FYI, I just got this link from Wikipediocracy responding to Liz Henry: http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2130&p=38953#p38953 "She claims there was no systematic move to put women into a separate category. It looks like she is wrong though: in this discussion<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:American_novelists#Sexist_and_other_discriminatory_subclassifications> people are pointing out that a single editor, *Johnpacklambert<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Johnpacklambert> * (T <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Johnpacklambert>-C<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=100&target=Johnpacklambert> -L<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&user=Johnpacklambert> ), made thousands of edits reclassifying biographies."
Adeline Koh, Ph.D. Visiting Faculty Fellow, Humanities Writ Large, Duke University (Fall 2012-Spring 2013) Assistant Professor of Literature, Richard Stockton College Email: [email protected] or [email protected] Twitter: @adelinekoh w: http://adelinekoh.org On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected] > wrote: > Wikimedia community member Liz Henry blogs here: > http://bookmaniac.org/journalists-dont-understand-wikipedia-sometimes/ > and does a little bit of digging into edit histories. > > "Just from these three samples, it does not seem that there is any > particular movement among a group of Wikipedia editors to remove women > from the “novelists” category and put them in a special women category > instead. I would say that the general leaning, rather, is to stop people > who would like to label women writers as women writers *in addition* to > labeling them as writers, claiming there is no need for Category: > American women writers at all and that it is evidence of bias to > identify them by gender. ... The sexist thing we > should be up in arms about isn’t labelling women as women! It’s the > efforts to delete entire categories (like Haitian women writers, for > example) because someone has decided that that meta-information is > unnecessary “ghettoization”..." > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Engineering Community Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >
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