Thank you for this thoughtful response. In the United States, at
least, girls routinely test higher than boys on verbal skills and have
recently surpassed young men in attaining higher education in nearly
all fields. There is a lot of dead time in the lives of many women.
They are all over Facebook. Routine child care and housework give
ample opportunity to research and edit as do many jobs. Objective
factors which might limit editing are minimal.
Fred
On Thu, 8 Jan 2015 10:47:22 +0100
Ilario Valdelli <valde...@gmail.com> wrote:
I think that the realistic point of view should be another.
There is a potential number of people who can be contributors
(contributors
and not readers) but this potential number must be *realistic*.
Anyway these persons should have something to contribute to
wikimedia
projects an basically:
a) ability to write (so a sufficient capacity to be "active" users
and not
"passive", it means a valid education and knowledge)
b) connection to the network (in order to have a continuous
contribution to
the projects)
c) time to spent (volunteers must have time... a woman with children
probably will dedicate her free time to the family)
So there is a digital divide and a gender gap and so on but probably
the
barriers cannot be solved within Wikimedia.
For this reason I don't think that "half the humans" could
contribute.
There are barriers (education, digital divide, freetime, etc.) that
can
only be "partially" solved by Wikimedia.
Please don't do the same simpler association "number of speakers" =
"potential number of contributors" because that strategy will be
*surely*
wrong.
Regards
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:56 AM, FRED BAUDER <fredb...@fairpoint.net>
wrote:
That said, it doesn't matter who writes the content on Wikipedia so
long
as it's relevant and factual.
That's the point; it would not matter if women contributed so long
as it's
relevant and factual. Half the humans that could contribute are not.
Actually many more than half, as there are barriers other than
gender.
Fred
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