Hi Sidney and everyone else,
it seems to me that this list might be turned into a research ideas switchboard, here's some of my thoughts
my impression is that counting just two genders is outdated, and maybe calling a phenomenon a "gender gap" might therefore no longer be suitable, either, anyone have any ideas for a solution here?
we might be looking into the dynamics of power games from a slightly different angle, maybe someone could do some in-depth interviews with Wikimedians officially identifying as male who are willing to reflect on wm-related situations where they would possibly have felt better off as non-males
actually, this idea just emerged from the back of my head, where I found a previous thought experiment (from a Miscellany_for_deletion discussion on enWP) still lingering a bit, which started in this way:
* meta: in-principle debates usually show how rules are made to work (and kept up) that have been defined by a majority of people. Now let's do a small thought experiment: Imagine that the [...] page is a lovely place to contribute to. Then imagine that any other page you in principle wish to contribute to is actually a place you do not wish to be on because the climate among users is unbearable to you. Next step: Please phrase the implicit rules that keep me off that page and make them explicit here. Let's see what everyone might come up with. --C.Koltzenburg (talk) 17:35, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
:WP:NOTASOCIALNETWORK comes to mind. [...] 17:39, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
::Well then, given the thought experiment setting, why does just this one come to your mind, [...]? --C.Koltzenburg (talk) 16:01, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
:::The section please introduce yourself is a forum for discussion not related to building an encylopedia. It's social in nature with some ambiguous goals. I think frankly it is an attempt to set up her own quasi GGTF since her compatriots were banned. [...] 16:07, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
::::Thanks, and as for compatriots, next step in the thought experiment, [...], is precisely to now address that other, disagreeable, space and "phrase the implicit rules that keep me off that page", any ideas as to how compatriotism might express itself over there? --C.Koltzenburg (talk) 08:40, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
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any thoughts are welcome
best, Claudia koltzenburg@w4w.net GPG-Key-ID: DDD21523
---------- Original Message ----------- From:Sydney Poore sydney.poore@gmail.com To:Dariusz Jemielniak darekj@alk.edu.pl, Research into Wikimedia content and communities wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent:Mon, 16 Feb 2015 10:49:05 -0500 Subject:Re: [Wiki-research-l] a cautious note on gender stats Re: Fwd: [Gendergap] Wikipedia readers
Hello Dariusz and everyone else,
I'm interested in sharing ideas about the best way to discuss the gender gap in the wikimedia movement.
While more information is always useful and at times necessary in order to measure change properly, if the previous data seems to still match the day to day observations pretty well then discounting the previous data as wrong just because it is outdated doesn't seem sensible.
Since I've had the opportunity to observe the gender of wikimedia affiliated groups (both official and informal) from around the world, I can say with confidence that the wikimedia movement is still dominated by males. Both on and off line, except for diversity related events, I'm often the only women participating in discussions and rarely does the ratio exceed 3 in 10.
To have my observation better documented would be great :-) I hope that more wikimedia organizations document the gender mix of content creators who are affiliated with their organization so that better research can be done.
I encourage everyone to look at the up coming WMF Inspire Gender Gap grant campaign and see if they can find an opportunity to work on better data collection during this high profile campaign.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93 _Gender_gap_campaign
Sydney
Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Dariusz Jemielniak darekj@alk.edu.pl wrote:
hi there,
thanks for the quote :) I totally agree with you that a lot of data we have is outdated, and that there are way too many generalizations about Wikipedia relying only on en-wiki. As Aaron and Mako pointed out in
their
paper (referred to by Jeremy), there needs to be more approaches to our estimations of gender gap, and the current methods are far from perfect.
As
far as I recall, they did a follow-up on this topic, and maybe a publication coming up?
best,
dariusz
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:50 AM, koltzenburg@w4w.net wrote:
Hi Jeremy, thank you for this pointer,
hi all, can anyone explain to me why data from 2008 are re-used in
quantitative
studies of this kind? (instead of asking new questions, for example,
and
also changing the framework in which the data were created)
another issue seems to be that, while Wikipedia exists in a host of languages, statistical news are rarely accompanied by qualifiers as to which
language
version (community) the data were created in/from. my guess on this issue is that "results" re enWP may be quite different from results re, say, bgWP or hiWP, because genders relate to one another differently and collaborative writing on the web may have a differently gendered status in different communities, etc.
the same caveat would be due as to yesterday's "the gender of
Wikipedia
readers" question that this thread started with,
best, Claudia koltzenburg@w4w.net
---------- Original Message ----------- From:Jeremy Foote jdfoote1@gmail.com To:Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research- l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent:Sat, 14 Feb 2015 22:12:41 -0600 Subject:Re: [Wiki-research-l] a cautious note on gender stats Re: Fwd: [Gendergap] Wikipedia readers
Mako Hill and Aaron Shaw wrote a paper which combined a 2008 WMF survey with Pew Research to try to find a less biased estimation of the Wikipedia gender gap. Their paper is titled "The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: Characterizing Survey Response Bias with Propensity Score Estimation", and is at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?
id=10.1371/journal.pone.0065782#pone-0065782-t002 .
It's not a perfect fit for eliminating the bias to participate in editor surveys, but it's a step toward a more realistic value for the gender gap (although it's still pretty bleak - with only 16% of gobal editors estimated to be female).
Best, Jeremy
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen@gmail.com
wrote:
Hoi, What year are we living ? Thanks, GerardM
On 14 February 2015 at 17:24, koltzenburg@w4w.net wrote:
my2cents re figures on percentages (... in a gender binary
paradigm),
well...
I'd suggest to take into account User:Pundit's thoughtful
considerations,
author of: Jemielniak, Dariusz (2014), Common knowledge? An
ethnography
of Wikipedia, Stanford University Press, pp. 14-15
Dariusz Jemielniak writes: "According to Wikipedia Editors Study, published in 2011, 91
percent
of
all Wikipedia editors are male ([reference to a study of 2011]
This
figure
may not be accurate, since it is based on a voluntary online
survey
advertised to 31,699 registered users and resulting on 5,073
complete
and
valid responses [...] it is possible that male editors are more
likely to
respond than female editors. Similarly, a study of self-
declarations
of
gender showing only 16 percent are female editors (Lam et al.
2011)
may be
distorted, since more females may choose not to reveal their
gender
in a
community perceived as male dominated."
additionally, asserting status and flaunting seniority (also
described
by Jemielniak at the end of the paragraph previous to the one
quoted
above)
is generally perceived to be a commonly employed trick to resist
any
changes;
and, last but not least, one might argue that the group perceived
as
"in power" might feel to find strongly unbalanced outcomes most
rewarding,
and hence might tend to publish them as widely as possible and
not
least
quote from them persistently, too...
any rebuttals from stats experts here?
best, Claudia koltzenburg@w4w.net My GPG-Key-ID: DDD21523
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l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent:Sat, 14 Feb 2015 10:49:29 +0100 Subject:[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Wikipedia readers
> Forwarding here in case anyone has information > that could benefit Yana > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com > Date: Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 9:44 AM > Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Wikipedia readers > To: "Addressing gender equity and exploring ways > to increase the participation of women within > Wikimedia projects." < gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org> > > In 2013 the Dutch Wikimedia chapter hired an > external party to conduct a survey and the results > (translated to English) are here:
https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Motivaction_report_translation_v02.pd
f > > The study was split into two parts; one on the > contributors and one on the "users", aka readers. > Users were 50/50 male female (page 51), > contributors were 88% male, 6% female, and 6% > would not say (page 26) > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Yana Welinder > yana@wikimedia.org wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > What are some good studies of the gender of Wikipedia
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Ethnography of Wikipedia" (2014, Stanford University Press) mojego autorstwa http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=24010
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