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 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!