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Love how she admits that she started everything after being a troll herself. Awesome, kind of speaks volumes I think. In any regards, if she knows of scientist

Love how she admits that she started everything after being a troll herself. Awesome, kind of speaks volumes I think. In any regards, if she knows of scientists that should have wiki articles but don't or are otherwise faulty, and she spends time correcting those issues, great. No need to make it into a gendered issue though, that is just sexist.

minikites 11y ago
Why do you think it's sexist for a woman counter the intense, entrenched anti-woman sexism on Wikipedia? http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/how-wikipedia-is-hostile-to-women/411619/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/how-wi... http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/12/wikipedia_editing_disputes_the_crowdsourced_encyclopedia_has_become_a_rancorous.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/12/wik... http://www.fastcompany.com/3041871/strong-female-lead/more-like-dude-ipedia-study-shows-wikipedias-sexist-bias http://www.fastcompany.com/3041871/strong-female-lead/more-l...
- anupamsr 11y ago
  You only need to go to Wikipedia to learn if it is hostile to women or not. Article like these are intentionally planted by vested interests to pump-up support for the movement and have absolutely no basis in reality.
  - anupamsr 11y ago
    Do we have gender studies graduates as modders? Seriously, this is getting annoying. I actually have a profitable start up that works in this area so I know my shit. Hackers really really need to kick this stupid stuff out soon or we all will be left for the worse.
GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
> Love how she admits that she started everything after being a troll herself Are you referring to the entry she wrote about her sister, because personally I'm seeing a bit of daylight between "literal twelve year old child makes a fake wiki article" and "Throwaway email addresses frequently send her requests for dates, condescendingly discuss her body, insinuate that she got to where she is through sexual favors, ask her to reserve those favors for themselves, and when she doesn’t reply, they spew profanities." (from: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/08/alchemy-turning-harassment-into-women-scientists/ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/08/alchemy-turning-harassm...)
hobs 11y ago
That's absurd to say its sexist, the woman is a volunteer contributing to the vast store of human knowledge. Documenting female scientists may be her agenda due to the intense amount of vitriol online, but from the article content's its pretty clear that her aim isnt sexist, just one that says that women werent written into the history books as often and as readily as men. Also the troll thing is her very first article as a child, hardly relevant.
- jfabre 11y ago
  It is sexist by definition if she favors one sex over the other. If it produces something good (accurate knowledge), then I don't really see the problem... The thing I would like to know is why she is getting so much hate. I could write articles about men scientists all year and nobody would notice. EDIT: Went to see her handle on twitter and got my answer. She is on the left politically and is very open about it. Makes more sense now.
  - minikites 11y ago
    Nobody would notice because male scientists already get enough credit, the reason there is an article about this is because lots of women in science aren't given enough credit.
    - jfabre 11y ago
      I could write about women scientists all year and nobody would notice either. That wasn't my point.
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minikites 11y ago

Why do you think it's sexist for a woman counter the intense, entrenched anti-woman sexism on Wikipedia? http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/how-wikipedia-is-hostile-to-women/411619/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/how-wi... http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/12/wikipedia_editing_disputes_the_crowdsourced_encyclopedia_has_become_a_rancorous.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/12/wik... http://www.fastcompany.com/3041871/strong-female-lead/more-like-dude-ipedia-study-shows-wikipedias-sexist-bias http://www.fastcompany.com/3041871/strong-female-lead/more-l...

anupamsr 11y ago
You only need to go to Wikipedia to learn if it is hostile to women or not. Article like these are intentionally planted by vested interests to pump-up support for the movement and have absolutely no basis in reality.
- anupamsr 11y ago
  Do we have gender studies graduates as modders? Seriously, this is getting annoying. I actually have a profitable start up that works in this area so I know my shit. Hackers really really need to kick this stupid stuff out soon or we all will be left for the worse.

GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago

> Love how she admits that she started everything after being a troll herself Are you referring to the entry she wrote about her sister, because personally I'm seeing a bit of daylight between "literal twelve year old child makes a fake wiki article" and "Throwaway email addresses frequently send her requests for dates, condescendingly discuss her body, insinuate that she got to where she is through sexual favors, ask her to reserve those favors for themselves, and when she doesn’t reply, they spew profanities." (from: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/08/alchemy-turning-harassment-into-women-scientists/ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/08/alchemy-turning-harassm...)

hobs 11y ago

That's absurd to say its sexist, the woman is a volunteer contributing to the vast store of human knowledge. Documenting female scientists may be her agenda due to the intense amount of vitriol online, but from the article content's its pretty clear that her aim isnt sexist, just one that says that women werent written into the history books as often and as readily as men. Also the troll thing is her very first article as a child, hardly relevant.

jfabre 11y ago
It is sexist by definition if she favors one sex over the other. If it produces something good (accurate knowledge), then I don't really see the problem... The thing I would like to know is why she is getting so much hate. I could write articles about men scientists all year and nobody would notice. EDIT: Went to see her handle on twitter and got my answer. She is on the left politically and is very open about it. Makes more sense now.
- minikites 11y ago
  Nobody would notice because male scientists already get enough credit, the reason there is an article about this is because lots of women in science aren't given enough credit.
  - jfabre 11y ago
    I could write about women scientists all year and nobody would notice either. That wasn't my point.
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