Feminists organize editing sessions to address Wikipedia’s “gender trouble”
Planning is underway for the 2nd Annual Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, with events to be held worldwide. According to organizers, the day of editing is meant to combat statistics showing that… Read more »
“The Original Barnstar”: 1 Wikipedia editor; 47,000 edits; 1 grammatical mistake
I hadn’t realized there was virtually no barrier to entry for editing a Wikipedia page. I assumed you had to at least create a username, maybe prove that you’re not… Read more »
Wikipedia to be a book, or rather, a lot of books
Those sneaky Wikipedians! First, they made print encyclopedias obsolete, and now, they’ve decided that perhaps print isn’t so dusty and backwards after all. A group called the Wikipedia Book Project… Read more »
Wikipedia: male novelists are “novelists,” female novelists are “women novelists”
Oh, Wikipedia! You encyclopedic embodiment of the male gaze, look what you’ve done now. The category “American Novelists” includes virtually no women. Attempting to contain the expanding category, Wikipedia editors recently created… Read more »
Wikipedian in Residence: Actually a real thing
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported last week that the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library has appointed an official Wikipedian in Residence. The library selected Michael Barera, a master’s student… Read more »
Hail & Farewell: The Encyclopaedia Britannica
One of the greatest ongoing publications in publishing history is coming to an end: The publishers of the fabled Encyclopaedia Brittannica announced late yesterday that, after 244 years, they are… 2 / Read more »