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How can Wikipedia woo women editors?
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| 7 April 2014
| Lynsea Garrison
Posted on 04/07/2014 6:34:56 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Wikipedia purports to capture the sum of the world's knowledge... ...and the sum of the world's balderdash.
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posted on
04/07/2014 6:47:16 PM PDT
by
Jagdgewehr
(It will take blood.)
To: Balding_Eagle
Surely they aren't inferring that men and women are different, are they?
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posted on
04/07/2014 6:47:22 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: MinorityRepublican
Wikipedia editors are self selected. There is no need for them to be “wooed.”
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posted on
04/07/2014 6:47:25 PM PDT
by
grundle
To: goldstategop
>>How far should gender balance be struck? Across ALL articles or only on those that interest women?<<
Use the L.A. Coliseum solution: Delete all articles until you are left with 50% female-commented ones.
With the current 90+% of male authors it only means they will have to delete, what, 4 million entries?
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posted on
04/07/2014 6:49:20 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
To: dfwgator
I told you - don’t call me Shirley!
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posted on
04/07/2014 6:49:26 PM PDT
by
grundle
To: Jagdgewehr
Much of it is pure fiction.
And given the biases of whoever edits any relevant article, trust the conclusions presented at your own risk.
Wikipedia carries no warranty as to the truthfulness of content, the reputation of its editors or the veracity of opinions expressed on wiki subject pages.
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posted on
04/07/2014 6:50:38 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
I was being sarcastic. I thought it was obvious.
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posted on
04/07/2014 6:52:55 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
To: freedumb2003
Several million years worth of deletions in the name of the latest political fad.
I don’t think Wikipedia will spend much time on it.
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posted on
04/07/2014 6:53:01 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
Would you react differently to a Wiki entry if you knew the author was a woman? If so - who cares? BINGO!
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posted on
04/07/2014 6:54:13 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(.'Dog Shit' could be sold to 7 million citizens if the IRS fined those who refused to buy it...)
To: MinorityRepublican
The way to draw women editors is to make sure that all the entries are about abortion and free contraception. Sandra Fluke explained that those are the only things women know or care about these days.
To: MinorityRepublican
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posted on
04/07/2014 7:30:03 PM PDT
by
Dr.Deth
To: madprof98
The answer is simple, MORE KIM KADASHIAN ENTRIES.
MORE TWILIGHT ENTRIES.
MORE BEYONCE BRAGGIN’ NEWS.
You know, make it more about herstory.
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posted on
04/07/2014 7:30:07 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
To: MinorityRepublican
So shut the men up because there is not enough bimbos studying... it makes sense to destroy the West that way.
Ok. How about saying it is unfair Jesus is a man?
Privilege feministers need to go the Guillotine.
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posted on
04/07/2014 7:35:22 PM PDT
by
lavaroise
(A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
To: a fool in paradise
“The answer is simple, MORE KIM KADASHIAN ENTRIES.
MORE TWILIGHT ENTRIES.
MORE BEYONCE BRAGGIN NEWS.
You know, make it more about herstory.”
I’m sorry you’ve had such shallow women in your life that you would have that opinion.
.
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posted on
04/07/2014 7:37:50 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: MinorityRepublican
“Women make up only 9% of Wikipedia editors. Educators say raising that number is key to improving the online encyclopaedia, and have started campaigns to do just that.”
Huh? Can anybody explain to me how and why women editors can or will “improve” Wikipedia? Is the female version of facts different from the male version?
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posted on
04/07/2014 8:37:51 PM PDT
by
mtrott
To: mtrott
Read the article. There are more entries on porn stars than female artists, politicans, etc etc.
To: MinorityRepublican
Maybe most women are too smart to waste their time working their asses off for no pay on somebody else’s project.
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posted on
04/07/2014 9:38:03 PM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: MinorityRepublican
Tea Party Patriots Core Values! Constitutionally Limited Government or your Personal Freedom and Your Rights Free Market Economics or Economic Freedom to Grow Jobs and Your Opportunities Fiscal Responsibility or very simply, a Debt Free Future For You and Generations To Come. Exactly which of these three principles ticks off the Left and The GOP the most?
To: MinorityRepublican
How can Wikipedia woo women editors?
A free boob job then abortions or contraceptives for a lifetime...Aren't those the things they care about most?
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posted on
04/08/2014 12:18:27 AM PDT
by
lewislynn
(What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
To: MinorityRepublican
Thank you for posting this vital piece.
I must say I have been agonizing over this very question for about two years now.... just agonizing! /sarc
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posted on
04/08/2014 1:06:19 AM PDT
by
man_in_tx
(Blowback (Faithfully farting towards Mecca five times daily).)
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