“Wikipedia Is Sexist�, Elisa • The French Exit Options

[Jon Awbrey]

Wikipedia has been on my mind lately, after hearing the statistic passed around a week or so ago that something like 87% of Wikipedia contributors/editors are male. This didn't surprise me in the least, and initially made no impression on me whatsoever. A few days later the obvious consequences of this dawned on me: Wikipedia is sexist. Of course this affects the content. Of course this bias trickles down and bleeds into the articles in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. I wouldn't want to read a magazine if only 1 out of 10 of its editors/contributors were women. Especially if the whole point of the magazine was to present objective, unbiased information in an encyclopedic fashion.

Maybe I'll boycott Wikipedia.

� Elisa Gabbert • 22 Feb 2011

[chrisoff]

One of Wikipedia's goals for 2015:

Support healthy diversity in the editing community by doubling the percentage of female editors to 25 percent and increasing the number of Global South editors to 37 percent.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/wiki...y_visitors_2015

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[Milton Roe]

One of Wikipedia's goals for 2015:

Support healthy diversity in the editing community by doubling the percentage of female editors to 25 percent and increasing the number of Global South editors to 37 percent.

Whenever I see the word "diversity," I release the safety catch on my Browning.

Generally the use of THAT word means that somebody, in the name of political correctitude, has been actively messing with the natural, normal, and expected distribution of interests in healthy humans. Which COLLECTIVELY are expected to be diverse (to be sure, and by definition), but for any GIVEN subject or activity (like sitting and typing an encyclopedia into a machine) tend to be, and should tend to be, rather badly skewed by every possible metric.

Liberals! (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/hrmph.gif) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask "why?" Liberals dream of things that never were, and ask "Why shouldn't we put together a program to get people to do something they really don't want to...?" (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/wink.gif)