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Sue Gardner
Personal blog · suegardner.orgcultureweb
Sue Gardner's personal blog at suegardner.org covers culture and web. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sue Gardner's blog for its writing on Wikipedia's treatment of women, including editor hostility and article framing. One commenter cites a post as a calm discussion of the topic.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Imagine a world in which I update this blog regularly.
What Hacker News says?
There definitely have been misogynists that used WP to attack women. WP seems to have tried to block / ban those users. Here's a calm discussion: http://suegardner.org/2011/02/19/nine-reasons-why-women-dont... > “One hostile-to-women thing about Wikipedia I have noticed is that if a movie has a rape scene in it, the wiki article will often say it was a sex scene. When people try to change it, editors change it back…
Comment linking /2011/02/19/nine-reasons-why-women-dont-edit-wikipedia-in-their-own-words/
on “The Decline of Wikipedia (2013)”Submitted A little guide to working with online communities as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What’s really wrong with nonprofits — and how we can fix it as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The war for the free and open Internet — and how we are losing it as a story · 2 points
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