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=users&ususers=KTC&usprop=gender
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&list=users&ususers=Fluffernutter&usprop=gender
>
> and others.
>
>
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