Re: [Gendergap] Research into causes of the gender gap?

2011-12-17 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Johannes Rohr wrote: So in essence you are saying that Wikipedia is a game that boys like to play more than girls. And there is not much you can do about it, because editing Wikipedia is more like building Lego space ships than like playing with dolls? I am saying that women are not driven to

Re: [Gendergap] Research into causes of the gender gap?

2011-12-17 Thread Ryan Kaldari
On 12/17/11 3:54 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: * Johannes Rohr wrote: So in essence you are saying that Wikipedia is a game that boys like to play more than girls. And there is not much you can do about it, because editing Wikipedia is more like building Lego space ships than like playing with

Re: [Gendergap] Research into causes of the gender gap?

2011-12-17 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Looks like your right. This is a pretty amazing statistic. If 23% of our editors are open source programmers, I can't believe we don't have more volunteer MediaWiki developers. I guess that's another gap we need to work on fixing. Ryan Kaldari On 12/17/11 6:13 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: *

Re: [Gendergap] Research into causes of the gender gap?

2011-12-16 Thread Johannes Rohr
Hi Bjoern and all, So in essence you are saying that Wikipedia is a game that boys like to play more than girls. And there is not much you can do about it, because editing Wikipedia is more like building Lego space ships than like playing with dolls? What I was wondering about is, has this or

Re: [Gendergap] Research into causes of the gender gap?

2011-12-15 Thread Carol Moore
On 12/14/2011 7:08 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: You are comparing a global project to build an encyclopedia with media for self-expression and communication. There are gender gaps in other areas. Lego for instance, where you build things from little bricks, in computing where people build

[Gendergap] Research into causes of the gender gap?

2011-12-14 Thread Johannes Rohr
Dear all, I recently joined this list as I am one of the persons in charge of the community-oriented goals which Wikimedia Deutschland has set for itself for the coming year, one of which is to increase female participation in Wikimedia activities projects by 50% until the end of 2012, I am well

Re: [Gendergap] Research into causes of the gender gap?

2011-12-14 Thread Nathan
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Johannes Rohr johannes.r...@wikimedia.de wrote: Dear all, I recently joined this list as I am one of the persons in charge of the community-oriented goals which Wikimedia Deutschland has set for itself for the coming year, one of which is to increase female

Re: [Gendergap] Research into causes of the gender gap?

2011-12-14 Thread phoebe ayers
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Johannes Rohr johannes.r...@wikimedia.de wrote: Dear all, I recently joined this list as I am one of the persons in charge of the community-oriented goals which Wikimedia Deutschland has set for itself for the coming year, one of which is to increase female

Re: [Gendergap] Research into causes of the gender gap?

2011-12-14 Thread Sarah Stierch
On 12/14/11 3:58 PM, Laura Hale wrote: From an Australian perspective based on observation, I can this list has the potential to be a bit of a show stopper. :( We had about three women who were active in trying to get women involved with Wikipedia. Their efforts were even mentioned on

Re: [Gendergap] Research into causes of the gender gap?

2011-12-14 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Johannes Rohr wrote: I recently joined this list as I am one of the persons in charge of the community-oriented goals which Wikimedia Deutschland has set for itself for the coming year, one of which is to increase female participation in Wikimedia activities projects by 50% until the end of