[Gendergap] Women4Wikipedia

[Oliver Keyes]

It depends. I don't think you can generalise and say that gender is the
distinction here; rather, it's a distinction of interests and norms. I
recommend http://www.mindspillage.org/wiki/Women_on_Wikipedia as a good
read. " the culture is not biased against women, but rather biased toward
certain traits and against others--and that generally men are more likely to
be in the group whose characteristics are more accepted"; in other words, we
could have an identical culture if 85 percent of the editors were female,
they'd just be a very specific subset of women.

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Collective Action <
collective_action at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  It has occurred to me to wonder what Wikipedia would look like if 85% of
> its editors were female?
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> regards
> Rosie Williams
> http://women4wikipedia
> @collectiveact
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