Wikipedia:Meetup/justfortherecord/Resources

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RESOURCES

About Wikipedia (general)

• About Wikipedia
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• The five pillars’ humorous version
• Wikipedia physical library representation(FR)

On Wikipedia’s gender gap

Overviews

• Just for the Record's gender bias FACT SHEET
• The Wikipedia page: Gender bias on Wikipedia
• The project Gender gap task force: Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Gender gap task force
• and it’s very good resource page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Gender gap task force/research
• On intersection between gender, race, class, sexuality, handicap, age: Mind the Gap(s)! Writing Styles of Female Editors on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mind_the_Gap
• Wikidata Human Gender Indicators, 2016 http://whgi.wmflabs.org/

Surveys

• See list here: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias/Gender_gap_task_force/research#Wikimedia_Foundation-sponsored_studies

Researcher’s papers

• Gender Bias on Wikipedia – An analysis of the affiliation network http://www.scriptiesonline.uba.uva.nl/document/642528]
• Mind the Gap(s)! Writing Styles of Female Editors on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mind_the_Gap

Wikipedia is not attracting a representative population of female contributors, as lesbians account for 24% of the contributors while only comprising between 1.5% and 4.1% of the female population.

Newspapers’ articles

• The Wikipedia wars: does it matter if our biggest source of knowledge is written by men?, Jenny Kleeman, New Statesman, 26.05.2015 http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2015/05/wikipedia-has-colossal-problem-women-dont-edit-it

On (wider) gaps in writing knowledge and history

history was and is still written by the same few privileged ones

• Is History Written About Men, by Men? http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2016/01/popular_history_why_are_so_many_history_books_about_men_by_men.html

75.8 percent of history books published for general readers in 2015 are written by male authors, and subjects were 71.7 percent of the biographies are about male figures.

encyclopedias and gender representations

• The Nuance of the Gendergap Statistics http://reagle.org/joseph/pelican/social/the-nuance-of-the-gendergap-statistics.html

(about Gender Bias in Wikipedia and Brittanica) Wikipedia dominates Britannica in biographical coverage, but more so when it comes to men. […] Britannica is more balanced in whom it neglects to cover than Wikipedia.

gender gap in new media/technology/cyberspace

balance in the users (readers) of the internet

• 'The Worrying Consequences of the Wikipedia Gender Gap' https://www.technologyreview.com/s/427626/the-worrying-consequences-of-the-wikipedia-gender-gap/

cyberspace is not gender-free

• A legible face on Facebook? De/colonializing gender and race in cyberspace http://www.sophia.be/app/webroot/files/Actes%202011%20-%20J_%20Roth%20-%20gender%20and%20race%20in%20cyberspace.pdf
• Gender Trouble in Web 2.0: Gender Relations in Social Network Sites, Wikis and Weblogs http://genderandset.open.ac.uk/index.php/genderandset/article/viewFile/18/31

Free culture has a particularly big gender gap

• Free as in sexist? Free culture and the gender gap http://firstmonday.org/article/view/4291/3381
• Gendering FLOSS, Libre Graphics Magazine 2.2 http://libregraphicsmag.com/files/libregraphicsmag_2.2_lowquality.pdf
• Jo Freeman, The Tyranny of Structurelessness http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

There are less women in tech

• “Blacks, Latinos and women lose ground at Silicon Valley tech companies” http://www.mercurynews.com/2010/02/11/blacks-latinos-and-women-lose-ground-at-silicon-valley-tech-companies/
• https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/04/twitter-women-gender-elon-musk-tim-cook

Editing resources

Wikipedia editing guides

• Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
• How to edit a page
• Wikipedia Tutorial
• Citing Sources
• Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources
• gender neutral language
• Writing about women
• Visual representation of women

Research resources

Women's History, Art and Feminism

• Sophia Smith Collection, Women's History Archives at Smith College
• List of Directories of Women Artists
• National Women's History Project
• WomenArts
• WomenArts Network Artist Directory
• List of Directories of Women Artists
• National Museum of Women in the Arts

More resources

• on the Art+Feminism resources page
• Suppressed Histories Archive

Related Wikipedia Projects

• WikiProject Women artists
• WikiProject Women writers
• WikiProject Women's History
• WikiProject Feminism
• WikiProject Women/Women in Red
• Gender Gap red list