Kat Walsh wrote:
The coverage issues that the thread started with are more interesting to me. Why are topics that are traditionally of female interest, whatever they are, less well-covered? My completely-unsupported-by-evidence anecdotal conjecture is that the intersection of people interested in those topics with the people who spend a lot of time online and think it would be enjoyable to edit an online encyclopedia is somewhat less than that with, say, those who are interested in computing and military history.
Hmm, it occurs to me that if the dateless geeks learn enough about blowdryers and such to write articles, they have excellent conversation starters for the women they've always been tongue-tied with before. A little risky though - sometime after "Hi, I notice you're wearing Prada - DYK that Prada..." one would have to get in "No, I'm not gay, just a Wikipedian".
:-)
Stan