The observation itself I find interesting. Would you agree or disagree that the number of leading women in Wikipedia is disproportionaly larger in comparison to the overall Wikipedia contributor population?
http://www.riehle.org/computer-science/research/2006/wikisym-2006-interview....
) I only got women's names. Must have to do with the inborn shyness of males to promote themselves.
Er, what? As opposed to women's innate abillity to brag? Since when are men typically shy?
Sample size of 3 doesn't tell you much except about those three people.
Well, I may or may not have learned something about those who I asked to make a recommendation, and I may or may not have learned something about those they recommended. But I did learn something about humor on mailing lists (and this after 15 years in the business).
Dirk