On 2/1/12 5:39 PM, Sarah wrote:
That's very interesting, thank you (and somewhat depressing).
Sarah
Yeah, it just shows that we need to take action. 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? 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.
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?
Anyplace on Wiki where women really do dominate in this data?
-Sarah