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 > > -- > Jonathan T. Morgan > Senior Design Researcher > Wikimedia Foundation > User:Jmorgan (WMF) > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > -- > twitter: purplepopple > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > Gruß, > Fabian > > -- > Fabian Flöck > Research Associate > Computational Social Science department @GESIS > Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, 50667 Cologne, Germany > Tel: + 49 (0) 221-47694-208 > fabian.flo...@gesis.org > > www.gesis.org > www.facebook.com/gesis.org > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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