What is the relationship with gender-gap ? Are female children more unlikely to contribute to Wikimedia projects if they saw some porn on Wikipedia or Commons ?
Caroline
This was something we discussed at WikiWomenCamp during several sessions. (On our list of why women do NOT contribute, I do not think it even made the board.) I think the consensus most of the participants had was this was largely a problem confined to English Wikipedia amongst a certain subset of English speakers, most of whom are from the United States. The belief was most women were not intentionally seeking this information out and you could not find it as easily as some conversations suggested: You had to be actively looking for it and actively looking to be offended by it. These types of people were not likely to be contributing to Wikipedia anyway. There was a real feeling amongst some people that this was a red-herring type issue that was taking away valuable time and resources from doing activities towards increasing female participation on Wikimedia related projects, and that to a certain degree, the obsession with this topic was actively derailing the ability to work on these goals.