Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-05 Thread emijrp
2012/2/5 Delphine Ménard > Also, I just realized that with SUL, the gender is not passed from one > wiki to the other, and frankly, I doubt people revisit their > preferences for each wiki (my account is active on 108 wikis... I'm > never gonna change all of those !*) they do 100 edits on. Just a

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-05 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Sarah Stierch, 05/02/2012 17:16: Delphine - thanks for letting us know that they don't carry over. I never knew that! I'll probably change mine as I travel across wiki's :) The only "global preference" is email address (and password). Nemo ___ Gende

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-05 Thread Sarah Stierch
On 2/5/12 11:14 AM, Delphine Ménard wrote: I think, keeping in mind what Erik pointed out about the bias of such a statistics, that it would be extremely interesting to be able to compare those numbers (disclosed male or female) with non identified gender. For all we know, females might make th

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-05 Thread Delphine Ménard
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:59 PM, emijrp wrote: > Hi all; > > Is there any up-to-date statistical tools monitoring gender gap? I have > started this basic one[1], and I'm thinking about an analysis of male-female > biographies ratio between Wikipedias. > > Suggestions and links to tools are welcome

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-04 Thread Laura Hale
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 5:38 AM, emijrp wrote: > 2012/2/1 emijrp > >> ... and I'm thinking about an analysis of male-female biographies ratio >> between Wikipedias. >> > > After an analysis of a sample of 364k biographies where ~44% of them where > classified using he/she his/her word occurences,

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-04 Thread Paolo Massa
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 7:38 PM, emijrp wrote: > 2012/2/1 emijrp >> >> ... and I'm thinking about an analysis of male-female biographies ratio >> between Wikipedias. > > > After an analysis of a sample of 364k biographies where ~44% of them where > classified using he/she his/her word occurences,

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-04 Thread emijrp
2012/2/1 emijrp > ... and I'm thinking about an analysis of male-female biographies ratio > between Wikipedias. > After an analysis of a sample of 364k biographies where ~44% of them where classified using he/she his/her word occurences, it shows only 6.2% of female biographies on English Wikipe

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-03 Thread Carol Moore DC
On 2/2/2012 3:03 AM, Caroline Becker wrote: Don't be depress Sarah if female participation remains low. Even if Wikipedia was a perfect place without any bias, it would still be a project from the "real world" were lot of forces prevent women from editing : lower confidence in themselves, less

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-03 Thread emijrp
Here is the accumulate by project family http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wmcharts/wmchart0013.html Wikiquote, Wikisource and Wikiversity are the winners. 2012/2/2 John Vandenberg > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:05 AM, emijrp wrote: > > 2012/2/2 Sarah Stierch > >>... > >> What else are people seeing

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-02 Thread Nina Wikipedia
Thanks Sarah! Nina Sendt fra min iPhone Den 2. feb. 2012 kl. 22:15 skrev Sarah : > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:05 PM, emijrp wrote: >> By the way, you can't invite 1000 women that a day after leave because they >> don't understand how to edit (usability) or other reason. First, you have to >> und

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-02 Thread Sarah
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:05 PM, emijrp wrote: > By the way, you can't invite 1000 women that a day after leave because they > don't understand how to edit (usability) or other reason. First, you have to > understand why women leave. When you solves that, every woman that arrives, > will continue e

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-02 Thread Caroline Becker
Don't be depress Sarah if female participation remains low. Even if Wikipedia was a perfect place without any bias, it would still be a project from the "real world" were lot of forces prevent women from editing : lower confidence in themselves, less free time, lower access to education. We can't

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-01 Thread John Vandenberg
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:05 AM, emijrp wrote: > 2012/2/2 Sarah Stierch >>... >> What else are people seeing in their chosen languages that might be >> interesting? Anything surprising? >> > > No. Only a few examples where women are 15-25% of edits some days but in > small Wikipedias or sister pr

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-01 Thread John Vandenberg
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:59 AM, emijrp wrote: > Hi all; > > Is there any up-to-date statistical tools monitoring gender gap? I have > started this basic one[1], and I'm thinking about an analysis of male-female > biographies ratio between Wikipedias. > > Suggestions and links to tools are welcome.

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-01 Thread Erik Moeller
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:59 PM, emijrp wrote: > Hi all; > > Is there any up-to-date statistical tools monitoring gender gap? I have > started this basic one[1], and I'm thinking about an analysis of male-female > biographies ratio between Wikipedias. > > Suggestions and links to tools are welcome.

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-01 Thread emijrp
2012/2/2 Sarah Stierch > On 2/1/12 5:39 PM, Sarah wrote: > > > That's very interesting, thank you (and somewhat depressing). > > Sarah > > ___ > > > > Yeah, it just shows that we need to take action. > We need to take action if a low number of women m

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-01 Thread Sarah Stierch
On 2/1/12 5:39 PM, Sarah wrote: That's very interesting, thank you (and somewhat depressing). Sarah ___ Yeah, it just shows that we need to take action. Imagine if every Wikimedia contributor on this list, took a few hours and invited a friend,

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-01 Thread Sarah
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:59 PM, emijrp wrote: > Hi all; > > Is there any up-to-date statistical tools monitoring gender gap? I have > started this basic one[1], and I'm thinking about an analysis of male-female > biographies ratio between Wikipedias. > > Suggestions and links to tools are welcome.

[Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-01 Thread emijrp
Hi all; Is there any up-to-date statistical tools monitoring gender gap? I have started this basic one[1], and I'm thinking about an analysis of male-female biographies ratio between Wikipedias. Suggestions and links to tools are welcome. Regards, emijrp [1] http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wmchar