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Hi Grrrlriot. I see you're looking for adoption. I'm an experienced user (been around since February of this year, and have more than 4,500 edits), and I'd be happy to adopt you, if you're interested. I have a pretty solid understanding of most elements of Wikipedia, but I'm still not much good at prettifying articles (vidually, like), so if that's a concern, you might want to choose someone else. Anyway, I'm on offer - let me know. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 19:49, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
Did you want to join WP:LGBT? You put your name at the end of the "Inactive" list, so I wasn't sure... If you do want to join, visit WP:LGBT/M and move your name to active? Thanks! -- SatyrTN ( talk | contribs) 03:22, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
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I was the founding token male member of the Jackson, TN NOW; reckon you could say I'm interested. (Son of a woman, brother of women, husband of a woman, father of a woman-to-be; don't see how I could feel right not being a feminist!) Whereabouts in Tennessee do you live? I'm coming to Chattanooga in January, as I do every year, for Chattacon, the local S.F. convention. -- Orange Mike | Talk 13:48, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
I'm glad to hear that. I live near Knoxville. Nice to meet you. I hope to see more of your edits in the future. -- Grrrlriot ( talk) 19:58, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
It's almost done: Glossary of philosophical isms.
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Thanks that does interest me. -- Grrrlriot ( talk) 19:57, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey - just wanted to let you know that I'll be away from the internet from December 27 until December 30, inclusive. I'll be happy to address any questions you might have upon my return; until then, happy holidays. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 12:47, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
I hope you had happy holidays! Welcome back! -- Grrrlriot ( talk) 23:04, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey, you seem to be doing very well - good work in citing references to the material you added to Kathleen Hanna. With regards to the material you added to Global Feminism, I'm not quite sure what you were trying to do. As you've probably noticed, Wikipedia doesn't have articles for Transnational Feminism or International Feminism. It might have made sense to add those redlinks in if you planned on creating those articles (or if you just thought that they should exist and hoped that somebody else would), but you seem to be saying that those are the same thing as Global Feminism, in which case separate articles wouldn't make very much sense. It might make sense to make those redlinks redirect to Global Feminism; do you know how to do that? Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 07:24, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
(outdent) I would personally remove the links under "See also" to Transnational feminism and International feminism. Usually users click those links to learn more about a given topic (or topics related to it); if they clicked those, they'd just be redirected back to the same article they were already reading, which I suspect would be frustrating. Of course, all of this assumes that the three terms basically mean the same thing; if they mean different but related things, it might be more appropriate to remove the redirects and develop new articles under those names. In that case, it would make sense to keep the links. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 18:21, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
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Hey there. I've left a message at User talk:BrownHairedGirl#Portals. I thought if you want to start Portal:Feminism, and BHG wants to start Women, I'd start Gender studies. I'm hoping to get a little input from the project (maybe ask LGBT if anyone over there would like to contribute), but I'd be willing to help out for both of the other portals (extra pair of eyes?). This is good, I feel like we've got some momentum going here - thanks! Phyesalis ( talk) 03:44, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Thank you kindly for your feedback. There is a way to automatically add users to categories based on userboxes, but I've never bothered to learn how it's done. Besides, I think just sort of browsing around is a better way to find people with like interests. (You can always go to the userbox page and click on "what links here".) Cheers! – Scartol • Tok 01:32, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
(undent) Definitely still interested, as you can see on my Works in Progress list. But I'll probably need another week or so. Thanks for your patience. – Scartol • Tok 16:50, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
hi grrrlriot - you list these other wikis; would you consider putting in links to them directly? anarchopedia, feministwiki, Zinewiki ... i know the zinewiki but not feministwiki, and somehow, i didn't know about anarchopedia ... -- Lquilter ( talk) 17:33, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to first welcome you to the Anarchism Task Force, and let you know that I reverted your addition of the Anarchism in Somalia to the List of anarchist movements by region, because it's a redirect to Anarchy in Somalia, which really has nothing to do with anarchism as a movement, but more "anarchy" like chaos. But again, welcome to the project! Murderbike ( talk) 04:42, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thanks for your kind wishes re: my rfa, which was successful. (yaay) -- Lquilter ( talk) 13:27, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
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Dear Grrrlriot, you have left me a small note encouraging me on my contributions. Many thanks. My field of knowledge is French feminism, french feminist psychoanalysis, french post-modern art, french post-modern philosophy, and the links between all these subjects. I try from time to time to contribute, but I don't really know how to do complicated wikipedia jobs like putting on photos or do anything other than putting more knowledge here and there. I thank you for your encouragement, and, for the moment, I believe that I will remain quite minimalist with my contributions, but I wonder if I can contact you to help me if I have suggestions concerning operations that I do not know to do, like indeed, putting photos when I obtain permission, etc.. Anyway, thanks again for your kindness. 84.229.43.161 ( talk) 23:52, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Grrrlriot - I've been a shamefully delinquent adoptive parent lately, and I apologize for it. I'll have a more detailed answer to your question sometime tonight. Again, sorry about that! Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 17:53, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks for mine! WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN play it cool. 20:02, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Greta (do you mind if I call you that? You should feel free to call me Steve, if you want). As promised, here's some feedback I've compiled after looking over your last few edits. You're generally doing very well (which is good, because if you were screwing up all over the place I'd feel really guilty for neglecting your tutelage). Some things that I think you're doing well include the following:
Some tips for the future:
Finally, one random question: have you set up a watchlist yet?
Please let me know if you have any questions, and I promise to be more diligent in helping you in the future.
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for the smile! Fg2 ( talk) 11:35, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
You had some unnecessary stuff there (that first bit was just setting out the general format to use; it wasn't actually useful code), so I deleted it. Other than that, you've got it set up properly to remove anything more than seven days old and stick it in one archive page. That page will eventually get pretty big, though. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 20:13, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
User:Jaytur1/Secret page Even though you cheated. -- J a y 10:24, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Just dropping you a line about the portal. Since I picked (rather unilaterally) last months picture and article for Portal:Feminism would you like to go ahead and pick this month's ones? We should also discuss what ones should be used for March and April as well-- Cailil talk 13:39, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
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Yeah, sure! Welcome to Wikipedia! If there's anything you need explaining, please ask! WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN round of applause 18:50, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, You left a note on my page, we share in the interest in feminist issues. I want to thank you for your attention, Doraannao ( talk) 23:11, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Yes, sure, thanks again, i am trying my way around, and sometimes losing my way, so each small welcome is important. Doraannao ( talk) 23:31, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
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For your tireless work on Portal:Feminism and the new taskforce, not to mention your enthusiasm, I hereby award you this Gender Studies barnstar. Congratulations, you've earned it. Please, keep up the good work! Phyesalis ( talk) 22:05, 12 February 2008 (UTC) |
It's for YOU, silly! -- Phyesalis ( talk) 22:14, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
I don't know if you've seen this or not, but Wikipedia:WikiProject Gender Studies might make the Feminism Task Force a little redundant. Murderbike ( talk) 01:35, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for starting the article. I tried to polish it up a bit. A word of advice: try not to copy and paste language from other sites, because the text of new articles is often compared to Google searches for WP:COPYVIO problems.
I thought you might be interested in
Women's Party (Israel), which has more information about Freedman. In fact, many of the articles at
Special:Whatlinkshere/Marcia Freedman are interesting, if the minutia of left-wing Israeli politics interests you.
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Hi again. According to Freedman's Hebrew Wikipedia article, she divorced her husband during the 1977 election and came out later, and to date she's the only "out" lesbian member of Knesset. Over the next few days I'll look for some more sources about her. — Malik Shabazz ( talk · contribs) 19:23, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Hey, just so ya know, when someone is placed in a category like "Japanese feminists", they are automatically included in "Feminists", because the former is a subcategory of the latter. It is always preferred to use a subcategory when possible, and leave out the mother category. Cheers! Murderbike ( talk) 22:56, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Scartol can make excellent templates and userboxes and would more than likely help out with the project. Awadewit | talk 17:45, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
(undent) Well, we generally don't use them at all. In some contexts they may be useful (on pages explaining a movement taking place over many years, perhaps), but by and large I don't care for them at all. (I can't speak for her; this is my approximation of her perspective.)
As for templates, I'll make one for the feminist stubs later today; otherwise, I think we have most of the ones we need (they already existed at WP:GS). (By "making some equivalent to other wikiprojects/task forces" I meant what you suggested – seeing what the Anarchism force, for instance, has, and making some like them.) So it looks like we're good to go! I'll add the userbox later today as well.
You'll also be happy to know that the number of people in Category:Wikipedians interested in feminism has jumped dramatically today, since I fixed the "this user is a feminist" userbox to automatically list those who display it on their userpages. Maybe more people to contact for the task force? – Scartol • Tok 18:51, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Well, I did it. Apparently you can't change the title of an article in WP, so I just removed the redirect from Feminist theology and copied the contents of Religious feminism. Please let me know what you think! I hope that I did everything correctly. BTW, thank you for your help in getting me added to the feminism category! Webbbbbbber ( talk) 21:49, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, you asked if I would adopt you earlier this week and I was just wondering if you found anyone that would adopt you. Please let me know if you need help finding someone! Cremepuff222 ( talk) 03:24, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Greta - a couple of things:
You seem to have an extremely active adopter already - how do you feel you could benefit from having another one? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 12:31, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Grrrlriot, thanks for voting in
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Hi Grrrlriot have a look at
this post.
wikigender.org seems to be an
OECD initiative and might just be of interest to you--
Cailil
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Urg, you problem got the spam mail anyway. I'm assuming user:wikigender made a good faith error in spamming emails but I'm a little disappointed-- Cailil talk 18:37, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Just wanted to say, "You ROCK!" I was so happy to see that you'd created the much-needed Wikipedia:WikiProject Gender Studies/Feminism Task Force. I've been tackling the gender bias in individual articles for a long while and wishing more editors were available to collaborate on changing the systemic gender bias in Wikipedia. So some weeks ago, I created in Wikipedia. You can see, from the red ink, that I haven't had the time this project deserves. Hopefully others will. Clearly, there is strong affiliation among the Feminism Portal, Gender Studies Project and the Countering Systemic Gender Bias Project. I believe there are distinct purposes, as well. And I hope we one day reach such a critical mass of editors in all three projects, that people can devote themselves solely to one or another. In the meanwhile, I'd like to welcome any collaboration and offer any help needed. I'd also be happy to add the Feminist Portal link to the Countering Systemic Gender Bias Project page, if you'd like. -- Deebki 06:12, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
As you've likely noticed, your talk page is being archived now. It turns out that the problem was this edit, which prevents bots from editing your page. Since the archiving is done by a bot, that tag was preventing the bot from doing the archiving. If you want to replace the tag, you'll have to do the archiving manually.
Anyway, your talk page is now being archived to User talk:Grrrlriot/Archive 1; you should maybe put a link to that page somewhere on your talk page, although it's up to you. I also still think that 48 hours is a little short a time period for things to stay on your page, but that's also up to you (I can think of at least one user who manually archives anything posted to his page as soon as he sees it). Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 23:06, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Hey there.. I finally got around to doing some design work on that userpage you asked me for. When you have a minute, take a look and tell me what you think! Cheers. – Scartol • Tok 03:02, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Oh man, I saw that original design, and I thought "Do I have a duty, as her adopter, to say something?" Then I decided that since I'd made it clear that aesthetics weren't my strong point, I should probably just stay out of it. But still, brilliant work Scartol. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 19:30, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
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I'm a little concerned about Julia Serano. Currently the article only has citations from self-published sites. Without other citations, the article is in danger of being deleted due to lack of notability. -- SatyrTN ( talk / contribs) 20:25, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Greta - as I've said before, you seem to be able to function pretty well without a tutor these days. However, you've also said that you want to learn everything about Wikipedia, so, if you're okay with it, I'm going to start providing lessons on areas to which you haven't really been exposed. Today's lesson is the articles for deletion process (I chose this both because you've had very little involvement in it so far and because AfD needs more editors at the moment; I also notice that you have a userbox up indicating that you'd like to be an admin someday, and knowledge of the AfD process is essential for admins).
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We should decide this once and for all and not what the name is as it makes a difference to the wording of the text in the article.
Thanx -- BoogaLouie ( talk) 22:21, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
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you said to leave you info on the talk pg...
Re: the term riot grrl...It was the name of a zine... see: http://youtube.com/user/mondotrasho 208.120.251.174 (talk)
also, second wave? The article starts: "is often associated with third-wave feminism (it is sometimes seen as its starting point). However, riot grrrl's emphasis on universal female identity and separatism often appears more closely allied with second-wave feminism than with the third wave.[1] " But a major part is the sex positivity of it and women being able to talk about "universal" parts of female identity that weren't as talked about before. That's distinctly 3rd wave!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-positive_feminism Kathleen Hanna was a stripper...
I'm not super clear on how wiki works, so sorry I don't have a user name yet! (and of course don't want to just put my email out there!)
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sorry to pop up out of the blue like this, but i was wondering if i could just ask you a favor - the article on Naomi Klein is pretty regularly besieged by pov editors attempting to violate WP:undue by focusing disproportionately on the minority of criticisms of her recent book while failing to acknowledge the overwhelming majority of praise. whatever one's personal feelings on the book, it's pretty inarguable that it was well reviewed by most people, which wikipedia should naturally reflect. sorry to ask you, but i've been dealing with the same people for months, and it gets pretty boring reverting the same silliness over and over. i got into a thing like this over on the ralph nader page a few months ago with a user who was later found to be a sock puppet and blocked. i'll be posting this message on a few other user pages just in case you've gots your plate full or just plum don't wanna do it. thanks Marshmellowgoggles ( talk) 22:03, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
thanks, i was just wondering if you could help me watch out for it a bit - sneaky pov, undue focus, etc. it's pretty annoying. Marshmellowgoggles ( talk) 07:50, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
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I thought you might like to know that the Awards Center page has been deleted, along with its newsletter. :(
So, where do we go from here?
To new and even more interesting projects, of course!
As announced in the newsletter, I've been preparing to co-coordinate a large collaboration/competition called Around the World. It was going to be run at the Awards Center, but since that no longer exists, the collaboration will be hosted somewhere else.
Around the World will begin July 15th as planned - it's location will be announced soon.
It'll be a blast. In the competition, participants will be helping to develop over 200 pages (drafts, which will be moved to article space once they are ready), using advanced tools to edit every single one of them!
This is going to be interesting.
And the event shall have awards which are being created specifically for it as we speak!
If you would like me to keep you informed of this and other interesting collaborations I'll be working on and/or organizing in the future, please drop me a note on my talk page, and I'll be happy to keep you in the know.
I look forward to your reply.
Sincerely,
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Or this one:
Which one do you like better?
Please let me know on my talk page.
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It's a collaboration!
A collaboration using advanced wiki-tools!
The event is being co-sponsored by Wikiproject Lists of basic topics and WikiProject Geography, and participants will be "traveling" all around "the World" visiting each country online (here on Wikipedia and perhaps beyond) as they apply advanced wiki-tools to improve pieces of the profiles of each and every country on Earth!. Each pass through these pages is a "trip around the World..."
The set of pages we are working on is currently located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics.
Each page presents essential information on each country in a topic outline format, for ease of overviewing and navigating. Most of the topics presented are linkified, which turns these pages into a hypertextual map to material about each country on Wikipedia. When completed, they shall all become part of Wikipedia's contents system.
The pages share a standard format, with the information on each country presented in the same general order. So rather than getting stuck on a single country trying to complete it, each participant works on all 200+ political entities, completing a single data item or detail across all of the pages!
For this they use advanced tools like WP:AWB, Linky, etc. It goes fast, and since others are doing this at the same time, it makes "the World" feel like a beehive, and the participants are its bees. :) The energy is contagious.
And since you are moving from country to country, the tasks make it feel like you are traveling around the world, and you get to learn a little about every country as you do so. This approach also allows for greater efficiency, because by the time you've done 30 or so of a particular item, you've figured out how to finish it faster and more effectively (such as where to find the data or how to make adjustments), and this specialization speeds up development - but more importantly it reduces errors.
The tasks are varied, which adds even more variety to the project. Some tasks are look-ups-and-fill-ins, some are copy and paste, some are image hunts, some are maintenance adjustments, some are link fixing, some are blue-linking (creating an underlying redirect so a link turns blue), some are fact checking, etc.
For an example of what a nearly complete page looks like, see these:
There are only about 200 more pages to go!
Standing by to help are co-coordinators, who can lend a helping hand to participants, provide instruction and tips on how to use the tools, and help them find what they are looking for. Co-coordinators also use advanced tools to inspect the work of participants, and touch it up as needed, or if a task was done wrong throughout, point this out to the participant so he or she can make the necessary corrections.
Co-coordinators are working on the set of pages right now, to familiarize themselves with "the World" so they can help more effectively by the time the main event starts. But there's still lots of preparation left to be done, and we are looking for editors experienced in advanced wikitools who would like to become co-coordinators.
The Transhumanist 03:39, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
I was born the same day as you! :) ΤΕΡΡΑΣΙΔΙΩΣ( Ταλκ) 00:04, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
On your help-ish page, you listed the Abortion Portal as possibly being a bad idea. I'm under the impression that the controversy surrounding abortion is big enough to have it's own Portal. I hope I'm not too late with this help. Happy editing, Leonard( Bloom) 20:43, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
It takes quite a bit of effort patrol a small bit of space instead of the whole site, and I say that because we have wide-expansive tools ( Huggle, Twinkle, Lupin's tools), but nothing that really can center on a single bit, or portal in this case. Correct me if I'm wrong with this impression. Leonard( Bloom) 16:37, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi Grrrlriot - just checking in to make sure everything's going okay. It's been a while since we spoke, so I just thought I'd check to see if you needed help with anything. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 00:38, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello from me as well :) You've been rather quiet, but that's probably a good sign. Keep up the good work! weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 21:45, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Hey thanks for that, I dont know much about feminism in particular (certainly not enough to contribute to articles on it) but Ive always been interested in the "battle of the sexes" if you will lol :) Ill see if i can help out with it, thanks again, laterz! :D x ΤΕΡΡΑΣΙΔΙΩΣ( Ταλκ) 08:01, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
If I can contribute anything, I guess it would be the general improvement of articles about feminism and feminists in my country. I can already see that the quality of the French-language bios and the English-language bios of Quebec's most notable feminists vary greatly. Worst, there are currently no English-language articles on Éva Circé-Côté and Idola Saint-Jean, two of Quebec's first feminists, same for the Fédération des femmes du Québec (FFQ), and the yearly World March of Women initiated by the FFQ in 2000 [4]. -- Mathieugp ( talk) 20:17, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
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Hey Grrrlriot, I added myself as an official member of the taskforce per your suggestion. I just recently finished working on Emma Goldman with Scartol et. al. If you haven't read that article, I think you would enjoy it. Also Awadewit just finished doing complete rewrites of Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft that are top notch! Things seem to be really rolling on Wikipedia these days. BTW, I noticed you're in Tennessee. I'm in NashVegas myself :) Kaldari ( talk) 04:35, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello again - I've looked over your most recent edits (and it's really nice to see you back, let me add). I like the enthusiasm you've shown for starting the Feminism Task Force; it seems to be really taking off. I see no real problems with your editing, and I'd say you're an asset to the project. As far as things to work on in the future, I'd suggest doing some article building: maybe find an article about a feminist or other feminism-related topic that's in bad shape, and try to improve it by expanding it, adding references, etc. If you own any books or magazine profiles or anything else about any feminists, that would be a great place to start. I'd be happy to help you with that once you've selected a topic, although, as I've said before, I don't personally know a lot about that field, and my collection of books probably wouldn't be very helpful. The other thing is deletion discussions - I explained to you how these work a few months ago, but you don't seem to have participated in any since. I want to emphasize that it's possible to be an excellent editor without ever participating in deletion discussions, but since you've indicated that you'd like to be an administrator at some point, I'm trying to help you find ways to get involved in the more administrative side of the project, and WP:AFD is a great place to do that. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 22:48, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
I've started putting together a list of "administrative" areas of Wikipedia here. It's far from complete, but I hope to expand it substantially within the next few days. You may want to watchlist it so you can see when I add new information. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 05:10, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Heya, thanks for signing my guest book. (i signed your's too). Normally I would have given you a cookie as thanks but my computer is messing up and won't let me... ♥ Tory~♥ Amulet♥ Heart♥ 21:10, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello, and sorry for not responding earlier. While I would certainly like to help improve articles related to feminism ( The Second Sex in particular needs a rewrite, and I've read the book in the original French), I'm not certain if I should commit to another WikiProject or task force because I already find myself stretched in so many directions. I would be glad to sign up for the task force as long as you don't mind only intermittent activity on my part. -- Kyok o 00:15, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
After doing some copy editing, I noticed your comment on the talk page. I would definitely support a move to a better title and the page could use any attention you could give it. JCDenton2052 ( talk) 08:51, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
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I hear it is you we have to thank for getting the Feminism portal up and running. I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your work. I think it is a wonderful idea and I'm so happy to be working on it! Awadewit ( talk) 16:31, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
My pleasure, I love working on portals. :) Quick request, can you please change your sig to link to Wikipedia:WikiProject Gender Studies/Feminism Task Force instead of Wikipedia:WikiProject Gender Studies/Feminism Task Force? I moved it because as it is a subproject off of WP:GS, it should be a subpage off of that WikiProject. Cheers, Cirt ( talk) 01:27, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the invitation. I just joined. — Malik Shabazz ( talk · contribs) 23:19, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
Me also :) Mgoodyear ( talk) 19:23, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I had seen your reply in your own talk page. I am glad you approve of my suggestions. I just could not find the right words to add at the time. It's often like that with me and girls... ;-) But you remind me I haven't done a single thing on this subject yet, so I'll get right to it. Here, I'll create a draft article on the Fédération des femmes du Québec. Bon dimanche! :-) -- Mathieugp ( talk) 16:14, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Notifying you because you were the initial creator of Portal:Feminism, and of Feminism Task Force:
Portal:Feminism has had a lot of changes and work recently and is currently up for portal peer review. Comments would be appreciated at Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Feminism/archive1. Thank you, Cirt ( talk) 04:16, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Thank you very much for inviting me to the Feminism Task Force. I am interested in feminism because my girlfriend, a journalist, works at a feminist ngo. I am an English-Spanish-English, French-Spanish and German-Spanish translator, as well as a psychologist, and would like to collaborate in the translation of Wikipedia pages about feminism. Best regards from Mexico City!! Gustavo Sandoval Kingwergs a.k.a. Correogsk-- correogsk ( talk) 23:44, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
We've been hard at work behind the scenes. We can't seem to get the trophy right, but we'll get there. And the set of pages need one more section completed before they can be moved to article space...
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Hello Grrrlriot! I've submitted Simone de Beauvoir Prize at the Did you know nominations page. They liked the hook but there is still some issues regarding length of the article. Since the Simone de Beauvoir Prize is a Feminist related article and I knew you are active in that field, I thought you might want to help us, expanding the article as soon as possible so it could qualify to be on the first page of en.wikipedia. btw here is the nomination's entry. Thanks -- Kaaveh ( talk) 11:46, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
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Remember "Around the World"?
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I recently drafted a proposal for a Worker's Rights & Labor Issues WikiProject ... I thought you might be interested, since you are working on the Anarchism project ...
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Congrats, you're the first. :D -- angrykeyboarder (a/k/a:Scott) ( talk) 08:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
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hi there again Grrrlriot, Iam back here to yr page to ask for yr opinion on Dolmen deity; it consists of a description of all female deities that are "built;carved" on dolmens. Can we merge with Domlen? How can this be done? I tried to link Mother goddess on dolmen artcile but the same editor deleted, althoguh we can see on many doznes links on the Net that Dolmens are "the place to be" for the Mother Goddess. Thanks again!! Jackiestud ( talk) 17:45, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
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Hello Grrrlriot, Can I please have yr opinion on Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira? Yesterday I spent more than an hour finding many new sources, as you can see from it went from 14 footnotes to 20 new more!! Many of them come from MusicaBrasileira.org, a widely source for researches on Brazilian music (most of the content presents text form Brasil´s largest and most trusted news weekly magazine Revista Veja). And I don´t even know if this user can read in portuguese. As for Simone´s spirituality it´s also widely known --it as much as Madonna´s Cabala. Do you think you can help me? Jackiestud ( talk) 10:03, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Grrrlriot. I see you're looking for adoption. I'm an experienced user (been around since February of this year, and have more than 4,500 edits), and I'd be happy to adopt you, if you're interested. I have a pretty solid understanding of most elements of Wikipedia, but I'm still not much good at prettifying articles (vidually, like), so if that's a concern, you might want to choose someone else. Anyway, I'm on offer - let me know. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 19:49, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
Did you want to join WP:LGBT? You put your name at the end of the "Inactive" list, so I wasn't sure... If you do want to join, visit WP:LGBT/M and move your name to active? Thanks! -- SatyrTN ( talk | contribs) 03:22, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
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I was the founding token male member of the Jackson, TN NOW; reckon you could say I'm interested. (Son of a woman, brother of women, husband of a woman, father of a woman-to-be; don't see how I could feel right not being a feminist!) Whereabouts in Tennessee do you live? I'm coming to Chattanooga in January, as I do every year, for Chattacon, the local S.F. convention. -- Orange Mike | Talk 13:48, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
I'm glad to hear that. I live near Knoxville. Nice to meet you. I hope to see more of your edits in the future. -- Grrrlriot ( talk) 19:58, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
It's almost done: Glossary of philosophical isms.
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Thanks that does interest me. -- Grrrlriot ( talk) 19:57, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey - just wanted to let you know that I'll be away from the internet from December 27 until December 30, inclusive. I'll be happy to address any questions you might have upon my return; until then, happy holidays. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 12:47, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
I hope you had happy holidays! Welcome back! -- Grrrlriot ( talk) 23:04, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey, you seem to be doing very well - good work in citing references to the material you added to Kathleen Hanna. With regards to the material you added to Global Feminism, I'm not quite sure what you were trying to do. As you've probably noticed, Wikipedia doesn't have articles for Transnational Feminism or International Feminism. It might have made sense to add those redlinks in if you planned on creating those articles (or if you just thought that they should exist and hoped that somebody else would), but you seem to be saying that those are the same thing as Global Feminism, in which case separate articles wouldn't make very much sense. It might make sense to make those redlinks redirect to Global Feminism; do you know how to do that? Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 07:24, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
(outdent) I would personally remove the links under "See also" to Transnational feminism and International feminism. Usually users click those links to learn more about a given topic (or topics related to it); if they clicked those, they'd just be redirected back to the same article they were already reading, which I suspect would be frustrating. Of course, all of this assumes that the three terms basically mean the same thing; if they mean different but related things, it might be more appropriate to remove the redirects and develop new articles under those names. In that case, it would make sense to keep the links. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 18:21, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
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Hey there. I've left a message at User talk:BrownHairedGirl#Portals. I thought if you want to start Portal:Feminism, and BHG wants to start Women, I'd start Gender studies. I'm hoping to get a little input from the project (maybe ask LGBT if anyone over there would like to contribute), but I'd be willing to help out for both of the other portals (extra pair of eyes?). This is good, I feel like we've got some momentum going here - thanks! Phyesalis ( talk) 03:44, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Thank you kindly for your feedback. There is a way to automatically add users to categories based on userboxes, but I've never bothered to learn how it's done. Besides, I think just sort of browsing around is a better way to find people with like interests. (You can always go to the userbox page and click on "what links here".) Cheers! – Scartol • Tok 01:32, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
(undent) Definitely still interested, as you can see on my Works in Progress list. But I'll probably need another week or so. Thanks for your patience. – Scartol • Tok 16:50, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
hi grrrlriot - you list these other wikis; would you consider putting in links to them directly? anarchopedia, feministwiki, Zinewiki ... i know the zinewiki but not feministwiki, and somehow, i didn't know about anarchopedia ... -- Lquilter ( talk) 17:33, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to first welcome you to the Anarchism Task Force, and let you know that I reverted your addition of the Anarchism in Somalia to the List of anarchist movements by region, because it's a redirect to Anarchy in Somalia, which really has nothing to do with anarchism as a movement, but more "anarchy" like chaos. But again, welcome to the project! Murderbike ( talk) 04:42, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thanks for your kind wishes re: my rfa, which was successful. (yaay) -- Lquilter ( talk) 13:27, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
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Dear Grrrlriot, you have left me a small note encouraging me on my contributions. Many thanks. My field of knowledge is French feminism, french feminist psychoanalysis, french post-modern art, french post-modern philosophy, and the links between all these subjects. I try from time to time to contribute, but I don't really know how to do complicated wikipedia jobs like putting on photos or do anything other than putting more knowledge here and there. I thank you for your encouragement, and, for the moment, I believe that I will remain quite minimalist with my contributions, but I wonder if I can contact you to help me if I have suggestions concerning operations that I do not know to do, like indeed, putting photos when I obtain permission, etc.. Anyway, thanks again for your kindness. 84.229.43.161 ( talk) 23:52, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Grrrlriot - I've been a shamefully delinquent adoptive parent lately, and I apologize for it. I'll have a more detailed answer to your question sometime tonight. Again, sorry about that! Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 17:53, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Greta (do you mind if I call you that? You should feel free to call me Steve, if you want). As promised, here's some feedback I've compiled after looking over your last few edits. You're generally doing very well (which is good, because if you were screwing up all over the place I'd feel really guilty for neglecting your tutelage). Some things that I think you're doing well include the following:
Some tips for the future:
Finally, one random question: have you set up a watchlist yet?
Please let me know if you have any questions, and I promise to be more diligent in helping you in the future.
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for the smile! Fg2 ( talk) 11:35, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
You had some unnecessary stuff there (that first bit was just setting out the general format to use; it wasn't actually useful code), so I deleted it. Other than that, you've got it set up properly to remove anything more than seven days old and stick it in one archive page. That page will eventually get pretty big, though. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 20:13, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
User:Jaytur1/Secret page Even though you cheated. -- J a y 10:24, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Just dropping you a line about the portal. Since I picked (rather unilaterally) last months picture and article for Portal:Feminism would you like to go ahead and pick this month's ones? We should also discuss what ones should be used for March and April as well-- Cailil talk 13:39, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
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Yeah, sure! Welcome to Wikipedia! If there's anything you need explaining, please ask! WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN round of applause 18:50, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, You left a note on my page, we share in the interest in feminist issues. I want to thank you for your attention, Doraannao ( talk) 23:11, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Yes, sure, thanks again, i am trying my way around, and sometimes losing my way, so each small welcome is important. Doraannao ( talk) 23:31, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
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It's for YOU, silly! -- Phyesalis ( talk) 22:14, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
I don't know if you've seen this or not, but Wikipedia:WikiProject Gender Studies might make the Feminism Task Force a little redundant. Murderbike ( talk) 01:35, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for starting the article. I tried to polish it up a bit. A word of advice: try not to copy and paste language from other sites, because the text of new articles is often compared to Google searches for WP:COPYVIO problems.
I thought you might be interested in
Women's Party (Israel), which has more information about Freedman. In fact, many of the articles at
Special:Whatlinkshere/Marcia Freedman are interesting, if the minutia of left-wing Israeli politics interests you.
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Hi again. According to Freedman's Hebrew Wikipedia article, she divorced her husband during the 1977 election and came out later, and to date she's the only "out" lesbian member of Knesset. Over the next few days I'll look for some more sources about her. — Malik Shabazz ( talk · contribs) 19:23, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Hey, just so ya know, when someone is placed in a category like "Japanese feminists", they are automatically included in "Feminists", because the former is a subcategory of the latter. It is always preferred to use a subcategory when possible, and leave out the mother category. Cheers! Murderbike ( talk) 22:56, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Scartol can make excellent templates and userboxes and would more than likely help out with the project. Awadewit | talk 17:45, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
(undent) Well, we generally don't use them at all. In some contexts they may be useful (on pages explaining a movement taking place over many years, perhaps), but by and large I don't care for them at all. (I can't speak for her; this is my approximation of her perspective.)
As for templates, I'll make one for the feminist stubs later today; otherwise, I think we have most of the ones we need (they already existed at WP:GS). (By "making some equivalent to other wikiprojects/task forces" I meant what you suggested – seeing what the Anarchism force, for instance, has, and making some like them.) So it looks like we're good to go! I'll add the userbox later today as well.
You'll also be happy to know that the number of people in Category:Wikipedians interested in feminism has jumped dramatically today, since I fixed the "this user is a feminist" userbox to automatically list those who display it on their userpages. Maybe more people to contact for the task force? – Scartol • Tok 18:51, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Well, I did it. Apparently you can't change the title of an article in WP, so I just removed the redirect from Feminist theology and copied the contents of Religious feminism. Please let me know what you think! I hope that I did everything correctly. BTW, thank you for your help in getting me added to the feminism category! Webbbbbbber ( talk) 21:49, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, you asked if I would adopt you earlier this week and I was just wondering if you found anyone that would adopt you. Please let me know if you need help finding someone! Cremepuff222 ( talk) 03:24, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Greta - a couple of things:
You seem to have an extremely active adopter already - how do you feel you could benefit from having another one? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 12:31, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Grrrlriot, thanks for voting in
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this post.
wikigender.org seems to be an
OECD initiative and might just be of interest to you--
Cailil
talk 13:35, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Urg, you problem got the spam mail anyway. I'm assuming user:wikigender made a good faith error in spamming emails but I'm a little disappointed-- Cailil talk 18:37, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Just wanted to say, "You ROCK!" I was so happy to see that you'd created the much-needed Wikipedia:WikiProject Gender Studies/Feminism Task Force. I've been tackling the gender bias in individual articles for a long while and wishing more editors were available to collaborate on changing the systemic gender bias in Wikipedia. So some weeks ago, I created in Wikipedia. You can see, from the red ink, that I haven't had the time this project deserves. Hopefully others will. Clearly, there is strong affiliation among the Feminism Portal, Gender Studies Project and the Countering Systemic Gender Bias Project. I believe there are distinct purposes, as well. And I hope we one day reach such a critical mass of editors in all three projects, that people can devote themselves solely to one or another. In the meanwhile, I'd like to welcome any collaboration and offer any help needed. I'd also be happy to add the Feminist Portal link to the Countering Systemic Gender Bias Project page, if you'd like. -- Deebki 06:12, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
As you've likely noticed, your talk page is being archived now. It turns out that the problem was this edit, which prevents bots from editing your page. Since the archiving is done by a bot, that tag was preventing the bot from doing the archiving. If you want to replace the tag, you'll have to do the archiving manually.
Anyway, your talk page is now being archived to User talk:Grrrlriot/Archive 1; you should maybe put a link to that page somewhere on your talk page, although it's up to you. I also still think that 48 hours is a little short a time period for things to stay on your page, but that's also up to you (I can think of at least one user who manually archives anything posted to his page as soon as he sees it). Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 23:06, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Hey there.. I finally got around to doing some design work on that userpage you asked me for. When you have a minute, take a look and tell me what you think! Cheers. – Scartol • Tok 03:02, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Oh man, I saw that original design, and I thought "Do I have a duty, as her adopter, to say something?" Then I decided that since I'd made it clear that aesthetics weren't my strong point, I should probably just stay out of it. But still, brilliant work Scartol. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 19:30, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
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I'm a little concerned about Julia Serano. Currently the article only has citations from self-published sites. Without other citations, the article is in danger of being deleted due to lack of notability. -- SatyrTN ( talk / contribs) 20:25, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Greta - as I've said before, you seem to be able to function pretty well without a tutor these days. However, you've also said that you want to learn everything about Wikipedia, so, if you're okay with it, I'm going to start providing lessons on areas to which you haven't really been exposed. Today's lesson is the articles for deletion process (I chose this both because you've had very little involvement in it so far and because AfD needs more editors at the moment; I also notice that you have a userbox up indicating that you'd like to be an admin someday, and knowledge of the AfD process is essential for admins).
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We should decide this once and for all and not what the name is as it makes a difference to the wording of the text in the article.
Thanx -- BoogaLouie ( talk) 22:21, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
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you said to leave you info on the talk pg...
Re: the term riot grrl...It was the name of a zine... see: http://youtube.com/user/mondotrasho 208.120.251.174 (talk)
also, second wave? The article starts: "is often associated with third-wave feminism (it is sometimes seen as its starting point). However, riot grrrl's emphasis on universal female identity and separatism often appears more closely allied with second-wave feminism than with the third wave.[1] " But a major part is the sex positivity of it and women being able to talk about "universal" parts of female identity that weren't as talked about before. That's distinctly 3rd wave!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-positive_feminism Kathleen Hanna was a stripper...
I'm not super clear on how wiki works, so sorry I don't have a user name yet! (and of course don't want to just put my email out there!)
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sorry to pop up out of the blue like this, but i was wondering if i could just ask you a favor - the article on Naomi Klein is pretty regularly besieged by pov editors attempting to violate WP:undue by focusing disproportionately on the minority of criticisms of her recent book while failing to acknowledge the overwhelming majority of praise. whatever one's personal feelings on the book, it's pretty inarguable that it was well reviewed by most people, which wikipedia should naturally reflect. sorry to ask you, but i've been dealing with the same people for months, and it gets pretty boring reverting the same silliness over and over. i got into a thing like this over on the ralph nader page a few months ago with a user who was later found to be a sock puppet and blocked. i'll be posting this message on a few other user pages just in case you've gots your plate full or just plum don't wanna do it. thanks Marshmellowgoggles ( talk) 22:03, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
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I thought you might like to know that the Awards Center page has been deleted, along with its newsletter. :(
So, where do we go from here?
To new and even more interesting projects, of course!
As announced in the newsletter, I've been preparing to co-coordinate a large collaboration/competition called Around the World. It was going to be run at the Awards Center, but since that no longer exists, the collaboration will be hosted somewhere else.
Around the World will begin July 15th as planned - it's location will be announced soon.
It'll be a blast. In the competition, participants will be helping to develop over 200 pages (drafts, which will be moved to article space once they are ready), using advanced tools to edit every single one of them!
This is going to be interesting.
And the event shall have awards which are being created specifically for it as we speak!
If you would like me to keep you informed of this and other interesting collaborations I'll be working on and/or organizing in the future, please drop me a note on my talk page, and I'll be happy to keep you in the know.
I look forward to your reply.
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Or this one:
Which one do you like better?
Please let me know on my talk page.
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It's a collaboration!
A collaboration using advanced wiki-tools!
The event is being co-sponsored by Wikiproject Lists of basic topics and WikiProject Geography, and participants will be "traveling" all around "the World" visiting each country online (here on Wikipedia and perhaps beyond) as they apply advanced wiki-tools to improve pieces of the profiles of each and every country on Earth!. Each pass through these pages is a "trip around the World..."
The set of pages we are working on is currently located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics.
Each page presents essential information on each country in a topic outline format, for ease of overviewing and navigating. Most of the topics presented are linkified, which turns these pages into a hypertextual map to material about each country on Wikipedia. When completed, they shall all become part of Wikipedia's contents system.
The pages share a standard format, with the information on each country presented in the same general order. So rather than getting stuck on a single country trying to complete it, each participant works on all 200+ political entities, completing a single data item or detail across all of the pages!
For this they use advanced tools like WP:AWB, Linky, etc. It goes fast, and since others are doing this at the same time, it makes "the World" feel like a beehive, and the participants are its bees. :) The energy is contagious.
And since you are moving from country to country, the tasks make it feel like you are traveling around the world, and you get to learn a little about every country as you do so. This approach also allows for greater efficiency, because by the time you've done 30 or so of a particular item, you've figured out how to finish it faster and more effectively (such as where to find the data or how to make adjustments), and this specialization speeds up development - but more importantly it reduces errors.
The tasks are varied, which adds even more variety to the project. Some tasks are look-ups-and-fill-ins, some are copy and paste, some are image hunts, some are maintenance adjustments, some are link fixing, some are blue-linking (creating an underlying redirect so a link turns blue), some are fact checking, etc.
For an example of what a nearly complete page looks like, see these:
There are only about 200 more pages to go!
Standing by to help are co-coordinators, who can lend a helping hand to participants, provide instruction and tips on how to use the tools, and help them find what they are looking for. Co-coordinators also use advanced tools to inspect the work of participants, and touch it up as needed, or if a task was done wrong throughout, point this out to the participant so he or she can make the necessary corrections.
Co-coordinators are working on the set of pages right now, to familiarize themselves with "the World" so they can help more effectively by the time the main event starts. But there's still lots of preparation left to be done, and we are looking for editors experienced in advanced wikitools who would like to become co-coordinators.
The Transhumanist 03:39, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
I was born the same day as you! :) ΤΕΡΡΑΣΙΔΙΩΣ( Ταλκ) 00:04, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
On your help-ish page, you listed the Abortion Portal as possibly being a bad idea. I'm under the impression that the controversy surrounding abortion is big enough to have it's own Portal. I hope I'm not too late with this help. Happy editing, Leonard( Bloom) 20:43, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
It takes quite a bit of effort patrol a small bit of space instead of the whole site, and I say that because we have wide-expansive tools ( Huggle, Twinkle, Lupin's tools), but nothing that really can center on a single bit, or portal in this case. Correct me if I'm wrong with this impression. Leonard( Bloom) 16:37, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi Grrrlriot - just checking in to make sure everything's going okay. It's been a while since we spoke, so I just thought I'd check to see if you needed help with anything. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 00:38, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello from me as well :) You've been rather quiet, but that's probably a good sign. Keep up the good work! weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 21:45, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Hey thanks for that, I dont know much about feminism in particular (certainly not enough to contribute to articles on it) but Ive always been interested in the "battle of the sexes" if you will lol :) Ill see if i can help out with it, thanks again, laterz! :D x ΤΕΡΡΑΣΙΔΙΩΣ( Ταλκ) 08:01, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
If I can contribute anything, I guess it would be the general improvement of articles about feminism and feminists in my country. I can already see that the quality of the French-language bios and the English-language bios of Quebec's most notable feminists vary greatly. Worst, there are currently no English-language articles on Éva Circé-Côté and Idola Saint-Jean, two of Quebec's first feminists, same for the Fédération des femmes du Québec (FFQ), and the yearly World March of Women initiated by the FFQ in 2000 [4]. -- Mathieugp ( talk) 20:17, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
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Hey Grrrlriot, I added myself as an official member of the taskforce per your suggestion. I just recently finished working on Emma Goldman with Scartol et. al. If you haven't read that article, I think you would enjoy it. Also Awadewit just finished doing complete rewrites of Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft that are top notch! Things seem to be really rolling on Wikipedia these days. BTW, I noticed you're in Tennessee. I'm in NashVegas myself :) Kaldari ( talk) 04:35, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello again - I've looked over your most recent edits (and it's really nice to see you back, let me add). I like the enthusiasm you've shown for starting the Feminism Task Force; it seems to be really taking off. I see no real problems with your editing, and I'd say you're an asset to the project. As far as things to work on in the future, I'd suggest doing some article building: maybe find an article about a feminist or other feminism-related topic that's in bad shape, and try to improve it by expanding it, adding references, etc. If you own any books or magazine profiles or anything else about any feminists, that would be a great place to start. I'd be happy to help you with that once you've selected a topic, although, as I've said before, I don't personally know a lot about that field, and my collection of books probably wouldn't be very helpful. The other thing is deletion discussions - I explained to you how these work a few months ago, but you don't seem to have participated in any since. I want to emphasize that it's possible to be an excellent editor without ever participating in deletion discussions, but since you've indicated that you'd like to be an administrator at some point, I'm trying to help you find ways to get involved in the more administrative side of the project, and WP:AFD is a great place to do that. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 22:48, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
I've started putting together a list of "administrative" areas of Wikipedia here. It's far from complete, but I hope to expand it substantially within the next few days. You may want to watchlist it so you can see when I add new information. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 05:10, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Heya, thanks for signing my guest book. (i signed your's too). Normally I would have given you a cookie as thanks but my computer is messing up and won't let me... ♥ Tory~♥ Amulet♥ Heart♥ 21:10, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello, and sorry for not responding earlier. While I would certainly like to help improve articles related to feminism ( The Second Sex in particular needs a rewrite, and I've read the book in the original French), I'm not certain if I should commit to another WikiProject or task force because I already find myself stretched in so many directions. I would be glad to sign up for the task force as long as you don't mind only intermittent activity on my part. -- Kyok o 00:15, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
After doing some copy editing, I noticed your comment on the talk page. I would definitely support a move to a better title and the page could use any attention you could give it. JCDenton2052 ( talk) 08:51, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
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I have just joined the Anarchist Task Force, and I have had some problems with publishing of my Anarchist International Wikipedia page, see my sandbox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anna_Quist/Anarchist_International for the present version/proposal. This page needs improvements to reach Wiki-consensus, and this should be a somewhat collective project to avoid a "COI"-template. As I am new to editing here on Wikipedia I need help with the page, I hope for your cooperation with this improvement. As an introduction to this cooperation, feel free to read this note on my talk page:
Any contribution, matter of fact criticism, to give input and advice, or even contribute to new sections, will be helpful, and is much appreciated. Please join in the project...
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I hear it is you we have to thank for getting the Feminism portal up and running. I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your work. I think it is a wonderful idea and I'm so happy to be working on it! Awadewit ( talk) 16:31, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
My pleasure, I love working on portals. :) Quick request, can you please change your sig to link to Wikipedia:WikiProject Gender Studies/Feminism Task Force instead of Wikipedia:WikiProject Gender Studies/Feminism Task Force? I moved it because as it is a subproject off of WP:GS, it should be a subpage off of that WikiProject. Cheers, Cirt ( talk) 01:27, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the invitation. I just joined. — Malik Shabazz ( talk · contribs) 23:19, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
Me also :) Mgoodyear ( talk) 19:23, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I had seen your reply in your own talk page. I am glad you approve of my suggestions. I just could not find the right words to add at the time. It's often like that with me and girls... ;-) But you remind me I haven't done a single thing on this subject yet, so I'll get right to it. Here, I'll create a draft article on the Fédération des femmes du Québec. Bon dimanche! :-) -- Mathieugp ( talk) 16:14, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Notifying you because you were the initial creator of Portal:Feminism, and of Feminism Task Force:
Portal:Feminism has had a lot of changes and work recently and is currently up for portal peer review. Comments would be appreciated at Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Feminism/archive1. Thank you, Cirt ( talk) 04:16, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Thank you very much for inviting me to the Feminism Task Force. I am interested in feminism because my girlfriend, a journalist, works at a feminist ngo. I am an English-Spanish-English, French-Spanish and German-Spanish translator, as well as a psychologist, and would like to collaborate in the translation of Wikipedia pages about feminism. Best regards from Mexico City!! Gustavo Sandoval Kingwergs a.k.a. Correogsk-- correogsk ( talk) 23:44, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
We've been hard at work behind the scenes. We can't seem to get the trophy right, but we'll get there. And the set of pages need one more section completed before they can be moved to article space...
... that's right! We're almost ready to move the whole set into the live encyclopedia. One page for every country of the world!
We're currently developing the standard (by example) for these outlines, they're overall format and what they should look like.
One page that is nearly complete and built to the current standard is List of basic Thailand topics. Please take a look, and help us put the finishing touches on it if you have the time. It will be an example (along with List of basic Japan topics and List of basic France topics) for those working on the rest of the lists, and therefore is pretty important.
Any help or input you could provide would be most appreciated.
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 22:52, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
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SoxBot II ( talk) 02:49, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
I'm laughing...
I just checked my GuestBook for the first time in a few days and I saw your message...
You said that I was on Wikipedia for 12 years and that it was a very long time to be on...
Wikipedia was formed in 2001. It is only 7 years old, not 12! Wanna go back to my page and read it again? It's OK, everyone makes mistakes. :)
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Wikipedia's only 7. If you want to know, I'M THE ONE THAT'S 12!! ;) we had a laugh, all right... TopGearFreak Talk 21:13, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
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A Stop at Willoughby and Trap The Drum Wonder joined the alternative music fold during November.
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Papa November and S. Dean Jameson joined the alternative music fold during December.
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SoxBot II ( talk) 17:46, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello Grrrlriot! I've submitted Simone de Beauvoir Prize at the Did you know nominations page. They liked the hook but there is still some issues regarding length of the article. Since the Simone de Beauvoir Prize is a Feminist related article and I knew you are active in that field, I thought you might want to help us, expanding the article as soon as possible so it could qualify to be on the first page of en.wikipedia. btw here is the nomination's entry. Thanks -- Kaaveh ( talk) 11:46, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Since you have done a lot of work on this... could we add Prostitutes (or "sex workers", whatever appears more appropiate) as rights holders to the templates, (see World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights).-- SasiSasi ( talk) 22:51, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
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MikeGruz and Blackadam2 joined the alternative music fold during February.
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SoxBot II ( talk) 03:10, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Remember "Around the World"?
Well, we've been around the World, and around again (virtually speaking, on Wikipedia), on this project.
Things have been slowing down again, so it's time for a big push...
This project needed a shot in the arm. Also, its draft pages have been littering Wikipedia's categories for months. The time seemed right to move all the country outline drafts to article space.
WHAT???
Well, the drafts had been sitting in Wikipedia space for a year.
WHAT???
Development has been moving at a snail's pace and we could use the help of the Wikipedia community at large (who are more likely to find these if they are in article space).
WHAT???
Yes, we've gone live. :)
This puts pressure on us to get the blatantly incomplete elements of these outlines done. The only glaring problem is the government branches sections. These need to be corrected ASAP.
I've mentioned THE GOVERNMENT BRANCHES SECTIONS many times to many people over the past year, but the problem just doesn't seem to have been taken seriously. So let me put it another way:
HELP!!! I need your help on this now. Almost all the countries have a government with an executive branch, a legislative branch, and a judicial branch. The links for these branches need to be completed for each country outline:
If you spot any standardization in links, and ways we can automate parts of this process, or for groups of countries that have links in common, please let me know!
There has been growing pressure on me to write up the administrative pages for outlines - their instructions, guidelines, etc. Therefore, I'm now in the process of composing these. Fortunately, it is mostly a matter of gathering material from messages I've written to you guys over the past year. Still, this is taking up most of my time, and I will be buried in these for the foreseeable future.
The next big task after the government branches sections are cleaned up is link support for the outlines.
There's quite a list of links and notices that need to be put in place around Wikipedia, providing access to them to readers, and alerting editors to the need to develop and maintain these pages. This will keep our bot people very busy (and happy).
But the most important thing right now is to get the government branches sections completed. So please, put your bots aside, roll up your shirt sleeves, and start typing.
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 03:21, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
I recently drafted a proposal for a Worker's Rights & Labor Issues WikiProject ... I thought you might be interested, since you are working on the Anarchism project ...
Cheers! Jrtayloriv ( talk) 05:19, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Congrats, you're the first. :D -- angrykeyboarder (a/k/a:Scott) ( talk) 08:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for stopping by, I didn't even know I linked to that site from here, if I didn't and you recognized it independantly then that's pretty neat. Tyciol ( talk) 14:51, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
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LizParker and Cavie78 joined the alternative music fold during March.
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A proposal has been posted for a contest between all 200 country WikiProjects. We need to know how this contest should be run, and what problems to look out for. And we're looking for judges, coordinators, ideas, and feedback.
(And we have some really cool awards for the contest).
The Transhumanist 18:22, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
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SoxBot ( talk) 10:54, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Long time no talk - how's your Wikipedia experience been? Any questions for your wizened old adopter? Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 21:04, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks, LAAFan for the smile! :) -- Grrrlriot ( ♠ ♣ ♦ ♥ †) 00:38, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Grrrlriot,
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Neolithic&action=history Jackiestud ( talk) 10:07, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello Grrrlriot!
Hello Grrrlriot!
hi there again Grrrlriot, Iam back here to yr page to ask for yr opinion on Dolmen deity; it consists of a description of all female deities that are "built;carved" on dolmens. Can we merge with Domlen? How can this be done? I tried to link Mother goddess on dolmen artcile but the same editor deleted, althoguh we can see on many doznes links on the Net that Dolmens are "the place to be" for the Mother Goddess. Thanks again!! Jackiestud ( talk) 17:45, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
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Hello Grrrlriot, Can I please have yr opinion on Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira? Yesterday I spent more than an hour finding many new sources, as you can see from it went from 14 footnotes to 20 new more!! Many of them come from MusicaBrasileira.org, a widely source for researches on Brazilian music (most of the content presents text form Brasil´s largest and most trusted news weekly magazine Revista Veja). And I don´t even know if this user can read in portuguese. As for Simone´s spirituality it´s also widely known --it as much as Madonna´s Cabala. Do you think you can help me? Jackiestud ( talk) 10:03, 5 July 2009 (UTC)