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(a)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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