--- Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
geni wrote:
Since when did we care about gender on wikipedia?
Since we started using personal pronouns, whenever that was. I wasn't around then, but I suspect it was fairly early on.
Granted, we are sometimes -- but only sometimes -- aware of another editor's gender on Wikipedia, but does it make a big difference? Do I know (say) [[User:SpLoT]]'s gender? Should I care? If I did, would it make much difference to how I would interact with that person? For me, the answer is "no". Admittedly I don't edit articles like [[feminism]], but my experience is that Wikipedia is a place where gender is relatively unimportant. Maybe your experience is different.
But to respond to your original point, I just can't see that there exists special and distinct male and female perspectives that would make much difference in ArbComm matters. Surely we just want sensible, wiki-savvy, plain-old *people*? I'm open to persuasion otherwise.
-- Matt
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