| Wikipedia is one of the greatest examples of collaboration in human history.Anyone can edit Wikipedia for free.Anyone can contribute to Wikipedia’s efforts to collect the world’s knowledge,which has become "the sum total of all human knowledge in the world".Twenty-one years after its birth,Wikipedia remains one of the most comprehensive and important intellectual resources on the Internet,but there is still a serious systemic gender bias.This paper traces the establishment and development of Wikipedia from three perspectives,includes the establishment of wikipedia platform,text compilation and community operation,and finds that Wikipedia is no different from those traditional encyclopedias,which is a malecentered knowledge encyclopedia compiled by men.In Wikipedia,in terms of the gender of editors and administrators gender and entry content,men and the topics of knowledge that men are interested in are overwhelmingly.Women who are willing to collaborate are kept out of Wikipedia’s knowledge editing activities by the "invisible"technical barriers and the "misogynistic" culture.In Wikipedia,the main editors of knowledge are men,which means that men’s views and attitudes largely determine how information is organized,framed,and written.Wikipedia is actually producing and delivering "the totality of male knowledge."Addressing the gender imbalance in Wikipedia is a start.Under the influence of feminism,there are also many expressions and practices against male-centered discourse in Wikipedia.This paper selects nine cases of knowledge dissemination practices of Wikipedia,which are full of feminist style,takes discussion records and page editing history as materials,from the three aspects of digital movement,editing behavior,symbol and discourse strategy,to analyse how feminism influence the spread of wikipedia’s knowledge,and how feminists are engaging in compilation practices and discourse practices in Wikipedia to counter the spread of male-centric knowledge.Through the diachronic process of the practice and development of feminist digital movement in Wikipedia,it is found that feminist editors use Internet technology and platforms to generate connections and dialogues on a global scale,and cut in from different perspectives through the continuous "Edit-a-thon" campaign to increase the knowledge coverage and representation of women in Wikipedia.In the practice of editing articles,feminist editors launch "editing wars" to include women and women-related topics in Wikipedia,and question the applicability and rationality of Wikipedia’s "Deletion policy" and " notability guideline".In the practice of symbols and discourse strategies,feminists pay attention to the use of words,pictures and narrative strategies,advocate the use of gender-neutral language,resist the male gaze and stereotyping of female images in Wikipedia,and overturn the patriarchal narrative mode of knowledge dissemination in Wikipedia.The process of discourse practice and revision traces are faithfully preserved in Wikipedia,reflecting the influence and changes of feminism on the production and dissemination of knowledge in Wikipedia.However,in the in-depth description and analysis of the above cases,it can also be found that feminists’ practice of fighting against the dissemination of sexual knowledge in Wikipedia is still within a space established by men and follows the rules formulated by men,which is more like "dancing with shackles".They fail to break the shackles of male domination and construct real "female knowledge" and"female discourse". |
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