Wikipedia:Meetup/justfortherecord/Events/Gender Redirect

= 27.02.2016 Gender Redirect =

Just For The Record organizes its second event, Gender Redirect, a day bringing attention to gender representations in language constructions. Gender Redirect takes over the threads developed in the previous event, heroine, and continues its analysis of the process of Wikipedia editing, with its specific functions such as ‘view history’ and ‘talk page’, analysis tools like metrics and operations like redirection and disambiguation - to investigate the possibilities and challenges of gender-neutral writing.


 * Venue: Amazone, Brussels
 * Date: 27.02.2016, 10:00-18:00
 * Language: English, French, Dutch
 * Cost: Free
 * Participants: Open to anyone interested in this experience: beginners welcome! débutant(e)s bienvenu(e)s! beginners welkom! Experienced Wikipedia editors will be present and will share their knowledge in editing Wikipedia.
 * What to Bring: Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. Light lunch and drinks will be provided.
 * A temporary library will be set up by the participants who are invited to bring their books and digital documents to feed the edit-a-thon!

Program

 * 10:00 – welcome at Amazone with tea and coffee
 * 10:30 – presentation of Just For The Record
 * 11:00 – presentation by Femke Snelting
 * 12:00 – presentation and open discussion on language & gender
 * 13:00 – lunch break
 * 14:00 – crash course on Wikipedia editing and start of the editing session
 * 18:00 – end of the day at The Student (Paleizenstraat 76 rue des Palais), with a DJ-set and performance by Frau Picha at 19:00

Guests
Femke Snelting, artist and designer, working at the juncture between design, feminism and free software. Femke co-initiated the project pattern.en.paternalism, a contribution proposed to Pattern, a web mining module initiated by the Computational Linguistics & Psycholinguistics research center at the University of Antwerp. The pattern.en.paternalism feature should detect if and to what extent a text could be considered ‘paternalist’. Through this project and other ones, Femke explores the actual conditions, context and work of annotation involved in the practice of datamining.

Frau Picha is a baroque-narcissistic sound performance project (solo or collaboration, in real or online), a human-machine laboratory which goes with the motto "enjoy ourselves, seriously!".

Participants
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Ok... but what can I edit now!!?
→analyze in which direction the redirects go (female to neutral, male to neutral, female to male, male to female) →start the talk page of the gender redirects about the criteria for the directions of the redirects https://metrics.wmflabs.org/
 * Redirect from gender: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Redirects_from_gender
 * Write some information on your own wiki page (so that your name doesn't appear in red when you start editing articles)
 * Write some information on your Sandbox
 * Start new discussions on talk page (don't forget that talk pages are as valued as articles)
 * Find ideas on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Gender_Studies
 * Create new articles or complete missing information or correct pages about women ex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Swift complete article + bibliography
 * Check articles for bias in the style of writing ex: A woman will be cited by her first name instead of surname https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_about_women#Use_surnames
 * Analyse the metrics function
 * For users who are experienced enough to edit semi-protected pages: add link of https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_astronauts&redirect=no to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut under See Also category - and while you are at it, maybe add also the link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_in_space as for the moment, only the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_space#See_also refers to it!
 * Art + Feminism list of Tasks
 * Add more ideas to this page!

Participant's projects to collaborate to

 * Liste des voies de Bruxelles se référant à un nom de femme

Redirects from gender
See: Meetup/justfortherecord/Events/Gender Redirect

Discussion

 * Wikipédia:Forum des nouveaux/Flow (topic)
 * Try to convince other users based on the principles of Wikipedia

Resources

 * Robin Lakoff language and woman's place
 * The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing
 * Feminist Philosophy of Language
 * Gender-specific and gender-neutral pronouns
 * The Words that Failed: A chronology of early nonbinary pronouns
 * Writing about women
 * A Guide to Gender-Inclusive Language from Loyola University Chicago
 * Category:Redirects from gender
 * Help:Disambiguation
 * Manual of Style
 * Hen (Swedish neutral pronoun)
 * Presentation notes Gender Mining: http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/gendermining

Redirects from gender

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