Thanks Phoebe. What actually happened to the April 2012 survey? I mentioned that the figures were never released – all I could find was some Wikimania 2013 slides John Vandenberg posted on Facebook, which did not include gender stats, and to my knowledge there was neither a report nor a dump (see links in the post; I noted that people kept asking about it on the relevant Meta talk page, and then it seemed to peter out). 

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Editor_Survey_2012#Results

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikipedia_Editor_Survey_2012#How_long

Do you have access to the gender demographics results, and if so, could you share them?

Best,
Andreas


On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 8:42 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:



On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466@gmail.com> wrote:


I will have to look into Hill & Shaw, but would note that the Wikimedia Foundation itself reported the figures from the UNU survey as they stood (see e.g. p. 8 of the February 2011 Strategic Plan: "According to the study, over 86% of contributors were male"). 


NB., that was before the Hill & Shaw paper was published, which was 2013 :) Hill & Shaw is *probably* the best estimate of the gendergap we have so far, but everyone -- including the WMF and the researchers involved -- knows that the data can be improved. And hopefully it will be, with future editor surveys and more research!

-- phoebe

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