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

[carolmooredc at verizon.net]

I never got a response from the wikichix list when tried to join.

Here, I'd rather see the males control themselves and post less and the 
women encourage each other to participate more.

:-) Smiley face added to make up for lack of interpersonal interface...

carol in dc

On 3/14/2011 11:37 PM, Angela wrote:
> 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