[Gendergap] Proposal: Forking gendergap: Main list for women and transgender, sublist for male supporters

[Angela]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Laura Hale <laura at fanhistory.com> wrote:
> I'd like to propose that the gendergap be forked.  The main list would be
> for women and transgendered who want to work together to help increase
> female participation on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects.
> The fork list would be for male allies who want to work towards a similar
> goal.

There already is the WikiChix [1] list just for female editors. There
were two problems with it. One was the difficulties in ensuring only
females joined, and the other was inactivity. How would a fork of the
gendergap list avoid those issues?

Angela

[1] http://lists.modernthings.org/listinfo.cgi/wikichix-l-modernthings.org