2012/2/2 Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>
On 2/1/12 5:39 PM, Sarah wrote:
That's very interesting, thank you (and somewhat depressing).
Sarah
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Yeah, it just shows that we need to take action.
We need to take action if a low number of women means a bias in
encyclopedic contents. Not just because numbers are low. That is why I want
to count how many female biographies there are and other measures to
discover if it exists a bias in content.
Imagine if every Wikimedia contributor on this list,
took a few hours and
invited a friend, colleague or family member to contribute to a Project?
We have to invite men and women. Every editor is welcome.
By the way, you can't invite 1000 women that a day after leave because they
don't understand how to edit (usability) or other reason. First, you have
to understand why women leave. When you solves that, every woman that
arrives, will continue editing "forever". You won't need to invite them.
As someone who has done a survey that just continued
to solidify the
depressing state of women and Wikimedia, and thinks about it probably more
than a person should...I just get sick of it at this point. I want to see
increase, damnit. :( No more same old bad news.
Well, it may be sad, but we have to study this from a calm side.
I think it's funny to see that WikiNews has no
women. Even though *This
Month in GLAM* and *The Signpost* both have contributors. Also
interesting that Commons has a steady amount of women who make edits. I
think I could probably name them all off the top of my head. Or....I wonder
how many of those women are new contributors who upload an image and then
never come back (since you have to have an account to upload).
What else are people seeing in their chosen languages that might be
interesting? Anything surprising?
No. Only a few examples where women are 15-25% of edits some days but in
small Wikipedias or sister projects. They are not representative.
Anyplace on Wiki where women really do dominate in
this data?
No.
-Sarah
Regards,
Emily
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