Re: [Gendergap] Other (non -male or -female) Gender Knowledge for Study

2014-09-23 Thread Megan Wacha
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

Re: [Gendergap] Other (non -male or -female) Gender Knowledge for Study

2014-09-23 Thread Maximilian Klein
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

Re: [Gendergap] Other (non -male or -female) Gender Knowledge for Study

2014-09-23 Thread Amanda Menking
ways to increase the participation of women within Wikimedia projects. gendergap@lists.wikimedia.orgmailto:gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org 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