Wikipedia's vision is of a world in which everyone can freely share in the sum of all human knowledge. But we cannot achieve that when we are missing so much knowledge about women.
This #WomensHistoryMonth, join us in closing the gender knowledge gap on Wikipedia and across the Wikimedia projects.
@wikimediafoundation Hello! Did you know that on the French edition of Wikipedia, most members of @lessanspages (a collective that aims to precisely reduce the gender knowledge gap, and that you provide funding to) are being harassed by current admins?
when wikipedia started, i immediately opened an account. for one, i have family that are important figures in Puerto Rican history and wanted to make sure their pages were there; but Latin American Studies is my expertise. wasn't for the editor who harassed me out of contributing.
and sure enough, after ±2 decades it's mostly WHITE Puerto Rican MEN in those pages.
what will y'all do so afroindigenous women scholars like me can contribute?
@wikimediafoundation As long as you will continue to support toxic behavior discriminating women and non binary people as editors, this will never happen. The old white male majority of editors will continue protecting itself from newcomers with a fresh mind. The results are visible in what recently happened in the French Wikipedia endangering many people (you absolutely know what I'm writing about).
You need to intervene. You need to stop this. Only then new contributors can rise and raise.
@wikimediafoundation Let me emphasize it : Your call for participation is pure victim blaming. The men don't let us edit. You pretend we do not want to edit. We want to edit, we want to contribute. But the old white cis men don't let us.
@braid@wikimediafoundation exactly that! and the same as whats happening at french wikipedia is happening at german wikipedia too, it just has not escalated as extremely til now.
@wikimediafoundation unfortunately the interaction in the Wikipedia community is extremely unfriendly and the admins behave like little gods in the wiki universe and in parts misogynistic. That not surprisingly is putting women off to participate.
Maybe a quota for females amongst the admins would change the general behaviour.
@wikimediafoundation so uh... what is the wikimedia foundation doing to make it a hospitable place for being a woman or even writing biographies etc of women?
I don't need to see you welcoming new women, I need to hear about how you're acting to patch the gaping holes in your pipeline for existing women.
Sources: Humaniki, February 2024. Community Insights Survey, 2023.
From left to right:
Frank La Roche, Public Domain | RIGOYRBK, CC0 1.0.
Public Domain | NASA, Public Domain | Guillermo Kahlo, Public Domain.
Elvert Barnes, CC BY-SA 2.0
Now, could you please remove the French moderators that are pursuing a policy of harassment against women and minorities, including transgender people?
Clean up your act. Wikipedia, this is becoming truly embarassing, and I say this as a supporter of your project.
@TopKnot@wikimediafoundation
Once upon a time, I used a female handle on wikipedia and wrote about my trade. I will never do it again, because I got torn apart by know-it-alls who definitely had no idea of the subject at all.
I still contribute to Wikipedia now and again, but I use a male-sounding handle. That cuts down the flack by an appreciable amount.
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