Ryan Kaldari wrote:
If women don't edit Wikipedia because they don't have free time, why are there
more women bloggers than men? Keeping a blog requires a lot more time and dedication than
editing Wikipedia.
I respond:
As someone who has extensive experience with both, I humbly submit that this assessment
of the comparative time requirements of editing Wikipedia and blogging is not a universal
truth. While blogging, when I was doing it at my peak, certainly did take a measurable
number of hours (assuming the following tasks: writing and researching your posts and
putting links into them, reading other blogs you follow and following links from them, and
adding comments to posts elsewhere that may or may not link back to your own posts (and
this is assuming you don't have a comments section of your own to manage)) from my
day, it's been about five years since my last blog post because, among other things,
Wikipedia was beginning to claim more of my interest. Today I honestly feel I spend more
time editing/taking pictures/processing and uploading pictures/doing administrative tasks
than I ever spent on my (anonymous, and it's staying that way for now) blog.
For the stereotypical momblogger that we seem to be talking about here, I think it would
take less time to blog (And I can also speak from experience as the stay-at-home parent
for this time period, too) than edit.
Daniel Case