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Women on Wikipedia: Pre-Training

Join the RIT Libraries on February 26 and March 24, 2018 for a pre-training session on Women on Wikipedia. Learn about the Five Pillars, Wikipedia Biases, Creating an Account, Basic Editing, and more.

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Women on Wikipedia: Pre-Training

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  1. Women onWikipedia: Pre-Training Presented by RIT Libraries | February 26,2018 March 24,2018

  2. RIT Women OnWikipedia • Five Pillars/ GuidingPrinciples • WikipediaBiases • Creating anAccount/ BestPractices • BasicEditing March 24,2018

  3. Wikipedia: FivePillars • Encyclopedia • Written from aneutral point ofview • Free content thatanyone can use, edit &distribute • Editors should treateach other with respect & civility • Wikipedia has no firmrules • – There areguidelines Temple of Hera, built circa 7th century BC – 5th century AD. Paestum /Poseidonia, Italy. Artstor. March 24,2018

  4. WikipediaBiases • Wikipedia’sDemographics • Male (aged15-49) • Formally Educated; White-collar workeror student • Englishspeaker • Developed nation(majority Christian) • TechnicalBias/Digital Divide • First WorldBias Source: 2011 Wikimedia EditorSurvey March 24,2018

  5. Wikipedia GenderBiases • 16.1% of Wikipedia editors arefemale (overall)1 • 22.7% U.S. Editors arefemale2 • “Lexical inequalities” – family, relationships, gender mentioned far more in articlesabout women vs.men3 • 1 Giles, The Wiki-opoly threatening the world’s best encyclopedia, New Scientist, doi:10.1016/S0262-4079(13)60952-5 • 2 Hill, The Wikipedia gender gap revisited, PLOS ONE,doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065782 • 3 Wagner, Garcia, Jadidi, and Strohmaier, It’s a man’sWikipedia?, • ProceedingsoftheNinthInternationalAAAIConferenceonWebandSocialMedia(2015) March 24,2018

  6. Wikipedia GenderBias • Entries aboutWOMEN • Often use theseterms: • Woman • Female • Lady • Entries aboutMEN • Rarely use theseterms: • Man • Masculine • Gentleman Source: “The Gender Gap” (video) from Art + Feminism (only 2:43minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MZWoFcl_mI March 24,2018

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