User talk:Stelba90

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Great project!

Have you ever been locked into an intense editing war? If yes, please explain the situation to me.

I have not, though I was concerned about this when I began (and know it is a very real possibility).

How did you become interested in editing Wikipedia pages and did you have any initial fears/hesitations when you started editing pages?

The National Women's Studies Association project to close the Gender Gap on Wikipedia. I am the Chair of the Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS) at the College of Wooster. We instituted the project for our annual WGSS Week & 5 classes participated. Here are a few articles about it:

http://www.wooster.edu/news/releases/2016/january/wikipedia-project/index.php http://thewoostervoice.spaces.wooster.edu/2016/03/04/wgss-week-takes-on-wikipedia/

Have you ever been a victim of a mass deletion or other vandalism on Wikipedia? If yes, please explain the situation to me.

I have not.

How would you describe your gender?

Female.

Is there anything else you would like to share with me about your experiences as a Wikipedia editor?

Best of luck with your project! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.140.33.181 (talk) 00:55, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Email
Hi there. I got a note about you sending an email. I never received one. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:22, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

I'll reply to your questions here, if that is okay.

1. No. 2. I think I started as most do, by adding something missing, then getting more involved. 3. No. 4. Female 5. It is an honour working with such intelligent people.

Thank you for the kind compliment about my userpage. Good luck with your project! I hope you join the community here longterm. Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:32, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Email reply
I replied to your email.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 21:28, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

More email
LovelyLillith (talk) 18:39, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Digital Anthropology research
If you received an email or message from me, you can feel free to create a new section with your answers! Thank you all for your input :-)

'''ALSO I WILL NOT BE USING ANYONE'S USERNAME IN MY RESEARCH. ANYTHING YOU TELL ME THAT I INCLUDE IN MY RESEARCH WILL BE ATTRIBUTED TO AN ANONYMOUS SOURCE. '''
 * Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed one of your questionnaires and thought I would point out a characteristic of both the Wikipedia software and community norms which you may find useful. The Mediawiki software records individual edits as WP:DIFFs which show single or consecutive changes to a page. This facility allows, at all times, to know exactly what individual editors have said to each other and due to that, when editors discuss each other they make their case by providing both a narrative and linking specific diffs to support or illustrate their position. In dispute resolution this allows for matters to be objectively read by a third party as well as or as opposed to being filtered through the subjective view of the parties involved in the conflict. This unique combination of a platform which holds a record of all interactions, even after they are no longer visible, and a culture which is used to using this facility when discussing conflicts may be of use in your study. If you ask your respondents to provide diff links along with their narrative descriptions you may find more insight into the dynamics of interpersonal and editing conflicts on Wikipedia. You can see the actual changes, unfiltered by the disputants subjective view, as well as, through their responses to you, how those interactions were perceived by them. The request also, in my opinion, would not be offensive to active editors, who are used to an ethos of "diffs or it didn't happen". You may also be interested in some of our editor profiling tools which may give you some additional insights into your respondents and those who they were/are in conflict with. The one I use is WP:XTOOLS which can be added to your interface by a script and accessed by going to a user's User Page and selecting User --> Analysis --> XTOOLS. You can also click this link and replace the   with any other user name. So for instance if you wanted to see my account's history you would use , like this . Some of the information returned includes how long the account has been active, how active the account is, how many edits it has made and how these edits are distributed between parts of Wikipedia - Articles, Article Talk, Wikipedia space (like deletion, policy and dispute resolution discussions) etc. Best of luck on your project. If I can be of help please feel free to contact me on my talk page or  ping me by placing  on any talk page and signing the edit with  . You may also like to take a look at WP:ANI, WP:AN and WP:ANEW where disputes and edit wars are dealt with. There is also a body of discussion at WT:HARASSMENT as well as its archives, accessed by number at the top of the page, which might be interesting to you.  J bh  Talk  02:32, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
 * PS here is a diff of the above edit as an example  J bh  Talk  02:47, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

Welcome!
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Thank you for your interest. I answered your questions where you asked, but copied here:
 * Thank you for asking. I formatted your questions the Wikipedia way:


 * 1) Have you ever been locked into an intense editing war? If yes, please explain the situation to me.
 * 2) How did you become interested in editing Wikipedia pages and did you have any initial fears/hesitations when you started editing pages?
 * 3) Have you ever been a victim of a mass deletion or other vandalism on Wikipedia? If yes, please explain the situation to me.
 * 4) How would you describe your gender?
 * 5) Is there anything else you would like to share with me about your experiences as a Wikipedia editor?


 * Answers:


 * 1) No.
 * 2) I noticed a red link and wrote the article, which caused three more red links, which caused ... - I had no fear, my first article was promptly deleted but revived by the help of a fellow editor. [On second thought: the fellow editor happened to be male, but I like to work with male and female users, and don't need to know. I work for a project with a high percentage of writers known to be female, on top of Women in Red.]
 * 3) No mass deletion. I think it's not a precise question: articles get vandalized, and I repair almost daily. [On second thought: "My" articles - the articles I write, we don't own them - are rarely vandalized, but I watch and repair many others.] As a user, no vandalism.
 * 4) Female
 * 5) I love the collaboration. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:53, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

Grazie per il messaggio
Hi Stephanie, thank you for your message. The question "how the digital world affects culture and how culture affects the digital world" is very interesting. I would like to learn more about your project.

As for myself, I'm an italian editor, active mainly on the italian Wikipedia. Sorry for my english, I try to do my best.

Here are my answers to your questions:

1. ''Have you ever been locked into an intense editing war? If yes, please explain the situation to me.'' I have no experience of edit war.

2. How did you become interested in editing Wikipedia pages and did you have any initial fears/hesitations when you started editing pages? Some years ago, I was looking for something that I didn't find in the italian Wikipedia. I thought: I can do that, I can write a page on that subject. No fears, no hesitations. Writing a page in Wikipedia is very easy. There are rules, you have to respect that.

3. ''Have you ever been a victim of a mass deletion or other vandalism on Wikipedia? If yes, please explain the situation to me.'' In my experience, I haven't been a victim of vandalism, but I'm aware that it is an important issue.

4. How would you describe your gender? Woman.

5. Is there anything else you would like to share with me about your experiences as a Wikipedia editor? If someone is fond of culture, Wikipedia is an amazing experience. It's fantastic that everybody can contribute in a way or another to this free, huge cultural project.

Thank you again for your message. It would be great if you could send me a copy of your final work. Ciao :) --Kenzia (talk) 14:25, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your invitation
Hmlarson (talk) 17:09, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

Research best practices
Hi ! I'm happy to see you doing some research with the Wikipedia community. We don't have any official rules about how this research is supposed to work, but I do suggest you create some documentation about your project so that it is easier for others to reference. It'll be nice to have a place to share your results with us too. We maintain an index of on-wiki research at m:Research:Index. You can easily add your project to the index by starting at m:Research:New project. I do some volunteer work to help out researchers like yourself. Please feel free to reach out to me with questions and please do let me know if you run into trouble. --EpochFail (talk &bull; contribs) 14:23, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Interesting data on Signpost
If you haven't already seen it, Stelba, you should look at the current Signpost, especially the News and notes section which presents interesting data on the harassment of women editors.--Ipigott (talk) 09:23, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Answers
Hi there,

Here are my answers, and good luck with your research. 1. Have you ever been locked into an intense editing war? If yes, please explain the situation to me. No, but then I've only been on Wikipedia for about a year. I'm more of a writer than an editor so am not passionate about copy editing and happy if someone comes up an cleans up after me. Also the subjects I've been writing on are usually not controversial. 2. How did you become interested in editing Wikipedia pages and did you have any initial fears/hesitations when you started editing pages? I like to write and I like explaining things. I have spent time in my career summarizing ideas and projects to others. I believed that working on Wikipedia is a good way to give back, share knowledge and I can do it on my own time. I also like being able to focus on things that interest me. 3. Have you ever been a victim of a mass deletion or other vandalism on Wikipedia? If yes, please explain the situation to me. No. 4. How would you describe your gender? Female. 5. Is there anything else you would like to share with me about your experiences as a Wikipedia editor? I have my story on my user page. Jaldous1 (talk) 14:44, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Answers
--Rosiestep (talk) 05:06, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

Is late better than never?
I cant believe I havent looked at my Wikipedia account in such a long time that I never responded to your survey. I can answer the questions now, if it helps. 1. Have you ever been locked into an intense editing war? If yes, please explain the situation to me.
 * I try to avoid these. I do not have personal experience with this, but I have a few friends (women) that also occasionally edit wiki, and have described to me some of their own experiences, which sounded frustrating, time consuming, illogical, and just plan foolish. In one case, my friend knew that the subject of the wiki she had edited was a certain ethnicity, and other editors kept insisting, even though the sources all agreed with her, that this person was not the ethnicity she said it was. Bizarre.

2. How did you become interested in editing Wikipedia pages and did you have any initial fears/hesitations when you started editing pages?
 * I love information and knowledge. I am naturally curious, (isnt everyone?) and I love to read (doesnt everyone?) and I am reasonably functional on a laptop, so it was easy to get involved. I began editing anonymously and saw how easy it was, so whenever I ran into an interesting piece of information or current events I would add it to an article. When I decided to become a real editor with a name, I slowed down. I read some articles about Wikipedia and saw that researchers found that women as subjects of articles on Wiki are underrepresented, so I looked into improving that situation. I never really had any fears or hesitations. Once I became a certified editor I had many anonymous edits up my sleave, so I kind of knew what I was doing.

3. Have you ever been a victim of a mass deletion or other vandalism on Wikipedia? If yes, please explain the situation to me.
 * A mass deletion? Wow, what is that? Glad to say, "No." Not so much vandalism. Not really.

4. How would you describe your gender?
 * I am a female. Is that enough of a description?

5. Is there anything else you would like to share with me about your experiences as a Wikipedia editor?
 * I have spoken to friends who have tried to add more articles about women to Wikipedia, and they seem to feel that it is harder to get an article up on Wikipedia if it is about a woman than if it is about a man. I am not sure about that, since I have not had the chance to actually create that many articles, about men, women or otherwise.HugSnugBugRug (talk) 10:35, 29 March 2017 (UTC)