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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." | ||
#The same radical feminists who wrote "Netball and the Olympic Movement" have virtually the same biased material in the article [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_sport_at_the_Olympics Women's sports at the Olympics]. | #The same radical feminists who wrote "Netball and the Olympic Movement" have virtually the same biased material in the article [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_sport_at_the_Olympics Women's sports at the Olympics]. | ||
| + | #The Wikipedia article [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_of_Women_Canada Minister responsible for the Status of Women (Canada)] is extremely superficial and makes only a quick mention of the slander lawsuit that the government agency lost in 2003. | ||
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Revision as of 13:49, June 29, 2012
This article lists examples of Bias in Wikipedia, related to gender bias:
- Wikipedia awarded "good article" status[1] to a biased description of liberal Balboa High School, saying it has "a progressively nurturing environment" undergoing "a steady renaissance marked by academic innovation."[2] Nowhere in Wikipedia's 4,468-word description does it admit that half the 9th graders lacked proficiency on a statewide English test.[3] Instead, Wikipedia editors apparently like how this public school converted its metal shop into a sex-based "health" clinic.
- Wikipedia is sexist? Definitions of antonyms don't match up:
- The Carrie Prejean article on Wikipedia is carefully crafted however, major points tend to end with a liberals last word. 'Photograph controversy' last line quotes "go beyond what the Miss California pageant says are appropriate, and do not benefit Prejean's status." The section 'Crown retention', last line says- "she no longer believes in the organization," referring to a pageant official. The page is locked from mentioning other contestants who also had photos questionable under pageant rules. The last line of 'Miss USA 2009 controversy', plug the candidate for governor of Ca. and same-sex advocate SF mayor Gavin Newsom beliefs, supports Prejean. Wikipedia's non family-friendly presentation is complete with text of Hilton's foul-mouthed tirade.[6]
- 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[7] and that netball helps obscure nations like the Cook Islands to "raise the profile of the country internationally."[8] When other editors have tried to curb such excesses[9] they were proposed to be topic blocked. The radical feminists are trying to create the myth that Netball is an "Olympic sport" (which Wikipedia defines as being played in the Olympics) and they revert any effort to correct their false claims.[10][11]
- 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.[12] When the Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation questioned the wisdom of the proposal,[13] he was denounced as "sexist."
- The same radical feminists who wrote "Netball and the Olympic Movement" have virtually the same biased material in the article Women's sports at the Olympics.
- The Wikipedia article Minister responsible for the Status of Women (Canada) is extremely superficial and makes only a quick mention of the slander lawsuit that the government agency lost in 2003.
References
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balboa_High_School_(San_Francisco)
- ↑ Jill Tucker, "Student Successes Defy Urban Trends" San Francisco Chronicle (Aug. 16, 2006).
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matriarchy
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchy
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carrie_Prejean&diff= Wikipedia- Carrie Prejean
- ↑ Wikipedia article on Netball and the Olympic Movement
- ↑ Wikipedia article on netball in the Cook Islands
- ↑ Good Article Review of Netball at the Olympics. Wikimedia Foundation (March 26, 2011). Retrieved on 2011-06-28.
- ↑ Netball (June 26, 2012).
- ↑ Netball and the Olympic Movement (June 26, 2012).
- ↑ http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2011-March/000770.html
- ↑ http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2011-March/000817.html