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Hey there, podcast listeners, it's Ann. Last week we did a show about being female on the internet. We heard a lot of stories about women being targeted by militarized, coordinated armies of trolls. We heard about women feeling powerless to stop the harassment, about responding with legal remedies. Twitter snark,

even unplugging entirely, but shouldn't there be a more constructive option? Well, here's one.

Emily Templewood has been an avid Wikipedia editor ever since she was pretty young, and early on

she noticed that Wikipedia has a twofold gender bias problem.

Women make up a minority of the active editors on the site, and they're also in the minority as subjects of articles.

So Emily began recruiting more women editors to write more Wikipedia articles about notable women. Seems like a good thing to do, right? Well, in return, she got yep, rape and death threats. Well, instead of retreating, Emily came up with an ingenious way to use the platform itself for revenge. She decided that every time she got another hate-filled, misogynistic message from a

troll, she would write a new Wikipedia bio of a female scientist. Last year, Emily Temple Wood

was named a Wikipedian of the year. She currently juggles her Wikipedia editing with a full

slate of coursework in medical school,

but Charles Monroe Kane did manage to get hold of her between lectures.

Let me start this interview by reading something to you from your Wikipedia biography.

She first started contributing to the site when she was nine, and it was when she was 12 that she was first harassed online as a result of her Wikipedia contributions.

You were harassed at 12 online?

Yeah.

Yeah, unfortunately.

You get used to it after a while.

Ooh, I don't actually really want you to get used to it.

That's really not the goal, is it?

No, no.

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