Wikipedia Hates Women: 4 Dark Sides of The Site We All Use
http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1738-wikipedias-war-women-4-weird-realities-inside.html
Despite being such an influential site, Wikipedia has
fewer than 10 percent female editors. That leads to some strange
problems. For example: The entries on porn stars and Pokemon are
both more extensively detailed than the entries on prominent
women. This page on American novelists is divided into "Female
American Novelists" (for the women-folk) and "American
Novelists" (for the men). They once removed all the female movie
directors from their list of horror directors.
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Wikipedia is basically edited by anonymous 13-year-old boys living in their
parents' basements, using names like "ballbusterman" and "vomitboy." It's
not a real, attributed encyclopedia, it's an anonymous gang bang where
the opinions of idiots are valued, and authority and experience are ignored.
It's OK if you want to look up movie information or a chart of disk space
conversion parameters. Beyond that it has largely become a disgrace where
drive-by page vandalism is the order of the day.
By the way, "Cracked" has some seriously insightful stories these days.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
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