On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Thehelpfulone thehelpfulonewiki@gmail.com wrote:
There is another way to look at the number of females who have identified themselves as female. I don't know if you remember when you first signed up, you probably ended up at Special:Preferences where you entered an email address. On that same page there is a field where people can opt to provide their gender. I've got a user script that tells me the rights of a user when I go to their user page, but at the same time it also tells me their gender if stated by usage of the appropriate symbol.
Thus, this information is publicly accessible as far as I am aware and so a Toolserver query or similar could be run to get a list of users who have identified themselves as female through their preferences.
I don't know if this has been discussed before, I've only fairly recently joined this mailing list, but it could be a good way to find an active base of female editors to ask your questions to other than the ones that have used the user box or are actively participating in gender gap discussions.
I dont recall it being discussed recently. I would like to install that userscript, and think a dump of that data would be very helpful.