On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 1:44 PM, carolmooredc@verizon.net wrote:
I dislike phrase Global South since needs too much explanation. But "the 2/3 (or whatever percent) of the human population which lives in the economically developing world" is a bit of a mouthful. It also helps to remind people that wikimedias exist in dozens of languages, but how to add that to one short phrase, I know not!
You're definitely not alone in that dislike. :-) Here's a definition though, for anyone who's not sure what it means: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_South
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Javier Bassi javierbassi@gmail.com wrote:
In march 2010 WP had 12% and now its on 9%? Am I right or I'm missing something? :\
The percentage isn't necessarily going down. The two percentages were found through surveys with pretty different methodologies. I think the most recent survey was intended to be "more scientific" in how it was executed, hopefully giving a more accurate snapshot and more specific numbers. So, pretty much, it's most likely been between 9% and 12% all along, we're just getting an either more accurate number or just a different amount of woman participated -- it doesn't mean that we're doing worse and are losing women we already had.
I'm not a statistician or anything, though, so this could all be misguided. ;-) I'm sure someone else would be able to add more here.