I bet the majority of people 1) have no clue what arbcom is 2) probably don't care much if they do because most people won't end up there
So someone will surely have to invest a lot of time and money in educating a lot of people who only edit occasionally about Arbcom.
I have been editing Wikipedia for 8 years and I don't even think I have voted in those elections.
Sarah On Dec 10, 2014 6:10 AM, "Jim Hayes" slowking4@gmail.com wrote:
one take away is how few voters there are.
we have a lot of feminist editathons coming up should we consider recruiting at events to get new editors over 150 edits, with a view of block voting in next year's election?
if we organize now, we could run a civility slate of candidates.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
OOPS,
Absolutely correct, I had a programme error. Re-running this gives a more credible set of numbers: Total voted: 590 Total identified with gender: 255 Male 224 Female 31
So open males = 38%, open females = 5%. Which indicates that a good *guesstimate* of the number of women voting was 11%.
I might also have skipped a voter, I think there should be 591, but I have given up on debugging that one.
Fae
On 9 December 2014 at 13:55, Katie Chan ktc@ktchan.info wrote:
On 09/12/2014 13:45, Fæ wrote:
The statistic comes from querying the English Wikipedia database. This includes a table of user preferences which itself is where the on-wiki preferences stores information like preferred gender.
Here's the SQL for anyone interested (it includes other redundant stuff, I was re-using something I already had to hand): SELECT user_name, user_editcount, LEFT(user_registration,4) AS reg, GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT ug_group SEPARATOR ' ') AS grps, GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT CONCAT(up_property,':',up_value)) AS prop FROM user u LEFT JOIN user_properties ON up_user=u.user_id LEFT JOIN user_groups ON u.user_id=ug_user WHERE user_name="''' +u +'''" AND up_property="gender" GROUP BY user_name ORDER BY user_editcount DESC;
(Where "u" is a variable iterating over the listed voters.)
As others are pointing out, the statistic of 1/590 is a fact
Err....
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&list=use...
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&list=use...
and others.
KTC
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