I posted this on [Gendergap] mailing list at wikipedia but maybe this mailing list is more relevant for technical details.
I posted on my blog the table about percentages of men/women on different wikipedias. See http://www.gnuband.org/2011/02/10/percentage_of_men_and_women_on_different_w...
On Russian Wikipedia, users tend to express their gender much more (16.80%!).
Amir left a comment saying that the User: namespace in Russian is translated into the equivalent of User_male: (I guess if the user set male in the preferences as gender) and User_female: (if female in the preferences). Do you know if this happens in other wikipedia as well?
In Russian Wikipedia, if gender is not set, how User: is rendered? With the male equivalent or there is a neutral form?
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Joseph Reagle joseph.2008@reagle.org wrote:
On Wednesday, February 09, 2011, Oliver Keyes wrote:
So, depressingly, it looks like en-wiki is actually doing the best! :P. Any chance we could have that broken into percentages?
My preliminary tabulation shows WP in the middle. Also, oddly, a lot of Russians apparently gender declare. One of the odd things with the survey from which the 13% is derived is how many Russians participated. Maybe the really like to identify with WP?
en.wikipedia : 2.01% declared: 233312 men; 46973 women; women are 16.76% de.wikipedia : 3.47% declared: 35726 men; 4800 women; women are 11.84% fr.wikipedia : 2.16% declared: 18556 men; 3054 women; women are 14.13% commons : 2.26% declared: 27980 men; 5070 women; women are 15.34% sr.wikipedia : 2.66% declared: 1666 men; 414 women; women are 19.90% ru.wikipedia : 16.80% declared: 80491 men; 23750 women; women are 22.78% pl.wikipedia : 3.64% declared: 12106 men; 2999 women; women are 19.85% nl.wikipedia : 2.92% declared: 8977 men; 1781 women; women are 16.56%
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Amir left a comment saying that the User: namespace in Russian is translated into the equivalent of User_male: (I guess if the user set male in the preferences as gender) and User_female: (if female in the preferences). Do you know if this happens in other wikipedia as well?
Polish, Czech, Russian Wikipedias have alias in feminine form (source: http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php) - it means that also males can use female alias, for example http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedystka:Leinad (female alias) => http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedysta:Leinad (regular namespace in masculine form).
And as I said a few posts ago about bugs https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17160 we are waiting on regular namespace for females (configurable via Preferences) - now it is not possible.
In Russian Wikipedia, if gender is not set, how User: is rendered? With the male equivalent or there is a neutral form?
In Polish default gender is male (details in comment https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17160#c11) and probably the same sitution in other Slavic languages.
-- Leinad
Daniel ~ Leinad (2011-02-11 15:14):
Amir left a comment saying that the User: namespace in Russian is translated into the equivalent of User_male: (I guess if the user set male in the preferences as gender) and User_female: (if female in the preferences). Do you know if this happens in other wikipedia as well?
Polish, Czech, Russian Wikipedias have alias in feminine form (source: http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php)
- it means that also males can use female alias, for example
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedystka:Leinad (female alias) => http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedysta:Leinad (regular namespace in masculine form).
And as I said a few posts ago about bugs https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17160 we are waiting on regular namespace for females (configurable via Preferences) - now it is not possible.
Just to clarify - there is no separate namespace but the tabs do change after setting up preferences. You can do this by changing MediaWiki:Nstab-user to something like: {{GENDER:{{BASEPAGENAME}}|Male|Female|Just human ;-)}}
Cheers, Nux.
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