On Nov 27, 2014 9:55 AM, "Carol Moore dc" carolmooredc@verizon.net wrote:
The study's talk page has ongoing discussions of people being annoyed about this issue. Probably first place any updates will show up: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Editor_Survey_2012
I wrote there:
See [http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/the-wikipedia-gender-gap-revisited Mako's study] which includes the initial numbers from before his changes. I thought the study results were already released by the time he did the study but maybe I'm wrong. Anyway at least there are numbers. But IMHO absolute numbers are not as important as change rates over time. (which has been the topic of debate among researchers not too long ago also) --~~~~
-Jeremy
P.S. haven't read the arbcom case or any of the onwiki discussion but I generally support points I've seen on these threads from Sarah Stierch.
P.P.S. Everyone who is having turkey, etc. today should enjoy it. :)