Hi all,
this new blog post might be of interest to this list:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/30/how-many-women-edit-wikipedia/
On the occasion of the recently concluded Inspire campaign, it gives
an overview over existing data that informs what we know about the
size of the gender gap, including gender-related results from the 2012
WMF editor survey that some people on this list have been asking
about. Most is about Wikipedia editors, but there is also a bit about
Commons and Wikibooks. The post also lists some important caveats that
should be kept in mind when discussing these percentages.
(Many thanks to Aaron Shaw, Skud, and Siko Bouterse for their help
with this post.)
While I was at it, I also created a new documentation page for the
2008 UNU-MERIT survey which put the gender gap on the map, and still
received quite a bit of attention recently:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:UNU-MERIT_Wikipedia_survey
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Tilman Bayer
Senior Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation
IRC (Freenode): HaeB