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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Agree that there is every possibility of systemic bias in the case of less-powerful groups. This needs to be highlighted and addressed. One such initiative could be Women_in_Red https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red …
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Agree. But will extend to say that this afflicts many groups in non-dominant positions. From my context of a tiny Third World region that is mostly an oral, non-written, poorly-digitised society, we are always falling foul of the one-size-fits-all show-us-the-citations logic.
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So the question is, what is to be done to change the situation? Can it? Has it been placed on the agenda? Also the fact that most Wikipedia editors tend to be male, nerdy, Western and urban. Or am I wrong?
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Yes I have also switched my activities to Wikidata so some “harsh edits” on pages I created are unseen by me. It’s weird to feel guilty about that. Again, the only solution is to have more volunteers.
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To be fair, the large majority of pages about men have the same problem. It tends to be more visible on women’s pages just because those pages are so much shorter.
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