On 11/14/06, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
You can say that all you want (and I feel the same), but if you are denying that gender is a factor in wikipedia, you're deluding yourself.
I haven't seen it as a factor.
Are you asking why wikipedia is a place where men are more comfortable, if men infact are more comfortable or why it's a bad thing? Sometimes you really need to reply with more than one word, it gets hard to understand.
If you are asking why it's a bad thing, here is a few suggestions: because they comprise more than half of the worlds population, because we need as many diverse views as possible, because having an enviroment where a huge group of people are severly underrepresantated can be damaging to the encyclopedia, ... You can easily make up ten more reasons for yourself, so take your pick.
I wasn't aware that there any female only views.
You're so naive if you think this is irrelevant.
Should be fairly easy to test. Set up a double blind test to see if you can tell if an an article was written by a man or a woman. I don't thinkl you would be able to.
Because it's stupid, and stupidity is bad. I don't understand why you are so opposed to the idea that we should work towards a solid representation of both genders on wikipedia. Since when is gender equality a bad thing?
Gender equality? I wasn't aware that we had people disscriminateing against people on the basis of their sex.