[Wikimedia-l] How gay friendly is Wikimedia and where do LGBT Wikimedians hang out?

[Marc A. Pelletier]

On 04/16/2013 11:22 AM, Mathieu Stumpf wrote:
> However androcracy being a general society problem, I suppose you may
> expect to find that kind of comportement in our movement too.

I'd actually in interested to see /comparative/ numbers.  There's no
question that, in absolute terms, there is a problem; but is it any
better in our communities?

Probably one of the better examples of what I mean is, for instance, the
North-American sysadmin culture (which overlaps a great deal with open
source and open knowledge).  While it is clear that straight white males
are overwhelmingly overrepresented, my own experience is that women and
other members of underrepresented groups tend to be held in exactly the
same respect as the majority.

(I don't mean this in a "one of the boys" sense so much as in a "this
isn't even an issue" territory for the most part).

I've no doubt that there /are/ issues - some of which I may be blind to
given my own "who gives a fuck" attitude - but I'm under the impression
that the magnitude of those issues is lower.

-- Marc