one take away is how few voters there are.

we have a lot of feminist editathons coming up
should we consider recruiting at events to get new editors over 150 edits,
with a view of block voting in next year's election?

if we organize now, we could run a civility slate of candidates.

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote:

> OOPS,
>
> Absolutely correct, I had a programme error. Re-running this gives a
> more credible set of numbers:
> Total voted: 590
> Total identified with gender: 255
> Male   224
> Female 31
>
> So open males = 38%, open females = 5%. Which indicates that a good
> *guesstimate* of the number of women voting was 11%.
>
> I might also have skipped a voter, I think there should be 591, but I
> have given up on debugging that one.
>
> Fae
>
>
> On 9 December 2014 at 13:55, Katie Chan <k...@ktchan.info> wrote:
> > On 09/12/2014 13:45, Fæ wrote:
> >>
> >> The statistic comes from querying the English Wikipedia database. This
> >> includes a table of user preferences which itself is where the on-wiki
> >> preferences stores information like preferred gender.
> >>
> >> Here's the SQL for anyone interested (it includes other redundant
> >> stuff, I was re-using something I already had to hand):
> >> SELECT user_name,
> >>      user_editcount,
> >>      LEFT(user_registration,4) AS reg,
> >>      GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT ug_group SEPARATOR ' ') AS grps,
> >>      GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT CONCAT(up_property,':',up_value)) AS prop
> >> FROM user u
> >> LEFT JOIN user_properties ON up_user=u.user_id
> >> LEFT JOIN user_groups ON u.user_id=ug_user
> >> WHERE user_name="''' +u +'''"
> >>      AND up_property="gender"
> >> GROUP BY user_name
> >> ORDER BY user_editcount DESC;
> >>
> >> (Where "u" is a variable iterating over the listed voters.)
> >>
> >> As others are pointing out, the statistic of 1/590 is a fact
> >
> >
> > Err....
> >
> >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&list=users&ususers=KTC&usprop=gender
> >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&list=users&ususers=Fluffernutter&usprop=gender
> >
> > and others.
> >
> >
> > KTC
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