Hello!
First congrats to all for the great progress on the gender gap!
I am looking for data or research on: If and how the adoption of inclusive language (or
non-sexist language) tend to favor or not more woman participation/gender balance
participation in wikis?
Sarah Stierch (thanks!) suggested me that someone in this list might have insights on this
question.
In the romanic languages (Spanish, Italian, Catalan, etc), contrary to English, the
language has much more "gender" references. So in this languages, it emerges
more the debate if there should be adopted an inclusive language (Ej. not taking male as
generic, but making both references to woman and men, etc such as “usuarios” (male) and
“usuarias” (women)) as a way to favor woman participation. Does Wikipedia experience in
some way this?
I am wikipedian (and also a researched on wiki and gender), but I am asking this in regard
to another experience that would like to build upon Wikipedia experience - an encyclopedia
of the 15M movement in Spain (
http://wiki.15m.cc), that just started. I am looking to see
ways in order to not reproduce the horrible data on gender balance of other wiki
experiences.
I would appreciate any insight on this. Thank you and congrats again! Mayo/Lilaroja
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