FW-ing from Gender Gap ML (with the author permission.) _____ *Béria Lima*

*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.*

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anneke Wolf anneke.wolf@gmx.de Date: 30 September 2011 20:12 Subject: [Gendergap] Answer: How do German women feel about the image filter?

Hello everybody,

let me introduce myself to you. I'm a female editor and long time volunteer in the german wikipedia. To answer your question: I voted against the image filter and I didn't have a problem with the vulva picture on the front page (Ok, I saw better pictures on the front page over the years, but I was not shocked and did not think this was such a big thing). As far as I can overlook the recent discussions on the german wikipedia, the german blogosphere, facebook and a lot of personal talks I had to other female editors in the last weeks most of them thinks exactly the same. Why that? I don't know. Maybe because filters aren't very popular in germany at all, maybe it's because we have state schools with a curriculum in sexual education and you can see those pictures in your school books.

Maybe that wasn't the answer you expected but I had the feeling I had to answer to this.

Kind regards Anneke (Kellerkind)

P.S. And, no, I'm not to shy to post on foundation-l but I'm not interested in subscribing _to_much_ mailinglists, so I'm happy to read the web-archives (And I will do exactly the same with this list after this post).

_______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap