[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

[David Gerard]

On 06/12/06, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>  "Sage Ross" wrote

> > A little grist for the mill, blog posts by feminist academics who are
> > Wikipedia outsiders or near outsiders:
> >http://badgerbag.typepad.com/badgerbag/2006/08/feminist_histor.html
> > http://smg.typepad.com/smg/2006/09/wiki_wiki.html

> The second strikes me as more thoughtful. It does illustrate a few general points (not specific to feminist issues).


The first proposes a very nice idea, a feminism resource wiki. I
provided what I hoped was an encouraging comment. Commenting more now
...


> People who scan WP and say 'change that, or that, or that ...' may never actually get into the pool and edit. The learning curve is probably much less steep on the non-core articles, rather than articles on the 'major topics' (I wouldn't advise anyone to start on any of the top few hundred articles by hits.)
> Another thing: this collection of comments does pick up on the spottiness of the 'notability' criteria.


AFD causes public relations problems shock! Ogg Theora at 11.


- d.