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‘Storming Wikipedia’: Colleges offer credit to students who enter ‘feminist thinking’ into Wikipedia
CampusReform ^ | August 30, 2013 | Katherine Timpf

Posted on 09/07/2013 1:05:39 AM PDT by iowamark

Fifteen universities worldwide — including Yale University, Brown University, and Pennsylvania State University — will offer college credit to students who “write feminist thinking” into Wikipedia.

The program, “Storming Wikipedia,” will be part of the Dialogues on Feminism and Technology online course developed by FemTechNet, an organization of feminist educators and scholars.

Students will be given course credit if they contribute the "feminist thinking" article on Wikipedia.

Approximately 300 students are currently registered for the course, Alexandra Juhasz, professor of media studies at California's Pitzer College and one of the course facilitators, told Campus Reform Thursday.

“A woman's point of view or feminist point of view is not yet expressed in relationship to women in technology in Wikipedia,” she said. “We hope that people engage in this project in respect to other themes as well.”

FemTechNet alleges that many Wikipedia pages are "skewed now toward male participation," citing a 2011 study which found that fewer than 15 percent of Wikipedia contributors were females, according to an article in the Huffington Post.

It appears that "feminist thinking" is not currently an entry in Wikipedia at all, however there are entries for both "feminism" and "black feminism."

A goal of the course is “to advance feminist principles of social justice in creating educational models and pedagogies for the future,” according to a FemTechNet news release.

Other participating colleges include Bowling Green State University, California Polytechnic State University, Colby-Sawyer College, The City University of New York Graduate Center, Macaulay Honors College and Lehman College (CUNY), The New School, Ohio State University, Ontario College of Art and Design University, Pitzer College, Rutgers University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, according to the news release.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: feminism; wikipedia

1 posted on 09/07/2013 1:05:39 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: iowamark

Feminist thinking: oxymoron or non-sequitur?


2 posted on 09/07/2013 1:10:10 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: iowamark

Imagine if Nazi Germany, fascist Japan or Soviet Russia had been around when the Internet came around. That’s not hard to do, is it?


3 posted on 09/07/2013 1:10:38 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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To: iowamark
Colleges to cross off daughters list.... Oh wait none of them were on it!

Penn State: Where we employ Jerry Sandusky for decades but you damn well better use feminist speak!

I'm a female and this is so stupid. But you'll know when college kids attack Wikipedia because both grammar and writing will deteriorate, if that's possible.

4 posted on 09/07/2013 1:26:51 AM PDT by MacMattico
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To: MacMattico
Fifteen universities worldwide — including Yale University, Brown University, and Pennsylvania State University — will offer college credit to students who successfully contribute to social engineering into Wikipedia.
5 posted on 09/07/2013 2:13:53 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: iowamark; All
I am officially offering Free Republic University credits to any FReepers who add 'patriarchal', sexist or male chauvinistic language to feminist Wikipedia entries.

Examples may include:
Iron my shirt, Bella Abzug
Hey Patricia Ireland, where's my beer?
One of these days, Naomi Wolf - POW - right in the kisser!

6 posted on 09/07/2013 2:32:03 AM PDT by montag813 (NO AMNESTY * ENFORCE THE LAW * http://StandWithArizona.com)
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To: MacMattico
you'll know when college kids attack Wikipedia because both grammar and writing will deteriorate, if that's possible.

I was thinking something very similar.
7 posted on 09/07/2013 3:15:18 AM PDT by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Restoration of the Republic)
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To: knarf

We now have on record 15 schools of propaganda.

One of the most pathetic things about this is that they have bought into their own propaganda to such an extent that they think this is something to be proud of and to advertise.


8 posted on 09/07/2013 3:36:26 AM PDT by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: iowamark
Examples of Bias in Wikipedia
http://www.conservapedia.com/Bias_in_Wikipedia


9 posted on 09/07/2013 3:41:28 AM PDT by preacher (Communism has only killed 100 million people: Let's give it another chance!)
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To: iowamark
In process engineering we call that tampering. It means making changes to a process without understanding the process. While done to "improve" the result it nearly always makes things worse.
10 posted on 09/07/2013 3:44:06 AM PDT by jimfree (In November 2016 my 13 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

FEMINIST: An ugly female with a perpetual yeast infection and a hatred of males.

Warning: Don’t poke a stick at it!


11 posted on 09/07/2013 4:07:06 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: generally
I don't know if you meant it that way, but ...

"One of the most pathetic things about this is that they have bought into their own propaganda to such an extent that they think this is something to be proud of and to advertise."

No one has "bought in" to anything.

This is a planned attack against America which is an attack against freedom.

Everything about The USA is based on personal freedom ... the God given ability to make our own decisions and act accordingly.

Since I started paying attention ... somewhere in the 80's (yeah ... late bloomer ... ), I can look back and see the planning in the 60's war protests and the VN war itself .. IMO ... an attempt to get rid of educated middle class men.

Even back then I was made aware of lefty professors and such.

This is nothing new ... and I fear .. we are WAAYYY too far gone to reclaim MY America of the 50's

Others more older may have THEIR era ... the 50's were mine.

12 posted on 09/07/2013 4:39:32 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: montag813

Hokey Smokes Mr. Peabody .... !!!!


13 posted on 09/07/2013 4:40:15 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: iowamark

“Feminist thinking” taught young women that a father’s influence was not necessary for a well developed offspring. “Feminist thinking” added to the misery of our young boys in public schools: if they did not sit down and act like girls they were prescribed Ritalin (which shrinks brains). “Feminist thinking” destroyed the family structure in this nation. Where is NOW now????


14 posted on 09/07/2013 4:54:52 AM PDT by abclily
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To: iowamark

Feminism is not healthy for children and other living things.


15 posted on 09/07/2013 5:37:03 AM PDT by Excellence (All your database are belong to us.)
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To: iowamark
Feminist thinking:

It's Not About the Nail

16 posted on 09/07/2013 5:53:18 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: iowamark

Since Wikipedia entries can be contested by anyone, let these man-haters start slipping their misandrony in and men can very easily — and visibly — denounce it for the propaganda it is. They will end up defeating their own purpose.


17 posted on 09/07/2013 6:06:15 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: iowamark

So conservatives fingers are broken? Good Lord, some of us (me included) type all time into Free Republic.

Maybe we ought to spend some time putting truth into Wikipedia. Not over the top vitriol—that’ll be spotted and removed-—but plain old simple accurate truth. :)


18 posted on 09/07/2013 10:32:25 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: iowamark

I try never to use Wikipedia as a reference source in my FR posts. Here’s another reason not to do so.


19 posted on 09/07/2013 10:55:18 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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