Yep. Wikipedia is a genuine huge barrier to women in public—most people’s first impression of someone is a Wikipedia page. Women are edited harshly, not contributed to, overlooked or deleted. You can help out by editing, adding and pushing back as much as possible.https://twitter.com/jmissig/status/1317602431610441730 …
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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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@krmaher you have anything here? -
My father passed away this week, this is an issue I care about deeply but I’m afraid I’m sitting this week out.
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There’s the Women in Red project that addresses the issue https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Red … and people like
@jesswade have been doing a lot of practical work in improving the representation of women on Wikipedia. But there’s still a ways to go. Cc@emcandre -
I thought this was telling from the Jess wade interview. (In full disclosure, I’m the author.) “I noticed that it would take longer for the pages of African-American women to get reviewed. So I just got better at making their pages to avoid any criticism.”
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I've thought about contributing to Wikipedia, but 1) I don't care to learn another markup language and 2) I don't need more fights in my life.
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It seems to self-select for people who have the time to become experts, but choose to plow it into obssessively curating idiosyncratic patches of Wikipedia instead.
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I'm an idiot but just realized this is why so many romance authors are missing on Wikipedia.
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