[WikiEN-l] An observation

Thu Nov 9 15:24:46 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?

Since we started using personal pronouns, whenever that was. I wasn't 
around then, but I suspect it was fairly early on.

--Michael Snow