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If you made #SheSaid, then you need to make #HeSaid

I don't know who the *** make the decision, but what I know this will destroy Wikipedia. -عماد الدين المقدسي (talk) 15:37, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

HI @عماد الدين المقدسي: As was already discussed here, you are welcome to start a #HeSaid campaign. Did you not see this before posting your message at. the top of this talk page?, Cheers Ottawahitech (talk) 17:02, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

Gender bias on Wikiquote

Is Gender bias on Wikiquote something #SheSaid is trying to address by increasing the number of women who edit Wikiquote or just by adding more quotations from women onto Wikiquote? I haven't seen any official statement saying one of the purposes of #SheSaid is to address a gender gap in editors and would like to see one. Of those two forms of gender bias, it seems like the more difficult one to effectively measure progress on and demonstrate that progress, it is complicated by whether the percentage of people willing to divulge personal details about themselves like their gender to Wikipedia's surveys has gone up or down, and whether that information is accurate. It's odd that no one on RationalWiki ever questioned the reliability of Wikipedia's surveys when no outside source has ever confirmed their findings, that hardly seems skeptical and doesn't place much value in peer review. CensoredScribe (talk) 20:46, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Question: what is RationalWiki? Is it a Wikimedia project? Ottawahitech (talk) 20:37, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Is this really necessary?

Speaking of gender bias, the gender and group being biased in favour of on Wikipedia is clearly women, and not so much compared to men, compared to other historically disadvantaged groups. Where's the "Wiki Loves Black People" project, or Wiki Loves Native Americans, or Wiki Loves Gays? Wiki loves women? Indeed, and it seems to be the only people they do love outside their donors.

Seems like the next dominant group after white straight males on Wikipedia would be their white straight female counterparts, and these are same people favouring themselves with these virtue signalling to feminist special interest projects such as this one. A little tasteless really.

Wikipedia needs to stop with its ceaseless and crass pandering to the feminist special interest. Is this really necessary? There's too much emphasis on promoting women and women's projects to the detriment of groups that have far less representation. Alialiac (talk) 11:43, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

@Alialiac: This is Wikiquote, not wikipedia. Wikiquote is a very small project compared to Wikipedia. This means that we cannot count on others to build this wiki, we must all pitch in to the best of our ability. The plus side is that if you feel strongly about an issue, Black People or what-have-you, you are welcome to create a "Wiki Loves Black People" project.

We at wikiquote have been very fortunate to have some very dedicated volunteers such as @Anthere who have worked for many years making the Wiki Loves Women project what it is today. This project has been around the English Wikiquote since 2020 (I believe?) and is growing every year. It runs for 3 months and brings many wannabe new volunteers. A few good volunteers stay around after being introduced to us.

I hope I answered your question? Ottawahitech (talk) 20:32, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Btw I just realized that you mistakenly believe that Wiki Loves women is only about white women.

As a matter of fact, I believe this campaign has brought many more contributions (including contributions about African men) from African contributors. I don't have any statistics to base my opinion on, I base this mostly on Category:Women from Nigeria which is currently contains links to the largest number of articles about women (272+8+682=962) after the United States on the English wikiquote. Ottawahitech (talk) 15:46, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

I believe Ottawahitech summarized the situation pretty well... Not much to add to this. Perhaps worth reminding that « Wikipedia » is not a human so writing something such as « Wikipedia needs to stop doing blah » does not mean much in fact. All initiatives on the wikimedia projects come from volunteers, individuals who decide to get involved in doing a certain thing that matters to them. If you feel that some elements are missing, the right way to act is not to note that others are not doing what you think is important, but to start an initiative to make that happen. In the meantime, I am very proud of what we have accomplished so far... Anthere (talk) 19:04, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Don't know what you're talking about with no "Wikipedia loves gays." There was "Wikipedia loves pride" for the lgbt community not long ago. Urchincrawler (talk) 00:11, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

new category created Category:Women heads of state

The Category:Women heads of state has just been created. Please help populate it. Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 20:05, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Hey! 😄

I USED to be a Woman! (Im trans BTW) Wiki Fan49346824908 (talk) 17:38, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Samuel Man Barfield III, Net Worth?

https://www.samuelsamuelbusinessofinformation.enterprises 20redlightord (talk) 00:51, 31 October 2024 (UTC)