http://wikiangela.com/blog/introducing-wikichix/ Angela Beesley Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:24:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://wikiangela.com/blog/introducing-wikichix/comment-page-1/#comment-26579 ladyfest romania » Blog Archive » wikipedia, women, feminism links Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:10:27 +0000 http://wikiangela.com/blog/introducing-wikichix/#comment-26579 [...] Introducing WikiChix [...] [...] Introducing WikiChix [...]

]]> http://wikiangela.com/blog/introducing-wikichix/comment-page-1/#comment-17052 Gabriella Friedman Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:30:02 +0000 http://wikiangela.com/blog/introducing-wikichix/#comment-17052 I was appalled that several great femaile researchers' bios were wiped off of Wikipedia, while men were kept. Also an editor MathStatWoman was bullied until she stopped adding really good information on math and stat; she seemed so disgusted at the end that she started to make jokes on wikipedia, but I really think that was because she was so bullied. Elaine Zanutto, R. S. Wenocur, and Linda Zhao and others, too, are just as accomplished as male mathematicians and scientists who were kept on Wikipedia. The women mathematicians and scientists that were kept have tiny little bios, with many of their achievements underplayed! Just like Rosalind Franklin who really discovered DNA had her research stolen by men who won Nobels! And it was a woman who split the atom, too, leading to nuclear energy plants and less use of fossil fuel. -- Gabriella I was appalled that several great femaile researchers’ bios were wiped off of Wikipedia, while men were kept. Also an editor MathStatWoman was bullied until she stopped adding really good information on math and stat; she seemed so disgusted at the end that she started to make jokes on wikipedia, but I really think that was because she was so bullied. Elaine Zanutto, R. S. Wenocur, and Linda Zhao and others, too, are just as accomplished as male mathematicians and scientists who were kept on Wikipedia. The women mathematicians and scientists that were kept have tiny little bios, with many of their achievements underplayed! Just like Rosalind Franklin who really discovered DNA had her research stolen by men who won Nobels! And it was a woman who split the atom, too, leading to nuclear energy plants and less use of fossil fuel. — Gabriella

]]> http://wikiangela.com/blog/introducing-wikichix/comment-page-1/#comment-1556 WikiAngela » End of 2006 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:29:10 +0000 http://wikiangela.com/blog/introducing-wikichix/#comment-1556 [...] Wikia’s first big announcement this month was the acquisition of ArmchairGM. Robert Lefkowitz, Aaron Wright, Dan Lewis and David Pean joined Wikia as part of the acquititsion and began work on OpenServing (blog post). Wikia announced its second round of investment - all of it from Amazon - on December 8th (blog post). We had two big hits in the press shortly after this - firstly with OpenServing which is still in testing, and will be more widely available very soon, and secondly with “Wikiasari“, which didn’t really exist before the press made it up, but may well exist at some point next year. I started WikiChix, a new community for women involved with wikis, in response to concerns that women were not comfortable posting to Wikipedia’s mailing lists. Anthere invited me to chair Wikimedia’s new Advisory Board. After attending the fun Stirr Sydney event, I packed up and left Australia, at least temporarily. We spent a day and a half in London before going to see my parents. Tim spent his first Christmas away from home, with my family, and we’ll be spending new year’s at my sister’s. [...] [...] Wikia’s first big announcement this month was the acquisition of ArmchairGM. Robert Lefkowitz, Aaron Wright, Dan Lewis and David Pean joined Wikia as part of the acquititsion and began work on OpenServing (blog post). Wikia announced its second round of investment – all of it from Amazon – on December 8th (blog post). We had two big hits in the press shortly after this – firstly with OpenServing which is still in testing, and will be more widely available very soon, and secondly with “Wikiasari“, which didn’t really exist before the press made it up, but may well exist at some point next year. I started WikiChix, a new community for women involved with wikis, in response to concerns that women were not comfortable posting to Wikipedia’s mailing lists. Anthere invited me to chair Wikimedia’s new Advisory Board. After attending the fun Stirr Sydney event, I packed up and left Australia, at least temporarily. We spent a day and a half in London before going to see my parents. Tim spent his first Christmas away from home, with my family, and we’ll be spending new year’s at my sister’s. [...]

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