On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Heather Ford
<hford@ushahidi.com> wrote:
>> the statistics are quite alarming.
>
> Are they? Are we worried about there not being a featured article on
> Women's sports in Kenya on English Wikipedia? How is that a priority?
With all due respect, Asaf, I don't think its a question of prioritizing women's issues over content. It doesn't (and shouldn't, I believe) be an *either/or* issue. Ideally, we should be thinking of building inclusive, diverse communities who write a diverse range of Wikipedia articles. These two things go together, not in any particular order.
It's not an either/or. My point with the [[Kenya]] example was not one of priority; it was that it's a superbly useless "perspective" on the (certainly existent) underrepresentation of women and women-related issues on all Wikipedias. The implied "OMG there's no featured article on women's basketball in Kenya!", when there's no featured article on _men's_ basketball in Kenya either, is just throwing sand in everyone's eyes.
My comment was intended to make Grace, and anyone possibly reading and agreeing with her statement that it is "worrying", realize that the "perspective" was a very misleading one. We would all do well to look for more meaningful ways of assessing coverage gaps on Wikipedia.