On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:26 PM, patricia morales < mariadelcarmenpatricia@yahoo.com> wrote:
It seems very interesting to create a female-friend space for overcoming gradually the gendergap. Some women would like to participate suggesting new topics, their interests (for example more articles on the women´s role in the African microeconomy, or female Nobel Awards, etc). They can provide some opinions or suggestions on the undercovered male-oriented use of language in articles or pictures of Wikipedia, etc.
I believe that the leadership of this process has to be in various female hands, taking solidarity as a major principle. When we take a look at history, we can see that women primarily avoid the use of violence and war. Matriarcal peoples or ctonic religions (where there is an identification between the Earth and the woman) are interesting examples.
The thing that worries me about this suggestion is that it's effectively
sectioning off and segregating a portion of wikipedia's community. Solidarity is all well and good, but if the idea is to encourage more women to get involved in the community, the answer can't be to disect that community.