Feminists engage Wikipedia

TracyMorganFreeman · 2013-03-09T05:28:18+00:00

Too few?

Anyone who claims there is a "right amount" for a certain demographic to be involved automatically creates artificial value to being in a demographic itself.

livemansleeping · 2013-03-09T07:35:17+00:00

As a physics-guy i can happily sit by while they wage their war because the pages i particularly care about are far too complex for some one with a womens studies major to understand or deface in such a way as to deceive any one who looks at them.

rg57 · 2013-03-09T07:15:56+00:00

Why should the gender of contributors have anything to do with the correctness of the content? It is the content that matters, not who put it there.

Contributions are a good thing, of course, but making genuine contributions doesn't appear to be the actual goal of these groups. I hope editors take note of this political campaign and disallow poorly-sourced or politically-biased edits. Wikipedia should not become RationalWiki.

Last... I'm not sure how we can know the gender of Wikipedia users, contributors, and editors. I couldn't read the links described as sources in the infographic used to show how Wikipedia is biased against female contributors. But Wikipedia doesn't appear to make the gender of any of these people public. Also, it could be that people self-selected to appear in whatever survey produced the results, which itself may skew the results. Have I missed something obvious? I feel that I have.

owensounder · 2013-03-09T05:00:42+00:00

Saved a copy of the Men's Rights Movement Wikipedia page....lets compare it against the same page after the 15th.

My guess is they will try to deface it at least a little bit.

pocketknifeMT · 2013-03-09T11:45:33+00:00

Hopefully the editors will win out the incoming vandalism.

http://i.imgur.com/mTDzHNZ.png

TheRevoker · 2013-03-09T13:02:06+00:00

http://i.imgur.com/2CGJhqa.jpg It seems they're straight up deleting chunks of articles. Violence against men was merged into Domestic violence against men then the state violence part was deleted by somebody within the group. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence_against_men&redirect=no

TenLink · 2013-03-09T07:31:10+00:00

I have been spending a lot of time on the men's righs movement page. Trying to make improvements. You could probably see some of my changes if you looked at the history section..... However I spend 80% of my time arguing on the talk page with morons. What would be really helpful is for people to step in and (politely) offer some support. these cunts have been warned a number of times about their obnoxious behavior. Please spend a second to help a little. It is worth it as a lot of people will immediately go there the first time the learn MRM exists.

AndrewLevin · 2013-03-09T12:15:36+00:00

Previous feminist "edit-a-thons" have degenerated into vandalism of sites devoted to father's rights and men's rights. Maybe the women can do something constructive this time. Don't hold your breath.

Raunien · 2013-03-09T12:26:36+00:00

The infographic states that "male users are 5% more likely than women to edit article sections of Wikipedia instead of the more social User and User Talk pages."

5% is almost statistically irrelevant. If someone could provide error margins, that would be grand. And surely that can just be put down to the differences between the male and female brains. While a female brain will want to talk through a "difference of opinion", a male brain will simply correct what it believes to be wrong.

AayKay · 2013-03-11T05:28:56+00:00

Has anyone thought that women comprise of so low a demography.....because they just aren't interested? Not like Wikipedia has strict anti-women laws. It's all open, then how does male bias and whatnot affect such a public website?

memymineown · 2013-03-09T05:01:27+00:00

We should do something similar.

bro37 · 2013-03-09T08:11:01+00:00

I'm sorry, guys, I haven't read the article, but I'd discard anything anti-feminist from Al Jazeera or any other Middle Western mass media without consideration. These countries actually have some gender problems to solve.

TenLink · 2013-03-09T07:35:17+00:00

Honestly, the main reason is that most women don't know very much. And for what they do know they aren't very ambitious about it. Turns out that must subjects, like math, politics history, etc aren't interesting to most (not all) women.

Title	Feminists engage Wikipedia
Author	Greasy
Upvotes	56
Comments	50
Date	March 9, 2013 4:19 AM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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