make dinner reservations for us as well? Drmies (talk) 18:37, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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ahoy

Right, now to discuss how to proceed from here...figgered you might wanna add a word or two. Casliber (talk · contribs) 10:18, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE May drive wrap-up

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Participation: Out of 54 people who signed up this drive, 32 copy-edited at least one article. Last drive's superstar, Lfstevens, again stood out, topping the leader board in all three categories and copy-editing over 700 articles. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

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Thank you for minding the gap!

Mind the Gap Award
Sue, great work on the catfight article and for all the great things you do to serve as an advocate for women, Wikimedia, and more. Thank you and I am proud to award you the Mind the Gap award! Sarah (talk) 02:57, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Tablets vs. laptops

Perhaps you should ask a sysadmin to measure whether long term editors decrease editing when they start using tablets. That shouldn't be too difficult to measure, but it would involve tallying fields from the squid logs which aren't available on the toolserver because of privacy concerns, so only a sysadmin could do it. 71.212.251.217 (talk) 21:41, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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