Interesting information about the gender balance on social networking site. No surprise that Pinterest is female dominated, but a few other things there too. 


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Subject: [Wmfall] Gender balance on social networking sites
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:09:45 -0700
From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org>
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David McCandless published an updated version of his "chicks rule" infographic with data from May 2012:

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/chicks-rule/

The data, obtained via Google Ad Planner, is here:

http://bit.ly/chicksrule 

Wikipedia is not in the list but you can look it up here:
http://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/site_profile#siteDetails?identifier=wikipedia.org
(you will need a Google account to log in)

Note that these figures are for visitors, not contributors.

Dario
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