[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors}

[Carcharoth]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The next ten years of Wikipedia should be about multiplying the number of
> real-life scholars and experts participating. The Ambassadors program is a
> good start. Once the demographics change, the rest will follow; and until
> the demographics change, all the talking will avail nothing.

This is an excellent point. Though you may get some angst from those
already present who may feel pushed out as they see the culture of
Wikipedia changing (think how hard it has been for some of those
present from the very beginning, or near the beginning, to adapt over
the last ten years). How to manage such change is an interesting
problem.

Carcharoth