Funny you should interpret me that way. I think my point is twofold; namely
Wikipedia is only a reflection of its sources, and that it's sources show an
odd set of demographics no matter how you slice and dice the data.
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On Feb 23, 2014, at 2:59 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
I would love to know more about the damage, and what research has been done
on the negative impacts of bringing awareness to the issues of a lack of
representation of both women as contributors and as subjects of article has
done to the cause of increasing this. The limited research on this
Laura,
I am of course only a sample of one, but in my experience based on the issues
discussed at length in workshops and on the gendergap mailing list, often what
is perceived to be anti-female behavior is enough to drive women away. Men,
when perceiving anti-male behavior tend to do the
Jane Darnell, 23/02/2014 10:37:
Men, when perceiving anti-male behavior tend to do the
opposite, namely they become aggressive and stand their ground.
True, and in laughable ways even. Is such an attitude, however, so
peculiarly true of this male label, which seems so secondary and
useless?
Nemo, that is so cool you said that, because it proves as I have long suspected
that I have developed some sort of blind eye to such things. I recognized your
snippy response as only being a knee-jerk reaction to a perceived anti-Italian
remark, not to an anti-male remark!
Anyway as I said in
David,
I think we are both on the same page, but I am a bit farther in my thinking
about HOW you can illustrate the biases. The mobile team coined the phrase
'ghost edits' to mean the edits we don't make while on mobile devices (I am on
my iPad right now and experienced a ghost edit which will
Not discounting the excellent points made above, I can't help but feel that
there are groups that have been fighting discrimination in institutions for
decades and that maybe we need to work with them rather than reinvent a
non-straight-white-male-wheel ourselves. People like
