[Foundation-l] [Wikichix-l] Moderating an open list

Puppy puppy at KillerChihuahua.com
Tue Dec 5 12:13:18 UTC 2006


As did I. However, strong points have been made in favor of a women's 
only list, and reinforced by the unbelievable hostility and trolling 
which this whole issue has received on the en and foundation lists. No 
wonder some women want a safe place where they are not subjected to such 
overt hostility and dismissiveness! Surely it would be a plus for the 
community were we to provide such a safe haven. We may have a stronger 
chance of retaining women contributors, and possibly even manage to clue 
the insensitive jerks who post "boobs" jokes about how that kind of 
thing makes most women want to run far, far away. I have already posted 
on the en list my thoughts concerning perceived reverse discrimination.

Oldak Quill wrote:
> On 05/12/06, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I'm not willing to fight about so I'll move the list to Wikia, but
>> it's quite upsetting that despite the clear need for this list,
>> Wikimedia are not willing to support it. Perhaps the old Wikimedia
>> WikiChix list can be made into an open but moderated one.
>>     
>
> I don't want to speak for anyone else, but many of the objectors (me
> included) seemed to support an open-to-all moderated list on the
> Wikimedia servers.
>
>   



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