On 11/14/06, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You can say that all you want (and I feel the same),
but if you are
denying that gender is a factor in wikipedia, you're deluding
yourself.
I haven't seen it as a factor.
Are you asking why wikipedia is a place where men are
more
comfortable, if men infact are more comfortable or why it's a bad
thing? Sometimes you really need to reply with more than one word, it
gets hard to understand.
If you are asking why it's a bad thing, here is a few suggestions:
because they comprise more than half of the worlds population, because
we need as many diverse views as possible, because having an
enviroment where a huge group of people are severly underrepresantated
can be damaging to the encyclopedia, ... You can easily make up ten
more reasons for yourself, so take your pick.
I wasn't aware that there any female only views.
You're so naive if you think this is irrelevant.
Should be fairly easy to test. Set up a double blind test to see if
you can tell if an an article was written by a man or a woman. I don't
thinkl you would be able to.
Because it's stupid, and stupidity is bad. I
don't understand why you
are so opposed to the idea that we should work towards a solid
representation of both genders on wikipedia. Since when is gender
equality a bad thing?
Gender equality? I wasn't aware that we had people disscriminateing
against people on the basis of their sex.
--
geni