On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud@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

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