Hoi,
What year are we living ?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 14 February 2015 at 17:24, <koltzenb...@w4w.net> wrote:
> my2cents re figures on percentages (... in a gender binary paradigm),
> well...
>
> I'd suggest to take into account User:Pundit's thoughtful considerations,
>
> author of: Jemielniak, Dariusz (2014), Common knowledge? An ethnography
> of Wikipedia, Stanford University Press, pp. 14-15
>
> Dariusz Jemielniak writes:
> "According to Wikipedia Editors Study, published in 2011, 91 percent of
> all Wikipedia editors are male ([reference to a study of 2011] This figure
> may not be accurate, since it is based on a voluntary online survey
> advertised to 31,699 registered users and resulting on 5,073 complete and
> valid responses [...] it is possible that male editors are more likely to
> respond than female editors. Similarly, a study of self-declarations of
> gender showing only 16 percent are female editors (Lam et al. 2011) may be
> distorted, since more females may choose not to reveal their gender in a
> community perceived as male dominated."
>
> additionally, asserting status and flaunting seniority (also described
> by Jemielniak at the end of the paragraph previous to the one quoted above)
> is generally perceived to be a commonly employed trick to resist any
> changes;
>
> and, last but not least, one might argue that the group perceived as
> "in power" might feel to find strongly unbalanced outcomes most rewarding,
> and hence might tend to publish them as widely as possible and not least
> quote from them persistently, too...
>
> any rebuttals from stats experts here?
>
> best,
> Claudia
> koltzenb...@w4w.net
> My GPG-Key-ID: DDD21523
>
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From:Jane Darnell <jane...@gmail.com>
> To:Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-
> l...@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent:Sat, 14 Feb 2015 10:49:29 +0100
> Subject:[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Wikipedia readers
>
> > Forwarding here in case anyone has information
> > that could benefit Yana
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Jane Darnell <jane...@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 9:44 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Wikipedia readers
> > To: "Addressing gender equity and exploring ways
> > to increase the participation of women within
> > Wikimedia projects." < gender...@lists.wikimedia.org>
> >
> > In 2013 the Dutch Wikimedia chapter hired an
> > external party to conduct a survey and the results
> > (translated to English) are here:
> https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Motivaction_report_translation_v02.pd
> f
> >
> > The study was split into two parts; one on the
> > contributors and one on the "users", aka readers.
> > Users were 50/50 male female (page 51),
> > contributors were 88% male, 6% female, and 6%
> > would not say (page 26)
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Yana Welinder
> > <y...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > What are some good studies of the gender of Wikipedia readers?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Yana
> > >
> > >
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