Hi Kerry, good point. I've often heard the FA crowd say that the featured 
article process has a higher proportion of women than is normal on Wikipedia. 
From my own experience there they are probably right.

Regards

Jonathan 


> On 19 Feb 2016, at 23:45, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raym...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In IT development, it’s not unusual to find the women to be of a higher 
> standard of ability. They have to be to survive the filters in their 
> profession. It’s not uncommon to see new graduates in ending up in roles 
> based on gender: men into development, women into help desk, tech writing, 
> testing etc. Why? “Girls are good with people” (help desk), “Girls have more 
> attention to detail” (testing) etc. Then, lacking a development role on their 
> CV, it makes it harder for them to get their next job in a development role. 
> You have to be good to survive that filtering.
>  
> So I can easily believe the average women on GitHub is of a higher standard 
> of ability than the average male. I suspect the same holds true about 
> Wikipedians. Does anyone actually have the 2011 editor survey data to compare 
> male vs female on other questions like age, level of education, etc. It would 
> be interesting to know how the male and female Wikipedians of 2011 are 
> statistically different in other ways.
>  
> Kerry
>  
> From: Wiki-research-l [mailto:wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On 
> Behalf Of Flöck, Fabian
> Sent: Friday, 19 February 2016 9:42 PM
> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities 
> <wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gender bias in GitHub (but not entirely what 
> you expect)
>  
> There are several issues with this study, some of which are pointed out here 
> in a useful summary: 
> http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/02/12/before-you-get-too-excited-about-that-github-study/
>  . Especially making the gender responsible for the difference in contrast to 
> other attributes of the users that might be just linked to the gender (maybe 
> the women that join GitHub are just the very best/professional women, 
> contribute only to specific types of code, etc., etc.) , apart from some 
> other open questions re:methods, seems questionable for me.  And I also share 
> the author’s criticism of “science journalism” and it’s propensity for 
> reporting catchy results.
>  
> Fabian
>  
>  
> On 11.02.2016, at 23:20, Laura Hale <la...@fanhistory.com> wrote:
>  
> https://www.quora.com/Has-the-female-participation-on-Quora-changed-in-the-past-6-months-if-so-how/answer/Laura-Hale
>  is not peer reviewed (though if you want my data) but I'm the only person 
> inside the community looking at gender issue on Quora.
>  
> In the past six months, there has been a noticable shift in female 
> participation type on Quora, to the point where it surpassed that of men.  It 
> isn't necessarily translating towards higher female user rates but it is on 
> the participation side.
>  
> Sincerely,
> Laura Hale
>  
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Jonathan Morgan <jmor...@wikimedia.org> 
> wrote:
> Thought I'd pass this along. Haven't read the whole article yet, but it 
> sounds fascinating. 
>  
> TL;DR: Looks like contributions by women are accepted more often than those 
> by men, but only if the project leader doesn't know the pull request is 
> coming from a woman.
>  
> Excellent summary: 
> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/data-analysis-of-github-contributions-reveals-unexpected-gender-bias/
>  
> Preprint: https://peerj.com/preprints/1733v1/
>  
> Note: this work has not yet been peer-reviewed. 
>  
> J
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