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Even though English is my primary language, I mostly contribute to the Spanish and Swedish Wikipedia, and a few other languages, as they are more welcoming and less biased than the English Wikipedia. |
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As a scientist I try to update articles based on best scientific evidence. I also enjoy writing new articles about fellow scientists. With rare exceptions, I do not edit content in my own area of scientific expertise. That would be work, and for me Wikipedia is a fascinating and educational hobby. |
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I first joined English Wikipedia in 2015, but soon became inactive. To learn about the inclusion criteria for articles, I read AfD proposals and verdicts, and found a clear bias against women scientists, and probably also against women in general, with odd and strange reasons to deletions. I was not going to waste time writing articles for potential deletion, nor did I want to focus exclusively on men to avoid being deleted. As a multilingual person, I have instead primarily contributed to the Swedish Wikipedia and a little to the Danish, Spanish and other languages, which I all found to be very welcoming to new contributors. |
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I again started to edit on English Wikipedia in 2018, finding less bias against women scientists, although there is an obvious backlog that needs to be filled. Even in a field like domestic violence, almost all the prominent male researchers have a Wikipedia page while it is missing for most of the prominent female scientists. I do not purposely focus on neither bibliographies or women scientists though. Rather, when I edit on a specific topic, I write a biographic article if it is missing for some important researcher, and most of them just happen to be women. |
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Latest revision as of 02:06, 29 January 2024
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Even though English is my primary language, I mostly contribute to the Spanish and Swedish Wikipedia, and a few other languages, as they are more welcoming and less biased than the English Wikipedia.