[Gendergap] Nine Reasons Women Don't Edit Wikipedia
Daniel and Elizabeth Case
dancase at frontiernet.net
Tue Feb 22 16:14:28 UTC 2011
> And I was particularly interested
> to read women saying they believe the bar for notability is higher for
> the topics they write about, than it is for 'male' or 'ungendered'
> topics.
Years ago I had a direct personal experience of this here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/The_Pencil_Test
Since there's a multiplicity of meanings, apparently, it became a
disambigation page. Interestingly, the original meaning was edited out last
year:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pencil_test&diff=354220823&oldid=353947576
Daniel Case
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