On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net>
wrote:
Given the demographic imbalance in our community, and
the resultant risk
of systemic bias in our editorial decisions, it might make sense to
create a Women's issues noticeboard in en:WP and other Wikipedias, where
related matters can be brought up for review.
Thoughts?
Andreas
Please create it and inform everyone.
Fred
on 2/22/11 1:52 PM, Steven Walling at swalling(a)wikimedia.org wrote:
Noticeboards are huge magnets for drama.
There are longtime English Wikipedia editors already starting to grumble
about this effort. If we're going to make progress by bringing the community
along with this, rather than having them fight us, we should try to minimize
the potential for drama, especially of the accusatory kind that gets
performed on incident noticeboards.
I would suggest we not create not a noticeboard for this issue specifically.
What's wrong with drama, Steven? If the issue is creating a dramatic
situation for people, how would you have them express it, neutrally? Since
passion is the temperature of emotion, shouldn't we get a measure of it?
Marc Riddell