I agree. You have to enter into a hostile environnent, which is very traumatizing towards women. On Nov 19, 2014 5:50 PM, "Kerry Raymond" <kerry.raym...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > When you work in a university, you frequently receive proposals that want > students (and sometimes academics) to be "free labour" for some worthy (or > not-so-worthy cause) without much regard to how the student benefits in > terms of their program of study. As much as I am personally committed to > Wikipedia and to feminism, if someone had approached me in my university > with such a proposal, I would have said that it might be reasonable to > expect a student in a writing or digital communications course to > contribute > to Wikipedia (or Facebook or ...) as part of that course, but that I would > need to see a much stronger case for it in a course about feminism. > > Would you regard it as reasonable if a driving instructor required their > students to contribute to Wikipedia articles on road safety as a condition > of receiving their driver's license? Or a doctor required Wikipedia > articles > before providing treatment? Why is it any different for a student to be > required to write Wikipedia articles? > > Offering students the *alternative* of writing for Wikipedia in lieu of a > traditional essay assignment would be a far more acceptable proposal. But I > would expect someone competent in Wikipedia would be available to provide > those students with the skills to do so (but I assume this is the > intention). And I would see nothing wrong with inviting students in a > feminist course to participate in a feminist edit-a-thon or similar > activity > so long as it was clear it was independent to their studies (i.e. no > coercion). > > Kerry > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >
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