The math behind that little statistic was so terrible I had to write a
blog post about it.
http://blog.mvolz.com/2014/08/what-percentage-of-wikipedia-editors-are-mums/
First off, in their blog post, Andreas Collida multiply the
percentage of contributor respondents who were women (12.64%) by
Is this for real?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/town-entire-population-made-up-4113722
And if so, should there be a Wikipedia entry about it? I started to draft
one but am a little worried because there seems to be only one article
about this mysterious town. Hoax, maybe.
Hi Marielle,
Thanks for your comments, and for pointing out that one of the more
detailed reports from the UNU survey, i.e.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130129042156/http://www.wikipediasurvey.org/docs/Wikipedia_Age_Gender_30March%202010-FINAL-3.pdf
did break down the number of contributors
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
I will have to look into Hill Shaw, but would note that the Wikimedia
Foundation itself reported the figures from the UNU survey as they stood
(see e.g. p. 8 of the February 2011 Strategic Plan: According to the
Well, it is the Daily Mirror, so I wouldn't take it too seriously:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mirror#mediaviewer/File:The_Daily_Mirror_-_Sorry_We_Were_Hoaxed.jpg
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Krystle krys...@wikihow.com wrote:
Is this for real?
On Aug 27, 2014 1:55 PM, Krystle krys...@wikihow.com wrote:
Is this for real?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/town-entire-population-made-up-4113722
And if so, should there be a Wikipedia entry about it? I started to draft
one but am a little worried because there seems to be only one
Agreed! *Something* seems to exist though it does seem
pretty...constructed?
https://www.facebook.com/noivadocordeirocomunidaderural/timeline?ref=page_internal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVmj1hORxso
Sadly, I don't read/understand Portuguese.
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Ryan Kaldari
Thanks Phoebe. What actually happened to the April 2012 survey? I mentioned
that the figures were never released – all I could find was some Wikimania
2013 slides John Vandenberg posted on Facebook, which did not include
gender stats, and to my knowledge there was neither a report nor a dump
(see
It's mentioned in as one of the neighbourhoods in this Portuguese Wikipedia
article:
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belo_Vale
saying (in the Google translation) In the village of Bride Lambs has a small
manufactures Lingerrie and cleaning products.
(Noiva do Cordeiro translates to Bride
Google maps thinks it exists:
http://goo.gl/maps/T7q4b
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My conclusion is that the place is real, and has some kind of interesting
history relating to the church and women, but unsure if the Mirror article
about the present day demand for men willing to submit to their rules is
verifiable. It really needs a Portuguese speaker to decide that as that's
Hi Marielle,
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Marielle Volz marielle.v...@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks for the response Andreas. I've updated with the 8.5% source.
I have updated my text in line with your comments, and added an author's
note acknowledging your input.
Best regards,
Andreas
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