Thanks Phoebe. What actually happened to the April 2012 survey? I mentioned
that the figures were never released – all I could find was some Wikimania
2013 slides John Vandenberg posted on Facebook, which did not include
gender stats, and to my knowledge there was neither a report nor a dump
(see links in the post; I noted that people kept asking about it on the
relevant Meta talk page, and then it seemed to peter out).
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Editor_Survey_2012#Resul…
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikipedia_Editor_Survey_2012#…
Do you have access to the gender demographics results, and if so, could you
share them?
Best,
Andreas
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 8:42 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I will have to look into Hill & Shaw, but would note that the Wikimedia
Foundation itself reported the figures from the UNU survey as they stood
(see e.g. p. 8 of the February 2011 Strategic Plan: "According to the
study, over 86% of contributors were male").
NB., that was before the Hill & Shaw paper was published, which was 2013
:) Hill & Shaw is *probably* the best estimate of the gendergap we have so
far, but everyone -- including the WMF and the researchers involved --
knows that the data can be improved. And hopefully it will be, with future
editor surveys and more research!
-- phoebe
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