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[ NNSquad ] Wikipedia's Women Problem
Wikipedia's Women Problem
http://j.mp/17wA3uM (NY Books)
"By the end of the week, swimming against the tide, John Pack Lambert
was still removing names from American novelists and adding them not
just to American women novelists but to Category:African-American
novelists, Category:American historical novelists, Category:American
surrealist novelists, Category:19th-century American novelists,
Category:American Chicano novelists, some of which he's creating as he
goes. This morning, American Chicano novelists contains only one page,
Oscar Zeta Acosta. Acosta also belongs to Hispanic and Latino American
novelists, American writers of Mexican descent, American politicians
of Mexican descent, Writers from California, People from Modesto,
California, and People from El Paso, Texas.
People of Wikipedia! You have a problem.
And Amanda Filipacchi? It seems some Wikipedians need to check the
policy on shooting the messenger. The article about Filipacchi is
undergoing a flurry of editing, not all well-intentioned. Her
categories keep changing. Lambert created a new category, American
humor novelists, just so he could move her into it."
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Like a bunch of preschoolers on the playground.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
- Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
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Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
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