Hi all, On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:56:39 -0400 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”..." Seems like good write-up and I tend to agree. It's too bad there was so much misunderstanding in the media about it. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Interview with Ben Collins-Sussman - http://shlom.in/sussman <Su-Shee> Absolutely. Also: a German dog barks “wau” and a cat meows “miau” <rindolf> Su-Shee: German animals are true German patriots. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
