On 14 August 2015 at 09:58, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
Looking at "male-female" and "female-male", and considering the much-cited 15% female editor ratio, it seems women are much more overwrite-happy than men.
Then again, 139:110 are not exactly numbers one does want to base statistics on...
I agree that intuitively the numbers look too marginal to draw strong conclusions, apart perhaps from deducing that though the proportion of women who are active on Wikimedia Commons remains far too low, a user's gender does not have any significant affect on whether they get overwritten or overwrite others. I wanted to raise it as statistical interpretation is not my forte, and there are a number of researchers who follow this list who are darn hot on statistics or might draw comparisons with existing gender related measurements :-)
With respect to being *overwrite-happy*, it is worth re-enforcing that healthy collaborative work on Wikimedia Commons does include files that have a lot of planned overwrites and only in a minority of cases is significant overwriting a symptom of a dispute. For example the maps of the USA which track the status of rapidly changing same-sex marriage legislation are some of the most overwritten files on Commons, having hundreds of overwrites, and all of the changes are positive improvement which help to illustrate some popular LGBT articles around this area of newsworthy law and politics.
Cheers, Fae