Yeah, I remember that.
From,
Emily
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
One little note - I did utilize these userboxes when
inviting female
editors (or presumed female) to participate in my Women and Wikimedia
survey last year.
-Sarah
On 9/24/12 4:09 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote:
Yeah, I agree with John, those sorts of question becomes easier to answer
when there's more immediate information available (even if the information
isn't perfect or complete).
In addition, I can imagine that exploring the category and looking at
user pages might inspire the formulation of more detailed questions.
As an analogy, today I was reading a biography of political analyst Nate
Silver, famous for being the first to call the 2008 U.S. presidential
election. One of his earlier claims to fame, as a baseball statistician,
was extending the work of Bill James, a famous baseball statistician. He
looked for patterns in pitching performance that took into account physical
characteristics -- e.g., height and weight.
I would guess that Silver's inspiration to start that project originated
with the greater accessibility of data in his era (the 2000s) than James'
era (the 1980s).
In other words: if you remove obstacles, surprising things can happen.
In one case, you can end up with a huge and fascinating encyclopedia.
Perhaps in another, you can end up with useful research about gender and
Wikipedia.
Removing barriers isn't a measurable benefit in itself, but it can
support the emergence of things that are beneficial.
-Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]
On Sep 24, 2012, at 4:02 PM, Emily Monroe wrote:
Well, I am a GED graduate on disability, if that helps.
From,
Emily
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:01 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 5:49 AM, Emily Monroe
<emilymonroe03(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
So, what are the questions?
Why do women start? Why do women quit? Is it different from reasons
men quit?
Is there a sector where outreach has a higher conversion rate into
Wikipedian Women?
Is there an age bracket where outreach has a higher conversion rate
into Wikipedian Women?
(e.g.) I suspect that our women typically come from glam & education,
whereas our men typically come from IT & law.
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John Vandenberg
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