Adrianne Wadewitz Quotes

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When I used my real name, all of a sudden there was a lot of commentary. 'Oh, you're a woman' or 'You can't really be a woman' or 'You don't write like a woman.' Or all of a sudden my arguments were not taken as seriously or were judged as hysterical or emotional.... So I got much more interested in why this was happening.

Adrianne Wadewitz
So in one respect, I would say that we need to add the voice of feminists to Wikipedia who are going to talk about– women as underrepresented groups.

Adrianne Wadewitz
If a piece of information is wrong or misrepresented on Wikipedia, it affects the way the entire world sees that topic.

Adrianne Wadewitz
I know something about how the first encyclopedias were developed in the 18th century. And those encyclopedias almost completely excluded the history of women. And it's one argument that we make all the time.

Adrianne Wadewitz
When we're talking both to Wikipedians and people outside of Wikipedia, we say, 'Look, if we want to include all of these other narratives besides the typical narrative that we usually tell of dead white men, we've gotta get it in there now.'

Adrianne Wadewitz
We definitely wanna increase the number of women. But just increasing the number of women isn't necessarily going to– improve the– the fact that content on Wikipedia itself is skewed.

Adrianne Wadewitz
So I think one thing that Wikipedia has to do as a culture is ask itself, 'Are we willing– to be this– this self-selecting– and– and be this small?' We can have many more people if we're willing to be a more welcoming community.

Adrianne Wadewitz