Hi,
Since participating in the Inspire grant campaign, I got interested in the
question of exactly how many women would be needed on Wikipedia to close
the gender gap. I ran some simulations and came up with some fairly radical
numbers. For example, according to my calculations, there are so few
current and new female editors that, even if every current and new active,
female editor stayed active for ten years, we wouldn't close the gap.
I've posted the results
<https://civilsociology.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/closing-the-gender-gap-on-wikipedia-results-from-some-simulations/>
to my blog. It's password protected so I can share the results and get
feedback without making it pubic. You can access them by using the
password "wikipedia". I was hoping you folks on the analytics list would be
keen to catching any missing variables or unrealistic assumptions in the
work.
I appreciate any feedback,
Jason
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