One way of doing this might be a simple one - pushing awareness of the
Mediation Committee. Right now, people seem to go to ArbCom and ArbCom only,
when there's a similar body for content disputes.
On anthere's point, this could be the case. One of our problems here is the
lack of information - of the people who leave, what percentage are women? Is
it *specifically* women driven off, or a greater proportion of women than
men? We need to find some way of answering these questions.
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
--- On Thu, 10/2/11, Kim van der Linde
<kim(a)kimvdlinde.com> wrote:
From: Kim van der Linde
<kim(a)kimvdlinde.com>
<snip>
What I want to say here is that man generally
are
far more likely
to keep pushinga dn pushing till they have their way
content wise.
If we are serious about fixing this issue, the focus needs
to shift from
behavior to content. I am not going to hit the hottest
button of all,
but we need a way to reign in content warriors by providing
a way to
resolve content disputes without having to wait till one of
the parties
violates a behavioral policy. By the time they start
violating those,
most women have left already.
Do others share this observation?
I am not sure men drop out of contentious discussions at a lower rate
than women. There are more men to begin with; it may be that the men who
drop away leave less visible gaps. Some of the most tenacious and most
highly respected editors I've met in Wikimedia projects have been women.
Andreas
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