I don't think women are "scared" or disinterested to participate because of
images on Wikipedia. People are uncomfortable about certain images
regardless of gender, just like people having a hard time with wiki-mark up
is genderless. But, that's just speaking for my experiences, research and
role in English Wikipedia.
I don't really think post-it note type tools would benefit Wikipedia any
more or less than the image filter would, and that idea has basically been
shot down. It also sounds like the user of the post-it note would have to
view the image to place the post-it on top of the image, so I'm not too
sure what the benefit would be.
-Sarah
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi(a)gmx.net> wrote:
* rupert THURNER wrote:
to increase female participation, drjunge suggests
to implement
"post-it"s.
they can be placed on any position into wikipedia
pages, and are only
personally viewable in a first step. later the visibility might be
extended
just like with other social networks. one funny
side-usage of these
post-its is that they of course can be placed onto images one does not
like.
as i am not female and not non-participating, i'd wonder what you think
about such an idea?
If you want to close the "gendergap" then you have to think about how to
turn 10% female participation into 90% female participation.
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