I'd like to say that someone told me that many of her "feminist" (to use
her
words) female friends left this list after a few hours after they saw
many
male wikipedia admins talking and those female afraid of speaking their
minds.
I think it's a bigger underlying problem that many people (but especially
many
females) are afraid to take huge chances in order to risk their
reputation.
This is also part of the problem with big corporations, who are afraid to
risk
too much at once, and to reduce the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variance
of
failure.
What is the worst thing that a wikipedia admin or
person-in-power can do
to
someone who posts in this list? Ban him/her from this list? Comment on
their
wikipedia page? There's a limit to how much they can morally, ethically
or
regulation-wise do. Like my father says "Always think what is the worst
case
scenario?". Also see:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Failure
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
I suppose I'm largely to "blame" for people throwing up their hands and
leaving the list. With respect to reputation there are issues. Early on
one of our women leaders lost her job, it was a good professional one,
after someone outed her to her employer.
However it is not Wikipedia admins or persons-in-power who do that sort
of thing. We are the people who protect, insofar as we are able, editors
from that sort of thing.
I know I must have erred in my approach, but when I was talking about
occasional "high-noon" moments that sort of difficult struggle is what I
was talking about, taking risks, and enduring difficulties, in order to
maintain the integrity of the project, which includes an opportunity for
women to participate fully at all levels.
Fred