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Re:How to achieve a 94% female contributor ratio on a wiki by can-tank-er on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @05:48AM (#2304526)
I would estimate that the contributors to the Vintage Sewing Pattern wiki Wikia are >95% female, and many of them are older, too.

http://vintagepatterns.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

When it first started, the pages were bare-bones and the UI was not "pretty" in any way, so I don't think it was UI driven; I think it was content-driven. Now there are >35,000 pattern images, with plentiful metadata, including category tagging, and links to reviews and vendors.

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