On 2/10/2011 4:00 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
Although all "successful" (nearly all are
eventually banned) edit
warriors I have encountered on Wikipedia have apparently been male, I
don't believe there is empirical support for your hypothesis.
Observations in real life, such as observations of females engaged in
politics and law do not support it, at least as something that is
generally true and could be depended on.
Well, let me say it this way. I am regularly taking time of from
Wikipedia because of petty content disputes. Like whether 9000 out of
21000 news articles mentioning that the organization is conservative is
sufficient to add it to the lead of the article, and whether that
absolutely should be balanced with the only 2 mentions out of 17,000
news articles that can be found mentioning that the other organization
is liberal. This kind of petty POV pushing is so childish. And sorry,
but this is something man do far more often than women and I have seen
sufficient woman just leave after two or three rounds of rule bending
stubbornness.
I think the way to get a feel on the WHY are women not at wikipedia is
to have a survey asking women why they have left. There is just one
question to be asked: "Have you or would you like to edit Wikipedia, and
if so, why not /not anymore?"
Kim