On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:23 AM, emijrp <emijrp@gmail.com> wrote:
2011/12/1 Carol Moore
<carolmooredc@verizon.net>
Fundraising from women is an interesting topic. You may think comments
about sexism and the Wikipedia community are nonsense, but guess what.
Women who take a lot of sexist nonsense AT wikipedia sure aren't going
to donate TO wikipedia, are they?
Also, since women in general are busier with work AND family
responsibilities, so often the women who have the most time to edit are
unemployed, disabled, retired or otherwise on limited incomes.
[citation needed]
Furthermore, editing Wikipedia only requires 30 minutes a day/week. I'm sure all women waste more time watching TV. But watching TV is funnier for most the people.
In the other hand, looks like women in all ages have time to waste in Facebook
http://www.kenburbary.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Image1_thumb3.png And gender balance is fifty-fifty.
The above statement about the women who have the time to edit WP is patently false, and not my experience with the women I see around the project. Most of those women are single and childless; I think that I may be the only serious WP content editor who is married and has children, or at least the only one I know about. The above statement also buys into the stereotype that we're trying to combat in WP.
I think it's true that most women are busy with homes and family, and they choose to volunteer their time in other ways. I volunteer in other ways, too, and my interests in WP match my interests in home and family. I spend an average of 30 minutes a day editing, and I think of it as both a creative outlet and as a way to volunteer. I wonder if WP editing were presented to women in that way it would make a difference.
Want to make the world a better place? Edit Wikipedia! ;)
Christine
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