Re: [Gendergap] Liz Henry on women novelists, English Wikipedia, and labelling

Adrianne posted a nice response on a website. Probably the best response I've seen so far: http://hastac.org/blogs/wadewitz/2013/04/09/wikipedia-pushing-boundaries-scholarly-practice-gender-gap-must-be-address#comment-21716 To the point, from a Wikipedian point of view. I have been pretty overwhe

Re: [Gendergap] Liz Henry on women novelists, English Wikipedia, and labelling

FYI, I just got this link from Wikipediocracy responding to Liz Henry: http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2130&p=38953#p38953 "She claims there was no systematic move to put women into a separate category. It looks like she is wrong though: in this discussion

Re: [Gendergap] Liz Henry on women novelists, English Wikipedia, and labelling

-Original Message- From: Sumana Harihareswara 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 a

[Gendergap] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Call for participation ends soon & relevant input request

Reminder - April 30th is the last day to get a Wikimania 2013 proposal in. And please do mark your interest in specific proposals by others -- it helps the committee make the schedule. Thanks, Sumana Original Message Subject: [Wikimania-l] Call for participation ends soon & rel

[Gendergap] Liz Henry on women novelists, English Wikipedia, and labelling

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

Re: [Gendergap] #DH POCO on American Novelists

Read But Should Be" (Here you'd find a lot of women, people >> >>of color...) >> >> Want to see where you're sitting for eternity? Take a peek. >> >> >> >> A disclaimer at the top of the American Novelists page reads, "This >

Re: [Gendergap] #DH POCO on American Novelists

t;> > >> The Huffington Post reached out to Wikipedia for a response to > >>Schappell's claims but so far has not heard back. > >> > >> This is far from the first time that someone has expressed ire

Re: [Gendergap] [PRESS] Women Novelists Wikipedia: Female Authors Absent From Site's 'American Novelists' Page?

Funny, I had no clue a "forced migration" was taking place - just shows you how much happens in the one Wikipedia without others knowing (who are highly active). I'm glad to see the artists categories are still ok. We have American women artists, but, I believe they are also listed in American art

Re: [Gendergap] [PRESS] Women Novelists Wikipedia: Female Authors Absent From Site's 'American Novelists' Page?

For what it's worth, this issue is apparently discussed in the categorisation guidelines, which recommend "Both male and female [subjects] should continue to be filed in the appropriate gender-neutral role category..." in cases where we only have one gender-specific category; they should only be mo

Re: [Gendergap] [PRESS] Women Novelists Wikipedia: Female Authors Absent From Site's 'American Novelists' Page?

Salon has also picked this up - http://www.salon.com/2013/04/25/wikipedia_moves_women_to_american_women_novelists_category_leaves_men_in_american_novelists/ On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:13 AM, María Sefidari wrote: > The New York Times also has an article about this: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/

[Gendergap] #DH POCO on American Novelists

iterary world: >> All too often, when a woman writes a book about family and >>relationships the reader will sigh that she felt the narrator's inner >>monologues were "whiny" whereas when a male writer contemplates these >>same topics he is being "introspective." If

Re: [Gendergap] [PRESS] Women Novelists Wikipedia: Female Authors Absent From Site's 'American Novelists' Page?

The New York Times also has an article about this: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism-toward-female-novelists.html Kind regards, María Enviado desde mi dispositivo móvil El 25/04/2013, a las 01:21, Sarah Stierch escribió: > > From The Huffington Post > > htt