I strongly disagree. It is over-feminism. Noa, The Hebrew Wikipedia.
בתאריך יום שלישי, 15 במרס 2011, Laura Hale <laura(a)fanhistory.com> כתב:
I'd like to propose that the gendergap be forked.
The main list would be for women and transgendered who want to work together to help
increase female participation on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects. The
fork list would be for male allies who want to work towards a similar goal.
This proposal is based on two things. The first idea is that women themselves can
probably best identify areas and needs regarding female participation on Wikipedia.
Assuming good faith, male contributors on the list probably do really want to help work
towards this goal and have women's best interest at heart and want to see improvement
in the total number of female participants on the wiki... but there has been a fairly
sizable amount of research in the NGO sector in countries like Africa, where outside
organisations were not as effective as local organisations at identifying local problems
and creating solutions that work best in a local context. In this situation, women and
transgenders would be the local community and men would be the international NGOs.
The second issue is that at the moment, men appear to be dominating the conversation.
(This may not by correct and I apologise if I am wrong. I'm making this assumption
based on the names of participants involved.) Men are posting content with suggestions
for women. Men are debating if women find the term dick offensive. Men aren't asking
the women on the list if they have resources that they think other women might find
useful. Men do not appear to be asking the women on the list what their opinions are
regarding the use of the term dick and if women on the list find the term offensive.
Rather, it appears that men are speaking for women without their consent.
I'd really like men to continue to be involved. I think the best way would be for
the creation of a sublist, specifically created for men. As allies, they can discuss how
to improve the rate of women's involvement. As men on that strategies sublist about
the creation and implementation of solutions to increase female participation, the
information can be summarised and sent to some one else off list to be posted to the main
list.
I just worry at the moment that the heavy male involvement is intimidating and keeping
some women from participating.
Sincerely,
Laura Hale
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