Interesting idea to measure this, but I am not sure what it means. I am a
female who has overwritten many files. When I first joined up I don't think
I filled in female until Sarah asked me to years later. Am I one of the 479?

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote:

> ​Sorry for cross-posting. There may be some readers of this list that may
> not bother to follow the busier wikimedia-l one. :-)
>
> I'd appreciate any thoughts and analysis, especially if there are other
> reports that might give an insight into whether the number mean much or not
> a lot...
>
> ----
>
> I have pulled together the following table together for the past 360 days,
> counting whenever an image was reverted by someone who was not the last
> uploader, and then attempting to find any declared gender:
>
> 2014-2015 Commons file overwrite stats compared to gender
>
> +---------------+----------+
> | sex           | count(*) |
> +---------------+----------+
> | female-female |        1 |
> | female-male   |      110 |
> | female-none   |      426 |
> | male-female   |      139 |
> | male-male     |     1376 |
> | male-none     |     5711 |
> | none-female   |      479 |
> | none-male     |     5289 |
> | none-none     |    15716 |
> +---------------+----------+
>
> Key: "none" means not set in user preferences, "female-male" means a woman
> has overwritten a man's file and "male-none" means a declared male has
> overwritten an account with no gender set.
>
> I'd appreciate any views on whether there is any statistical meaning to be
> pulled from these figures, apart from showing that men probably outnumber
> women contributors by ten times on Commons.
>
> If the email is displaying badly, you can find a wiki formatted table and
> original generating SQL on the Commons village pump[1]. I thought this
> would be of wider interest as though "image revert warring" is mostly an
> issue for Wikimedia Commons, it is a very similar area of heated disputes
> when compared to edit revert warring on Wikipedia projects. The question
> popped up from someone interested in my long running 'significant reverts'
> tracking report.[2]
>
> Links:
> 1.
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Does_openly_declaring_your_gender_change_the_probability_of_having_an_upload_overwritten.3F
> 2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae/SignificantReverts
>
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