On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Thehelpfulone <thehelpfulonew...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is another way to look at the number of females who have identified > themselves as female. I don't know if you remember when you first signed up, > you probably ended up at Special:Preferences where you entered an email > address. On that same page there is a field where people can opt to provide > their gender. I've got a user script that tells me the rights of a user when > I go to their user page, but at the same time it also tells me their gender > if stated by usage of the appropriate symbol. > > Thus, this information is publicly accessible as far as I am aware and so a > Toolserver query or similar could be run to get a list of users who have > identified themselves as female through their preferences. > > I don't know if this has been discussed before, I've only fairly recently > joined this mailing list, but it could be a good way to find an active base > of female editors to ask your questions to other than the ones that have > used the user box or are actively participating in gender gap discussions.
I dont recall it being discussed recently. I would like to install that userscript, and think a dump of that data would be very helpful. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
