The discussion on Jimbo's talk page centers around the fact that the demographic information at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia#Diversity is from 2008. Even if survey results are always biased, surely it would be better to have biased data from 2016 than biased data from 2008.
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 6:05 AM, Dan Andreescu <dandree...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi Pete. This is a subject that comes up every now and then, but there is > no active effort I know of to measure demographics. While it seems simple, > and should be in a more ideal world, it is not. Any sort of > self-identification tends to be heavily biased because a lot of minorities, > when they identify as such, are harassed in some pretty miserable ways. We > could run some of the tools we have to survey, like quick survey, and keep > results anonymous, what specifically were you looking for? > > > On Friday, April 8, 2016, Peter Ekman <pdek...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Jimbo, on his talk page, said I should ask somebody at the WMF about >> what's been going on and what might be happening soon re: Wikipedia >> demographic surveys >> >> Please see, >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Updated_demographic_statistics_on_Wikipedia_editors >> >> My feelings are: >> *This is an important problem that should be easily dealt with and can >> be solved by a commitment from the top brass, and >> *we need to take a spectacularly simple approach to just get it done. >> >> Any feedback would be appreciated via my e-mail or even on Jimbo's talk. >> >> Sincerely, >> Pete Ekman >> aka User:Smallbones >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >
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