I have a significant problem with making assumptions
before you start your
research. Control for confirmation bias. Be careful. Also, keep in mind that
some wikipedia articles may appeal more to a specific demographic than
others. Also, editing wikipedia is still highly technical due to formatting,
though has gotten a lot better.
--Sam
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:19 PM, emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2011/11/29 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
On 29 November 2011 21:51, emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all;
We have heard many times that most Wikipedians are male, but have you
heard
about gender and fundraising? Some data from a 2010 study[1] and a 2011
German study[2] (question 20th of 22). People have said that Wikipedia
is a
sexist place which excludes women to edit. Looks like women neither are
interested on editing nor funding free knowledge.
Is WMF working to increase female donors just like female editors?
I think the first step would be to try and figure out if women are
visiting the site and not donating or just not visiting at all.
So, the first step would be to try and figure out if women are visiting
the site and not editing or just not visiting at all, before saying nonsense
about sexism and Wikipedia community.
You would also want to make sure there really is a significant
imbalance and that it's not just that men are more likely to fill out
the survey form.
That affects to all surveys, again.
Looks like people only care about surveys which say what they want to
read.
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