[WikiEN-l] Introducing a new mailing list

[The Cunctator]

On 12/5/06, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> Puppy wrote:
> > Reverse discrimination would be (for example) if women admins were
> > promoted on a basis of lower community support, in order to achieve a
> > more balanced ratio - a process often referred to as affirmative action,
> > and strongly supported by many.
>
> This is all semantic quibbling. The basic situation is simply this;
> Wikimedia has a mailing list for the discussion of editing Wikipedia,
> and I am not permitted to join this mailing list because I happen to be
> male (a "condition" that has no affect whatsoever on my editing, and
> which is only known because years back I decided to use my real name
> instead of some uninformative pseudonym).
>
> That is discrimination. Whether it's "reverse" of not is of no concern
> to me, the effect is exactly the same.



Not any more. The list has been moved to Wikia. Moot point, hooray! Let's
move on, nothing to see here, yadda yadda.


> This is not discrimination. Unless you consider allowing
> > women to feel safe is discrimination.
>
> And _this_ is pure tripe. Do you really think that my position is that I
> don't want women to feel safe? If that's what you're implying here I'm
> quite offended and suggest you retract it immediately. I've said nothing
> remotely of the sort.


Umm.... (looking desperately to change the direction of the
conversation....) How about those Nazi userboxes?