[WikiEN-l] NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors

[Charles Matthews]

On 31/01/2011 06:43, George Herbert wrote:
> Good interviews with Sue, Kat, others...
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html?hpw
>
As an advocate of keeping "user friendliness" and "friendliness" issues 
separate in discussing enWP, I'd like to note that the "gender gap" is 
basically a friendliness issue. It is all very well setting targets, but 
unless interactions become more polite and helpful on the site, it is 
hard to see how they are to be achieved. I'm not convinced that the 
community generally get it about this point.

Charles