Jason, do you think that switching the default editor interface to.VisualEditor would help?
Pine On Jun 4, 2015 9:56 AM, "Jason Radford" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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>* > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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