Wikipedia has a woman problem.
About a year ago, the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs Wikipedia, collaborated on a study of Wikipedia’s contributor base and discovered that it was barely 13 percent women; the average age of a contributor was in the mid-20s, according to the study by a joint center of the United Nations University and Maastricht University.
Why aren't women contributing info to wikipedia?
Read the whole article.
Apt. 11d 
It’s so frickin’ annoying to edit Wikipedia. I have edited an entry and it sucked to do it. I’d edit more if it didn’t involve so much weird coding stuff, particularly with citations.
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And then your work might disappear if the in-crowd doesn’t like it, right?
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I tried to do a bit of Wikipedia editing and got into a fight with some guy. I undid his edit and he re-did it a few times. Then we went to some kind of discussion thing. Then I got tired of it and somebody else stopped it. (I didn’t like that somebody put a photo of a dumpster on the page for my hometown.)
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“I tried to do a bit of Wikipedia editing and got into a fight with some guy. I undid his edit and he re-did it a few times. Then we went to some kind of discussion thing. Then I got tired of it and somebody else stopped it. (I didn’t like that somebody put a photo of a dumpster on the page for my hometown.)”
That sounds really annoying. Only an obsessive type with unlimited free time (i.e., their 20-something male demographic) could get into that.
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“That sounds really annoying. Only an obsessive type with unlimited free time (i.e., their 20-something male demographic) could get into that. ”
But, what does the equivalent female demographic do? I guess they might post videos of their purchases (what are those videos called?).
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But, what does the equivalent female demographic do?
Duckface photos on FB, I think.
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I’ve contributed very little to Wikipedia. I don’t like their assessment of what’s an acceptable source and I don’t like the territorial approach taken regards many articles by proprietary-minded editors.
I don’t want to put in the effort to become “acceptable” to the Wikipedia ruling class, I guess.
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Somewhat relevant, it is interesting to note that this blog is one of the few that seems to have a roughly even balance of sexes among the commenters.
(Subject always to the caveat that on the internet, no one can tell that you are a dog.)
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I’m very proud of that fact, y81.
Woof.
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