Re: [Gendergap] Government-Funded Study: Why Is Wikipedia Sexist?

2014-08-01 Thread Sarah Stierch
This is amazing.

That's a lot of money.

Sarah
On Aug 1, 2014 6:04 AM, Carol Moore dc carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote:


 http://freebeacon.com/issues/government-funded-study-why-is-wikipedia-sexist/
 Government-Funded Study: Why Is Wikipedia Sexist?
 $202,000 to address ‘gender bias’ in world’s biggest online encyclopedia
 BY: Elizabeth Harrington

 Coincidentally(?) even as we're trying to get the Task Force more
 together, there have been raging discussions on WP:ANI and Jimmy Wales talk
 page about this issue.  Someone posted this article link on the talk page.



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Re: [Gendergap] Government-Funded Study: Why Is Wikipedia Sexist?

2014-08-01 Thread Kerry Raymond
What data is there to support the claim that the majority of WP editors are
young, white, child-free men.  ? The 2011 editor survey

 

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Survey_2011

 

shows the majority are male, but not exactly young (although I guess it
depends what you mean by young) and I don't recall any question about
children. 

 

Kerry

 

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From: gendergap-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:gendergap-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Carol Moore dc
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2014 11:04 PM
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
Subject: [Gendergap] Government-Funded Study: Why Is Wikipedia Sexist?

 

http://freebeacon.com/issues/government-funded-study-why-is-wikipedia-sexist
/
Government-Funded Study: Why Is Wikipedia Sexist?
$202,000 to address 'gender bias' in world's biggest online encyclopedia
BY: Elizabeth Harrington

Coincidentally(?) even as we're trying to get the Task Force more together,
there have been raging discussions on WP:ANI and Jimmy Wales talk page about
this issue.  Someone posted this article link on the talk page.



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