<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Feb 4, 2011, at 11:39 AM, Sarah Stierch wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Where is this from? "Many Wikipedians say anyone can contribute, so
women are to blame if they don't contribute more." That's a
terribly painful thing to hear and I'd probably physical injure
anyone who said something like that. <br>
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Check out the comments as well. <br>
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_______________________________________________<br>Gendergap mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org">Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap<br></blockquote><br></div><div>Sarah, I think she's referring to a general argument about meritocracies and open communities rather than any specific comment made by a Wikipedian, though I'm sure it's been said in some form or another in many places.</div><div><br></div><div>Joseph Reagle's op-ed explains this argument further I think: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/02/02/where-are-the-women-in-wikipedia/open-doesnt-include-everyone">http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/02/02/where-are-the-women-in-wikipedia/open-doesnt-include-everyone</a></div><br><div>
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Steven Walling</div><div>Fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation<br><a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/">wikimediafoundation.org</a></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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