Writing Women Back into the History of Science
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In any regards, if she knows of scientists that should have wiki articles but don't or are otherwise faulty, and she spends time correcting those issues, great. No need to make it into a gendered issue though, that is just sexist.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/how-wi...
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/12/wik...
http://www.fastcompany.com/3041871/strong-female-lead/more-l...
Are you referring to the entry she wrote about her sister, because personally I'm seeing a bit of daylight between "literal twelve year old child makes a fake wiki article" and "Throwaway email addresses frequently send her requests for dates, condescendingly discuss her body, insinuate that she got to where she is through sexual favors, ask her to reserve those favors for themselves, and when she doesn’t reply, they spew profanities." (from: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/08/alchemy-turning-harassm...)
Documenting female scientists may be her agenda due to the intense amount of vitriol online, but from the article content's its pretty clear that her aim isnt sexist, just one that says that women werent written into the history books as often and as readily as men.
Also the troll thing is her very first article as a child, hardly relevant.
The thing I would like to know is why she is getting so much hate. I could write articles about men scientists all year and nobody would notice.
EDIT: Went to see her handle on twitter and got my answer. She is on the left politically and is very open about it. Makes more sense now.
But the actual discussion thread is useless, which is not much of a surprise. It was always going to attract the type of people who are discussed in the article.