Hey Jonathon,
I saw that earlier but what the category doesn’t show is what percentage of editors are and whether that’s disproportiante.
I don’t think we can get that from a category due to the differing ways people handle their userspace.
Thanks!
On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 21:41, WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@gmail.com wrote:
I can fully understand that Wikipedians might be reluctant to reveal this sort of information, especially if they edit under their own name. But some do, and there are currently 624 Wikipedians who have put themselves in the category
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Wikipedians_with_Asperge... OK that includes quite a few duplicates, but so do the other user categories, most of which seem a lot smaller. By contrast there doesn't seem to be an ADHD category.
Equally, I can remember several discussions where people have commented on the need for things to be done a certain way to accommodate people on that spectrum, while it is rare for similar comments to come up about other issues - colour blindness and other vision issues occasionally, but after the needs of people who use "text to speech", I wouldn't be surprised if Aspergers was the second most common I have seen mentioned in the community.
Regards
Jonathan
On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 16:49, 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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