Hi, Thank you all for your feedback. I've incorporated a number of them and updated the report. It's now publicly available <https://civilsociology.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/closing-the-gender-gap-on-wikipedia-results-from-some-simulations/> to share with folks who are interested.
@Jonathan, I agree that a future direction should be understanding the ecology of editors through a substantive analysis. I've added commentary to the end mentioning this and am considering expanding this research in that direction. @Emilio: The low participation rate on the web varies by website, so we know it's not internet usage in general, but something about communities like Wikipedia, Quora, Reddit, and Uncyclopedia specifically. As for comparing international parliamentary rates, I've done some work with collaborators gathering the gender of contributors across 55 Wikipedias. The analysis isn't finished, hence we have put it up anywhere, but the results show that the Arabic, Suomi, Estonian, Nordic, and English language Wikipedias are the closest to gender parity. @Jane: I believe understanding the life-cycle of editors is important to breaking down forces causing gender disparity. To a certain extent, we've done a lot of research on the issue. The editor numbers suggest though that the gender gap starts early in that the majority of new editors are male. I'd love to see a project on why women make up fewer first-time editors. Research aside, as someone who'd like to see this problem solved in the next ten years, I'm more reticent to say we need more years of research before we try to solve this problem. Thank you all for your comments! 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>*
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