Excerpted and explained for newcomers from Wikipedia: Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well documented: in a 2010 survey, Wikimedia found that less than 13% of its contributors are female.[1] The reasons for the gender gap are up for debate: suggestions include leisure inequality, how gender socialization shapes public comportment, and the contentious nature of Wikipedia’s talk pages. The practical effect of this disparity, however, is not. Content is skewed by the lack of female participation. Many articles on notable women in history and art are absent on Wikipedia. This represents an alarming aporia in an increasingly important repository of shared knowledge. We invite you to help address this absence at a Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. We will provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, reference materials, and light refreshments....
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 04:19:14 +0000