Claudia
Our behaviour on Wikipedia is public (for better or worse). But a tool that
analyses it can of course be limited to allow users to see only the analysis
of their own behaviour and show them where they sit on a graph relative to
unidentified others. However, based on past discussions of privacy and
analysis tools, I suspect others will argue that if the data is public, why
shouldn't the analysis also be public?
But, Claudia, I am not sure of the end point of this conversation which
seems to be wandering all over the place. Are we trying to come up with one
or more research questions in relation to the gender gap? If so, that needs
some constraining in terms of the time and resources available? What can be
done in 10 years with $10M and the full cooperation of WMF is very different
to what can be done over the weekend with no budget using existing public
data? Is the goal to put in a PEG grant?
Kerry