On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah@sarahstierch.com wrote:
Why should they?
I really like that Delphine asked this simple question. I admit, it popped into my head as I scanned through emails talking about even the articles that women have "interest" in editing.
The fact that people would make a judgement calls and declare that women are into editing fashion articles, etc, is really bizarre to me. The first articles I ever edited were about European new wave bands, nor have I ever edited an article about make-up, children, "women's issues" or soap operas ;)
And to broaden the question, why is it that we want more women to edit Wikipedia? What does it bring? What is missing if they don't?
"What does it bring?" "What is missing if they don't?"
These are very valid questions, I also fear that stereotypes and bad "scientific studies" will be brought out to discuss it. It's like asking "why aren't African American editors editing African American topics?"
Does your home wikipedia has no WP:COI?
/me ducks
But seriously that is a part of why we'd like more women; not only gender issues but also anything edited by male dominant editorship would remain in their male systematic bias, so we'd like more women. Likewise in the ideal world, we could say African American topics should not be edited by African American alone and that African American are expected to edit not only African American topics.
Cheers,
All legit, but, just makes me a little nervous..
Sarah
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