Actually I would say that is not true. The success of the english Wikipedia's "Women in Red" project shows that editors are overwhelmingly willing to close the gap, and only need to be pointed to the proper resources to do so. When you say "closing the gap" I assume you mean closing the content gap, because the participation gap is much more tricky to solve.
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Robert Fernandez wikigamaliel@gmail.com wrote:
The argument that there is no demand for such articles is itself a stale one, used to frequently justify gender disparities in all sorts of fields and media. There is a clear demand for such articles. The media reaction to Emily Temple-Wood's campaign to write articles about female scientists is only the most recent and prominent example illustrating that the audience is there. Readers want to close the gap, the media wants to close the gap, academia wants to close the gap, the WMF wants to close the gap, the only people who don't want to close the gap are stubborn volunteer encyclopedia editors.
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Gerard Meijssen < gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi, When it is "SOP", why is it that you hear so little about the effects of policies framed in terms of the rates we had or the rates we had in a previous year.
The argument that there is a gender gap is getting tired when the
argument
why it is a problem is only framed in the existence of the gap. It is necessary that we learn how and what improvements are made and maybe how
it
has an impact on the reader numbers. When there is a demand for articles about women, it could result in more readers for articles about women..
I do welcome a different tack on this issue. The arguments so far are getting stale. Thanks, GerardM
On 20 April 2016 at 13:11, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com
wrote:
Yes. That is SOP for studies about biographies and literature in
general.
On 20 Apr 2016 18:04, "Gerard Meijssen" gerard.meijssen@gmail.com
wrote:
Hoi, Given the existing number of articles and the gender gap in them, it
is
unlikely that activities make much of a difference. I think that it
makes
more sense to compare the new articles and see if the percentages are different in those. Did anyone look at it in this way? Thanks, GerardM
On 20 April 2016 at 09:39, alexhinojo@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, as some of you may know, the Wikipedia gender indicator [1]
tells
us
how many articles are biographies about women x
language/country/culture.
In order to compare these numbers...Does anyone knows if there is
an
existing comparison with gender balance in classical encyclopedias? (Britannica, Larousse...) or, if not, could someone prepare a WD
query
about it?
I think it could be a good argument for us to use: e.g "at cawiki
12%
of
bios are about women, compared to 5% in GEC, Our most famous
encyclopedia".
We could compare it also for temathic encyclopedias or other
databases
existing in projects like Mix and match.
Can someone help? thanks in advance
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