I would love to know what do you heard about us that makes you so surprised that we have women editing there.
Laura, in pt case I can imagine the wp number to be right (or close enough), but from where did you took the wikimedia one? pt.wikimedia.org is a redirect to wikimedia.pt No dia 29 de Dez de 2011 03:56, "Kevin Gorman" <kgor...@gmail.com> escreveu: > This data is interesting, but even if you ignore the weirdness introduced > by gender localization and small sample sizes, it doesn't compare directly > to the gender numbers that came out of the editor surveys. I don't have > actual statistics on it but going from memory I'm almost positive that the > software settings indicate a consistently higher proportion of women than > men than direct surveys like editor trends do. This tool can't provide enWP > stats and I don't know them offhand, you can look at other en projects to > get an idea of how different the numbers reported this way are from the > numbers reported directly by survey. This tool has enWikiversity reporting > ~20% women, enWikibooks ~16%, and enWikisource ~17% - all significantly > higher %'s than have been found using other methods. So, instead of > ptWikiversity reporting 21% women vs the 8.5% you would expect > enWikiversity to have going off of this year's survey results, it would be > ~21% vs ~20%. > > This is certainly something worth exploring and I am certain that there > are language community based differences in gender ratios, but it is good > to be aware of the limitations of the dataset. > > It would be very interesting though if the Portuguese communities really > do have more balanced gender ratios than the English ones do, since I've > heard some interesting things about their community. > > ---- > Kevin Gorman > User:Kgorman-UCB > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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