[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

Sat Nov 25 15:30:50 UTC 2006

On Nov 25, 2006, at 8:11 AM, niht-hræfn wrote:

> I'd be interested to know how well-known females are treated compared
> to their well-known male counterparts (I mean admins, etc, those that
> people know are female because they've heard of them), although it
> would seem with the actions of Wikipedia Review, that the answer is
> going to be "less well".

In at least 3 cases they have been targeted by off-wiki sites, but so  
have prominent males. There has to be some crack in the armor for  
effective targeting, but simply being female and aggressive seems to  
serve.

Fred