Hoi,
For English asking the gender or our readers, editors is not useful. For
Slavic languages it is. The localisers at
translatewiki.net actively
incorporate the difference in addressing in their work. If you want to
optimise the results, we can advertise the fact why we ask people's gender.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 10 February 2011 13:53, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10 February 2011 06:06, Dmitriy Sintsov
<questpc(a)rambler.ru> wrote:
* "M. Williamson"
<node.ue(a)gmail.com> [Wed, 9 Feb 2011 17:29:06 -0700]:
Would it be possible to get this information for
es.wp and sv.wp?
There should be one table with all lang.wp and a column with male to
female ratio.
Since the vast majority of users apparently don't specify, that data
wouldn't be very useful. It's only useful if can justify the
assumption that people that specify have the same gender ratio as the
general population (which could easily not be true - for example,
women may choose not to specify because they don't want to be singled
out for "special" treatment [insert obligatory xkcd reference here -
I'm at work so I won't go hunting for it, but you know the one I mean]
so the ratio for people that do specify would overestimate the number
of men).
Could we get the proportion of users with more than 10 edits that
specify? It's possible that is significantly higher than for all
users, in which case we could get some useful numbers for those users.
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