ANOTHER reason NOT to use Wikipedia

[DrLeftover]

... because they CAN do this:

02/02/2014

Feminist groups at more than a dozen universities are planning to participate in another mass “edit Wikipedia day,” because the free, volunteer encyclopedia website is obviously horribly sexist.

Sarah Stierch, a Wikipedia contributor and researcher for the Wikimedia Foundation, said the problem isn’t just that most Wikipedia user are male. The layout of the website is itself “very masculine,” she said.

“It’s aesthetically very masculine in its design,” said Stierch in a statement to The Daily Dot, also noting that, “The average Wikipedia editor is a well-educated white male. Well-educated white males have been writing history and the story of the world since ancient times.”

To fix this, feminists at colleges around the country are launching another ‘Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon.’ Next week, feminists are encouraged to change rewrite the online encyclopedia to make it less masculine, according to Campus Reform.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/02/wikipedia-is-very-masculine-so-feminists-pledge-to-fix-it/#ixzz2sHzGFQ1O

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

The layout of the website is itself “very masculine,” she said.

Are they serious? Its just a basic website.

 

[DrLeftover]

The layout of the website is itself “very masculine,” she said.

Are they serious? Its just a basic website.

They're Feminists.

Do they need a logical reason to be upset?

 

[Evil Eye]

Actually, what they're doing isn't all that bad. They're just going to flesh out articles and add new ones about female artists. It's not vandalism they're after.

'sides, Wikipedia's moderators are reasonably strict.

 

[DrLeftover]

When the online encyclopedia started, I was a registered editor with the service, and some of the pages I worked on are still there.

Then cliques developed inside the ranks of their editors, and preferences began to be shown to those who made financial contributions to the operation, including allowing those who did so to break some of the rules without penalty.

That's when I resigned and stopped using them as a reference in articles.

 

[Sinon]

They want to rename it to "Wikivagia" I suppose.