--- On Sat, 2/7/11, carolmooredc@verizon.net <carolmooredc@verizon.net> wrote:

From: carolmooredc@verizon.net <carolmooredc@verizon.net>
Subject: [Gendergap] New Survey: 9% female editors
To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects" <gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Saturday, 2 July, 2011, 15:52


http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/10/wikipedia-editors-do-it-for-fun-first-results-of-our-2011-editor-survey/

Also, interesting statistics on ages, with 30 plus almost as large as 12-29 year olds.

 

If the median age has crept up into the late twenties, that seems like a good sign. In the 

2009 survey, it stood at 22: 

 




I have said this before, but we seem to lack African-American editors, and it's my 

impression we don't cover African-American culture well. I wonder if we could get an article 

out on theroot.com 




One thing I missed in the recent survey was a specific question about which race and 
 
religion editors belonged to. It would be good to have such data, and compare it to 

general demographics, both in the English-speaking core countries, and the world 

population in general to identify demographics that are over- or underrepresented. 



Andreas





Plus this note:

As has been discussed recently, it is an important priority for the Wikimedia movement to progressively add diversity to our community.  We have set targets in our strategy for greater participation of women and for rapid growth in the Global South.  These actions seek to both increase the size of the community (our goal is to grow to 200,000 by 2015) and to bring important new knowledge to our projects.

I had a bit of trouble figuring out what the targets and strategy for increasing participation are, however.

Thoughts?

Also, let me extend a mea culpa for doing too little on the couple things I've felt strongly about: letters to recruit new members and promoting Wikiquette Alerts.  It would help if the list focused a bit more on tasks to motivate us to conceive and carry out whatever projects are of most interest to us.

But you can take the weekend off - I will... '-)

Carol in DC

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