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During Open Source Bridge last month, I went to a talk by Brandon Harris about the Wikipedia community. The focus of the talk was going to be on reasons why the number of people contributing to Wik…
According to Wikipedia’s 2011 Editor Survey, just 9 percent of Wiki editors are women. While the gender gap is better than it was—in the early ‘00s, it...
(This guest post is a commentary by Wikipedia editor Adrianne Wadewitz and is part of the series on the WikiWomen’s Collaborative) On Friday, October 26, 2012, I headed over to Claremont Grad…
Starting WikiProject Women Scientists with Sarah Stierch has been one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had in my 5 1/2 years contributing to Wikipedia.
Taking women’s names off the list of American novelists makes it harder and slower for women to gain equality in the literary world.
Last week the New York Times published an Op-Ed from author Amanda Filipacchi headlined Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists, in which she criticized Wikipedia for moving some authors from th…
Cory Doctorow: How hard is it to prove online that you are who you say you are? Author Philip Roth had to publish a letter in The New Yorker to satisfy the editors of Wikipedia
T. Mills Kelly encourages his students to deceive thousands of people on the Web. This has angered many, but the experiment helps reveal the shifting nature of the truth on the Internet.