Really excellent post! I love how you show that you don't have to give up after someone reverts your edit. You can actually fight for it if you believe it is correct (or bring in reinforcements).

Your post make me wonder if women are more indoctrinated by society to acquiesce when they are corrected by others, and thus are less likely to fight for their edits. If so, this is a big problem for Wikipedia since getting reverted on controversial or popular articles is pretty much par for the course. I've heard anecdotal stories from several women that they actually restrict there editing to obscure topics so that they don't have to deal with such conflicts. Thankfully, though, we have women like Carol Moore and SlimVirgin who take the opposite approach!

I also love how you pointed out the obvious gender biases at work in the Man article. As someone who has worked on both the Femininity and Patriarchy articles, I can vouch for the 1950s viewpoint that tends to dominate gender-related articles on Wikipedia.

Ryan Kaldari

On 8/31/11 10:57 AM, Amy Senger wrote:
Hi All - 

I've just posted the 2nd in a 3-piece blog series on diversity in Wikipedia: http://1x57.com/2011/08/31/how-i-redefined-man-for-the-world-wikipedias-battle-for-diversity-part-ii/

I'd appreciate any thoughts and comments. The final post will cover what's been going on at Wikipedia wrt to increasing diversity (including this distro list) and how more people can get involved.

Sarah, if you could add the post to Scoop.It, I'd appreciate it.

Best,
Amy Senger
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On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Sarah <slimvirgin@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks, Fred.

Sarah

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:43, Fred Bauder <fredbaud@fairpoint.net> wrote:
> I've done this. The link is both degrading and defamatory. Absent
> repeated problems semi-protection is not justified but can be if such
> postings are repeated.
>
> Fred
>
>> Adding semiprotection might help, too.
>> Andreas
>>
>> --- On Wed, 31/8/11, Sarah <slimvirgin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Sarah <slimvirgin@gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Gendergap] Oversight request
>> To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects"
>> <gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Date: Wednesday, 31 August, 2011, 17:23
>>
>> If there are oversighters on this list (Fred?), I'd appreciate an
>> oversight at [[Jessica Valenti], where an anon (58.175.246.206) has
>> linked to an attack site about her.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jessica_Valenti&action=history
>>
>> I've edited the article a lot myself so I'd prefer not to admin-delete
>> it, and oversight would be better anyway. I've emailed the oversight
>> team, but no response yet.
>>
>> Sarah
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