Jason, do you think that switching the default editor interface
to.VisualEditor would help?
Pine
On Jun 4, 2015 9:56 AM, "Jason Radford" <jsradford(a)uchicago.edu> wrote:
Hi,
Thank you all for your feedback. I've incorporated a number of them and
updated the report. It's now publicly available
<https://civilsociology.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/closing-the-gender-gap-on-wikipedia-results-from-some-simulations/>
to share with folks who are interested.
@Jonathan, I agree that a future direction should be understanding the
ecology of editors through a substantive analysis. I've added commentary
to the end mentioning this and am considering expanding this research in
that direction.
@Emilio: The low participation rate on the web varies by website, so we
know it's not internet usage in general, but something about communities
like Wikipedia, Quora, Reddit, and Uncyclopedia specifically. As for
comparing international parliamentary rates, I've done some work with
collaborators gathering the gender of contributors across 55 Wikipedias.
The analysis isn't finished, hence we have put it up anywhere, but the
results show that the Arabic, Suomi, Estonian, Nordic, and English language
Wikipedias are the closest to gender parity.
@Jane: I believe understanding the life-cycle of editors is important to
breaking down forces causing gender disparity. To a certain extent, we've
done a lot of research on the issue. The editor numbers suggest though
that the gender gap starts early in that the majority of new editors are
male. I'd love to see a project on why women make up fewer first-time
editors. Research aside, as someone who'd like to see this problem solved
in the next ten years, I'm more reticent to say we need more years of
research before we try to solve this problem.
Thank you all for your comments!
Jason
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