Re: [Gendergap] Research into causes of the gender gap?

2011-12-17 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Johannes Rohr wrote: So in essence you are saying that Wikipedia is a game that boys like to play more than girls. And there is not much you can do about it, because editing Wikipedia is more like building Lego space ships than like playing with dolls? I am saying that women are not driven to

Re: [Gendergap] Research into causes of the gender gap?

2011-12-17 Thread Ryan Kaldari
On 12/17/11 3:54 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: * Johannes Rohr wrote: So in essence you are saying that Wikipedia is a game that boys like to play more than girls. And there is not much you can do about it, because editing Wikipedia is more like building Lego space ships than like playing with

Re: [Gendergap] Research into causes of the gender gap?

2011-12-17 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Looks like your right. This is a pretty amazing statistic. If 23% of our editors are open source programmers, I can't believe we don't have more volunteer MediaWiki developers. I guess that's another gap we need to work on fixing. Ryan Kaldari On 12/17/11 6:13 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: *