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
Max,
You may want to use Category tags such as
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Transgender_and_transsexual_people,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Women,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Men.
Imperfect, but a start?
Best,
Amanda
From: Maximilian Klein
Hi All,
At this year's Wikimania, over 40 Wikimedians helped prioritize ideas and
identified 7 key gender gap initiatives to work on.
We’ve created a page that summarizes gender gap strategy activities
to-date, lists the initiatives, and organizes teams:
