On 05/12/06, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, You are absolutely right that what is damaging to the community should not be allowed. What you fail to do is show why and how the community is damaged. It is far easier to show how our community will be strengthened by the Wikichicks. Assumptions are the mother of all fuck-ups.
I feel that any venture which discriminates against contributors based upon gender is detrimental to Wikimedia. I don't believe women and men are fundamentally different but I do accept that more women may demand a greater level of politeness and emotional awareness. There are men who demand the same.
Exclusion based upon aspects of the contributor that largely don't come into their practice as a contributor (gender, race, religion, sexuality, nationality, &c.) is not good because under each category of these aspects comes great variance.