Hi, Since participating in the Inspire campaign, I got interested in the question of exactly how many women would be needed on Wikipedia to close the gender gap. I ran some simulations and came up with some fairly radical numbers. For example, according to my calculations, there are so few current and new female editors that, even if every current and new active, female editor stayed active for ten years, we wouldn't close the gap.
I've posted the results <https://civilsociology.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/closing-the-gender-gap-on-wikipedia-results-from-some-simulations/> to my blog. It's password protected so I can share the results and get feedback without making it pubic. You can access them by using the password "wikipedia". I'm hoping some of you with experience researching gender representation on Wikipedia would be able to catch any errors. Thanks! Jason -- Jason Radford Doctoral Student, Sociology, University of Chicago Visiting Researcher, Lazer Lab, Northeastern University *Connect*: LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jsradford>, Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/jsradford>, University of Chicago <http://home.uchicago.edu/%7Ejsradford/> *Play Games for Science at Volunteer Science <http://www.volunteerscience.com>*
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