Wikipedia purged a group of feminist editors because of Gamergate http://t.co/POQLkGi5Oq
— Gawker (@Gawker) January 23, 2015 - Should Gamergate defined as a push for ethics in gaming journalism, or a paranoid campaign against women in gaming? This week, Wikipedia's highest court (The Arbitration Committee, or Arbcom) made a major decision in favor of the former.
- The committee's latest decision: to punish a group of five editors who fought to maintain a Gamergate page that presented the "controversy" largely as an assault on women—that is, who fought to present Gamergate as it actually is.
- Mark Bernstein, a blogger and Wikipedia editor, notes that the so-called "Five Horsemen" were not only barred from contributing to Gamergate articles, but from any articles relating to "gender or sexuality, broadly constructed."
- Arbcom's decision hasn't yet been finalized, but according to the Guardian, it rarely reverses course.
- The Wikipedian community is something like 90 percent male, and if Bernstein's numbers are correct, its highest ruling body has a similar demographic makeup.
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