On 28 August 2014 12:56, Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with Gerard, and would add that a good portion of the new readers and "missing female editors" do not own or operate a desktop and are only available on mobile and tablet, so this is not only where the new readers are, but also where the "first edit" experience is for most women (and sadly, a corollary to that is that they don't try again after their first edit failure).
mechanics of how this would work. We could do it, but reforming WMF is
Every year we see many expensive surveys and funded research on women and Wikipedia, so presumably there are some verifiable statistics to support Jane's assertion that a significant difference between readers of Wikipedia is that men are significantly more likely to own or have access to a desktop compared to women that they might edit from.
Can someone provide a link to the research that demonstrates this is more than apocryphal?
Thanks, Fae