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Unlocking the Clubhouse: Five ways to encourage women to edit Wikipedia
I’ve spent most of my career in public broadcasting, which is a very female-friendly environment. So the lack of women in Wikimedia / free culture / free software / Silicon Valley and the STEM world,...
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New York Times prompts a flurry of coverage of Wikipedia’s gender gap
This morning, Noam Cohen of the New York Times published Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List, a terrific, characteristically-thoughtful piece about the gender gap on Wikipedia. In...
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Nine Reasons Women Don’t Edit Wikipedia (in their own words)
The New York Times piece on Wikipedia’s gender gap has given rise to dozens of great online conversations about why so few women edit Wikipedia. I’ve been reading ALL of it, because I believe we need...
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The people behind Wikipedia, the encyclopedia anyone can edit
Wikipedia editors in Washington DC at our annual conference (July 2012) (This post is a very lightly-modified version of a piece that appeared in the L.A. Times this past weekend. I wrote it because at...
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