“Wikipedia and the problem of historical memory.”
Wikipedia
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Don’t Pretend Like You Don’t Love Wikipedia
Without it, you’d have to actually, y’know, be productive.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
I’ll See Your Troll and Raise You One Notable Woman Scientist
At Backchannel, Andrew McMillen writes on how one young Wikipedia admin fights back at trolls by raising the profile of notable women in science, one new Wikipedia page at a time.
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A mistake on a Wikipedia entry for one of his novels leads an author to set the record straight: My novel ‘The Human Stain’ was described in the entry as ‘allegedly inspired by the life of the writer Anatole Broyard.’ (The precise language has since been altered by Wikipedia’s collaborative editing, but this falsity still […]