|The logo of Wikipedia, a globe featuring glyphs from many
different writing systems. A registered trademark of the
Wikimedia Foundation.| The main page, the face that Wikipedia
puts out to the world, is a good starting place for browsing and
procrastination. I went to that main page at 1 am on Tuesday the
24th of August to look for a female name for some fiction I've
been working on. But to my dismay, I didn't find a single lady
on the entire front page. Not one. Wikipedia, our Library of
Alexandria, considered the accomplishments of women so
insignificant that they did not merit any mention. Not in the
Featured Article, or In the News, or On This Day (profiling
history), or Did You Know (highlighting new articles). To look
at Wikipedia's main page on August 24, 2010, you would think
that men made and did everything, and women had nothing to do
with anything. Was this lack of representation of the ladies a
one-time thing, I wondered? Or is this a pattern, a reflection
of institutionalized systematic oppressi