As for Flickr and other photo-sharing sites, my anecdotal experience is that there are roughly as many male or female users.

Now, of course, most of the most popular blogs are written by men.

So I’m not sure a gender bias in other kinds of content creation is a convincing or accurate explanation.

That said, I don’t have a better one. The article’s reasons feel pretty unconvincing, too.

I’ve been thinking about how I felt about editing Wikipedia before I dove in–and that was uncertain and worried I’d screw it up. I think that, in addition to the fact that wiki’s are downright user-hostile (what with the markup, and in the case of Wikipedia, scary, multi-tiered community rules), is partially why these numbers are skewed. I mean jeez, it’s not like women are a huge force in content creation in other areas of the web (blogs, photo-sharing, Twitter, etc).