[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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