Press coverage is widening: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/23/wikipedia-bans-editors-from-gender-related-articles-amid-gamergate-controversy
http://internet.gawker.com/wikipedia-purged-a-group-of-feminist-editors-because-of-1681463331 http://pando.com/2015/01/23/wikipedia-tacitly-endorses-gamergate-by-blocking-its-opponents-from-editing-gender-related-articles/ http://www.themarysue.com/wikipedia-gamergate/ http://www.volkskrant.nl/tech/hoe-gamergate-wikipedia-blijft-vervuilen~a3835403/ http://derstandard.at/2000010843264/Eintrag-zu-GamerGate-Wikipedia-sperrt-feministische-Nutzer These articles are getting thousands of tweets. It's unfortunate that the original Guardian article, based on Mark Bernstein's blog post, contains a few inaccuracies that are now being repeated. The broad thrust of the article however remains correct, as Tarc says. What this illustrates is the potential power of a good blog post for raising public awareness of gender gap issues in Wikipedia. The recent Anitaborg piece did well in social media too: http://anitaborg.org/news/blog/how-to-edit-wikipedia-lessons-from-a-female-contributor/ Really, there is a desperate need for an off-wiki site documenting, explaining and publicising these issues. Andreas On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Tarc . <[email protected]> wrote: > I just wanted to bring up a point wrt "but cannot ban the Guardian for > "bad journalism"" below, there are already efforts underway on the > Gamergate talk page by a single-purpose account to do just that. The > argument is that since this Guardian article is so "wrong" (and it really > isn't, just in minor details), therefore the Guardian should be stripped as > a source in the Gamergate article. > > These are the types of antics that the 2nd wave of 8chan/redditors are > going to be pulling, once some of us have been swept away. > > -t > > ------------------------------ > Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:26:47 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Gendergap] press coverage of Gamergate arbcom case > > well, they did not revdel it. > arbcom can drive the discussion off wiki, > but cannot ban the Guardian for "bad journalism" > certain account behaviors are being favored > you should expect to see a lot more of those behaviors in the future > > this will necessitate a lot of wiki-splaining > > thank-you arbcom for firing up every up coming feminist editathon > you may not care how how you are perceived, > but the negative blowback will tarnish all of wikimedia > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 12:06 AM, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The rediculous thing is that none of the people defending that article > were 'feminists'. They were just defending the mainstream point of view > from an endless onslaught of 8channers. The feminist point view isn't even > represented in the article. > > On Jan 23, 2015, at 7:14 PM, J Hayes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/23/wikipedia-bans-editors-from-gender-related-articles-amid-gamergate-controversy > > > http://internet.gawker.com/wikipedia-purged-a-group-of-feminist-editors-because-of-1681463331/+cushac > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please > visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please > visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > > > _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] To manage your subscription preferences, > including unsubscribing, please visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please > visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >
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