[WikiEN-l] An observation

Sun Nov 12 20:38:18 UTC 2006

I'm sorry, but the last thing we need on Wikipedia is affirmative action.

On 11/12/06, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> If there is an overwhelming amount of males over females it usually
> signifies something bad (with a few exceptions, like say professional
> wrestling). We have a host of brilliant female editors but apparently
> not many of them are running for arbcom. This is a very, very bad
> thing. We should encourage gender equality whenever we can, just
> saying "We are wikipedia, here gender doesn't matter" is naive. There
> is obviously a problem here and we should work to fix it. We don't
> want to be a boys-club.
>
> --Oskar