[Gendergap] Content versus behaviour

[Andreas Kolbe]

--- On Thu, 10/2/11, Kim van der Linde <kim at kimvdlinde.com> wrote:

> From: Kim van der Linde <kim at kimvdlinde.com>
<snip>
> What I want to say here is that man generally are
> far more likely 
> to keep pushinga dn pushing till they have their way
> content wise.
> 
> If we are serious about fixing this issue, the focus needs
> to shift from 
> behavior to content. I am not going to hit the hottest
> button of all, 
> but we need a way to reign in content warriors by providing
> a way to 
> resolve content disputes without having to wait till one of
> the parties 
> violates a behavioral policy. By the time they start
> violating those, 
> most women have left already.
> 
> Do others share this observation?


I am not sure men drop out of contentious discussions at a lower rate
than women. There are more men to begin with; it may be that the men who
drop away leave less visible gaps. Some of the most tenacious and most
highly respected editors I've met in Wikimedia projects have been women.

Andreas