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Wikipedia's Woman Problem

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-15 9:00

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/07/13/kate_middleton_s_wedding_gown_and_wikipedia_s_gender_gap_.html

The real problem is that the women on wikipedia are getting ants in their pants and can't just shut up and edit.

"Oh, it's too hard, visual editor!"
"Oh, it's too lonely, social comment sphere XD LOL!"
and so on.

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-15 9:08

programming janai

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-15 9:11

Along those same lines, Wikia, a for-profit community-edited site also co-founded by Wales, has found that friendlier “message walls,” instead of sparse “user talk pages,” are more popular among women.

Women online: needy attention-seekers.

I’ve never been a Wikipedia editor. The community struck me as uninviting, legalistic. But now I’m reconsidering.
By Torie Bosch

I really hope you don't reconsider.  Stay out if your style of writing reflects your train of thought.

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-15 9:12

>>2
We seem to have a problem with that FFP on /prog/, so this article has some /prog/-relevance (even if not directly related to programming itself).

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-15 9:57

To be honest, as long as somewhat important articles don't get deleted either, I don't care about some (from a male perspective) weird articles like about a dress or something.

About the ``visual editor'': I'm an advocate of Web, let's say, 0.1 -- people who need shitty tools to put content online and can't handle some technicalities shouldn't be allowed to put stuff online in the first place. What? Can't use an FTP-Tool or text editor? Well, you shouldn't be spreading your primitive thought to humanity anyways. Infact, you probably shouldn't breed, either.

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-15 10:45

>>5
This nigga.

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-15 11:10

Clearly there's a big problem here. Only 9% of Wikipedia editors are women.

The solution to this serious injustice of modern institutionalized sexism against women is clearly to destroy the current system such that everyone is hurt by it; just like the school system. The important thing is that men need to be hurt significantly more than women, such that we have at least 50% women editing Wikipedia. Even if the overall quality goes to shit in the process, this will be a big win for womankind! Just like the school system

feminists

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-15 12:25

>>5
As much as I agree with you, I feel I have to point out the stark contrast that reality presents to this. The inept make up almost all of web content production and breeding.

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-15 12:46

Wikipedia is a piece of shit. Can't believe I wasted my hard drive on a database dump.

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-15 13:01

On the article’s Talk page (where editors debate changes), a female user wrote: “LOL, my thoughts exactly. Will there be an article on her shoes, too?”

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-15 13:42

>>1
Along those same lines, Wikia, a for-profit community-edited site also co-founded by Wales, has found that friendlier “message walls,” instead of sparse “user talk pages,” are more popular among women.
Friendliness is for wimps.  Either shape up or fuck off.

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-15 13:44

>>7
What's up with the education system?

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-15 14:09

>>12
The "Sit down and shut up!" approach to education that was adapted because it better equalized the genders. It did equalize the genders at one point, by simply hurting everyone, but boys especially. Now it's gone sour and girls are overtaking boys, which of course somehow equals more equality. Then again, bitches suck at math, so that might explain it.

There's a reason engineering universities like mine still uses copious amount of practical work and interaction.
Protip: it works

Name: test 2012-07-15 14:22

test

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-15 15:24

>>13
"Sit down and shut up!"
As opposed to what?  You're in a lecture, you sit down, shut up, listen to what the professor says and take notes.  I don't see how else this can be done.

practical work and interaction
Forcing social bullshit upon expert autists?  Surely you jest!

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-15 16:55

>>15
I refuse to be trolled

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-15 19:35

>>7
Clearly there's a big problem here. Only 9% of Wikipedia editors are women.
9% are women, 10% are men, and 81% are that disgusting trans-whatever

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-15 20:52

>>13
What engineering university do you refer to?

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-15 21:09

>>18
DeVry

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-15 21:20

>>19
private
for-profit
training school

Enough said.

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-15 23:02

>>16
I wasn't trolling.  It's an honest question.

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-16 3:38

Check my oppressed doubles.

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-17 14:32

There is a clear lack of women among go-go dancers in gay bars of the West Coast.

Don't change these.
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