{"id":5571,"date":"2015-10-30T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2015-10-30T07:12:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T12:12:54","slug":"wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2015\/10\/30\/wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Missing Women of Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5582\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/10\/wikipedia-logo-311212-e1446134656125-1024x221.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/10\/wikipedia-logo-311212-e1446134656125-1024x221.png 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/10\/wikipedia-logo-311212-e1446134656125-300x65.png 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/10\/wikipedia-logo-311212-e1446134656125.png 2026w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia is the largest source of free information on the Internet.\u00a0According to the digital analytics website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexa.com\/topsites\/countries\/US\" target=\"_blank\">Alexa<\/a>, it&#8217;s\u00a0is the 6th most popular website in the United States and 7th in the entire world. What is troubling is\u00a0that between 84 and 91% of its editors are male, and the site&#8217;s few female editors face regular harassment and marginalization. This imbalance means the content often reflects\u00a0a strong gender bias. Emma Paling recently explored the problem for <em>The Atlantic<\/em>, interviewing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.yale.edu\/people\/julia-adams\" target=\"_blank\">Julia Adams<\/a>,\u00a0a professor of sociology at Yale University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost people look at Wikipedia, and see the text, and assume that it\u2019s unproblematically produced by volunteers and always on a trajectory to improvement,\u201d said Adams. \u201cBut that is simply not the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/10\/how-wikipedia-is-hostile-to-women\/411619\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia is the largest source of free information on the Internet.\u00a0According to the digital analytics website Alexa, it&#8217;s\u00a0is the 6th most popular website in the United States and 7th in the entire world. What is troubling is\u00a0that between 84 and 91% of its editors are male, and the site&#8217;s few female editors face regular harassment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2059,"featured_media":5583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13],"tags":[39114,140,1528,801],"class_list":["post-5571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender","category-inequality","tag-gender","tag-internet","tag-sexism","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/10\/wikipedia-logo-3112121.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2059"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5571"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5585,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions\/5585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}