(disclaimer: research-wise, in this thread, I am speaking from a margin position in a role maybe similar to the one Shakespeare potrays his fools in, because it is not my field and I only have a rather vague idea of how people actually undertake such studies)
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I think if we can make Wikipedia more attractive to women, I rather suspect we make it a more attractive place for everyone.
what about yet another reversal game and see what happens:
this would be Kerry's statement from another perspective: "I think if we can make Wikipedia less attractive to men, I rather suspect we make it a more attractive place for everyone."
what kind of reseach design would be needed for this?
best, Claudia
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I agree the issues are not necessarily about male- female interactions. It may be about bully-victim interactions. I often suspect we are seeing an online form of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
playing out, where anyone can choose to be the prison guard enforcing the rules (of which we have plenty) taking advantage of the lack of real-world accountability (thanks to pseudonymity).
However, in terms of any kind of metric to measure progress, I think measuring Male/Female/DontKnow is a lot more viable than trying to count the number of bullies and victims (or powerful vs less powerful).
I think if we can make Wikipedia more attractive to women, I rather suspect we make it a more attractive place for everyone.
Kerry
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