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 > > Fae > -- > [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please > visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >
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