[WikiEN-l] An observation

Wed Nov 8 23:27:29 UTC 2006

geni wrote:
> On 11/8/06, Michael Snow <wikipedia at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> We have, so far, twenty announced candidates for next month's
>> Arbitration Committee election. To the best of my knowledge, none of
>> them is female.
>>
>> In previous elections, we also had very few female candidates, yet one
>> of them finished either first or second in each of the last two
>> elections. I'm sure we have some female contributors who would be
>> well-qualified and bring a valuable perspective to the arbitration
>> process, and I would encourage them to consider running.
>>
>> --Michael Snow
> 
> Since when did we care about gender on wikipedia?
> 

There's a WikiProject Gender studies or something somewhere.  Maybe they 
started it? :)

Steve block

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