On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
I do believe that sexual harassment directed towards women does effect the
gender gap - perhaps not so much, but, after my Women and Wikimedia Survey
almost half of women did state that they were assaulted or harassed on
Wikipedia in some context and almost half said no, that's more than women
said a sexualized environment was impacting them. For me, this is more
deterimental then the accidental stumbling upon of porn on Wikipedia. There
have been moments in my Wikipedia-existence that I have wanted to leave the
community due to harassment, and I know I'm surely not the only woman on
this list who feels that way. I always like reading about how people are
handling situations like this on the internet, as I can only learn from
them.
So, whether it's deterring current or future editors, I do think it's more
relevant than pornography at this time.
But, perhaps I'm wrong!
-Sarah
In the context of Wikipedia editing, what does it mean to have been
"assaulted"?
~Nathan