Thanks, again! More links (Mako Hill and Aaron Shaw's text is already in there) and more thoughts. Beautiful! When I saw the number of new mails, I just had to laugh. It's so wonderful to be in this company. This made me want to improve the text even more :-)


Best wishes,

Lennart Guldbrandsson

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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:25:16 -0800
From: phoebe.wiki@gmail.com
To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
CC: susanpgardner@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Help: Research on whether we have made any difference?

Hi Lennart!

Not addressing the question of whether we've made any difference... but if you're quoting numbers AFAIK the best research on the gender gap numbers is Mako Hill and Aaron Shaw, from last year:
http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/the-wikipedia-gender-gap-revisited

which tries to correct for the issues with opt-in surveys. Of course the overall point is, as Mako says, "Overall, these results reinforce the basic substantive finding that women are vastly under-represented among Wikipedia editors."

-- phoebe

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:37 AM, Lennart Guldbrandsson <l_guldbrandsson@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hello,

I am writing a short (1500 word) text for the journal of current cultural research, Culture Unbound (http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/index.html), to be published in April. The topic touches quite heavily on the gendergap issue. I have tried to find any numbers on whether the initiatives - editathons, Teahouse, etc - have made any dent in the numbers. Are there any such numbers or have I simply fantasized about it?

Since they want the text soon, please respond soon. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Best wishes,

Lennart Guldbrandsson

070 - 207 80 05
http://www.elementx.se - arbete
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Presentation
@aliasHannibal - på Twitter

"Tänk dig en värld där varje människa på den här planeten får fri tillgång till världens samlade kunskap. Det är vårt mål."
Jimmy Wales

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