Wikipedia's overwhelmingly male user-editors began the bizarre forced gender migration on Tuesday
The New York Times::
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism-toward-fe...
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/25/wikipedia_moves_women_to_american_women_nove...
This is to do with categorisation (the article refers to categories, but then refers to pages when those 'pages' are in fact dynamic listings generated on the fly).
One place to raise this would be:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Categorization
It is also worth reading this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization
The issue of whether to categorise by gender or not has been debated for a long time on Wikipedia. This is not some recent thing. See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization/Gender,_race_and_sexua...
That is a whole page devoted to how to categorise (or not) by gender, race and sexuality. It is also possible there was a recent discussion on this somewhere here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion
Indeed, there is discussion here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_Ap...
Carcharoth
On 4/25/13, Kathleen McCook klmccook@gmail.com wrote:
Wikipedia's overwhelmingly male user-editors began the bizarre forced gender migration on Tuesday
The New York Times::
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism-toward-fe...
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/25/wikipedia_moves_women_to_american_women_nove... _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
What subcategories would American men novelists go into? of course women would also go into them. By centuries would be one set of subcategories; and genre: mystery, western, adventure, fantasy, etc.
Hard to see this as a deliberate slight.
Fred
Wikipedia's overwhelmingly male user-editors began the bizarre forced gender migration on Tuesday
The New York Times::
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism-toward-fe...
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
What subcategories would American men novelists go into? of course women would also go into them. By centuries would be one set of subcategories; and genre: mystery, western, adventure, fantasy, etc.
Hard to see this as a deliberate slight.
Fred
Fred, the point is that, if "American women novelists" is to be a subcategory, then "American male novelists" would have to be a subcat too. Otherwise the "American novelists" category would be default male, which is apparently what happened.
Sarah
That doesn't necessarily follow. Surely female American novelists should appear in both categories. On 25 Apr 2013 23:14, "Sarah" slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
What subcategories would American men novelists go into? of course women would also go into them. By centuries would be one set of subcategories; and genre: mystery, western, adventure, fantasy, etc.
Hard to see this as a deliberate slight.
Fred
Fred, the point is that, if "American women novelists" is to be a subcategory, then "American male novelists" would have to be a subcat too. Otherwise the "American novelists" category would be default male, which is apparently what happened.
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