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#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."

#WMF's efforts at [[affirmative action]] have been frustrated because most user names are not gender-specific and some editors online personalities do not correspond to their real-life genders. Apparently, some Wikipedia editors regard that project as a large role-playing game where accusing an opponent in a debate of "sexism" is a legitimate tactic (even if the parties are not truthful about their online gender claims.)

#WMF's efforts at [[affirmative action]] have been frustrated because most user names are not gender-specific and some editors online personalities do not correspond to their real-life genders. Apparently, some Wikipedia editors regard that project as a large role-playing game where accusing an opponent in a debate of "sexism" is a legitimate tactic (even if the parties are not truthful about their online gender claims.)

#Wikipedia editor [[User:SarahStierch|Sarah Stierch]] was the volunteer moderator of the Gender Gap email list where departed from discussing Wikipedia to freely share her negative experiences with men in her life.  In fall 2011, she was hired by the WMF as a Community Fellow to work on creating a "Teahouse" for newer Wikipedia editors. The report on the Teahouse Pilot Project<ref>{{cite web|url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research:Teahouse/Pilot_Report&oldid=3832292|title=Teahouse: Pilot Report|date=June 14, 2012}}</ref> explained, "If you click through to the Teahouse, it’s clearly aiming to broaden female participation - just look at the pastel background and references to tea." Stierch tried to use Twitter to recruit more female editors into Teahouse and the English Wikipedia. The report concluded, "Because so much time and energy needed to be spend during the pilot on setting up and maintaining the space, we weren't able to focus as much as we'd have liked on gender-targeted strategies for recruiting female guests and hosts. There are clearly more experiments that need to be run in order to better integrate the space with other gender gap efforts and WikiWomen's calls to actions."

#Wikipedia editor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch|Sarah Stierch] was the volunteer moderator of the Gender Gap email list where departed from discussing Wikipedia to freely share her negative experiences with men in her life.  In fall 2011, she was hired by the WMF as a Community Fellow to work on creating a "Teahouse" for newer Wikipedia editors. The report on the Teahouse Pilot Project<ref>{{cite web|url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research:Teahouse/Pilot_Report&oldid=3832292|title=Teahouse: Pilot Report|date=June 14, 2012}}</ref> explained, "If you click through to the Teahouse, it’s clearly aiming to broaden female participation - just look at the pastel background and references to tea." Stierch tried to use Twitter to recruit more female editors into Teahouse and the English Wikipedia. The report concluded, "Because so much time and energy needed to be spend during the pilot on setting up and maintaining the space, we weren't able to focus as much as we'd have liked on gender-targeted strategies for recruiting female guests and hosts. There are clearly more experiments that need to be run in order to better integrate the space with other gender gap efforts and WikiWomen's calls to actions."

 

==Biased content==

==Biased content==

#  Wikipedia awarded "good article" status<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles</ref> to a biased description of [[liberal]] Balboa High School, saying it has "a progressively nurturing environment" undergoing "a steady renaissance marked by academic innovation."<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balboa_High_School_(San_Francisco)</ref> Nowhere in Wikipedia's 4,468-word description does it admit that half the 9th graders lacked proficiency on a statewide English test.<ref>Jill Tucker, "[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/16/MNGE2KJB5K1.DTL Student Successes Defy Urban Trends]" San Francisco Chronicle (Aug. 16, 2006).</ref> Instead, Wikipedia editors apparently like how this public school converted its metal shop into a sex-based "health" clinic.

#  Wikipedia awarded "good article" status<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles</ref> to a biased description of [[liberal]] Balboa High School, saying it has "a progressively nurturing environment" undergoing "a steady renaissance marked by academic innovation."<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balboa_High_School_(San_Francisco)</ref> Nowhere in Wikipedia's 4,468-word description does it admit that half the 9th graders lacked proficiency on a statewide English test.<ref>Jill Tucker, "[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/16/MNGE2KJB5K1.DTL Student Successes Defy Urban Trends]" San Francisco Chronicle (Aug. 16, 2006).</ref> Instead, Wikipedia editors apparently like how this public school converted its metal shop into a sex-based "health" clinic.