On 29 November 2011 22:19, emijrp <emi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/11/29 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> > >> On 29 November 2011 21:51, emijrp <emi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Dear all; >> > >> > We have heard many times that most Wikipedians are male, but have you >> heard >> > about gender and fundraising? Some data from a 2010 study[1] and a 2011 >> > German study[2] (question 20th of 22). People have said that Wikipedia >> is a >> > sexist place which excludes women to edit. Looks like women neither are >> > interested on editing nor funding free knowledge. >> > >> > Is WMF working to increase female donors just like female editors? >> >> I think the first step would be to try and figure out if women are >> visiting the site and not donating or just not visiting at all. >> >> > So, the first step would be to try and figure out if women are visiting the > site and not editing or just not visiting at all, before saying nonsense > about sexism and Wikipedia community.
Yes, that is equally true. >> You would also want to make sure there really is a significant >> imbalance and that it's not just that men are more likely to fill out >> the survey form. >> >> > That affects to all surveys, again. There are ways to limit the effects of a self-selecting sample, but they're not easy to do so it does affect a lot of surveys. > Looks like people only care about surveys which say what they want to read. That's statistics for you! _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l