Either way, I have no objections. Just opinions
:)
Jonathan
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
This request is not about English Wikipedia;
it's about demographics
for Wikipedia editors in general. Apparently, the last time we did a
cross-wiki demographic survey was 2008. Let me know if that isn't correct.
The specific questions that people would like answers to are:
* What is the gender of Wikipedia editors?
* What is the age of Wikipedia editors?
* What is the educational background of Wikipedia editors?
* What is the relationship status of Wikipedia editors?
* What percentage of Wikipedia editors have children?
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Jonathan Morgan <jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org
> wrote:
> CC'ing Edward Galvez, our survey specialist.
>
> Hi Pete,
>
> I support this idea in general, and am always interested in learning
> more about the demographics of our communities. A few
> considerations/suggestions (these are opinions: I'm not in a position to
> launch or kill a project like this).
>
> - It takes much more than a month to deploy and analyze a (useful,
> successful, and LEGAL) survey. Especially when you're asking about
people's
> off-wiki lives (see Dan's comments above). WMF ran an annual editor survey
> for several years, and ended up stopping in part because it took a lot of
> time, and there was no clear research question to justify the continued
> effort of re-running the survey.
> - I'd like to hear a more detailed rationale about why we think
> the demographics of English Wikipedia may have changed since the last
> survey.
> - I'd like to hear a more detailed rationale for why it is more
> important to understand the demographics of English Wikipedians (who have
> already been surveyed) as opposed to, say, the demographics of contributors
> to languages associated with countries where a large number of people are
> coming online for the first time (and hence represent areas of significant
> content growth within Wikipedia as a whole). We've run comparatively fewer
> surveys targeted at these users, and we have greater reason to suspect that
> the demographics of these contributors are actively shifting.
> - This sounds to me like it could be a great Individual Engagement
> Grant project. If someone submitted this as an IEG and it was accepted, I
> would be happy to support the project by working with the project leader to
> craft a useful survey and get the relevant Legal approval.
>
> Best,
> Jonathan
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 5:05 AM, Dan Andreescu <
> dandreescu(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Pete. This is a subject that comes up every now and then, but
>> there is no active effort I know of to measure demographics. While it
>> seems simple, and should be in a more ideal world, it is not. Any sort of
>> self-identification tends to be heavily biased because a lot of minorities,
>> when they identify as such, are harassed in some pretty miserable ways. We
>> could run some of the tools we have to survey, like quick survey, and keep
>> results anonymous, what specifically were you looking for?
>>
>>
>> On Friday, April 8, 2016, Peter Ekman <pdekman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Jimbo, on his talk page, said I should ask somebody at the WMF about
>>> what's been going on and what might be happening soon re: Wikipedia
>>> demographic surveys
>>>
>>> Please see,
>>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Updated_demographic_sta…
>>>
>>> My feelings are:
>>> *This is an important problem that should be easily dealt with and
>>> can
>>> be solved by a commitment from the top brass, and
>>> *we need to take a spectacularly simple approach to just get it done.
>>>
>>> Any feedback would be appreciated via my e-mail or even on Jimbo's
>>> talk.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Pete Ekman
>>> aka User:Smallbones
>>>
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