Posts tagged ‘wikipedia’

Linkspammed today: is geek feminism feminist enough, pronoun swap the Internet, and racism in Silicon Valley.

Linkspam returns in an all-new series. IT workplaces, sexy superheroines and more.

Links for you! Is Wikipedia more or less gender-balanced than Encyclopædia Britannica? Is outing powerful tech figures OK? And how to praise girls.

More Wikipedia gender stats, encouragement to attend tech events, femme fatale gaming violence as porn, and more.

What do a PSA about backups, pseudonymity advocacy, Wikipedia and Hermione Granger have in common? They’re all linkspammed today.

Grants to attend AppSec USA 2011: For the first time, the OWASP Foundation is gathering sponsors for a program to increase the participation of women in the field of application security. The grants are for ...

I was cynical about Wikipedia’s openness to minority views in the comments of a previous post, I’m a woman, and I’ve edited Wikipedia. Based on past experience as a former, obsessive Wikipedia editor several years ...

Spacefem is an electrical engineer who has a little extra time to run a feminist forum, write php scripts, and fly small airplanes. The New York Times has an article about how only about 13% ...

Donna Benjamin is trying to raise money to get The National Library of Australia to digitise The Dawn, Louisa Lawson’s Australian journal for women from the nineteenth century. Joseph Reagle has posted the introduction to ...

Anti-Bullying Starts in First Grade: Katie, young Star Wars geek, gets support from the wider women geek community. Sady Doyle on women represented in geek culture continued: Lady Robots: The Shape of Things to Come ...

Check out, and contribute to, Flickr’s Women in Tech group, photos of women in technology speaking at conferences or doing techy things. (Also check out The New Feminine for a little subversion of what “feminine” ...

The do’s and don’ts of being a good ally Ring around Saturn: Jennifer Ouellette at Twisted Physics profiles astrophysicist Carolyn Porco and her work on the Cassini probe Liana Leahy asks SRSLY? at claims of ...

Don’t forget that LCA2010 (Wellington NZ, January) has attendee funding programmes, including one for women and other minorities in Open Source development, and applications close this Friday, Oct 2. tigtog highlights a horrendous autism “advocacy” ...

TechZING! interviews Corrine Yu, 3D Engine Lead for XBOX HALO. Computer games company PopCap is advertising their new game Planets vs Zombies with ads featuring conventionally attractive… zombies, in a parody of the now notorious ...