The recent discussion on this (which never really came to a clear consensus):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_101#Actresses_categorization - Andrew On 27 April 2013 01:49, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > If people are concerned about sexism in Wikipedia categories they should be > drawing attention to edits like this: > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth_Gillies&curid=19682193&diff=536982107&oldid=536980531 > > While the rest of the world is moving away from gender-specific job names > (like policeman and actress), Wikipedia is moving in the opposite direction. > That seems like a much worse problem than categorizing women as women. > > Ryan Kaldari > > > On 4/25/13 11:34 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:56:39 -0400 >> Sumana Harihareswara <suma...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >>> Wikimedia community member Liz Henry blogs here: >>> http://bookmaniac.org/journalists-dont-understand-wikipedia-sometimes/ >>> and does a little bit of digging into edit histories. >>> >>> "Just from these three samples, it does not seem that there is any >>> particular movement among a group of Wikipedia editors to remove women >>> from the “novelists” category and put them in a special women category >>> instead. I would say that the general leaning, rather, is to stop people >>> who would like to label women writers as women writers *in addition* to >>> labeling them as writers, claiming there is no need for Category: >>> American women writers at all and that it is evidence of bias to >>> identify them by gender. ... The sexist thing we >>> should be up in arms about isn’t labelling women as women! It’s the >>> efforts to delete entire categories (like Haitian women writers, for >>> example) because someone has decided that that meta-information is >>> unnecessary “ghettoization”..." >> >> Seems like good write-up and I tend to agree. It's too bad there was so >> much >> misunderstanding in the media about it. >> >> Regards, >> >> Shlomi Fish >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap