[Gendergap] Women reluctant to comment online - any relation to the WP gender gap?

2015-05-02 Thread Kerry Raymond
Could this provide any insights into women contributing to Wikipedia? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/23/women-are-silenced-onli ne-just-as-in-real-life-it-will-take-more-than-twitter-to-change-that Kerry ___ Gendergap

Re: [Gendergap] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees

2015-05-02 Thread Carol Moore dc
There was one very silly comment at the blog entry http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/01/meet-the-inspire-grantees/ So I couldn't help commenting on what I see as the big problem... Having lots more edit-a-thons, etc. to get women to try Wikipedia is great. But we can’t keep just ignoring the