For what it's worth, I have not found that wolf-whistles and aggressive
questioning, like the situation described in the article, are typical of
any Wikipedia meetups that I've been to (and I'm an active member of
Wikimedia NYC, which is what's being described there, though I was not at
the meetup in question). It is *not *uncommon for there to be creepiness,
especially of the type where someone who makes female attendees
uncomfortable isn't spoken to/removed even after complaints (and that's
absolutely a problem), but overt aggression of the type described here is
foreign to my experiences with not only Wikimedia NYC, but multiple
Wikimanias.
If we're going to zero in on what makes meetups uncomfortable for women,
I'd say we'd do more user-retention good trying to head off the "random
creep attends meetups apparently solely to ogle the women" problem, which
is common, rather than the "women are overtly treated like shit when they
are giving a public presentation" problem, of which this article is the
first I've heard.
-Fluffernutter
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011(a)reagle.org>wrote;wrote: