Comment Re:Obvious Reason (Score 1) 579
If Wikipedia is serious about involving more female contributors, it needs more opportunities for constructive, emotionally rewarding collaboration.
Heck, if they want to stop the continuous decline of contributors of any gender they'll do that stuff. I don't really care enough to deal with the fuss that is Wikipedia. If I want to post something informative I'll do it on my blog, which will get picked up by high-reputation feed aggregators and get plenty of visibility on Google and will be available for all posterity. Maybe somebody else will wikify it for me, which is great. I would love to just post initially on some site where everybody can collaborate to make it better. The thing is, I just want to contribute - I don't want to defend every word I write and debate whether it should be expunged or not. I'm all for improvements, and I'm sure my word on any subject is not the last (that's what comments are for!), but my sense on Wikipedia is that if I took the time to write something instead of improving on it there are many who would just campaign to remove what I wrote entirely.
In the world of millions of things I could be doing with my spare time, Wikipedia just doesn't rank up there.