But if they don't find it, they just wouldn't select it, right? Or was your
image suggesting it defaults to "he" unless they change it?
I'm not actually looking to look at the balance for all user accounts but
am looking to identify the women in a particular cohort to see what content
they are adding. So even having some who don't identify would be ok, so
long as I could get a better data set from those who do actually make the
choice.
I understand if that can't be made a priority, though, because, globally,
there are languages that don't have a grammatical gender. Is there any
other way to pull that data publicly?
(My cohorts are quite large, and surveys rarely get enough responses to
give me very good data).
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Jami Mathewson <jami(a)wikiedu.org> wrote:
I mentioned to Dan a while back that I would find
it super useful if
gender (for those who self-identify on their user accounts) were
incorporated into the cohort information on Wikimetrics
Hi Jami,
Do you mean the gender specified in a user's preferences?
Especially with the current design,[1] I would encourage us not to rely on
this preference as an accurate representation of the gender distribution of
Wikimedia accounts.
The purpose of this preference is for software localization, not
developing a profile of users. Consider that users have to wade through
Preferences in order to find this, and there is little incentive for them
to fuss with it if their language doesn't have a grammatical gender. It's
not likely to be reliable data on the topic. Tighe's approach is probably
much more accurate, especially when dealing with new editors.
1. Screenshot
https://i.imgur.com/NsoZJeL.png
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