I strongly disagree. It is over-feminism. Noa, The Hebrew Wikipedia. בתאריך יום שלישי, 15 במרס 2011, Laura Hale <la...@fanhistory.com> כתב: > I'd like to propose that the gendergap be forked. The main list would be for > women and transgendered who want to work together to help increase female > participation on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects. The fork > list would be for male allies who want to work towards a similar goal. > > This proposal is based on two things. The first idea is that women themselves > can probably best identify areas and needs regarding female participation on > Wikipedia. Assuming good faith, male contributors on the list probably do > really want to help work towards this goal and have women's best interest at > heart and want to see improvement in the total number of female participants > on the wiki... but there has been a fairly sizable amount of research in the > NGO sector in countries like Africa, where outside organisations were not as > effective as local organisations at identifying local problems and creating > solutions that work best in a local context. In this situation, women and > transgenders would be the local community and men would be the international > NGOs. > > The second issue is that at the moment, men appear to be dominating the > conversation. (This may not by correct and I apologise if I am wrong. I'm > making this assumption based on the names of participants involved.) Men are > posting content with suggestions for women. Men are debating if women find > the term dick offensive. Men aren't asking the women on the list if they > have resources that they think other women might find useful. Men do not > appear to be asking the women on the list what their opinions are regarding > the use of the term dick and if women on the list find the term offensive. > Rather, it appears that men are speaking for women without their consent. > > I'd really like men to continue to be involved. I think the best way would > be for the creation of a sublist, specifically created for men. As allies, > they can discuss how to improve the rate of women's involvement. As men on > that strategies sublist about the creation and implementation of solutions to > increase female participation, the information can be summarised and sent to > some one else off list to be posted to the main list. > > I just worry at the moment that the heavy male involvement is intimidating > and keeping some women from participating. > > Sincerely, > Laura Hale > -- > twitter: purplepopple > blog: ozziesport.com > >
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