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piotr micula wrote:
> Sorry, I messed it up, my hand slipped, and I accidentally pressed send.
>  
> Has anybody ever wondered why there are so few female editors? I do not 
> keep tabs, but my hunch is that some 90% of editors are men. Why is 
> that? Or perhaps they share my wife's opinion, she says that instead of 
> Wikipedia, I should do something useful, and is often pissed off when 
> she sees me writing stuff for the project

I wondered, certainly, and I am sure there are quite a few discussions 
regarding this out there. But until somebody does a scientific study - 
surveying and interviewing editors - we will not know much about the 
reasons.

For the record, women form about 25% of the editors:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/04/16/first-preliminary-results-from-unu-merit-survey-of-wikipedia-readers-and-contributors-available/

I sincerely hope all of you have done your wiki-civic duty and taken the 
survey when it was up :)


-- 
Piotr Konieczny

"The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in 
theory."

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