(disclaimer: research-wise, in this thread, I am speaking from a margin position in a role maybe similar to the one Shakespeare potrays his fools in, because it is not my field and I only have a rather vague idea of how people actually undertake such studies)
re > I think if we can make Wikipedia more attractive > to women, I rather suspect we make it a more > attractive place for everyone. what about yet another reversal game and see what happens: this would be Kerry's statement from another perspective: "I think if we can make Wikipedia less attractive to men, I rather suspect we make it a more attractive place for everyone." what kind of reseach design would be needed for this? best, Claudia ---------- Original Message ----------- From:"Kerry Raymond" <[email protected]> To:"'Research into Wikimedia content and communities'" <wiki-research- [email protected]> Sent:Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:59:35 +1000 Subject:Re: [Wiki-research-l] types of research Re: a cautious note on genderstats Re: Fwd: [Gendergap] Wikipedia readers > I agree the issues are not necessarily about male- > female interactions. It may be about bully-victim > interactions. I often suspect we are seeing an > online form of > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment > > playing out, where anyone can choose to be the > prison guard enforcing the rules (of which we have > plenty) taking advantage of the lack of real-world > accountability (thanks to pseudonymity). > > However, in terms of any kind of metric to measure > progress, I think measuring Male/Female/DontKnow > is a lot more viable than trying to count the > number of bullies and victims (or powerful vs less > powerful). > > I think if we can make Wikipedia more attractive > to women, I rather suspect we make it a more > attractive place for everyone. > > Kerry > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki- > research-l ------- End of Original Message ------- _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
