Yes and all of those numbers are just about the English Wikipedia. The Dutch Wikipedia has only 6% of its editors who identify as female
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Su-Laine Brodsky sulainey@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
I too am uncomfortable with the "under 20%" message. I would say "around 10% according to the most recent editor survey".
In 2011, the WMF set a target of having 25 percent of its contributors identifying as female by 2015. The "under 20%" message may give the impression that we are almost there.
Re:
(personally, I prefer the wording "less than one in five" which is
mathematically identical but a bit
better at avoiding to evoke the kind of false sense of precision that
has developed about this topic at times).
The highest reasonable estimate we have is 16.1% (2008 survey data corrected for sampling bias by Hill and Shaw). That is less than one in six.
Cheers, Su-Laine Brodsky (née Su-Laine Yeo)
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