On 02/09/2011 11:18 PM, DaB. wrote:
sure. I asked the toolserver-database:
en.wikipedia: Male: 233312 Femaile: 46973 All user: 13959842
One thing that could be interesting is to trace the career of users: When they register, how frequent they edit, if the frequency varies over time, and if these patterns differ between men and women and the gender-anonymous.
Perhaps we have more gender equality among medium-activity users, but the most extreme are men? Or vice versa? Perhaps users who signed up in 2010 are more gender equal than those recruited in 2007? Or not?
Now, if a woman uses a male pseudonym, she would obviously self-declare as a man, so we can't know if this correlates to real gender. We could only measure the setting.