Hi Lelia,
That provides a lot of insight! I’ll give it a deep look tommorow.
Applies to some areas of the movement but not more content-related ones.
Thanks!
On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 20:02, Leila Zia lzia@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi RhinosF1,
If you already haven't seen it, you may be interested to check out StackOverflow's Annual Developer Survey. Every year, they ask developers across the globe a variety of questions including their demographics and within that they have a category called developer profile. Check out their 2019 results [1]. They specifically collect data on mood or emotional disorder, anxiety disorder, concentration and/or memory disorder, and autism spectrum disorder:
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#developer-profile-_-disabilit...
Best, Leila
[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019
-- Leila Zia Head of Research Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 11:50 AM RhinosF1 - rhinosf1@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
I think the quote “ Wikipedians are not disproportionately ADHD, perhaps the reverse.” is an interesting opinion as the view of many seems to be that Wikimedia Projects require charectersitics common of people in those groups.
Gerard, I agree that we can have issues with people.
Thanks!
On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 19:29, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, We regularly have problems with people. We have people who are banned because people think they are problematic. We have banned people who
have
contributed hugely to our projects. The notion that it is stigmatising
is a
notion whereby we wash our hands in innocence, we do not want to know.
It is one thing that you personally are grossed out but I hope you understand that given that this is an issue we need to address. It is
not
only people who do not care for rules, it is also the people who obsess about rules. You find it in the excessive attention for Clarice Phelps. People do get hurt, people do get traumatised because of this
inattention.
Thanks, GerardM
On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 17:58, Jonathan Morgan jmorgan@wikimedia.org wrote:
There's this study <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:The_Construction_and_Application_of...
but I don't know if it was ever completed (and as you can infer from
my
posts on the talkpage, I very much hope it was NOT).
In general, any kind of psychometric profiling of Wikipedia editors
kind
of
grosses me out. But as an armchair psychologist myself, as well as a non-neurotypical individual, sure I'm happy to hypothesize that
there are
many of us in the projects. It takes a certain mindset to find the
process
of building an encyclopedia using 20-year old software paradigms to
be
engaging ;)
- J
On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 8:49 AM RhinosF1 - rhinosf1@gmail.com
wrote:
Evening all,
I hope everyone is doing well given the crazy world we’re living
in.
I was having a conversation with a few users on Discord today and
we
were
wondering whether wikimedia (or users of other similiar sites
would be
fine) disproportinately fall into the category of having aspergers,
ADHD
and other simmilar conditions.
It would be even better if anyone knew what sort of areas these
users
were
more likely to work in.
Following a chat with Issac in #wikimedia-research, I understand
there
isn’t much support for this kind of research as users may not want
to
reveal this information and there is no clear reason for
collecting the
information but if anyone knows of past research or has any
information,
that would be helpful.
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