diversity
Sorry to revive a dormant thread. But this issue bugs me and I think it is more complex than the base numbers. At different times I have been active in very different parts of Wikipedia, and yes the mainstream vandal fighting, new page patrol and anything to do with deletion are I believe overwhelmingly male. Copy editing, article review and typo fixing are I think more balanced, or at least less extremely imbalanced. Of course on t'web no one knows you are a dog and some of our pinkest most "feminine" userpages and signatures have turned out to be middle aged men. But I've met some of these people on Skype and at meetups,
But I'm pretty sure that the actual article writing process is rarely the problem.
Equally the technology re infoboxes and all that malarky, we have editors who just fix bits of content, and as long as they are doing good work they are unlikely to get bitten. But newpage patrol and recent changes patrol are very male, and the race to find the right deletion tag for new articles can make the article creation process somewhat intimidating.