Re: [Wiki-research-l] Asperges, ADHD and editors

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes/Health/Mental and semi-related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes/Personality plus the essays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_disorder_editors

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Asperges, ADHD and editors

Hey Jonathon, I saw that earlier but what the category doesn’t show is what percentage of editors are and whether that’s disproportiante. I don’t think we can get that from a category due to the differing ways people handle their userspace. Thanks! On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 21:41,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Asperges, ADHD and editors

I can fully understand that Wikipedians might be reluctant to reveal this sort of information, especially if they edit under their own name. But some do, and there are currently 624 Wikipedians who have put themselves in the category

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Asperges, ADHD and editors

This section fills in some of the gaps left by the statement: "It is not only people who do not care for rules, it is also the people who obsess about rules." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarice_Phelps#Wikipedia_article ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Asperges, ADHD and editors

Gerard, To clarify, what grosses me out ("makes me uncomfortable") is the prospect of third parties gathering and storing sensitive personal information about individual Wikipedia editors without proper oversight mechanisms. Health and medical data is one of the most sensitive kinds of individual

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Asperges, ADHD and editors

Hi Lelia, That provides a lot of insight! I’ll give it a deep look tommorow. Applies to some areas of the movement but not more content-related ones. Thanks! On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 20:02, Leila Zia wrote: > Hi RhinosF1, > > If you already haven't seen it, you may be interested to check out >

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Asperges, ADHD and editors

Hi RhinosF1, If you already haven't seen it, you may be interested to check out StackOverflow's Annual Developer Survey. Every year, they ask developers across the globe a variety of questions including their demographics and within that they have a category called developer profile. Check out

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Asperges, ADHD and editors

Hey, I think the quote “ Wikipedians are not disproportionately ADHD, perhaps the reverse.” is an interesting opinion as the view of many seems to be that Wikimedia Projects require charectersitics common of people in those groups. Gerard, I agree that we can have issues with people. Thanks!

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Asperges, ADHD and editors

Hoi, We regularly have problems with people. We have people who are banned because people think they are problematic. We have banned people who have contributed hugely to our projects. The notion that it is stigmatising is a notion whereby we wash our hands in innocence, we do not want to know.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Asperges, ADHD and editors

For the reviews that summarized research some time ago: The people's encyclopedia under the gaze of the sages: A systematic review of scholarly research on Wikipedia (page 56 https://orbit.dtu.dk/ws/files/52914302/SSRN_id2021326.pdf Wikipedia research and tools: Review and comments (page 23)

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Asperges, ADHD and editors

Hi, I saw that J and I don’t think (luckily) it ever finished. Your comment about it taking “a certain mindset” is very true and the reason behind this post. Joe, If you can help us bring any data to “good use” allowing a “more emergent understanding” then please feel free to fire out

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Asperges, ADHD and editors

I wonder if rather than trying to sort people into existing categories, it would be useful to have a more emergent understanding of Wikimedia and the broader open source community. Obviously we should be careful because it could amount to playing with fire (cf. Cambridge Analytica). *However*

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Asperges, ADHD and editors

There's this study but I don't know if it was ever completed (and as you can infer from my posts on the talkpage, I very much hope it was NOT). In general, any

[Wiki-research-l] Asperges, ADHD and editors

Evening all, I hope everyone is doing well given the crazy world we’re living in. I was having a conversation with a few users on Discord today and we were wondering whether wikimedia (or users of other similiar sites would be fine) disproportinately fall into the category of having aspergers,