Comment Re:How do they know? (Score 1) 266
There is probably an easy answer, but how do other editors know a persons sex, gender, or orientation? I've never been asked that when editing anything on Wikipedia.
They don't - at least, most of the time. You can guess, based on an editor's nickname, but even then, what if my nickname was a name usually used by the opposite gender?
Anyone who has their edits questioned doesn't have to tell people their gender. Likewise, they don't know the gender of the people questioning their edits.
Are there more men than women editing WIkipedia? Undoubtedly. Perhaps it's just due to the fact that you need to spend a lot of your free time in front of a computer screen to become an effective editor, and more of the people that spend their free time that way are men than women. Just a hunch.