Brianna Laugher wrote: Speaking at a very high level of generality, and noting that questions of definition are important, and acknowledging that I have no good clear definition in mind... It is my anecdotal sense based on wikipedia meetups and interactions online that about 80% of Wikipedians are male, that this number is better than most free software projects, but worse than I think most of us would like, and that the leadership of the projects tends to be much more heavily female than the averages would suggest. We have many strong female leaders in various projects. I leave it to others to speculate why this might be. :) --Jimbo

LOL I can't see any reason why our community shouldn't reflect real life. And in real life female leaders are less than male leaders in number, yet usually stronger than we are as per power. So I rate it absolutely normal if it happens here, too. Another thing is if we want to alter these proportions, but I wonder how "social engineering" and spontaneity can cope with each other. As per reasons leading to such a distribution... I am a radical contructivist, and I'd rate simply delirious anyone pretending to sit in someone else's brains to write a "report" from there :) I observe the small part of reality that I can see with my own eyes, and that's absolutely that all I can do. Bèrto ----- Исходное сообщение ----- От: "Oldak Quill" <oldakquill(a)gmail.com> Кому: <wikipedia-l(a)wikimedia.org> Отправлено: 25 июля 2006 г. 1:45 Тема: Re: [Wikipedia-l] The New Yorker on Wikipedia