Yep. Wikipedia operates as a barrier to women in the world. The least worst version is women’s pages that undersell their true accomplishments. Worst version is erasure.https://twitter.com/mkramer/status/1317605468928413699 …
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Mine was barebones until recently and despite some improvements, still has maybe 10-20% of my more notable work.https://twitter.com/ubiquity75/status/1317610204972814336 …
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It also becomes problematic because the Wikipedia data layer powers a lot of the open internet. There’s tons of bias built in.
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I think about this nearly daily in the context of the criminal legal system:https://twitter.com/jessicamckellar/status/1271872157975379969 …
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And threaten not to donate to them because they are sexist? If you come up with a list of instances, their annual begging bowl is the perfect time to push back.
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Absolutely; this was my MA thesis topic! If people want to improve Wikipedia's records of women, it's best to do this together with others. I encourage people to join
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It took a village (of twitter folks) to get my page up and to keep it up, for which I am grateful.
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Wikipedia have sadly copyed the bad parts of academia. Dogmatic rules. I hate the notability rule. In That that it's far to strict.
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Again: that is not the issue (not the main one, at least). The problem is that it is far too easy for trolls to abuse that or any other rule. What you need is to address is the fact that you do have trolls with malicious intent. And it's pretty obvious by this point.
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