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

[David Gerard]

On 31 January 2011 16:27, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> They could but they won't; anyone on this list knows that it's been
> tried before. Making admins the "civility police" as some folks like
> to call them is too difficult a nut for the Wikipedia community to
> crack. Either the admins are bad, the rules are bad, or the whole idea
> is bad - many prominent, longtime 'pedians would argue all three are
> true.


No, this is the arbcom being civility police to the admins, who are in
fact in its direct remit.


- d.