On 11/8/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/8/06, Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
We have, so far, twenty announced candidates for next month's Arbitration Committee election. To the best of my knowledge, none of them is female.
In previous elections, we also had very few female candidates, yet one of them finished either first or second in each of the last two elections. I'm sure we have some female contributors who would be well-qualified and bring a valuable perspective to the arbitration process, and I would encourage them to consider running.
--Michael Snow
Since when did we care about gender on wikipedia?
Since when is gender equality a bad thing on wikipedia? Or for that matter, having many different perspectives?
If there is an overwhelming amount of males over females it usually signifies something bad (with a few exceptions, like say professional wrestling). We have a host of brilliant female editors but apparently not many of them are running for arbcom. This is a very, very bad thing. We should encourage gender equality whenever we can, just saying "We are wikipedia, here gender doesn't matter" is naive. There is obviously a problem here and we should work to fix it. We don't want to be a boys-club.
--Oskar