[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

Sat Nov 25 18:54:21 UTC 2006

On Nov 25, 2006, at 11:24 AM, Sean Barrett wrote:

> Fred Bauder stated for the record:
>> On Nov 25, 2006, at 11:12 AM, Sean Barrett wrote:
>>
>>> Other than the recent unpleasantness on the mailing list, what
>>> problems
>>> are you seeing?
>>
>> Biggest problem is off-wiki targeting and stalking. No names, but at
>> least 4 prominent women were strongly affected. And I can think of
>> two others. Mostly it is framed as trying to access personal
>> information, calling employers, etc. Imagining that one demonic woman
>> is oppressing.
>>
>> Fred
>
> Very true, and very much a severe problem.  I'm aware of at least a  
> few
> of those you mention.
>
> Do you have any ideas what we as Wikipedians can do that we aren't
> already doing?  Law enforcement was notified in at least one case.  I
> think that all of the perps are blocked for eternity from both the  
> site
> and the mailing list.
>
> (Fred, is your last sentence what you wanted to say?)

That is what they do. They imagine a Wikipedia administrator as some  
sort of spider queen with a host of minions.

Fred