Someone posted an entry about me on wikipedia to replace a ‘stub’ that was very short and included incorrect information. (I do not know who wrote the stub.) Sometime later I found that my page had been marked as unacceptable till revised. Why was that? Some said the entry was too favorable towards me. One said I had never done anything worth mentioning (other than walk out on Larry Summers, tell the press that he had said women were genetically inferior in STEM fields, and thereby set off the biggest media storm in academia in many years.) But that is not my real work, which is high level science (which can be seen on a PBS show about my work, for example.) I thought about pursuing this out of curiosity, since it made me wonder how wikipedia really works, but after reading the rules (not to say the bigoted and factually false comments) I decided, oh why bother. What I hadn’t realized till I read the NYTimes article was that these are the young bigots of the future pushing their ignorant views, not the old ones of my generation. Now it makes total sense. To further confirm, I went and looked at Mr. Summers’ page. It’s endless – given his greatness. My name wasn’t there (thank heavens – who needs to be called a hysteric again?), but remark it named the brilliant Harvard faculty who supported Summers’ view that women are genetically inferior. That was stunning since the National Academy of Sciences – which advises the US government and is the authority in these matters – reviewed all the research on the topic and said Summers was totally wrong – not a shred of credible evidence to support his hypothesis. And you wonder why women don’t contribute to wikipedia? Because it embodies the perpetuation of gender bias, and yes, they do not have time to fight it every single day every single time it comes up. So bravo to those of you who are taking this on. No one should take wikipedia seriously till 50% of the contributions are from women, and the rules do not read as if written by angry, obnoxious children. What a waste of a potentially great invention!!! Thanks to the NYTimes for explaining this mystery.