Wikipedia’s culture of sexism – it's not just for novelists.

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Wikipedia’s culture of sexism – it's not just for novelists.

Unread post by Hersch » Tue Apr 30, 2013 4:12 am

Discuss.
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Unread post by DanMurphy » Tue Apr 30, 2013 4:17 am

Nice work. I also really like the first two subheads.

It looks as if the first sentence after the second pull-quote should be within the pull-quote.
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Re: Wikipedia’s culture of sexism – it's not just for noveli

Unread post by HRIP7 » Tue Apr 30, 2013 5:53 am

DanMurphy wrote:Nice work. I also really like the first two subheads.

It looks as if the first sentence after the second pull-quote should be within the pull-quote.
Fixed. Have also added Qworty's rant from Salon, and a Gleick reference in the last paragraph.
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Unread post by greybeard » Tue Apr 30, 2013 6:03 am

We've hastened the departure of "GWickwire" from the 'pedia, can we now get Qworty to go? That guy is a real piece of work.
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Unread post by Hex » Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:17 am

Great post.
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Unread post by Tarc » Tue Apr 30, 2013 12:33 pm

I presume that this was posted now for the old "strike while the iron is hot" reasons, but it's unfortunate that the mattbuck exposé will probably get fewer eyes on it now. Any thoughts to yanking that and rerunning next week?
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Unread post by Tippi Hadron » Tue Apr 30, 2013 12:41 pm

Tarc wrote:I presume that this was posted now for the old "strike while the iron is hot" reasons, but it's unfortunate that the mattbuck exposé will probably get fewer eyes on it now. Any thoughts to yanking that and rerunning next week?
That is what we're planning on doing. Things just got a bit mixed up in the writers' room. :)

In the meantime, the piece on Wikipedia Commons administrator Matt Buck's attitude towards child pornography will be tweeted and mailed to all the right people.
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Unread post by Anroth » Tue Apr 30, 2013 1:00 pm

If by that you mean his university, his peers etc.... Go ahead.
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Unread post by SB_Johnny » Tue Apr 30, 2013 3:15 pm

For the convenience of our visitors, this topic is also being discussed on another thread here.
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Re: Wikipedia’s culture of sexism – it's not just for noveli

Unread post by HRIP7 » Sat May 04, 2013 4:16 pm

Mod. note: Off-topic posts on Rush Limbaugh etc. now that-a-way.
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