*expect these (sorry) 2015-06-02 20:34 GMT+02:00 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada <[email protected]>:
> Low participation of women is not only a Wikipedia issue. As we know, the > same pattern is found in the social and political participation areas of > our "advanced" societies, but there are exceptions. I want to share some > details on women in national parliaments and compare it to women presence > in wikis: > > Country - Year - Women (%) > ------------------------------- > Cuba - 2013 - 48.9% > Ecuador - 2013 - 41.6% > Colombia - 2014 - 19.9% > Saudi Arabia - 2013 - 19.9% > United States - 2014 - 19.4% > Uncyclopedia - 2008 - 9.6% > Wikipedia - 2011 - 8.5% > > Source: http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm > > Did you excepted this numbers? Just my two cents. > > > 2015-06-02 2:09 GMT+02:00 Jason Radford <[email protected]>: > >> Hi, >> >> Since participating in the Inspire campaign, I got interested in the >> question of exactly how many women would be needed on Wikipedia to close >> the gender gap. I ran some simulations and came up with some fairly >> radical numbers. For example, according to my calculations, there are so >> few current and new female editors that, even if every current and new >> active, female editor stayed active for ten years, we wouldn't close the >> gap. >> >> I've posted the results >> <https://civilsociology.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/closing-the-gender-gap-on-wikipedia-results-from-some-simulations/> >> to my blog. It's password protected so I can share the results and get >> feedback without making it pubic. You can access them by using the >> password "wikipedia". I'm hoping some of you with experience researching >> gender representation on Wikipedia would be able to catch any errors. >> >> Thanks! >> Jason >> -- >> Jason Radford >> Doctoral Student, Sociology, University of Chicago >> Visiting Researcher, Lazer Lab, Northeastern University >> *Connect*: LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jsradford>, Twitter >> <http://www.twitter.com/jsradford>, University of Chicago >> <http://home.uchicago.edu/%7Ejsradford/> >> *Play Games for Science at Volunteer Science >> <http://www.volunteerscience.com>* >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> >
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