Wikipedia's vision is of a world in which everyone can freely share in the sum of all human knowledge. But we cannot achieve that when we are missing so much knowledge about women.
This #WomensHistoryMonth, join us in closing the gender knowledge gap on Wikipedia and across the Wikimedia projects.
#ChangeTheStats #OpenTheKnowledge
Get started: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia-needs-more-women
I bet there is a significant minority of women in the US that would be extremely happy if men knew the anatomy of the #female #reproductive system.
@TopKnot @wikimediafoundation
Once upon a time, I used a female handle on wikipedia and wrote about my trade. I will never do it again, because I got torn apart by know-it-alls who definitely had no idea of the subject at all.
I still contribute to Wikipedia now and again, but I use a male-sounding handle. That cuts down the flack by an appreciable amount.
So - what shall it be?
@wikimediafoundation As long as you will continue to support toxic behavior discriminating women and non binary people as editors, this will never happen. The old white male majority of editors will continue protecting itself from newcomers with a fresh mind. The results are visible in what recently happened in the French Wikipedia endangering many people (you absolutely know what I'm writing about).
You need to intervene. You need to stop this. Only then new contributors can rise and raise.
@forestine @braid @wikimediafoundation notability on wp is sloppy and seems arbitrary. i get the point of it overall, but it does give the impression of futility. you know, like laws that are strict, enforced unevenly, and used to target people who are already disenfranchised. you see people using deletion requests as punishment, as retribution. wp IS a bit toxic.
always this is framed as an imperfect system and better than nothing. yet when people decide to choose nothing, they wonder why.
@forestine @braid @wikimediafoundation
its broken. its unlikely to be fixed. good luck!
@braid @wikimediafoundation EXACTLY THAT!
As we can see from #WikipediaFR there is no redeeming quality to invest time and labour into contributing to #Wikipedia when transmisogynists and Incels are literally backrolling any changes and deleting any appeals to their sabotage...
You, and the rest of the thread, may want to look at this federated wikipedia alternative that was announced just a few days ago:
https://ibis.wiki/article/Announcing_Ibis,_the_federated_Wikipedia_Alternative
@hipsterelectron @wikimediafoundation i agree, its redundant at best. if you identify as a woman, you are a woman. if you do not identify as a woman, you are not a woman. etc.
by writing "identify as" here, you make it look like there is a difference between identifying as a woman and actually being a woman - which is simply not the case. writing "identify as" is more transphobic than just saying "woman"
@wikimediafoundation I added a German #BobbinLace entrepreneur yesterday!
Very good words indeed.
Now, could you please remove the French moderators that are pursuing a policy of harassment against women and minorities, including transgender people?
Clean up your act. Wikipedia, this is becoming truly embarassing, and I say this as a supporter of your project.
@wikimediafoundation
You know why it is like that. Articles about women get flagged as "unimportant" way more often that those about men. You would need to do your fair share of work to help - but it is way easier to mark the (very long known) point and leave it to others to try to fix it.
Or ignore problems like those in France.
But well. I highly doubt you even read the answers to your posts. You are not really interested in the opinions of us ๐
when wikipedia started, i immediately opened an account. for one, i have family that are important figures in Puerto Rican history and wanted to make sure their pages were there; but Latin American Studies is my expertise. wasn't for the editors who harassed me out of contributing.
and sure enough, after ยฑ2 decades it's mostly WHITE Puerto Rican MEN in those pages.
what will y'all do so afroindigenous women scholars like me can contribute?
@blogdiva @wikimediafoundation
That's a shame. I was very active in the early years on Wikipedia. On somewhat different issues, I noticed some people in forums complaining that Wikipedia must be controlled by (X meaning certain organization) ; I took a look at articles they were complaining about, and it seemed to me more that there were a small number of regulars with (X agenda) gaming the system - I made suggestions on how others could use the same tactics to game the system back 1/3
@blogdiva @wikimediafoundation
While I'm still on Wikipedia, I've been more on Wikimedia Commons since.
3/3
Dear #trans people, #LGBT #Queer #LGBTQIA and allies from the Fediverse, if you have a #Wikipedia account (*note: with at least 50 edits* ***in French articles*** *before January 29, sorry*), you may help the French Wikipedia to become a better place to read quality articles involving trans people. Under the pressure of trans and allied contributors (*Edit: and NOT at the initiative of T&A contributors*), the French Wikipedia moderators opened a survey on "how to handle #deadname mentions in our articles". The survey proposes 6 questions and multiple possibilities, **including harmful and insensitive ones**. At the moment, the answer ratio is not in favour of trans people. Most of the time, people insist on mentioning the deadnames like it's a data like any other, including when unnecessary. This must change, and here's why I'm making a call to you. (*Edited*) *The rules to vote are restricted to editors of French contents who were already active before February, so it's actually not possible to vote on behalf of French trans people with no account,* **BUT** *you still may vote: they won't be taken into account but they will remain visible on the page.* Action and reskeets may save young trans people from shitty behaviours from careless cis people. Thank you by advance ๐๐ผ *And sorry for the multiple editions* https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Sondage/Mention_du_nom_de_naissance_pour_les_personnes_trans **FINAL EDIT** *I'm probably going to be suspended soon for my outrageous behaviour consisting of : having posted this very toot, and being pissed by the passive-agressive tone and the general stubbornness of a bunch of wiseguys who consider that it's not okay to call for collaboration to the rules of a collaborative online encyclopedia, because, woo, BIAS. So long and thanks for all the fish.* [Next episode : My indefinite suspension (in French starting from there)](https://eldritch.cafe/@Pandora/111980158155555456)
@wikimediafoundation So you have a problem: white cis men dominate the space and prevent others from participating. Sounds like any patriarchal system to me!
Your culture โ this chikenshit liberalism demonstrated here, which allows bigotry โ is the problem, but here you are, focusing on something else instead, avoiding to upset the bigoted white cis men.
Have your liberal white-cis-men-only Wikipedia. We who arenโt welcome there will make our own.
@wikimediafoundation nothing I love more as a woman than fighting the Nerd War.
No Thanks.
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