For anyone interested I've written an essay which turns Antin et al's report http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~coye/Pubs/Articles/GenderWikiSym2011.pdf into a set of graphics which, I think, are a bit easier to follow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:The_Vintage_Feminist/Antin_et_al_graphics

Marie

Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 22:06:42 +0100
From: jane023@gmail.com
To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Inspire Campaign launches today!

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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