We developed in Mexico 3 editathons with only women during 2015. I can send
you data from Wikimetrics about this.


2015-12-08 11:45 GMT-06:00 Jonathan Morgan <jmor...@wikimedia.org>:

> I don't personally know of any central repository for data on past
> edit-a-thons.
>
> There might be something out there. You could probably get some
> information from pinging folks in CE who've worked on Project & Event
> Grants (Asaf Bartov, Kacie Harold) or Program Evaluation (Amanda Bittaker,
> Edward Galvez), or search through past grant reports... but I'm guessing
> the data will be sparse and inconsistent, as it is still collected in a
> somewhat ad-hoc fashion.
>
> If WMF were to support the development and maintenance of standardized
> infrastructure for edit-a-thon tracking--something like Harsh Kothari and
> Jeph Paul's platform for the Indian Wikiwomen edit-a-thons (site
> <http://2015.wikiwomen.in/>, code
> <https://github.com/cosmiclattes/wikiwomen/tree/master>)--this would be
> easier. But AFAIK that hasn't happened. If someone takes up that cause I
> will voice my support.
>
> J
>
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Maximilian Klein <isa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Researchians,
>>
>> I have a been collecting data on the gendered biographies of different
>> Wikipedia Languages from Wikidata dumps, with the question of trying to
>> understand the gender gap in content. After reading about Propensity Score
>> Matching[1] today, I see it would be possible to test a (close to) causal
>> link between the genders of Wikipedia Biographies being added to a
>> language, and Editathon activity. Yet we'd need the data for editathon
>> activity. Is it compiled somewhere, or can you think of how it could be
>> compiled?
>>
>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propensity_score_matching The idea in
>> propensity score matching is to pretend a randomized experiment is being
>> conducted, and to find a "control group" - a similar but untreated
>> language, for each "treated group".
>>
>>
>> Make a great day,
>> Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/
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