I was shocked to read on the “Cis as a slur” thread that only 9% of contributors (globally) to Wikipedia are women.
The Wikipedia article for “Woman” now includes gender
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman
As @AnitaLovesVictor pointed out
The wiki entry had that line removed yesterday, with the comment:
"With no citation or definition talks about people of the male sex, who are, according to any objective and biological definition, and also common speech, men, being women. No citation. Furthermore, refers to 'intersex and transgender conditions'. These are not comprable. Intersex people have conditions affecting normal sexual development, trans-identified males are sexually normal men who 'feel they are women'. There is no evidence for gender identity. Keep ideology out of encyclopaedias.)"
6 minutes later it was restored. So the TRAs are all over this. hmm
Here are some interesting articles
Harvard Business Review - Why do so few women edit Wikipedia?
hbr.org/2016/06/why-do-so-few-women-edit-wikipedia
Wikipedia’s Hostility to Women
www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/how-wikipedia-is-hostile-to-women/411619/
Wikipedia is a source that whilst not taken seriously in academia etc., is referenced constantly and is a go-to rescourse for great swathes of an internet based society.
Would it be worth talking about how we women can edit more articles (not even anything to do with the self ID etc debate) and support each other in doing so?