myrmepropagandistDec 10, 2022

Is the #wikipedia in dire need of more cash? Their pleas are alarming--- but how are they really doing?

I've always been reticent to donate since I wrote so many articles for them and created "project afro" to improve the depth of coverage on people of the African diaspora--

For all this work I got very little support or kindness, mostly outright hostility. It was like a war to even get some articles to EXIST.

But, I also think the wikipedia is one of the last "good" parts of the internet.

Show threadDoug Holton
@futurebird Thanks for raising awareness about this. It's unfortunately one of the paradoxes of open that goes even beyond #Wikipedia, including #Mastodon & the #Fediverse I think https://openfuture.eu/paradox-of-open-responses/how-openness-becomes-exclusionary/
90% of Wikipedia editors are male https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_bias_on_Wikipedia
95% of #OpenSource contributors on #GitHub are male, compared to 77% in industry overall https://www.wired.com/2017/06/diversity-open-source-even-worse-tech-overall/
Here's one article that lists 29 techniques to help support #inclusion https://thenewstack.io/hacks-to-help-open-source-leadership-support-inclusion/
#diversity #equity
How openness becomes exclusionary – Open Future

In his response to the Paradox of Open, Leonhard Dobusch describes the diversity deficits within open movements, offering a conceptual framework of exclusionary openness to more systematically understand and address it.

Open Future
Dec 10, 2022 at 6:05pmWeb