Chris, (prepare for a babble fest on data)<br><br>This is data I'm actually currently gathering as a volunteer. I have a survey (that isn't perfect, and I wish I could have asked more..but..) I've developed and I use a tool to monitor project contributors (<a href="http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Public_art/Members&days=365&view=table_">http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Public_art/Members&days=365&view=table_</a> ). I also have been in personal contact with over 200 female editors over the past week. My email box is a little overflowing...of painful stories and lack of interest in continuing to contribute - flipped with people who are interested in contributing again because of the email I sent them or like to share their own ideas on women and retention with me. <br>
<br>The problem is that most women don't identify their gender on their account, but I'm finding a surprisingly large amount actually identify it on their userpage (i.e. with a userbox or their name).<br><br>Regarding outreach, I have kept tabs on our local outreach and I do follow up on talk pages, use that tool above I showed you (that Dispenser made) to check out project productivity (i.e. you'll see with WP:Public Art, which I co-founded - many of the users were assigned the project for school and most have never edited again after their school assignment, and the majority are female (this is based on userpage data etc). I've also seen with another female-themed outreach event that out of about 10 only ONE female editor still contributes since the day of the event, which was months ago. <br>
<br>I'm babbling here, but, I'm obsessed with this data, and someplace in my mind I think it'll all help myself/WMF/whoever better explore how to close the gender gap. <br><br>On another note - I'm hoping to present the data from my Women and Wikimedia survey at the end of October with a presentation (hopefully at WMF, but they don't know that yet...).<br>
<br>-Sarah<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Chris Keating <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com">chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
So how can we measure what impact we're having on getting women to participate?<div><br></div><div>Over the next few months Wikimedia UK's very going to be adopting a rather more formal set of reporting procedures. I just wondered if people on this list had any thoughts about how we could build in some gender impact assessment into this reporting.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It should be fairly easy for the Board to ask for statistics on how many of the people attending events are men and how many are women. Ideally we would also have statistics on how many people attending events *who then go on to edit/join/otherwise take part* available by gender. It should be even easier to monitor the diversity of our staff (currently we have 2, both are male) and Wikimedians in Residence (also currently 2, both male) and indeed the board (err.... 7 men) - hopefully these statistics will be a bit better in a year's time. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Does anyone have any more thoughts on how we should approach this? </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Chris</div></font><div><br></div><div>PS. Also, you might be interested to know that we've identified a £10k budget for "broadening impact" - i.e. additional funding for projects which are aimed at women, Scotland, Wales, ethnic or linguistic minorities - I think this is a good thing but we do need to make sure the remaining £500k isn't spent only on white Englishmen ;-)</div>
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