[Gendergap] Atlantic article..."How Wikipedia is Hostile to Women"

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/how-wikipedia-is-hostile-to-women/411619/ Goes into lots of details... ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing,

Re: [Gendergap] Atlantic article..."How Wikipedia is Hostile to Women"

Thanks for sending this out Carol, you beat me by about two minutes. I would hugely encourage everyone to read this, and a lot of it also relates to why it's important that people vote in arbcom election, and we don't have arbitrators elected with 273 support votes and fewer than 600 total

Re: [Gendergap] Atlantic article..."How Wikipedia is Hostile to Women"

Good that this story has been told, at last. Overdue. (Minor quibbles: Eric is not an admin, and the New York Times piece was not written by a NYT reporter. Corrections possible?) On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Kevin Gorman wrote: > Thanks for sending this out Carol, you

Re: [Gendergap] Atlantic article..."How Wikipedia is Hostile to Women"

On 21 October 2015 at 21:00, Carol Moore dc wrote: > http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/how-wikipedia-is-hostile-to-women/411619/ > > Goes into lots of details... It is a readable summary. At the end, I felt a wash of overwhelming sadness. We've been

Re: [Gendergap] Atlantic article..."How Wikipedia is Hostile to Women"

Some journos take corrections easily, and some don't. I've had people directly misquote me at major outlets where I had the call on record (with their consent, since CA is a 2 party consent state for recording calls,) and refuse to make corrections, and had other people accept my corrections at

Re: [Gendergap] Atlantic article..."How Wikipedia is Hostile to Women"

feel free to correct about Clara H. Hasse not Nellie A. Brown, and there were a handful of women contributors at EB1911 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Agnes_Mary_Clerke https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Contributors On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Kevin

Re: [Gendergap] Atlantic article..."How Wikipedia is Hostile toWomen"

>(Minor quibbles: Eric is not an admin, and the New York Times piece was not >written by a NYT reporter. Corrections possible?) I would also that the “lists” referred to were in fact the category pages, a distinction that I allow may be lost outside of the project but means something to us