If anyone is interested, I wrote a blog post about the history of Sarkeesian's WP biography last week.
http://wikipediocracy.com/2013/01/29/a-feminists-wikipedia-biography Andreas On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Christine Meyer <[email protected]>wrote: > I remembered this thread as I began my most recent GAC-review, "Mona Sax" > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Sax. Sure enough, the nominator and > main editor of this article is the same guy who was topic-banned! I only > chose it because I wanted to review an article and it's short. I know > almost nothing about gaming, but not knowing about a topic has never > stopped me from reviewing an article; I tend to choose ones that are at the > top of the queue and to expand my knowledge about stuff I don't know much > about. > > I was still tempted, though, to fail it on principle, but that would be > the wrong principle. The guy doesn't come across as all that smart; plus, > English isn't his native language and he's using that as an excuse for his > weak prose. (As a second language-user myself, I tend to not accept that > as a reason to be a weak writer, since just because you're a native speaker > of English doesn't mean that you can write well in it, and plenty of > non-native speakers are good writers.) Thus far, we're being polite with > each other, although I must admit that part of me wonders how it'll turn > out and if me being a girl will come into play. > > Will keep you informed! > > Christine > User: Figureskatingfan > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Andreas Kolbe <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Diff of the quoted edit, for reference: >> >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Anita_Sarkeesian&diff=prev&oldid=523584174 >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Andreas Kolbe <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I think most people here will remember the appalling harassment Anita >>> Sarkeesian suffered in YouTube and on Wikipedia. >>> >>> If not, see >>> >>> >>> http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/06/harassment-misogyny-and-silencing-on-youtube/ >>> >>> http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/06/harassment-and-misogyny-via-wikipedia/ >>> >>> So now we have another ANI thread on her biography >>> >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#BLP_issues_at_Anita_Sarkeesian >>> >>> The discussion is whether a chap who made the following comment (among >>> many others) should be topic-banned from her biography: >>> >>> ---o0o--- >>> >>> Now she has over 4 million views, which is a huge leap (relatively), >>> despite not publishing any new videos since then - these 3 million new >>> views, and a big fame (especially among gamers), and the notability (also >>> on Wikipedia), and the money (from donations), all of it was only due to >>> the massive trolling response to her trailer video for a Kickstarter >>> project, which she then *media-savy way used to start a huge moral >>> panic (a smooth move, I'll admit) instead of just ignoring it, or do things >>> like [ >>> http://www.destructoid.com/bioware-writer-s-vagina-versus-the-internet-222206.phtmlcounter-attack >>> literally using her vagina, >>> * which is what Hepler did], and so this is what she is "best known >>> for" (note: best). >>> >>> ---o0o--- >>> >>> That guy is the most frequent editor of her biography's talk page, >>> having made over three times more edits to it than the next editor. >>> >>> >>> http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/Contributors.php?wikilang=en&wikifam=.wikipedia.org&grouped=on&page=Talk:Anita_Sarkeesian >>> >>> The ANI discussion has been running for a week. >>> >>> Andreas >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> >> > > > -- > Christine > -- > Christine W. Meyer > [email protected] > 208/310-1549 > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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