Gendergap July 2016

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the passing of Kevin Gorman
by Neotarf 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

It breaks my heart that I am not able to post condolences to his talk page. I wanted to say so much about what he did for people behind the scenes, how he kept this forum moderated and open for discussion after arbcom closed down the gender gap project, and how when he talked, the ideas rushed out of him as if he knew how little time he had, and could overcome mortality itself in order to accomplish them, but in the end, there are no words, there are no words.

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$600 grant request for LGBT+ related Featured Pictures
by Fæ 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

Re: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/LGBT/Wiki_Loves_Pride_… Good news, the WMF grant has now been approved! This gives the community a modest prize fund of $600 for photographers sharing new LGBT+ visually themed photographs on Commons which then get to Featured Picture status either on Commons or one of the 43 different language Wikipedias with Featured Picture processes. There were a couple of areas to be tightened up before the competition starts, refer to the grant page for details and feel free to chip in with further questions (or to share ideas for possible answers). If you would like to help out with this competition, either as an experienced helper for photographers new to the Featured Pictures process, a writer to propose a couple of central notices and list announcements, or would like to help me and Funcrunch with checking that nominations are appropriately "visually LGBT+ themed", drop me an email in confidence (it may take me a while to get back to you as I'm travelling over the coming week). P.S. crossposting to GenderGap as I know a lot of LGBT+ and those interested in helping with improving this type of diversity of content and quality hang out here. :-) Thanks, Fae -- faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae

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Fwd: Essay: "Editing Wikipedia as self-care activism"
by Pine W 10 Jul '16

10 Jul '16

https://medium.com/@verbistheword/editing-wikipedia-as-self-care-activism-7… by Veronica Erb might be of interest to Wikimedians. Pine

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Female UK Prime Minister
by Marie Earley 09 Jul '16

09 Jul '16

>From the beginning of September the UK will have a female Prime Minister, either Theresa May or Andrea Leadsom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)_leadership_election,_… If Hillary Clinton becomes President, then Germany, UK and US will all have female leaders. Marie

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DARVO and harassment tactics
by Neotarf 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

These are mostly TL:DR and not tailored specifically to online communities, but are mainly valuable for their overviews DARVO "DARVO stands for "Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender." The perpetrator or offender may Deny the behavior, Attack the individual doing the confronting, and Reverse the roles of Victim and Offender such that the perpetrator assumes the victim role and turns the true victim -- or the whistle blower -- into an alleged offender. This occurs, for instance, when an actually guilty perpetrator assumes the role of "falsely accused" and attacks the accuser's credibility or even blames the accuser of being the perpetrator of a false accusation." http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/jjf/defineDARVO.html Institutional Betrayal "The term "Institutional Betrayal" refers to wrongdoings perpetrated by an institution upon individuals dependent on that institution, including failure to prevent or respond supportively to wrongdoings by individual"..."Victims, perpetrators, and witnesses may display betrayal blindness in order to preserve relationships, institutions, and social systems upon which they depend." http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/jjf/institutionalbetrayal/index.html *Tactics against sexual harassment: the role of backfire*"...if an action is perceived as unjust and information about it is communicated to receptive audiences, it has the capacity to cause outrage and consequently backfire on the perpetrator. Perpetrators regularly use five types of tactics to inhibit outrage: (1) cover-up of the action; (2) devaluation of the target; (3) reinterpretation of the events; (4) use of official channels to give the appearance of justice; and (5) intimidation and bribery of targets, witnesses and others" https://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/06jiws.html "A button to report harassment" This is ties in to the Citron speech Q&A on "precision in recall": or "a rule that was very easy for people who are harassed to report that harassment, but it also enabled people to use reporting harassment...to harass other people."...and "we’re making a place where you can safely report harassment, and somebody will turn around and well, now somebody is going to in a very hidden place, report that I’m harassing them, and you know, work against me..." Now on Wikisource: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Danielle_Citron_speaks_at_WikiConference_USA…

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Fwd: [SHARP-L] Writing Culture in Southern German Women*s Convents
by Michael J. Lowrey 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

Any German-speakers on this list? This looks like a goldmine of lost women's culture! From: Bettina Wagner <Bettina.Wagner(a)bsb-muenchen.de> Date: Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 6:06 AM Subject: Writing Culture in Southern German Women*s Convents *Writing Culture in Southern German Women's Convents* 'Writing Culture in Southern German Women's Convents' was the focus of a project funded from September 2008 until May 2012 by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) as part of its action plan on 'Libraries and Archives in Cooperation with Research'. This programmatic new approach made possible the cataloguing, digitisation and academic study of medieval manuscripts and early printed books as well as of pragmatic documents and archival records from five selected southern German women's convents. Jointly organised by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich and the Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster / Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf, the project studied the medieval books of these Bavarian convents and their archival holdings (until 1550) and now presents them embedded in their historical context. The manuscripts, archival records and incunables created or formerly owned by the Dominican sisters of Altenhohenau, the Bridgettines of Altomünster, the Poor Clares (St. Jakob am Anger) and Franciscan Tertiaries (Pütrichhaus) of Munich and the Benedictines of Neuburg an der Donau allowed systematic insights into the convent libraries, economic management and the particular roles of office holders. More broadly the project offered new perspectives on the education, internal organisation and the self-conception of these religious communities. After the dissolution of these houses the historical records were divided up and as a result, books and documents are today preserved in libraries as well as in archives. It was therefore crucial to bring them back together under an overall perspective. Through a synthesis of the source material, the rich heritage of these often highly-educated women and their engagement with literature can be assessed and presented in an unprecedented way, within the wider context of these politically and economically influential communities. When the project expired, the project partner provided in-house effort for the publication of the results. The documents have been recently made accessible online as well as in a printed catalogue. A thematic research archive hosted by the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online https://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/sueddeutsche-frauenkloest… offers introductory texts and an overview of the mediaeval holdings,structured by subject groups based on mediaeval ways of organising libraries and knowledge, to allow comparisons, despite the different quantity of source material from each convent. Links provide direct access to the digitised manuscripts, early printed books, documents and archival records. Manuscript descriptions are available online via http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de. The printed catalogue contains introductory material and detailed descriptions of the manuscripts from two of the convents as well as an overview of the printed material: Katalog der lateinischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München. Die Handschriften aus den Klöstern Altenhohenau und Altomünster: Clm 2901-2966 sowie Streubestände gleicher Provenienz, Anja Freckmann, Juliane Trede and Elisabeth Wunderle, eds, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016. Melanie Hömberg's study of the economic practices of the female communities, 'Economic Book Keeping in Context', is available on the homepage through a link. Almut Breitenbach's publications are listed in the bibliography. With best wishes, The Project Team - Projektleitung, Universität Düsseldorf: Prof. Dr. Eva Schlotheuber - Projektleitung, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München: Dr. Bettina Wagner - Admin. Projektleitung, Generaldirektion der Staatlichen Archive Bayerns: Dr. Joachim Kemper, Dr. Michael Unger, Dr. Julian Holzapfl - Projektkoordination: Dr. Ingrid Gardill - Auswertung (Buchbestände): Dr. Almut Breitenbach - Auswertung (Wirtschaftsschriftlichkeit): Dr. Melanie Hömberg - Erschließung, Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv: Daniel Russell, Dr. Silvia Strodel, Dr. Peter Urbanek - Erschließung, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München: Dr. Anja Freckmann, Dr. Juliane Trede, Dr. Elisabeth Wunderle - Online-Präsentation, Universität Düsseldorf: Anna Durwen, Anna Bündgens, Julius Wimmer - Online-Präsentation, Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online: Dr. Stephan Kellner, Friedrich Ulf Röhrer-Ertl, Jasmina Zöller _______________________________________ Dr. Bettina Wagner Leiterin des Referats Handschriftenerschließungszentrum und der Inkunabelsammlung Abteilung fuer Handschriften und Alte Drucke Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Ludwigstr. 16 D-80539 Muenchen Germany email: bettina.wagner(a)bsb-muenchen.de Tel. (++49) 89 / 28638-2982 Fax. (++49) 89 / 28638-12982 postbox: D-80328 Muenchen http://www.hgw.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/personen/lehrbeauftragte/wagner/i… _______________________________________ -- Michael J. "Orange Mike" Lowrey "When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes." -- Desiderius Erasmus

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