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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Replying to @zeynep
It often boils down to how well an article is cited. Agree this can be tough. In parts of the world which are mostly oral societies, and don't have too many citations on its people, places and institutions, this can be a real job!
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Not just, though. Even after the notability barrier is passed, women's pages don't reflect their full accomplishments. People don't bother adding to them, and entrenched editors with more time on their hands edit them harshly.
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Replying to @zeynep
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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