Well, from your previous post I was left the distinct impression that
neither you nor your female friends edit the Wikipedia. So I have gone back
and reread your post to see what I missed. I see that you and your friends
"interact". For the life of me I thought that by "interact" you meant
go on
the internet and interact with people - on social media etc. Nothing in it
implied that you meant editing the WP.
And no, I have never edited on an iPad - why should I, if I work on as big
a screen as I can get that is still small enough to pack into a travel
bakpack? ;-)
Rui
2014-06-01 20:47 GMT+02:00 Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com>om>:
I'll bet you have never tried to edit Wikipedia on
an iPad
2014-06-01 20:25 GMT+02:00, Rui Correia <correia.rui(a)gmail.com>om>:
Jane
I think we are talking about two different things. Ownership of or access
to equipment with access to the internet is not the same thing as we are
talking about. If anything, the fact that more women own any such
equipment
only goes to reinforce what we already know,
which is that not many
girls/
women are taking part in editing the Wikipedia.
Rui
2014-06-01 9:30 GMT+02:00 Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com>om>:
> Of course I am just a sample of one, but in my personal circle of
> female friends, most of them only interact with a smartphone or tablet
> and though they may own a full-fledged computer, they only interact
> with that machine for certain boring and obligatory tasks such as
> filing taxes and printing. This is in and of itself, a reason not to
> edit, in my mind. Research into the use of tablets in 2012 in the
> Netherlands did indicate that more women were active on them than men,
> and a simple google search picked this 2013 BBC article up about the
> same holding true for women in the UK:
> "Women own most of the UK's tablet computers says study"
>
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23355944
>
> Disclaimer: I am a frequent user of an iPad-1 that my mother (of all
> people!) gave me for my birthday.
>
> 2014-06-01 8:52 GMT+02:00, ENWP Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com>om>:
> >> Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 06:39:38 +0100
> >> From: Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com>
> >> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase participation [WAS: The first
> >> three weeks]
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> >> On 1 June 2014 04:26, James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >> ...
> >> >>... selects strongly against women.
> >> >
> >> > Where is the evidence that women have more difficulty understanding
> >> > wikitext than men?
> >>
> >> (Probably drifting to "Increase participation by women")
> >>
> >> As someone who has run editathons on women focused topics, I found
> >> this an odd comment that does not match anecdotal experience. New
> >> women users seem little different to men in the issues that arise,
and
> >> though I have found myself
apologising for the slightly odd syntax,
> >> given the standard crib-sheet most users get on with basic article
> >> creation quite happily.
> >>
> >> There are far more commonly raised issues such as the complex issues
> >> associated with image upload (copyright!), or the conceptual
> >> difficulty of "namespaces" which mean that some webpages behave
> >> differently to others. None is something that appears to "select
> >> strongly against women", though the encyclopedia's way of defining
> >> notability can make it harder to create articles about pre-1970s
> >> professional women, purely because sources from earlier periods tend
> >> to be biased towards men.
> >>
> >> If there are surveys that wiki-syntax is more of a barrier for women
> >> than men (after discounting out other factors), perhaps someone could
> >> provide a link?
> >>
> >> Fae
> >
> > FWIW, I think that Lila said at the Zurich hackathon that she had
found
> > research indicating that fewer women
click the "edit" button than men
> > do.
> > That sounds like a phenomenon that could use some research and
> > experimentation.
> >
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2014-05-10_Wikimedia_Hackathon_Lila…
> >
> >
> > Also, the Individual Engagement Grants Committee and WMF have funded a
> > research project in this IEG round focused on women's participation.
> >
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_and_Wikipedia
> >
> > Pine
> >
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