Gendergap

The Wikipedia Gendergap is an excuse devised by the Wikimedia Foundation to hire more incompetent engineering staff, ostensibly to attract more female editors to Wikipedia. This initiative completely ignores the fact that Wikipedia's female participation rate of ~13% is close to the 15% participation rate of similar sites. Donations to Wikimedia Foundation reached $55 million in 2014, up from a paltry $42 million in 2013. This is enough to keep Wikipedia up for another 20 years or so, but the goal here is not to provide "the sum of all human knowledge"... the actual goal is to provide jobs for otherwise unemployable white male "engineers" gathered up from IRC.

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Wikipedia gendergap, in a nutshell

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WMF Engineering

Instead of doing something about its toxic culture, almost all of the steps Wikipedia has taken to try to get more women to edit Wikipedia involve poorly designed software. Wikipedia has pretended to entice women to edit by using the following feeble tactics, without success:

1. The Wikipedia Teahouse, since women prefer a social environment to discuss the toxic culture of Wikipedia, instead of individual talkpages
2. Visual Editor, since brackets and curly braces are beyond the comprehension of women
3. Wikipedia Echo, a new notification system that combines the autism of Wikipedia with the notification system of Facebook
4. Adding tons of dicks to Commons, because there's nothing chicks like more than penises attached to old, fat, white Germans
5. Flow, nobody is sure what it does, but it's named after menses so it's for women
6. MoodBar is currently expected to make a return. Expect drama.

All of this is going on while needed projects like Tool Labs are ignored. In January, 2015, it was announced that the WMF will cease all grants to any project that does not directly address the gender gap.

Other efforts to close the gender gap

GenderGap Task Force

The Gender Gap Task Force , sometimes called GGTF, is the Wikipedia community's effort to attract and retain female editors. It was recently the subject of a protracted ArbCom case, in which several female editors were banned. Of this effort, WMF employee Ryan Kaldari said:

	“	If Carol Moore is banned from Wikipedia and Eric Corbett is not, I will be retiring from Wikipedia, as it will prove that the project is completely dysfunctional.	„
	—Kaldari, who didn't actually retire

Despite Ryan's threat to retire, Carol Moore was indeed banned, along with several other female Wikipedians, and the use of the word "cunt" was officially endorsed by ArbCom.

Editathons

Lulz were had when Sarah Stierch, a female Wikipedian, held an "edit-a-thon" at the Smithsonian. Of the few articles created from this venture, all were nominated for deletion, sometimes twice. Most of the articles survived, but only after Stierch had been thoroughly trolled.

It should be mentioned that for Ms Stierch's efforts in encouraging women to edit Wikipedia, she was paid so poorly that she took paid editing gigs to make ends meet. The executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, Sue Gardner called this a "black hat" practice, before firing her and encouraged male Wikipedians to gut her autobiography. It remains to this day in tatters on English Wikipedia, anyone who tries to add anything nice about her is automatically reverted was deleted when the ugly truth was exposed by reliable sources.

Studies

The Wikimedia Foundation paid for many many expensive studies to determine the extent to which women edit Wikipedia, a community obsessed with anonymity, and riddled with gender neutral people, trannies, and those who do not identify with any gender. These totally accurate surveys revealed a shocking dearth of female editors, and many more expensive studies by the friends of WMF employees are expected soon.

Participants

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  No, will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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  Yes drown out those minority voices on Wikipedia. e_O
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  Bailed before WMF fails

See Also

• Brogrammer
• In the kitchen
• Politically correct
• Wimminz

External Links

• Slate
• "A non-problem in search of a misguided solution"
• Meta-wiki article on the gendergap
• Wikipedia's article on the gendergap

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