Wikipedia Hates Women: 4 Dark Sides Of The Site We All Use

Wikipedia, for those not familiar, is the largest online encyclopedia. Think Cracked but with slightly fewer fart jokes. Some people want that. Go figure. Despite being such an influential site, Wikipedia has fewer than 10 percent female editors. That leads to some strange problems. For example: The entries on porn stars and Pokemon are both more extensively detailed than the entries on prominent women. This page on American novelists is divided into “Female American Novelists” (for the women-folk) and “American Novelists” (for the men). They once removed all the female movie directors from their list of horror directors.

Basically, it seems like Wikipedia has some weird problems with regard to gender – so what’s up? Well, I was an editor from shortly after it was founded until just a couple of years ago. I am also a trans woman, and I can tell you exactly what’s up.

Wikipedia Hates Women: 4 Dark Sides of The Site We All Use

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transphobia misogyny queue moon you saw me standing alone serious business fucking vile. great.

stop following this blog you butts i thought changing the name would make it clear

follow so-says-mister-stewart instead blugh

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maxknightleyunofficial

10 years ago

periodical reminder that this is not the blog I use and in fact to keep up with the latest Communism Memes you should follow transmemesatan w/o the 5

I used to use “i-dont-use-this-blog-now” but 1) people still followed me on this blog + 2) it fucked w/ people’s tags so honestly,

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queue moon you saw me standing alone

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maxknightleyunofficial

11 years ago

http://www.change.org/petitions/nintendo-of-america-extend-the-year-of-luigi-to-the-decade-of-luigi

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maxknightleyunofficial

3 years ago

“can a robot even have mental illnesses” they are allowed to have whatever they want. don’t be fucking rude

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maxknightleyunofficial

11 years ago

sage advice from tumblr virus-laden robot user psdsikywzpxi

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ask askbox

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maxknightleyunofficial

11 years ago

I’m reblogging this because I’m angry at it and feel like spiting the people who follow my mainblog, misery loves company and what not

also the image is actually so big it’s spilling out of the post-make-box and it was autoscrolling me down for a while? the hell

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reblog

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maxknightleyunofficial

8 years ago

me: *interacts socially, once*

brain: ugh god stop harassing them

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maxknightleyunofficial

10 years ago

cucumb-ler liked your post:this blog now redirects to my real blog. this post will only appear on the dash of my followers, and they may very well miss it considering it’s fairly late when I’m posting it. if you see this post - ephemeral and strange - you are blessed by good fortune

wh - how did you find this post goatboss. are you that powerful

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maxknightleyunofficial

9 years ago