[Gendergap] Intro and my 2 cents

[Kim van der Linde]

Hi,

First the short intro. I am a biologist and I have been editing 
wikipedia since January 2006. Currently, I am an admin and bit more 
active than a long time.

I am not at all surprised about the gender gap. I think the setup of 
wikipedia from the beginning fitted far better with the way man are used 
to operate than how woman are used to operate. Vandal fighting, edit 
wars, etc, who wants to do that? Maybe I am wrong, but there is a 
something we can use, and that is data mining. Just as the gender gap 
was discovered. Basically, what is needed is an analysis of the data and 
if there is a difference in the editing pattern of men and women. We can 
than use those results to actually get a better idea why women are absent.

I make a prediction. Nothing is going to change, regardless of what we 
find and discover, unless we find a way to change the governing system 
(the community rules). But as the current system is dominated by men, we 
have to convince them to change the rules. Good luck with that.

Kim




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