2011/12/29 Erik Moeller <[email protected]>: > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Laura Hale <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What was surprising was some projects have 20%+ female participation for >> relatively >> large projects including Russian and Portuguese Wikipedia. Slovene >> Wikiquote only >> has 90 women on it, but they make up 75% of the identified by gender >> population. > > Note that a key function of the gender setting (the one which > originally motivated its creation) is to make it possible for the user > to be addressed correctly by the software in their respective > language. [*]
That would explain, why it is these languages in particular which show seemingly increased female participation. In Slavic languages, grammatical gender distinctions are particularly pervasive. I suppose that the software addresses you as male by default. So males are less likely to adjust their setting than females. Johannes -- Johannes Rohr Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Eisenacher Straße 2 10777 Berlin Tel.: +49 30 219158260 http://wikimedia.de Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO als erstes digitales Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition: http://wikipedia.de/wke/. Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
