2011/12/29 Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Laura Hale
<laura(a)fanhistory.com> wrote:
What was surprising was some projects have 20%+
female participation for relatively
large projects including Russian and Portuguese Wikipedia. Slovene Wikiquote only
has 90 women on it, but they make up 75% of the identified by gender population.
Note that a key function of the gender setting (the one which
originally motivated its creation) is to make it possible for the user
to be addressed correctly by the software in their respective
language. [*]
That would explain, why it is these languages in particular which show
seemingly increased female participation. In Slavic languages,
grammatical gender distinctions are particularly pervasive. I suppose
that the software addresses you as male by default. So males are less
likely to adjust their setting than females.
Johannes
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