I think having options would be a good thing (that is, real options, not ones that are almost cookie cutters of one another and new defaults that "improve it worse". (I hate Vector.)
I think it safe to say that there is no one thing that is going to be the ultimate answer to the gender gap. Giving the ability to customize the look more is *one*thing that could make Wikipedia-editing more attractive to some users. If what we want is to increase the diversity of Wikipedia editors, it is among the things that should be considered.
Aleta P.S. I have a pink userpage and purple user talk page.
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case < dancase@frontiernet.net> wrote:
Andreas wrote:
This an interesting line of thought. If you look at our interface, does it look like it was designed by a man or a woman? Basically, we have the traditional IBM colour scheme: white, grey and blue, and lots of straight lines and boxes. There is little red, green, pink or yellow, nothing curvy. Everything is very functional. There is no place to socialise (WP:Café?).
I respond:
I understand and respect Andreas's larger point, but we have to be careful of falling into traps further down this line of thinking that will lead us to something like this:
http://videosift.com/video/SNL-ad-Chess-for-Girls
(I remember how this sketch went but, for some reason, I have never gotten it to load from this site, which seems to be the only place online I can find it).
Daniel Case
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