Assuming that you are not studying the matter of gender self-identification
itself (i.e. the dynamics of the count of the very small number of people
who do not consider themselves either male or female), it seems to me that
a survey over time should tally (self-identified) MALE / FEMALE / DECLINE
Hi Max,
I haven't studied these decisions, but I try to be sensitive to these
issues and am happy to provide some thoughts.
Would you ask editors to provide this information? If so, I would ask them
to self identify - as a man, as a woman, [fill in the blank], or decline to
answer. I realize
Hi Megan,
If I were asking editors to Identify I would definitely believe in giving a
blank text field to enter. However that is not the purpose of this study, I
am merely looking at Wikipedia *Biography Articles*. That is statistics of
what is recorded in Wikidata, and then trying to compare it
ways to increase the participation
of women within Wikimedia projects.
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Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Other (non -male or -female) Gender Knowledge for Study
Hi Megan,
If I were asking editors to Identify I would definitely believe
Hello,
I'm doing a project at the moment, and writing a paper, that proposes a
Wikipedia Gender Index - like the United Nations Gender Inequality Index.
Essentially it will show the proportion of represented (existing article in
the Wiki, not editors) Genders over time (both historical time, and