Female scientist fights harassment with Wikipedia

[muriel_volestrangler]

Targeted harassment of women online is all too common. One woman has decided to create a Wikipedia page for a woman scientist every time it happens to her.

Emily Temple-Wood was not even a teenager when she started editing and writing on Wikipedia. Only a few months later, she received her first harassing messages.
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But Temple-Wood has stuck around on Wikipedia, becoming an administrator and developing two collaborative projects aimed at closing the online encyclopaedia's "content gap" - including one that adds and improves articles about women scientists.

After a some particularly vicious harassment a few months ago, Temple-Wood decided she need to "focus her rage" and chose to respond by adding a female scientist to Wikipedia for every harassing or sexist comment she received online.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-35787730

She's written about 50 articles since then (and has a backlog of over 100 ).

[longship]

1. It sounds like a great mission to me.

It's a win-win.

Happy to R&K this.