+1 for Egalitarianism.  So, when I use the word &quot;feminism&quot;, I&#x27;m referring to the academic field that explores power structures in social systems.  These power structures go far beyond gender issues despite what the label &quot;feminism&quot; implies.  It&#x27;s this broader sense of justice&#x2F;morality in social spaces that I would like to engage with and draw inspiration from.<p>There are two core bits of feminist theory that I draw from as inspiration in organizing our work on this system:<p>* Empowerment vs. Power over -- I&#x27;m a computer scientist and I&#x27;ve been studying quality control in Wikipedia for 10 years.  That makes me very powerful in this conversation.  I could use that power to browbeat Wikipedians into changing their quality control practices to what <i>I</i> think we should do.  But on the other hand, I don&#x27;t think that my perspective is absolute.  A lot of Wikipedians know better than I do how they should curate the encyclopedia.  So instead, I&#x27;m trying to empower Wikipedians and our community of tool developers to imagine how they&#x27;d like quality control to work.  My research[1,2,3] suggests that we need reform here and I&#x27;d rather see that reform through innovation than command and control.  Honestly though, I don&#x27;t need to look to feminism for this insight.  I came to the same conclusion after considering Wikipedia as a complex social system[4].<p>* The potential for systemic biases -- As other comments have pointed out, there&#x27;s inevitably systemic bias in people&#x27;s behavior as they evaluate good and bad edits in Wikipedia because these judgements are inherently subjective and there&#x27;s a strong incentive to push back against anything that is new and unusual -- especially, things that don&#x27;t follow the western scholarly traditions of reference information.  Once encoded into a black box algorithm, these biases can become even more hidden and substantially more impactful.  One bias that is plainly obvious at the moment is against anonymous editors.  While a lot of vandalism may come from anonymous editors, so does ~25% of productive contributions to Wikipedia articles (it&#x27;s my job to measure these things).  We&#x27;re actively working to nerf the &quot;is anonymous&quot; feature and find better sources of signal.<p>1. Halfaker, A., Geiger, R. S., Morgan, J. T., &amp; Riedl, J. (2012). The rise and decline of an open collaboration system: How Wikipedia’s reaction to popularity is causing its decline. American Behavioral Scientist, 0002764212469365. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-users.cs.umn.edu&#x2F;~halfak&#x2F;publications&#x2F;The_Rise_and_Decline&#x2F;halfaker13rise-preprint.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-users.cs.umn.edu&#x2F;~halfak&#x2F;publications&#x2F;The_Rise_an...</a>
2. Halfaker, A., Geiger, R. S., &amp; Terveen, L. G. (2014, April). Snuggle: Designing for efficient socialization and ideological critique. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 311-320). ACM. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-users.cs.umn.edu&#x2F;~halfak&#x2F;publications&#x2F;Snuggle&#x2F;halfaker14snuggle-preprint.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-users.cs.umn.edu&#x2F;~halfak&#x2F;publications&#x2F;Snuggle&#x2F;hal...</a>
3. Halfaker, A., Kittur, A., Kraut, R., &amp; Riedl, J. (2009, October). A jury of your peers: quality, experience and ownership in Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (p. 15). ACM. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-users.cs.umn.edu&#x2F;~halfak&#x2F;publications&#x2F;A_Jury_of_Your_Peers&#x2F;halfaker09jury-personal.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-users.cs.umn.edu&#x2F;~halfak&#x2F;publications&#x2F;A_Jury_of_Y...</a>
4. Halfaker, A., Kittur, A., &amp; Riedl, J. (2011, October). Don&#x27;t bite the newbies: how reverts affect the quantity and quality of Wikipedia work. In Proceedings of the 7th international symposium on wikis and open collaboration (pp. 163-172). ACM. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-users.cs.umn.edu&#x2F;~halfak&#x2F;publications&#x2F;Don&#x27;t_Bite_the_Newbies&#x2F;halfaker11bite-personal.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-users.cs.umn.edu&#x2F;~halfak&#x2F;publications&#x2F;Don&#x27;t_Bite_...</a>
5. Geiger, R. S., &amp; Halfaker, A. (2013, August). When the levee breaks: without bots, what happens to Wikipedia&#x27;s quality control processes?. In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (p. 6). ACM. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-users.cs.umn.edu&#x2F;~halfak&#x2F;publications&#x2F;When_the_Levee_Breaks&#x2F;geiger13levee-preprint.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-users.cs.umn.edu&#x2F;~halfak&#x2F;publications&#x2F;When_the_Le...</a>
6. Halfaker, A., &amp; Riedl, J. (2012). Bots and cyborgs: Wikipedia&#x27;s immune system. Computer, (3), 79-82. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stuartgeiger.com&#x2F;bots-cyborgs-halfaker.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stuartgeiger.com&#x2F;bots-cyborgs-halfaker.pdf</a>