Going to be honest here, I think the more interesting statistic is that there are only 590 voters in an active user base of about 30,000. I think this may reflect a change in the degree of importance the community places on the Arbitration Committee.
On the "female editors participating" front, I'm fairly certain just from looking at the names and picking out ones I recognize as being women editors, that at least 10% of the participating electorate was female. I never bothered to set my gender preference (indeed, I know that preference was added to accommodate languages for which the word "user" is gender-specific, such as German, Spanish, etc), even though I've been openly female for most of my wiki-career. (I realise that it sounds like I "came out" as being a woman...when I look back on the earliest years of enwiki, there was a far less significant gender imbalance.) Risker/Anne On 9 December 2014 at 08:55, Katie Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/12/2014 13:45, Fæ wrote: > >> The statistic comes from querying the English Wikipedia database. This >> includes a table of user preferences which itself is where the on-wiki >> preferences stores information like preferred gender. >> >> Here's the SQL for anyone interested (it includes other redundant >> stuff, I was re-using something I already had to hand): >> SELECT user_name, >> user_editcount, >> LEFT(user_registration,4) AS reg, >> GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT ug_group SEPARATOR ' ') AS grps, >> GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT CONCAT(up_property,':',up_value)) AS prop >> FROM user u >> LEFT JOIN user_properties ON up_user=u.user_id >> LEFT JOIN user_groups ON u.user_id=ug_user >> WHERE user_name="''' +u +'''" >> AND up_property="gender" >> GROUP BY user_name >> ORDER BY user_editcount DESC; >> >> (Where "u" is a variable iterating over the listed voters.) >> >> As others are pointing out, the statistic of 1/590 is a fact >> > > Err.... > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action= > query&list=users&ususers=KTC&usprop=gender > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action= > query&list=users&ususers=Fluffernutter&usprop=gender > > and others. > > > KTC > > -- > Katie Chan > Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the > author and do not necessarily represent the view of any organisation the > author is associated with or employed by. > > > Experience is a good school but the fees are high. > - Heinrich Heine > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > http://www.avast.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >
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