There’s a reason women don’t generally contribute to Wikipedia, and it has little to do with sexism, “culture,” or lack of rules. The reason is, simply, that they don’t care. That’s right, it may be amazing to some people, but the overwhelming majority of women simply couldn’t care less about an online encyclopedia.
The New York Times article quoted by The Spearhead indicates that Wikipedia is sexist against women because only about 15% of the contributors are women. Does Wikipedia eat every female contributor's edits every time she writes them? Because so far, they haven't done that to me, nor have they taken down my Wikipedia entry since I am female. Heck, they even called me on the phone once to ask if they could use a picture for the entry. If they were that sexist, wouldn't they have caught onto the fact that the name Helen is most likely female and deleted my entry? The point here is that, for whatever reason, women may not spend much time contributing to Wikipedia. So what?
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