Adrianne posted a nice response on a website. Probably the best response I've seen so far:
http://hastac.org/blogs/wadewitz/2013/04/09/wikipedia-pushing-boundaries-scholarly-practice-gender-gap-must-be-address#comment-21716 To the point, from a Wikipedian point of view. I have been pretty overwhelmed by the response to this - things have surely blown out of proportion. I only hope that this engages more people to click edit. -Sarah On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Adeline Koh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > -- -- *Sarah Stierch* *Museumist, open culture advocate, and Wikimedian* *www.sarahstierch.com*
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