It depends. I don't think you can generalise and say that gender is the distinction here; rather, it's a distinction of interests and norms. I recommend http://www.mindspillage.org/wiki/Women_on_Wikipedia as a good read. " the culture is not biased against women, but rather biased toward certain traits and against others--and that generally men are more likely to be in the group whose characteristics are more accepted"; in other words, we could have an identical culture if 85 percent of the editors were female, they'd just be a very specific subset of women.
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Collective Action < collective_action@hotmail.com> wrote:
It has occurred to me to wonder what Wikipedia would look like if 85% of its editors were female?
regards Rosie Williams http://women4wikipedia @collectiveact
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