Women and Wikimedia

Wikipedia is the latest battleground in the fight over the status of female writers in the literary world.

Wikipedia has been taking flak since a New York Times contributor noticed the site has been moving all women from its “American novelists” category to a new, specially created subcategory: “American female novelists.” As Amanda Filipacchi notes,...

Between the pervert-dungeons of Reddit and the free-floating bigotry that is any Facebook feed, you’d think we would have quit being surprised by the sexism baked into the internet.

Critics ponder: Is this chauvinism or male chauvinism from the online encyclopaedia?

Taking women’s names off the list of American novelists makes it harder and slower for women to gain equality in the literary world.

Wikipedia are criticism today for creating a subcategory for American Women Novelists, distinguishing them as a lesser class of American Novelists.

In my favorite new illustration of the persistent belief that, when it comes to gender, male experience is considered general and unbiased while female experience is particular and annotated, novelist Amanda Filipacchi browsed through Wikipedia and...

How many brilliant writers will be sorted away entirely, never making the cut as novelists because they're weighed down with the tag "woman"?

Oh, Wikipedia! You encyclopedic embodiment of the male gaze, look what you've done now. The category "American Novelists" includes virtually no women.

Questions of VIDA, and women's authority to offer opinions, were discussed in a lively panel on women and criticism Wednesday night.

There simply aren't enough people like Sue Gardner who can point out when the boys do something stupid on Wikipedia.

Is Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin) an American novelist or an American woman novelist? Wikipedia recently tried to move women novelists into their own category. It wanted more order. It's created chaos instead.

Sexism isn't the problem at the online encyclopedia. The real corruption is the lust for revenge

Lady novelists of America. It is not enough that you are an American and a novelist, it must be emphasized that you are also a lady novelist of American origin. This is the ridiculous, sexist decision made by editors at Wikipedia.

Where they can presumably bake cookies and chat about the Real Housewives of Wherever without bothering the menfolk.

Female authors are being moved from "American novelists" to the "American women novelists" subcategory on user-edited Wikipedia.

Outrage as female authors relegated to 'American women novelists' subcategory, clearing space for all-male main page

Attention female authors: you may be being segregated from your male peers on Wikipedia. On the online encyclopedia's "American Novelists" page, women authors are hard to find.

The othering of women novelists shows a problem, not with Wikipedia, but with society itself

If you go to Wikipedia's page for American Novelists, you might notice something strange: Of the first 100 authors listed, only a small handful of them are women.