* Laura Hale wrote:
There was a real feeling amongst some people that this was a red-herring type issue that was taking away valuable time and resources from doing activities towards increasing female participation on Wikimedia related projects, and that to a certain degree, the obsession with this topic was actively derailing the ability to work on these goals.
Perhaps we could conduct an experiment to see whether there is any truth to that? Maybe someone could make this point on the "gendergap" mailing list, and then we'd look whether people will discuss increasing female participation on Wikipedia, or would instead discuss issues surrounding depictions of human nudity, like record keeping requirements in national jurisdictions...