Jimmy Wales ungrateful to the men who built his website

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I was just reading a heartfelt plea for donations from this man on Wikipedia. I decided to look up more about him, his political views etc.

Here's some gold from an interview

Interviewer
>I've read that of the people who write Wikipedia and edit it, something like 85% are male. And this is supposed to be the sum of all human knowledge. But it's the sum of all human knowledge as written by men about subjects that interest men from a male point of view.

Jimmy's response:
It's a huge problem. It's something that we're really keen to resolve. It's technically quite geeky which excludes a lot of people. Computer geeks are overwhelmingly male. That is a part of the gender imbalance.Another is that Wikipedia is written in this very authoritative style and, as you know, men have no problem speaking in an authoritative manner about something they know nothing about. And woman are much more sensible. And the third problem is: are we a welcoming environment for a variety of people? There's a lot of internal research going on about that sort of thing.


I would bet 85% or more of his donations come from males too. What an asshole.