On 2/10/2011 4:00 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
Although all "successful" (nearly all are eventually banned) edit warriors I have encountered on Wikipedia have apparently been male, I don't believe there is empirical support for your hypothesis. Observations in real life, such as observations of females engaged in politics and law do not support it, at least as something that is generally true and could be depended on.
Well, let me say it this way. I am regularly taking time of from Wikipedia because of petty content disputes. Like whether 9000 out of 21000 news articles mentioning that the organization is conservative is sufficient to add it to the lead of the article, and whether that absolutely should be balanced with the only 2 mentions out of 17,000 news articles that can be found mentioning that the other organization is liberal. This kind of petty POV pushing is so childish. And sorry, but this is something man do far more often than women and I have seen sufficient woman just leave after two or three rounds of rule bending stubbornness.
I think the way to get a feel on the WHY are women not at wikipedia is to have a survey asking women why they have left. There is just one question to be asked: "Have you or would you like to edit Wikipedia, and if so, why not /not anymore?"
Kim