If women don't edit Wikipedia because they don't have free time, why
are there more women bloggers than men? Keeping a blog requires a lot more
time and dedication than editing Wikipedia.
I respond:
As someone who has extensive experience with
both, I humbly submit that this assessment of the comparative time
requirements of editing Wikipedia and blogging is not a universal truth. While
blogging, when I was doing it at my peak, certainly did take a measurable
number of hours (assuming the following tasks: writing and researching your
posts and putting links into them, reading other blogs you follow and
following links from them, and adding comments to posts elsewhere that may or
may not link back to your own posts (and this is assuming you don't have a
comments section of your own to manage)) from my day, it's been about five
years since my last blog post because, among other things, Wikipedia was
beginning to claim more of my interest. Today I honestly feel I spend more
time editing/taking pictures/processing and uploading pictures/doing
administrative tasks than I ever spent on my (anonymous, and it's
staying that way for now) blog.
For the stereotypical momblogger that we seem to
be talking about here, I think it would take less time to blog (And I can also
speak from experience as the stay-at-home parent for this time period, too)
than edit.
Daniel Case