On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Arun Ramarathnam <arunram25(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
When at the workshop, the girls began to create
articles on Wiki, *male
editors were quick to pull them down*. “This can be intimidating for
anyone, and more so for girls.” Instead of spending the time creating a
template to delete, she wishes her male friends would just “be more
supportive” and encourage those who step in to what is surely a
male-dominated world of code.
I don't understand how pages getting deleted quickly has anything to do
with the gender of the editor. Yes, it's more likely that articles related
to Kate Middleton's ward-robe are likely to get deleted faster than
articles on esoteric distros of Linux (an example Jimmy gave earlier) but I
don't see how the above assertions make any sense. It displays
misunderstanding of the problem related to gender-gap (no, it's not
Wikimedia-specific) and shows our projects in a bad light.
Anirudh