Colleges offer credit to students who enter ‘feminist thinking’ into Wikipedia

RBGolbat · 2013-09-01T07:58:34+00:00

This is just outlandish. There is nothing stopping women from editing Wikipedia on their own, so the gender gap is only created by motivational issues.

stop_stalking_me · 2013-09-01T11:43:24+00:00

Why does the fact that most editors are men make wikipedia worse? I would like to see the evidence that shows the genitalia of the writer changes the quality of the content. If their idea is that men are biasing it towards men then we don't fight that with a different bias, we target the bias itself.

2013-09-01T10:46:30+00:00

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riker89 · 2013-09-01T09:26:22+00:00

I put a note on the Administrator's Noticeboard about the potential meatpuppeting campaign and that people should keep an eye on it.

stemgang · 2013-09-01T07:54:15+00:00

There's your 'institutional sexism' right there, folks. Anti-male ideology promoted through the university system, using your tax dollars.

TorontoMike · 2013-09-01T12:06:24+00:00

So basicly they are having a course on how to deface Wikipedia. Rather then an article being on the topic they are going to inject feminism in to everything needlessly .

FemTechNet alleges that many Wikipedia pages are "skewed now toward male participation," citing a 2011 study which found that fewer than 15 percent of Wikipedia contributors were females, according to an article in the Huffington Post

Shocking men are willing to do the work and participate and some how the delusional feminists think it is some "Male Privilege". Sort of like how anti-Semites complain that there are too many these feminists complain there are too many males in Wikipedia

Perpetual_dissident · 2013-09-01T09:51:29+00:00

this is awfully unethical. what does jimmy wales and co. say about it?

ShitLordXurious · 2013-09-01T12:15:23+00:00

Are there going to be feminist interpretations of Newton's Principia and Fluid Dynamics on Wikipedia now?

2013-09-01T10:19:01+00:00

FemTechNet alleges that many Wikipedia pages are "skewed now toward male participation," citing a 2011 study which found that fewer than 15 percent of Wikipedia contributors were females, according to an article in the Huffington Post.

Fucking shit, these idiots need to read the wiki articles on correlation and causation.

The entire reason for all of this nonsense is because women are usually protected princesses, and men are thrown in the fucking mud. You know that technology, whatever it may be? A guy probably made it.

hecter · 2013-09-01T13:18:46+00:00

Ah, colleges. Dominated by Liberated Thinking™ since forever. People seem perplexed when I tell them I hate college, but it's not too hard to figure out why, given this kind of bullcrap.

Fuck it. Personal story time!

Once, I had this SJW Canadian instructor who taught World Geography for basic credits. I like to call that my "Canadian World Geography" class, because 60 minutes of every hour-and-a-half of the class would be spent listening to her monologue about how Canada was so much better than the U.S., and how Canada respected women's rights, and how Canada was some kind of fucking icon of immortality and equality.

The kicker came when one day, she told us to come in with colored pencils (what the fuck is this, third grade?). She had us draw our version of a world map on some paper, allegedly to see how much general knowledge we had. Once we were all finished, she took our papers up front and began selecting some from the 40-something maps. She put them up individually on her projector.

Some people were geographically handicapped; others had a decent understanding of national borders. Some thought the United States was Earth, and some didn't even have a clue where the U.S. even was. Now, me, I keep a photograph in my head of the world map. I did my best to follow that picture, filling in shit like Sri Lanka and Lesotho and all these places my classmates had apparently never heard of. And I did a damn good job on that map. Or so I thought.

She ended up selecting mine. While my classmates were stunned, Canadian World Geography Social Justice Wombat looked peeved. And what did she say to my complex geographical knowledge?

"Canada is a little small. It's important to remember that not all countries are the U.S., and that some nations deserve to be recognized for their achievements in equality. I've had students forget Canada altogether in such detailed maps - most of them were, of course, boys."

I couldn't even... I did not have words. I went all thin-lipped. And I dropped that goddamn class later on because her shit just would not stop. And I'm a chick, too... what was going through her head, besides air and fem-centric titty cancer ribbons?

TL;DR - Never take World Geography with Canadians.

FlightsFancy · 2013-09-01T16:38:08+00:00

WHY are Feminists SO AFRAID to let Men speak?

2013-09-01T09:20:20+00:00

What's the gender skew on RationalWiki? Why does it matter? Do we really need to reward one group of people for doing something another group does freely? Creating a culture of entitlement much?

ralphswanson · 2013-09-01T16:52:18+00:00

Articles on gender in Wikipedia are already overwhelmingly written from the feminist point of view. There is not even a mention of misandry, victim complex or faked statistics in 'Feminism'; only a stern warning not to add criticism in the talk section. 'Rule of Thumb' is femsplained as a reasonable clerical error, etc. Any changes you make will be undone in seconds.

HappyGerbil88 · 2013-09-01T19:24:59+00:00

It appears that "feminist thinking" is not currently an entry in Wikipedia at all

No, but here's a related entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron

NakedAndBehindYou · 2013-09-01T17:31:19+00:00

I had a revelation while reading this.

actanonverba8 · 2013-09-01T21:55:07+00:00

Active feminist insertion of propaganda into Wikipedia and censoring of dissenting voices has been going on for a long time. These feminists ideologues just keep upping the ante, now offering college credits. Feminism/gynocentrism is a multi-trillion dollar global industry so, unless fair-minded men and women keep exposing them, the shroud of deception will completely envelop us.

Ridergal · 2013-09-01T14:01:19+00:00

Universities offering course credit for editing Wikipedia pages is not new. For example, a professor at the University of Saskatchewan got praise for assigning students Wikipedia pages in religion to edit in 2008. This is not an isolated example.

http://www.cbc.ca/spark/blog/2008/12/05/your-homework-make-wikipedia-better/

In response to people's concerns that a Wikipedia editor may be biased, the reality is that there are a lot of Wikipedia editor who are biased, and not just for feminism. There's editors who are biased for religion, politics, race, and culture. Why is there so much concern about bias for feminism but not bias against politics?

Wikipedia's model is to have multiple editors volunteer to edit pages. That way if one editor is biased, other editors can review the justification on the talk page and discuss it. If it turns into an edit war or an editor acts inappropriatly then Wikipedia steps in to stop inappropriate behavior.

fleshhook · 2013-09-01T15:28:36+00:00

Dear women of the academic world, why are you not contributing to wikipedia? .....Can I have my degree now? That was so hard.

junoguten · 2013-09-01T15:44:19+00:00

Oh, so they don't want us their classrooms, but they want their classrooms in us? So entitled.

Nomenimion · 2013-09-02T01:31:10+00:00

This is blatantly discriminatory. Where do they get off bribing student with credits to spread an anti-male political agenda? This is not education.

biffsocko · 2013-09-02T02:34:01+00:00

This was removed for "doxxing" earlier. The information that I am providing is readily available on each university web site. I have simply put it in one place.

I am including the contact information for each of the schools taking part in this folly. I think that we should write to let them know that we do NOT support this action. Furthermore, I would suggest writing respectful correspondance and addressing each person by Dr. <name>. They have erned the academic credentials and may not be fully aware about what this program is doing.

Yale University, President: Dr [email protected] provost: Dr [email protected]

Brown University, President Dr.Christina Paxson: [email protected]

Pennsylvania State University President: [email protected] Dr. RODNEY A. ERICKSON

Bowling Green State University, President Dr. Mary Ellen Mazey Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/bgsupresident Lisa C. Mattiace (Chief of staff)[email protected]

California Polytechnic State University, Dr, Jeffrey D. Armstrong [email protected]

Colby-Sawyer College, Dr. Thomas C. Galligan Jr. [email protected]

The City University of New York Graduate Center Dr. Lisa S. Coico [email protected]

The New School, Dr. David E. Van Zandt twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidVanZandt

Ohio State University, Dr. Joseph A. Alutto [email protected]

Ontario College of Art and Design University,

Pitzer College, President Laura Trombley

Rutgers University President Robert L. Barchi - http://president.rutgers.edu/contact/send-message-president-barchi

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, President Dr. Bob Easter [email protected]

Salient0ne · 2013-09-01T16:34:15+00:00

I think we need to get together and actively REMOVE all 'feminist thinking' in Wikipedia.

riker89 · 2013-09-01T21:44:57+00:00

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nicemod · 2013-09-01T17:24:02+00:00

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elebrin · 2013-09-01T15:15:07+00:00

So basically, all the really good technical information I have gotten off wikipedia over the years is going to get blanked and replaced with feminist feelgood bullshit. I didn't need a feminist perspective on Dijkstra's algorithm, I just needed to know how the fuck it worked and Wikipedia gave me that. Now it will probably just be an article about how there aren't enough women in computer science.

Raudskeggr · 2013-09-01T18:28:48+00:00

I can just see the intro to the Wikipedia article on math now. "How do numbers make you feel?"

rebuildingMyself · 2013-09-01T12:21:40+00:00

What about going onto amazon and rating any MRA book as 1/5? Worked for the tea party trolls back in the day.

drplump · 2013-09-01T23:03:37+00:00

This is good once they enter something into wikipedia they will have to provide a proper citation. FINALLY!

KTimpf · 2013-09-01T20:09:25+00:00

I wrote this article. To those of you trying to discredit it as supporting a culture where women are subservient to their husbands, you should know that I am actually a single, career-focused woman with no interest in marriage or children. Feel free to look at my Twitter (@kctimpf), or watch some of my standup comedy videos, and you will see that I am a far cry from the prudish fundamentalist you would make me out to be. You claim to be freethinking and open minded, yet cannot imagine that this article was written from a person such as myself, simply out of concern of factual articles being purposely skewed to support ANY agenda. Perhaps you should do some research before you go on promoting stereotypes -- a practice you claim to be against. Best, Katherine Timpf

Arctic-fire · 2013-09-01T16:42:42+00:00

ENGLISH ISN'T MY PRIMARY LANGUAGE!

I really don't like this project. As plenty of Redditors have already mentioned before, everyone can edit Wikipedia at any time. Still the data speaks clearly that only 15% of the editors of Wikipedia are women and there's nothing bad promoting them to contribute to Wikipedia, their help can be precious.

But you know this is a Feminist project and therefore isn't about helping women, but the Feminist movement itself. The project isn't "Women be active and help Wikipedia, lets be as much helpful as men are", the project is "Women and men who identify as Feminists, just go on Wikipedia and edit the articles regarding Feminism".

This project will not increase the number of women on Wikipedia, nor it will be useful to Wikipedia. It will just screw up Wikipedia with Feminist bias. Basically on the article created for the Men's Rights you will find even more accurate links describing the movement as misogynist. Just like the links already in there, will be mostly nonfactual links like the SPLC link that only claims the MHRM to be misogynist without bringing any evidence to it and making it automatically a logical fallacy called Appeal to authority , basically the SPLC is a notorious authority on the field and therefore can't be wrong, sure whatever they say is right. Feminists are masters at using logical fallacies any time that it suits them, when it doesn't, is misogyny, obviously.

This project is just another piece of the huge pathetic puzzle of Feminism that is polluting the modern human society. Wikipedia is going down...

dan105 · 2013-09-01T12:16:42+00:00

Read the article, don't see what the big deal is. They're just being given credit to make a Wikipedia page. The only problem I can see is that it might overlap with similar pages.

2013-09-01T09:59:32+00:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Possible_feminist_canvassing.3F

You guys really seem paranoid, they aren't going to write feminist thinking in the page on nuclear fission, they are going to write missing biographies of notable women.

Title	Colleges offer credit to students who enter ‘feminist thinking’ into Wikipedia
Author	actanonverba8
Upvotes	399
Comments	117
Date	September 1, 2013 6:35 AM UTC (12 years ago)
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