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#Radical feminists have taken control of Wikipedia's coverage of [[netball]] to promote the idea there is a bias against sports that are played primarily by women (such as netball) in the Olympics<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netball_and_the_Olympic_Movement Wikipedia article on Netball and the Olympic Movement]</ref> and that netball helps obscure nations like the Cook Islands to "raise the profile of the country internationally."<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Netball_in_the_Cook_Islands Wikipedia article on netball in the Cook Islands]</ref> When other editors have tried to curb such excesses<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Netball_at_the_Olympics/GA1|title=Good Article Review of Netball at the Olympics|publisher=Wikimedia Foundation|accessdate=2011-06-28|date=March 26, 2011}}</ref> they were proposed to be topic blocked.

#Radical feminists have taken control of Wikipedia's coverage of [[netball]] to promote the idea there is a bias against sports that are played primarily by women (such as netball) in the Olympics<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netball_and_the_Olympic_Movement Wikipedia article on Netball and the Olympic Movement]</ref> and that netball helps obscure nations like the Cook Islands to "raise the profile of the country internationally."<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Netball_in_the_Cook_Islands Wikipedia article on netball in the Cook Islands]</ref> When other editors have tried to curb such excesses<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Netball_at_the_Olympics/GA1|title=Good Article Review of Netball at the Olympics|publisher=Wikimedia Foundation|accessdate=2011-06-28|date=March 26, 2011}}</ref> they were proposed to be topic blocked.

#In response to surveys showing that only 10%-13% of Wikipedia editors are women, the Wikimedia Foundation established a "Gender Gap email list" to discuss how to encourage more women to participate as editors. It was proposed that the email list be split into two section, one for women and transgendered and another for their male allies.<ref>http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2011-March/000770.html</ref>  When the Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation questioned the wisdom of the proposal,<ref>http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2011-March/000817.html</ref> he was denounced as "sexist."

#In response to surveys showing that only 10%-13% of Wikipedia editors are women, the Wikimedia Foundation established a "Gender Gap email list" to discuss how to encourage more women to participate as editors. It was proposed that the email list be split into two section, one for women and transgendered and another for their male allies.<ref>http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2011-March/000770.html</ref>  When the Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation questioned the wisdom of the proposal,<ref>http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2011-March/000817.html</ref> he was denounced as "sexist."

 

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