On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Kevin Gorman
<kgorman@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all -
I've been in a significant academic time crunch for the last several
weeks, and Sarah is currently AFK, which is why neither of us have
participated in this thread so far. One of us (Sarah, me, or Cindy,)
will probably have further comment on this thread in general and may
reach out to some of you individually in the near future, but I wanted
to send out a general note that the mods are reading this thread and
some sort of action is likely to be forthcoming.
For now:
I agree with Fluffernutter that a lot of the behavior that has
occurred on this thread is not productive. I subscribe to this list
because I believe it should be a place where we can have important
discussions. I believe that the gendergap in Wikimedia projects has
significant real-world implications that need to be addressed to avoid
significant long term consequences. I believe that many of the
subscribers to this list, including many people who have participated
here, believe the same way.
If you do believe the same way, I would ask that when you start to
type a post to this list, please consider whether or not your comment
will benefit our mutual goals, or whether it will harm them. If you
feel you can't make a comment that will be productive (or at least
neutral) at any given point, please hold off on sending your email for
a while - even if it's just for a few hours - to allow tensions and
feelings on all sides to de-escalate.
Thanks,
Kevin Gorman