Mako Hill and Aaron Shaw wrote a paper which combined a 2008 WMF survey with Pew Research to try to find a less biased estimation of the Wikipedia gender gap. Their paper is titled "The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: Characterizing Survey Response Bias with Propensity Score Estimation", and is at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0065782#pone-0065782-t002 .
It's not a perfect fit for eliminating the bias to participate in editor surveys, but it's a step toward a more realistic value for the gender gap (although it's still pretty bleak - with only 16% of gobal editors estimated to be female). Best, Jeremy On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com > wrote: > 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 >> > > >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Gendergap mailing list >> > > gender...@lists.wikimedia.org >> > > To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, >> please >> > > visit: >> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> > > >> ------- End of Original Message ------- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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