*expect these (sorry)
2015-06-02 20:34 GMT+02:00 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada <emijrp(a)gmail.com>om>:
Low participation of women is not only a Wikipedia
issue. As we know, the
same pattern is found in the social and political participation areas of
our "advanced" societies, but there are exceptions. I want to share some
details on women in national parliaments and compare it to women presence
in wikis:
Country - Year - Women (%)
-------------------------------
Cuba - 2013 - 48.9%
Ecuador - 2013 - 41.6%
Colombia - 2014 - 19.9%
Saudi Arabia - 2013 - 19.9%
United States - 2014 - 19.4%
Uncyclopedia - 2008 - 9.6%
Wikipedia - 2011 - 8.5%
Source:
http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm
Did you excepted this numbers? Just my two cents.
2015-06-02 2:09 GMT+02:00 Jason Radford <jsradford(a)uchicago.edu>du>:
Hi,
Since participating in the Inspire campaign, I got interested in the
question of exactly how many women would be needed on Wikipedia to close
the gender gap. I ran some simulations and came up with some fairly
radical numbers. For example, according to my calculations, there are so
few current and new female editors that, even if every current and new
active, female editor stayed active for ten years, we wouldn't close the
gap.
I've posted the results
<https://civilsociology.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/closing-the-gender-gap-on-wikipedia-results-from-some-simulations/>
to my blog. It's password protected so I can share the results and get
feedback without making it pubic. You can access them by using the
password "wikipedia". I'm hoping some of you with experience researching
gender representation on Wikipedia would be able to catch any errors.
Thanks!
Jason
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