2012/2/2 Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch@gmail.com>
On 2/1/12 5:39 PM, Sarah wrote: 

That's very interesting, thank you (and somewhat depressing).

Sarah

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Yeah, it just shows that we need to take action.

We need to take action if a low number of women means a bias in encyclopedic contents. Not just because numbers are low. That is why I want to count how many female biographies there are and other measures to discover if it exists a bias in content.
 
Imagine if every Wikimedia contributor on this list, took a few hours and invited a friend, colleague or family member to contribute to a Project?

We have to invite men and women. Every editor is welcome.

By the way, you can't invite 1000 women that a day after leave because they don't understand how to edit (usability) or other reason. First, you have to understand why women leave. When you solves that, every woman that arrives, will continue editing "forever". You won't need to invite them.
 
As someone who has done a survey that just continued to solidify the depressing state of women and Wikimedia, and thinks about it probably more than a person should...I just get sick of it at this point. I want to see increase, damnit. :( No more same old bad news.


Well, it may be sad, but we have to study this from a calm side.
 
I think it's funny to see that WikiNews has no women. Even though This Month in GLAM and The Signpost both have contributors. Also interesting that Commons has a steady amount of women who make edits. I think I could probably name them all off the top of my head. Or....I wonder how many of those women are new contributors who upload an image and then never come back (since you have to have an account to upload).

What else are people seeing in their chosen languages that might be interesting? Anything surprising?


No. Only a few examples where women are 15-25% of edits some days but in small Wikipedias or sister projects. They are not representative.
 
Anyplace on Wiki where women really do dominate in this data?


No.
 
-Sarah


Regards,
Emily
 



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