Recieve college credit for writing feminism into Wikipedia

[Sonsowey]

They could include gems like this on Einstein's page perhaps, or the page on general relativity:

“Is e=mc2 a sexed equation? Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us. What seems to me to indicate the possible sexed nature of the equation is not directly its uses by nuclear weapons, rather it is having privileged what goes the fastest.”

http://netwar.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/feminist-epistemology/

 

[Sonsowey]

Another great option is to edit the Wikipedia entry on Wikipedia to include information on its inherent gender-bias.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

The page actually already notes that its editors are "barely 13% women" but does not delve deeply into the issue

 

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

Wikipedia is fact-based. If you try and post an opinion, the 'sperg types that run it -- to their credit -- will remove your comment or edit it with a "needs source" citation.

That is valid only for personal anecdotes. If you cite a source, however flimsy, (example: Jezebel, or XoJane), you can easily add a line like "feminist scholar (ManHating McCow) has claimed that this is due to discrimination and body-policing".

Then you don't cite or link to any opposing views (such as this forum or Warren Farrell) and bam, the article suddenly has a feminist viewpoint. I agree that the barrier that you described exists, I just don't think it is so strong as you have described it. Particularly when Wikipedia is already under fire for not having enough female writers or whatnot.