fyi, in switzerland there are 2 mio readers and below 10000 donors ... this means more than 99% are not giving money. On Nov 29, 2011 11:21 PM, "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. > > > > 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. > > Looks like people only care about surveys which say what they want to read. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l