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And Wikipedia is now working with the Ada Initiative, a project to encourage women in the open-source community - Ada co-founder Mary Gardiner gave the Wikimania keynote before Wales’ Q&A started. The move to a visual editor on Wikipedia may help, too. In an attempt to replicate the success of a more social atmosphere, Stierch has been working on a project called the Teahouse, which is meant to be a collegial, encouraging space for new editors.Īlong those same lines, Wikia, a for-profit community-edited site also co-founded by Wales, has found that friendlier “message walls,” instead of sparse “user talk pages,” are more popular among women. And while women enjoy in-person edit-a-thons like the one at the Smithsonian, Stierch says that afterward, they frequently don’t continue to be active online. On average, female editors make fewer changes to articles than male editors. After all, as she points out, if you’re notable enough to be in the Smithsonian archives, chances are you’re notable enough for Wikipedia.īut just getting women to sign up as editors isn’t enough. Stierch rallied the troops, and the article remains available. Duncan, a paleontologist and geologist who worked in the mid-20th century. Two of the fruits of their labour were rapidly nominated for deletion - and after the decision was made to leave them both intact, one was nominated again. Wikimedia Foundation community fellow Sarah Stierch told me that a few months ago, she organized an “edit-a-thon” at which women - some Wiki veterans, some newbies - used Smithsonian records to create new articles on under-recognized female historical figures. One guy advocating deletion made a provocative point: “I really see this idea - that keeping this article does something to remedy the gender imbalance here - to be facile at best and insulting at worst.” But even if including the Middleton article is a “facile” way to remedy the gender gap, there are other examples of male bias creeping in. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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