On 11 January 2017 at 12:51, Carol Moore dc <carolmooredc(a)verizon.net>
wrote:
An interesting related question is: How many admins
are approved whose sex
is totally unknown?? Similarly desysopped
Well, here is the lis
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Former_administrators/reason/for_cause>t
of users who were desysopped "for cause". That is, they weren't desysopped
because of a clearly compromised account, because of inactivity, because
they died, or resigned, or they changed accounts, or they "vanished".
There are only 33 names on that list and, as far as I can tell, only one of
them identified as being a woman. To be honest, I looked at that list and
found it a bit disturbing that I've actually met at least 10 of those
desysopped admins (they were all male). Kinda made me wonder about the
company I keep. ;-)
As to how many are approved without a clear knowledge of their gender
identity? Probably most of them. There are, without doubt, a lot of
administrators assumed to be male who are actually female; the actual
number is hard to determine, but I'd estimate at least 50, particularly
amongst admins who don't frequent "drama" areas or participate in
real-world activities.
For the record, I was widely assumed to be a male editor up to and even
including my RFA. I made the decision to "come out" as a woman just so the
nomination pronouns would be accurate and nobody would think I'd pulled the
wool over anyone's eyes. And even still...the first vote to oppose my
candidacy referred to me with "he" and "him" all the way through - as
was
pointed out by several other RFA participants ("did you even read the
nomination???") This is a bit of a longwinded way of saying that, at least
up until 2008, it was generally assumed that all RFA candidates were male
unless they had disclosed otherwise.
Risker/Anne