Linkspamming saves lives (3rd August, 2011)
- A timely reminder: are you running a blog? Make automated backups and store them on a different server to your blog in case of disaster. For WordPress, two plugins that will email you backups on a schedule are Online Backup for WordPress (both database and WordPress installation) and WordPress Database Backup (database only).
- Pseudonyms:
- My Name Is Me: Be Yourself Online. Statements in support of pseudonymity. Share the link, and if you are well-known or respected and support the use of nicknames or pseudonyms online, consider making a statement.
- Electronic Frontier Foundation: A Case for Pseudonyms:
It is not incumbent upon strict real-name policy advocates to show that policies insisting on the use of real names have an upside. It is incumbent upon them to demonstrate that these benefits outweigh some very serious drawbacks.
I believe that more women would be involved in editing Wikipedia if it were a social activity, rather than an insular one, so I hosted a WikiWomen party at my house to make the experience collaborative. In attendance were five female chemists: myself, Anna Goldstein, Rebecca Murphy, Chelsea Gordon and Helen Yu. We started the night with a dinner, over which we discussed the experience of being a graduate student and how writing for Wikipedia compares to teaching undergraduates.
The purpose of this research was to identify factors that affect participants’ satisfaction with their experience of a free/libre open source software (FLOSS) project. [...] The central research question it answered was, What factors influence participant satisfaction with a free/libre and open source application software project? [...] These suggest that being able to be an active participant in a FLOSS project is one factor that should be examined, and therefore the first sub-question this project answers is, What types of contributions do participants make to free/libre and open source software projects? [...] Do the factors that influence satisfaction vary for different types of participation? If so, in what way?
You can suggest links for future linkspams in comments here, or by using the “geekfeminism” tag on delicious, freelish.us or pinboard.in or the “#geekfeminism” tag on Twitter. Please note that we tend to stick to publishing recent links (from the last month or so).
Thanks to everyone who suggested links.
Deb Nicholson:
August 3rd, 2011 at 7:08 am
When I clicked, I was expecting to see this blog post on women and wikipedia, http://www.mindspillage.org/blog/2011/07/14/19/ — I especially like her point about hostile vs. not actively welcoming.
d2k:
August 3rd, 2011 at 10:10 am
“At the registration booth, black lanyards were provided to general attendees. Yellow lanyards were given to individuals that did not want to be photographed. A special seating area was provided out of video camera range for these individuals.”
http://blogs.cisco.com/diversity/collaboration-is-hard-how-to-work-within-conflicting-points-of-view/
d2k:
August 3rd, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Anyone up for fisking this? *sigh*
Male Founders: Want to Kill Your Startup’s Chances? Hire a Woman by Penelope Trunk (via @MissRogue)
d2k:
August 3rd, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Discussion of pros and cons of anonymity in blog comments at TPM, that gets into some of the technical / back end details. Some good stuff in the comments on the post:
http://labs.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/post-1.php?ref=fpblg
Sasha_feather:
August 5th, 2011 at 1:07 pm
Hello, I thought you might be interested in this (anti-feminist) article “Is Wikipedia Sexist Too?” There is some good pushback in the comments, but the main author is clearly not getting it. http://www.science20.com/science_20/blog/wikipedia_sexist_too-81478#comment-78116
John:
August 8th, 2011 at 5:15 am
10-year-old hacker finds zero-day flaw in games (the 10-year-old hacker concerned is female).
d2k:
August 10th, 2011 at 11:36 pm
The working woman’s double bind: “That network server’s too difficult for a woman…“