[Foundation-l] Fundraising is for men

[Thomas Dalton]

On 29 November 2011 22:19, emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/11/29 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
>
>> On 29 November 2011 21:51, emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Dear all;
>> >
>> > We have heard many times that most Wikipedians are male, but have you
>> heard
>> > about gender and fundraising? Some data from a 2010 study[1] and a 2011
>> > German study[2] (question 20th of 22). People have said that Wikipedia
>> is a
>> > sexist place which excludes women to edit. Looks like women neither are
>> > interested on editing nor funding free knowledge.
>> >
>> > Is WMF working to increase female donors just like female editors?
>>
>> I think the first step would be to try and figure out if women are
>> visiting the site and not donating or just not visiting at all.
>>
>>
> So, the first step would be to try and figure out if women are visiting the
> site and not editing or just not visiting at all, before saying nonsense
> about sexism and Wikipedia community.

Yes, that is equally true.

>> You would also want to make sure there really is a significant
>> imbalance and that it's not just that men are more likely to fill out
>> the survey form.
>>
>>
> That affects to all surveys, again.

There are ways to limit the effects of a self-selecting sample, but
they're not easy to do so it does affect a lot of surveys.

> Looks like people only care about surveys which say what they want to read.

That's statistics for you!