[Gendergap] Help: Research on whether we have made any difference?

Hello, I am writing a short (1500 word) text for the journal of current cultural research, Culture Unbound (http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/index.html), to be published in April. The topic touches quite heavily on the gendergap issue. I have tried to find any numbers on whether the

Re: [Gendergap] Help: Research on whether we have made any difference?

I do not think it will be possible to accurately assess any impact of specific actions, for multiple reasons. The most relevant one, however, is the fact that the WMF itself has not done any broad-scale editor surveys in a very long time, nor have individual communities to the best of my

Re: [Gendergap] Help: Research on whether we have made any difference?

Lennart, You should look at the Education Program, which after the first year appeared to have a strong impact (i.e. more participation from women than men). It's also been my experience (anecdotal but strong) that the Writing Wikipedia Articles course I teach has attracted and retained more

Re: [Gendergap] Help: Research on whether we have made any difference?

Hello, Thanks for the reply, Anne. So, perhaps the only measure available, is the number from the Teahouse and the individual editathons. I'll look into those, for now. Best wishes, Lennart Guldbrandsson 070 - 207 80 05 http://www.elementx.se - arbete http://www.mrchapel.wordpress.com -

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Thank you, Pete, I will take a look at those also. They seem to concur with other studies of percentage of the sexes studying. Best wishes, Lennart Guldbrandsson 070 - 207 80 05 http://www.elementx.se - arbete http://www.mrchapel.wordpress.com - personlig blogg Presentation @aliasHannibal

Re: [Gendergap] Help: Research on whether we have made any difference?

Yes, the Teahouse project has some data to back it up. You can talk to Jonathan Morgan, who co-build the space and was the lead in pulling data if you need to: jmor...@wikimedia.org Laura Hale has been doing some interesting research about the top contributors to English Wikipedia and who write

Re: [Gendergap] Help: Research on whether we have made any difference?

Hi, Laura has posted about her informal research at http://wikinewsreporter.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/the-role-of-english-wikipedias-top-content-creators-in-perpetuating-gender-bias/. I'm currently working on a largely qualitative study w/r/t women and English language Wikipedia, which I'll

[Gendergap] Ideas for Wikimania proposal? Women on wikiHow

Hey everyone! I did a talk about women on wikiHow at Wikimania in DC, you can see my talk here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKP8UeMkoag I'm thinking of doing another talk at Wikimania London in August. I was wondering if anyone has ideas, or questions they'd like to see answered (or at least

Re: [Gendergap] Help: Research on whether we have made any difference?

Hi all, Thanks to and Sarah for pointing out the success we've seen in the Wikipedia Education Program in the Arab world with female participation. I just wanted to share some numbers and also mention retention, which has some good numbers as well even if that's not the program's main goal. The

Re: [Gendergap] Help: Research on whether we have made any difference?

Hi Lennart! Not addressing the question of whether we've made any difference... but if you're quoting numbers AFAIK the best research on the gender gap numbers is Mako Hill and Aaron Shaw, from last year: http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/the-wikipedia-gender-gap-revisited which tries to correct for

Re: [Gendergap] Help: Research on whether we have made any difference?

Thanks, again! More links (Mako Hill and Aaron Shaw's text is already in there) and more thoughts. Beautiful! When I saw the number of new mails, I just had to laugh. It's so wonderful to be in this company. This made me want to improve the text even more :-) Best wishes, Lennart