Well given the case of women overwriting photos of themselves, I would totally agree with you. In my (admittedly few) conversations with Wikipedia article subjects, women object most to the photos of themselves, while men talk about specific lines of text. On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Magnus Manske &lt;magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com > 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... > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:25 AM Tomasz Ganicz &lt;polimerek(a)gmail.com> > > 2015-08-14 2:20 GMT+02:00 Fæ &lt;faewik(a)gmail.com&gt;om>: > > > > > 15716 > > > > > > First of all it seems that vast majority of Commons users do not select > > their gender so they are "none". It obviously spoils the rest of the > > statistics. Would be good to add to it numbers of males, females and > > "nones" included, so it would be more clear which group has generally > > stronger tendency for overwriting. For example strong "overwriter" can > > make a 1000 overwrites a year, and a weak one just 1. Such "strong" > > overwrites can also spoil this statistics. For example - one "strong" > > female overwrite can easily make all overwrites and the rest of females > are > > not overwriting at all :-) The same apply the other way - i.e. we can say > > that women are more vulnerable to be overwriten if you divide numbers of > > overwrites by number of females and compare it to the other groups. > > > > > > -- > > Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz > > http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek > > http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ > > http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/GuidelinesWikimedia-l@lists.w… > > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

On 14 August 2015 at 11:33, Fæ &lt;faewik(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: wrote: much-cited than I'm just thinking this through again, as there is a logical flaw in statement. If we take a ​random ​ sample space limited to just overwrites where men are overwriting women or women are overwriting men, then the ratio of men:women is irrelevant, given a large sample. Effectively even if men outnumber women by 80% or 90%, the numbers of overwrites of type "male-female" and "female-male" should be almost the same in /both directions/. If the figures are not similar, then other factors are at play than just that there are more men contributing to the project. Testing this theory, I went to the English Wikipedia database and checking over all time, found: +-------------+----------+ | sex | count(*) | +-------------+----------+ | female-male | 63 | | male-female | 127 | +-------------+----------+ Checking the all time figures for Commons shows: +-------------+----------+ | sex | count(*) | +-------------+----------+ | female-male | 1309 | | male-female | 2220 | +-------------+----------+ ​Quickly going to French (far less statistically significant): +-------------+----------+ | sex | count(*) | +-------------+----------+ | female-male | 1 | | male-female | 12 | +-------------+----------+ German:​ +-------------+----------+ | sex | count(*) | +-------------+----------+ | female-male | 6 | | male-female | 39 | +-------------+----------+ The conclusion has to be that women are ​at least /twice/ as likely to have an image overwritten by a man on our projects than the reverse happing. The numbers are sufficiently large for it to appear a meaningful result. Fae