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| Milton Roe |
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QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Mon 31st January 2011, 4:52am)  QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Mon 31st January 2011, 1:35am)
Gardner, you're a goddamned deceptive corporate lackie marshmellow. If you think you can really change the world one lie at a time, then you and your fellow "feminists" still have a LOT of lessons to go.
Gee, Milton, why don't you try telling people who don't already know? Jon  Because (unlike you this AM) I had no idea when I wrote that, that this news story was going to get copied endlessly. I'll see what I can do in various commentary sections. But as we both know, journalists are overworked/lazy (I guess you have to be a journalist to figure out which it REALLY is). But their environment and job just about guarantees they'll take ANY prepackaged BS which is sold in the form of press release or puff interview. The chance that any given journalist will go digging like Woodward and Bernstein to see how much Gardner really DOES write in WP, is just about nil in 2011. The story isn't that big and newspapers aren't what they were. So Sue can and will trot out the ONE AND ONLY article she's improved in 4 years, Potemkin style, and let the ignorant weenie journalistsgallant warriors of the 4th estate do the rest of the misdirection and prevarication FOR her.  |
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| Jon Awbrey |
Mon 31st January 2011, 4:10pm
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QUOTE(Newsfeed @ Mon 31st January 2011, 7:32am) Wikipedia seeks women writersTelegraph.co.ukWikipedia is to mount an effort to recruit more women contributors, after research found more than 85 per cent of articles are written by men. QUOTE
Oh good, Monday morning, and time for the Wikipedia Viral Media Blintz Of The Week — yes, I know how I spelled it.
Like it's a Big Shocker, I suspect the statistics are comparable to the percentage of women who participate in online games and street gangs, those being the closest approximations to Wikipediot Culture in the outside world.
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| Jon Awbrey |
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QUOTE(Newsfeed @ Mon 31st January 2011, 12:58pm) Wikipedia's Gender ProblemMother JonesAbout a year ago, the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs Wikipedia, collaborated on a study of Wikipedia's contributor base and discovered … QUOTE For those of you who just can't get enough of it, 30 more variations on this same piece of Virally Regurgitated Wikipedia PR Du Jour can be sampled at The Wikipedia Review: http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=32780Oh, and not that it really matters, but you might just find a small amount of commentary from people who actually know what they are talking about. Jonny Cache31 Jan 2011 @ 2:40 pm |
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| Jon Awbrey |
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QUOTE(Newsfeed @ Mon 31st January 2011, 1:55pm) Facing Serious Gender Gap, Wikipedia Vows To Add More Women ContributorsNPR (blog)Maybe you suspected this, but the raw numbers are still a bit surprising: After surveying contributors to Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation … QUOTE I doubt if we can take too seriously any study sponsored by the Wikimedia Foundation itself — Sockpuppet Science has yet to begin tackling the problems associated with random sampling in populations of multiple pseudonymous accounts per person — but no one acquainted with Wikipedia Culture needs to resort to the orders of high-falutin theories we have heard today, not unless of course they have some reason to cloud-sauce the obvious truth. The simple truth is that the statistics suggested here are comparable to the percentage of women who participate in online games and street gangs, those being the closest approximations to Wikipediot Culture in the outside world. Jon Awbrey31 Jan 2011 @ 4:24 pm |
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| Milton Roe |
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QUOTE(Newsfeed @ Mon 31st January 2011, 4:12pm) Today's Lady News: Wikipedia Is A DickipediaThe Frisky (blog)Less than 15 percent of users who edit Wikipedia's content are women, which means the encyclopedia's entries are likely presenting a gender-skewed version ...View the article  This newspaper for women (ostensibly) says Wikipedia is a "Dickipedia" and says: "Get on-line and start editing, ladies." And presumably this is what WP's interests would look like if that happened: The Frisky: "Love, Life, Stars, Style." http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-todays-lady-news-01311/The Good, The Bad & The Meh At The 2011 SAG Awards I’m A Feminist But I Think I Want To Date A More Traditional Dude 8 Ways To Meet Guys Offline 10 Sexual Practices We Were Totally Unaware Of Dior Haute Couture Brings The Glam To Spring/Summer 2011 Oscars James Franco The Frisky's 2011 Astro Guide Glee Polls: What Do You Think? Hotties news entertainment celebs parenting relationships sex guys style horoscopes money tv photos *One hundred mothers staged a “nurse-in” in a Montreal mall after a woman was kicked out of a children’s clothing store (a children’s clothing store!) for breastfeeding her five-month-old baby. *Chick-Fil-A in Pennsylvania donated sandwiches and brownies to a meeting of an anti-gay marriage group. *CNN’s new talk show host Piers Morgan defends himself for asking Condoleezza Rice why she’s a dried-up old spinster. (Okay, he didn’t use those words exactly.) *Woman Allegedly Mows Down Cousin After He Refuses Facebook Friend Request: (Today in “bitches be crazy!” news ...) Plus lots of articles about abortion and gay rights.  The last making me seriously wonder what fraction of women on the net (when they do exist) are actually gay, so you guys are still out of luck.  Any bets on whether "The Frisky" is actually owned by women? And edited in no small part by gay men? Teh good news about WP: When women take over WP, we're NOT going to have to trade article-after-article about Power Rangers, for new article-after-article about Frida Kahlo-- like Sue Gardner wants. Instead, we're going to get, well, things of interest to more average women.  *Style by Jury: What Do You Think Of Anne Hathaway's Pattern-Mixing Marni Look? *Woman Claims Yogurt Sample Tasted Like Semen: Stop reading if you're still eating.  |
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