[Gendergap] [Commons-l] Fwd: Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

[Fred Bauder]

> This response here is emblematic of the misogyny and ageism pervading
> Commons:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File_talk%3AOn_the_edge_-_free_world_version.jpg&action=historysubmit&diff=54489618&oldid=54483841
> Coming up with "stuff old women like" would actually be a good idea, but
> I don't think thecontributor meant it that way.

One misinformed user is not a climate of misogyny; and I must say, other
than one user, now banned, I've never encountered agism on our projects.
Although sometimes things older people know about are not understood or
appreciated by a crew of younger people.

Fred