https://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=incubatorprefs&db=ruwikiversity is a tool that allows you to check the participation rates of males/females on various wikiprojects based on users who explicitly state this information in their profile. I've been trying to get this data for specific country pages on the http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Perspectives national perspectives. I've done a sample of about 89 different projects, getting the total number of males/females and the percentage of males/females on a given project.
Across these projects, the mean, median and mode was:
| Females |
Users |
% |
| Mean |
638.4269663 |
13.05741573 |
| Median |
9 |
10.88 |
| Mode |
0 |
0 |
What was surprising was some projects have 20%+ female participation for relatively large projects including Russian and Portuguese Wikipedia. Slovene Wikiquote only has 90 women on it, but they make up 75% of the identified by gender population. Data below.
| Language |
Project |
Gender |
Users |
% |
| Slovenian |
Wikisource |
Female |
90 |
77.59 |
| Arabic |
Wikimedia |
Female |
1 |
50 |
| Polish |
Wikiquote |
Female |
132 |
42.31 |
| Slovenian |
Wikipedia |
Female |
928 |
35.79 |
| Russian |
Wikiquote |
Female |
127 |
31.91 |
| Portuguese |
Wikibooks |
Female |
223 |
30.42 |
| Portuguese |
Wiktionary |
Female |
114 |
29.61 |
| Portuguese |
Wikiquote |
Female |
58 |
29 |
| Russian |
Wikiversity |
Female |
180 |
26.63 |
| Portuguese |
Wikipedia |
Female |
12,264 |
25.9 |
| Russian |
Wikibooks |
Female |
195 |
25.36 |
| Dutch |
Wikibooks |
Female |
54 |
24.43 |
| Persian |
Wikibooks |
Female |
43 |
23.5 |
| Russian |
Wikipedia |
Female |
33,275 |
23.34 |
| French |
Wikisource |
Female |
100 |
23.15 |
| French |
Wikiquote |
Female |
34 |
22.52 |
| Dutch |
Wiktionary |
Female |
52 |
22.51 |
| Portuguese |
Wikisource |
Female |
36 |
21.56 |
| Portuguese |
Wikiversity |
Female |
106 |
21.54 |
| Russian |
Wikinews |
Female |
60 |
21.05 |
| Polish |
Wikimedia |
Female |
27 |
20.3 |
| Polish |
Wiktionary |
Female |
54 |
20.3 |
| Polish |
Wikibooks |
Female |
63 |
20 |
| Arabic |
Wikiquote |
Female |
29 |
19.46 |
| Arabic |
Wikibooks |
Female |
30 |
19.35 |
| Slovenian |
Wikiquote |
Female |
2 |
18.18 |
| Polish |
Wikisource |
Female |
23 |
17.69 |
| Russian |
Wikisource |
Female |
60 |
16.76 |
| Arabic |
Wikisource |
Female |
22 |
16.67 |
| Dutch |
Wikimedia |
Female |
8 |
16.33 |
| French |
Wikibooks |
Female |
49 |
16.12 |
| Persian |
Wikiquote |
Female |
17 |
15.89 |
| French |
Wikiversity |
Female |
87 |
15.88 |
| Norwegian (Nynorsk) |
Wikipedia |
Female |
57 |
15.83 |
| Vietnamese |
Wiktionary |
Female |
37 |
14.92 |
| Egyptian Arabic |
Wikipedia |
Female |
79 |
14.77 |
| Arabic |
Wikipedia |
Female |
3,580 |
14.73 |
| French |
Wikipedia |
Female |
4,319 |
14.65 |
| Vietnamese |
Wikisource |
Female |
12 |
13.95 |
| Dutch |
Wikiquote |
Female |
5 |
13.51 |
| Korean |
Wikisource |
Female |
9 |
12.68 |
| French |
Wikinews |
Female |
26 |
12.32 |
| Arabic |
Wikiversity |
Female |
9 |
12.16 |
| Polish |
Wikinews |
Female |
13 |
11.71 |
| Portuguese |
Wikinews |
Female |
16 |
10.88 |
| Vietnamese |
Wikiquotes |
Female |
8 |
10.67 |
| Vietnamese |
Wikibooks |
Female |
14 |
10.61 |
| Arabic |
Wikinews |
Female |
12 |
10.43 |
| Russian |
Wikimedia |
Female |
5 |
10.42 |
| Catalan |
Wiktionary |
Female |
3 |
10 |
| Persian |
Wikisource |
Female |
14 |
9.72 |
| Korean |
Wiktionary |
Female |
7 |
9.21 |
| Catalan |
Wikibooks |
Female |
3 |
9.09 |
| Persian |
Wikinews |
Female |
7 |
8.75 |
| Persian |
Wiktionary |
Female |
16 |
8.56 |
| Asturian |
Wikipedia |
Female |
10 |
8.55 |
| Korean |
Wikiquote |
Female |
2 |
8 |
| Catalan |
Wikisource |
Female |
1 |
7.14 |
| Corsican |
Wikimedia |
Female |
1 |
7.14 |
| Portuguese |
Wikimedia |
Female |
1 |
6.67 |
| Dutch |
Wikinews |
Female |
1 |
4.76 |
| Ripuarian |
Wikipedia |
Female |
3 |
4.29 |
| Kurdish |
Wiktionary |
Female |
1 |
3.57 |
| Dutch |
Wikisource |
Female |
1 |
3.45 |
| Furlan |
Wikipedia |
Female |
1 |
2 |
| Banjar |
Wikipedia |
Female |
1 |
1.75 |
| Corsican |
Wikipedia |
Female |
1 |
1.69 |
| Buginese |
Wikipedia |
Female |
1 |
1.67 |
| Kurdish |
Wikipedia |
Female |
1 |
0.81 |
| Catalan |
Wikinews |
Female |
0 |
0 |
| Catalan |
Wikiquote |
Female |
0 |
0 |
| Fijian |
Wikpedia |
Female |
0 |
0 |
| Fijian |
Wiktionary |
Female |
0 |
0 |
| Korean |
Wikibooks |
Female |
0 |
0 |
| Korean |
Wikinews |
Female |
0 |
0 |
| Kanuri |
Wikipedia |
Female |
0 |
0 |
| Kanuri |
Wikiquote |
Female |
0 |
0 |
| Kashmiri |
Wikipedia |
Female |
0 |
0 |
| Kashmiri |
Wikibooks |
Female |
0 |
0 |
| Kashmiri |
Wikiquote |
Female |
0 |
0 |
| Kashmiri |
Wiktionary |
Female |
0 |
0 |
| Kurdish |
Wikibooks |
Female |
0 |
0 |
| Kurdish |
Wikiquote |
Female |
0 |
0 |
| Slovenian |
Wikibooks |
Female |
0 |
0 |
| Asturian |
Wikibooks |
Female |
0 |
0 |
| Asturian |
Wikiquote |
Female |
0 |
0 |
| Buryat (Russia) |
Wikipedia |
Female |
0 |
0 |
| Corsican |
Wikibooks |
Female |
0 |
0 |
| Corsican |
Wikiquote |
Female |
0 |
0 |
What is going on here? What makes the Portuguese, Russians, Poles and Slovenes so good at attracting a larger percentage of female contributors than their English speaking counterparts?