Yes I was referring to the attendance
figures at Wikimania as being about 1 in 3 in response to Tim Davenport’s
comment that female participation at Wikimania being higher than reported
female participation on-wiki. Now I’ve found the link again, the data shows 36%
female registrations:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2014_Participant_Survey_-_Data_Summary.pdf
Yes, it would be nice to see what the 2012
survey data shows.
Kerry
From:
Andreas Kolbe [mailto:jayen466@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 2 December 2014
8:53 PM
To: Kerry Raymond; Addressing
gender equity and exploring ways to increase the participation of women within
Wikimedia projects.
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Moving
Forward
You make many good points, Kerry, that speak for themselves. This reply
merely addresses one of them: the availability of data.
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raymond@gmail.com>
wrote:
I am not aware of any such survey data released at Wikimania. (A
submission highlighting that only 6% of contributors to the Dutch Wikipedia are
women was rejected[1].)
I wonder whether you are remembering a statistic about attendance at
Wikimania itself, in which case it may be interesting to note that female
Wikimedians appear to value situations providing an opportunity for real,
face-to-face contact more than male Wikimedians do, and are statistically more
likely to attend such events than male contributors.
Several of you are mentioning the importance of regularly updated
gender split data.
To recap, past survey results for female participation were:
· 12.64% in the 2010 UNU survey[2],
· 8.5% and 9% in the 2011 editor surveys[3][4], and
· 16.1% in the re-analysis of the UNU survey data by Shaw and Hill
(2013, apparently done without the input of the original study authors; note
that Hill serves on the Wikimedia Foundation advisory board).[5]
The 2012 results remain unreported to date.
For the record, on 4 March 2013 (21 months ago), Tilman Bayer said[7]
in response to an inquiry on
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Beckie and I have been
working on the data during the last few days, and we hope we can wrap this up
soon. In any case, we still have the ambition of keeping the timespan between
the conclusion of the survey and the publication of the first results shorter
than in the preceding editors survey. Regards, Tbayer (WMF) (talk) 21:13, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
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There have been half a dozen inquiries from Wikimedians on
· 30 August 2014 by Fæ and myself
· 4 September 2014 by SlimVirgin
· 25 November 2014 by myself
· 27 November 2014 by myself
· 28 November 2014 by Kathleen McCook
This is in addition to multiple inquiries for this data made on this
list, and on Tilman's user talk pages in his home wiki.
There has not been a single reply to any of these queries to date from
Tilman or anyone else in the Foundation.
It would be great if members of this list could individually help find
out why this data is not being released, and indeed why the Foundation appears
to have stopped running editor surveys altogether – another question that has
been asked and remained unanswered[7] – and then report back here with any
information they are able to glean.
I am sorry if my going on about this comes across as pushy, but I am
frankly mystified why it is so difficult to receive answers to such questions.
Andreas
[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Editor_Survey_Report_-_April_2011.pdf&page=3