[Foundation-l] Fundraising is for men

[rupert THURNER]

fyi, in switzerland there are 2 mio readers and below 10000 donors ... this
means more than 99% are not giving money.
On Nov 29, 2011 11:21 PM, "emijrp" <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/11/29 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
>
> > On 29 November 2011 21:51, emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Dear all;
> > >
> > > We have heard many times that most Wikipedians are male, but have you
> > heard
> > > about gender and fundraising? Some data from a 2010 study[1] and a 2011
> > > German study[2] (question 20th of 22). People have said that Wikipedia
> > is a
> > > sexist place which excludes women to edit. Looks like women neither are
> > > interested on editing nor funding free knowledge.
> > >
> > > Is WMF working to increase female donors just like female editors?
> >
> > I think the first step would be to try and figure out if women are
> > visiting the site and not donating or just not visiting at all.
> >
> >
> So, the first step would be to try and figure out if women are visiting the
> site and not editing or just not visiting at all, before saying nonsense
> about sexism and Wikipedia community.
>
>
> > You would also want to make sure there really is a significant
> > imbalance and that it's not just that men are more likely to fill out
> > the survey form.
> >
> >
> That affects to all surveys, again.
>
> Looks like people only care about surveys which say what they want to read.
>
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