[WikiEN-l] An observation

Mon Nov 13 01:31:10 UTC 2006

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.

There don't seem to be many women participating in this discussion.
That, I would say, is the very very bad thing.

I'd say the last thing women need is a bunch of men deciding that
women are underrepresented by arb com and figuring out what to do
about it.

Anthony