Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the info. Perhaps the statistics have changed since 2010. Are
you aware of any more recent studies?
It's entirely possible that the conference that I attended was an anomaly,
but in any case it would be good to have a more recent study (preferably
with a larger sample size and information about how sampling was done) if
that kind of information is available.
"Mapping parties" seem to be common in OSM, and if they're successful in
narrowing the gender gap that information might be of interest to Leila
given the kind of research that she's planning to do with trying to engage
cohorts of users in Wikimedia. If you know of research about about the
success of mapping parties with regards to diversity, it would be nice if
you could share.
Thanks,
Pine
On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Andrew Hall <hall1467(a)umn.edu> wrote:
Hi Pine,
Thank you for sharing your experience at State of the Map USA. In the talk
on Wednesday, I was referring to a survey of 426 OSM contributors by Haklay
and Budhathoki [1] from 2010 where 96% of participants said they were male.
References:
1.
https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/
16461/Horizon%20March%202010%20(Haklay%20and%20Budhahtoki).pdf
Thanks,
Andrew
On Jul 26, 2017, at 5:06 PM, Pine W
<wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
For what it's worth, I noted that when I tended the State of the Map USA
conference last year, there seemed to be a *higher* representation of
women
in the conference than there were at the
WikiConference USA events that
I've attended. I was surprised to hear the presenter say that OSM has
95%+
male participation, and I'd like to know the
origin of that number. I was
so impressed by the relatively high percentage of female participants at
State of the Map USA that I had a conversation with one of the organizers
about how OSM seemed to be much more successful than Wikimedia at
engaging
female contributors. Perhaps there are at least
some places in which OSM
has relatively good gender diversity.
Pine
On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk
wrote:
> On 25 July 2017 at 19:38, Sarah R <srodlund(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer
>> Production CommunityBy *Andrew Hall*
>
> There's some discussion of the talk , on the UK OSM mailing list:
>
>
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2017- July/020401.html
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