On Friday, 6 July 2012 at 04:56, Gillian White wrote: > The GenderGap list is about the gender gap - the gap in representation, > involvement, participation, and acceptance of women on Wikipedia. We are > concerned about it because of its impact on the encyclopaedia and on some > people working in good faith on it. The sexual orientation and indeed, the > sex life of those women and men is irrelevant. Individuals who are concerned > to remedy the gender gap for the sake of the encyclopaedia might be male (gay > or straight) or female (gay or straight) or anything else for that matter. To > repeat, this gender gap list is about the gender gap. It is not about sub > groups or sexual identification.
I don't think anyone involved in this has suggested to the contrary. The point of the lgbt list is to provide an opportunity to discuss potential LGBT-related outreach and cross-wiki projects, and to provide a space for discussion of issues affecting LGBT editors including harassment/abuse issues if and when they occur. There is no "orientation gap" that needs fixing: there's no evidence that there is a systemic bias here. Instead, it's simply a space for co-ordination and collaboration. -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
