Hi all,
Does anyone know if data about gender of contributors on projects other than English Wikipedia is available? In addition to other language Wikipedias, it would be interesring if we have data about Commons, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikispecies, etc.
Also, anecodotally I obeserve a relatively high percentage of female participation in education and GLAM activities. Do we have data about the gender of participants in education and GLAM, particularly in leadership roles?
Thanks, Pine
No, I cannot help with the data (although I share your interest in knowing it).
But, it is probably not too surprising to find higher concentrations of female Wikipedians in education and GLAM as there are usually high levels of female participation in those professions. If the Wikipedia data exists, it would be interesting to compare it with corresponding occupation gender balances. For example, the biological sciences attract a lot of women (far more than the physical sciences), does that reflect in higher levels of female participation in Wikispecies? Of course, it may not be obvious what occupations should be used for comparison? Travel agents for Wikivoyage? Professional photographers for Commons?
Kerry
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From: gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pine W Sent: Wednesday, 18 February 2015 6:07 PM To: Wiki Research-l; Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase theparticipation of women within Wikimedia projects.; Wikimedia Cascadia mailing list Subject: [Gendergap] Gender data by project
Hi all,
Does anyone know if data about gender of contributors on projects other than English Wikipedia is available? In addition to other language Wikipedias, it would be interesring if we have data about Commons, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikispecies, etc.
Also, anecodotally I obeserve a relatively high percentage of female participation in education and GLAM activities. Do we have data about the gender of participants in education and GLAM, particularly in leadership roles?
Thanks, Pine
hi Pine,
I wonder: have you had any other replies yet that looked helpful?
Claudia
---------- Original Message ----------- From:"Kerry Raymond" kerry.raymond@gmail.com To:"'Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase theparticipation of women within Wikimedia projects.'" gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org, "'Wiki Research-l'" wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org, "'Wikimedia Cascadia mailing list'" wikimedia-cascadia@lists.wikimedia.org Sent:Thu, 19 Feb 2015 08:09:31 +1000 Subject:Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Gendergap] Gender data by project
No, I cannot help with the data (although I share your interest in knowing it).
But, it is probably not too surprising to find higher concentrations of female Wikipedians in education and GLAM as there are usually high levels of female participation in those professions. If the Wikipedia data exists, it would be interesting to compare it with corresponding occupation gender balances. For example, the biological sciences attract a lot of women (far more than the physical sciences), does that reflect in higher levels of female participation in Wikispecies? Of course, it may not be obvious what occupations should be used for comparison? Travel agents for Wikivoyage? Professional photographers for Commons?
Kerry
From: gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pine W Sent: Wednesday, 18 February 2015 6:07 PM To: Wiki Research-l; Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase theparticipation of women within Wikimedia projects.; Wikimedia Cascadia mailing list Subject: [Gendergap] Gender data by project
Hi all,
Does anyone know if data about gender of contributors on projects other than English Wikipedia is available? In addition to other language Wikipedias, it would be interesring if we have data about Commons, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikispecies, etc.
Also, anecodotally I obeserve a relatively high percentage of female participation in education and GLAM activities. Do we have data about the gender of participants in education and GLAM, particularly in leadership roles?
Thanks, Pine
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Unfortunately not. I think this would be a good research project for Inspire. Pinging Siko to ask if she knows of any good candidates to take ownership of this project.
Cheers,
Pine On Mar 6, 2015 7:11 AM, koltzenburg@w4w.net wrote:
hi Pine,
I wonder: have you had any other replies yet that looked helpful?
Claudia
---------- Original Message ----------- From:"Kerry Raymond" kerry.raymond@gmail.com To:"'Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase theparticipation of women within Wikimedia projects.'" gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org, "'Wiki Research-l'" wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org, "'Wikimedia Cascadia mailing list'" wikimedia-cascadia@lists.wikimedia.org Sent:Thu, 19 Feb 2015 08:09:31 +1000 Subject:Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Gendergap] Gender data by project
No, I cannot help with the data (although I share your interest in knowing it).
But, it is probably not too surprising to find higher concentrations of female Wikipedians in education and GLAM as there are usually high levels of female participation in those professions. If the Wikipedia data exists, it would be interesting to compare it with corresponding occupation gender balances. For example, the biological sciences attract a lot of women (far more than the physical sciences), does that reflect in higher levels of female participation in Wikispecies? Of course, it may not be obvious what occupations should be used for comparison? Travel agents for Wikivoyage? Professional photographers for Commons?
Kerry
From: gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pine W Sent: Wednesday, 18 February 2015 6:07 PM To: Wiki Research-l; Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase theparticipation of women within Wikimedia projects.; Wikimedia Cascadia mailing list Subject: [Gendergap] Gender data by project
Hi all,
Does anyone know if data about gender of contributors on projects other than English Wikipedia is available? In addition to other language Wikipedias, it would be interesring if we have data about Commons, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikispecies, etc.
Also, anecodotally I obeserve a relatively high percentage of female participation in education and GLAM activities. Do we have data about the gender of participants in education and GLAM, particularly in leadership roles?
Thanks, Pine
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Hi Pine,
The idea creator doesn't need to take ownership of any project that results from it. I'd encourage you to go ahead and put the project up in IdeaLab and see what sort of response it gets.
-Frances
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Unfortunately not. I think this would be a good research project for Inspire. Pinging Siko to ask if she knows of any good candidates to take ownership of this project.
Cheers,
Pine On Mar 6, 2015 7:11 AM, koltzenburg@w4w.net wrote:
hi Pine,
I wonder: have you had any other replies yet that looked helpful?
Claudia
---------- Original Message ----------- From:"Kerry Raymond" kerry.raymond@gmail.com To:"'Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase theparticipation of women within Wikimedia projects.'" gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org, "'Wiki Research-l'" wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org, "'Wikimedia Cascadia mailing list'" wikimedia-cascadia@lists.wikimedia.org Sent:Thu, 19 Feb 2015 08:09:31 +1000 Subject:Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Gendergap] Gender data by project
No, I cannot help with the data (although I share your interest in knowing it).
But, it is probably not too surprising to find higher concentrations of female Wikipedians in education and GLAM as there are usually high levels of female participation in those professions. If the Wikipedia data exists, it would be interesting to compare it with corresponding occupation gender balances. For example, the biological sciences attract a lot of women (far more than the physical sciences), does that reflect in higher levels of female participation in Wikispecies? Of course, it may not be obvious what occupations should be used for comparison? Travel agents for Wikivoyage? Professional photographers for Commons?
Kerry
From: gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pine W Sent: Wednesday, 18 February 2015 6:07 PM To: Wiki Research-l; Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase theparticipation of women within Wikimedia projects.; Wikimedia Cascadia mailing list Subject: [Gendergap] Gender data by project
Hi all,
Does anyone know if data about gender of contributors on projects other than English Wikipedia is available? In addition to other language Wikipedias, it would be interesring if we have data about Commons, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikispecies, etc.
Also, anecodotally I obeserve a relatively high percentage of female participation in education and GLAM activities. Do we have data about the gender of participants in education and GLAM, particularly in leadership roles?
Thanks, Pine
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I just put the idea on Meta here, hopefully still in time for someone to take ownership of the project:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Measure_gender_population_sta...
Pine
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On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Frances Hocutt fhocutt@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Pine,
The idea creator doesn't need to take ownership of any project that results from it. I'd encourage you to go ahead and put the project up in IdeaLab and see what sort of response it gets.
-Frances
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Unfortunately not. I think this would be a good research project for Inspire. Pinging Siko to ask if she knows of any good candidates to take ownership of this project.
Cheers,
Pine On Mar 6, 2015 7:11 AM, koltzenburg@w4w.net wrote:
hi Pine,
I wonder: have you had any other replies yet that looked helpful?
Claudia
---------- Original Message ----------- From:"Kerry Raymond" kerry.raymond@gmail.com To:"'Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase theparticipation of women within Wikimedia projects.'" gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org, "'Wiki Research-l'" wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org, "'Wikimedia Cascadia mailing list'" wikimedia-cascadia@lists.wikimedia.org Sent:Thu, 19 Feb 2015 08:09:31 +1000 Subject:Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Gendergap] Gender data by project
No, I cannot help with the data (although I share your interest in knowing it).
But, it is probably not too surprising to find higher concentrations of female Wikipedians in education and GLAM as there are usually high levels of female participation in those professions. If the Wikipedia data exists, it would be interesting to compare it with corresponding occupation gender balances. For example, the biological sciences attract a lot of women (far more than the physical sciences), does that reflect in higher levels of female participation in Wikispecies? Of course, it may not be obvious what occupations should be used for comparison? Travel agents for Wikivoyage? Professional photographers for Commons?
Kerry
From: gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pine W Sent: Wednesday, 18 February 2015 6:07 PM To: Wiki Research-l; Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase theparticipation of women within Wikimedia projects.; Wikimedia Cascadia mailing list Subject: [Gendergap] Gender data by project
Hi all,
Does anyone know if data about gender of contributors on projects other than English Wikipedia is available? In addition to other language Wikipedias, it would be interesring if we have data about Commons, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikispecies, etc.
Also, anecodotally I obeserve a relatively high percentage of female participation in education and GLAM activities. Do we have data about the gender of participants in education and GLAM, particularly in leadership roles?
Thanks, Pine
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