well said, Sarah! Thanks for reading through all that stuff - I tried and
failed

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stie...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am now on digest mode with this mailing list. The traffic is often too
> much for me and the voice of this list is frustrating for me
> sometimes..so... remember that please :)
> ---
>
> I have been asked to share my thoughts by many people this morning on the
> internet, here they are:
>
> I have been editing Wikipedia for ten years and i have no clue what has
> been going on with the feminist/gamergate thing. As one of the more well
> known female editors i have cut back heavily on my involvement after last
> year. I don't know any of the editors, personally, who "went to court" but
> I have seen this stuff happen to both sides in men's rights articles in the
> past.
>
> After reviewing the Arbcom case, I don't even know who got the idea that
> any of the contributing editors are feminist, per se. No one even mentions
> the word, except once, when describing a subject that was "slandered" in
> the gamer gate article(s).
>
> I also don't think that the edits made to the article are overwhelmingly
> feminist in nature. It appears to be just a bunch of people editing the
> Wikipedia article to protect it from being a hot mess of 4chan junk.
>
> Note: most of the "in trouble" editor's aren't that productive at
> contributing feminist content to Wikipedia. I have interacted with only
> four of them - Black Kite, Future Perfect at Sunrise, TarainDC and Bilby -
> only one is a female in real life and I know her from GLAM editing
> projects. She is the only one that I know who has actively edited feminist
> topics prior to this. I actually consider Bilby an ally, but, I have never
> heard him or any of the other editors blatantly identify themselves as
> feminists.
>
> From what I know, only one of the editors on the entire "trial list"
> identifies out as a female.
>
> So, it appears a bunch of editors trying to keep the article clean had to
> run through the gauntlet. I don't think the end of the world has come to
> any of their lives - they have plenty of other subjects of interest to keep
> them busy on Wikipedia.
>
> I also think people invest *too much* into Wikipedia to where it's what
> they live for..per se. I see a lot of that in this case, and many others
> that "go to court" on Wikipedia. I stopped participating on Wikipedia when
> it screwed up my personal life so much, and I lost sleep over it. So...
> that's my advice to anyone involved in that Arbcom case :) Go on vacation
> and get another hobby and edit Wikipedia when you feel like it. It isn't
> life. It's just an encyclopedia.
>
> Sarah
>
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