Hi Pine, Thank you for sharing your experience at State of the Map USA. In the talk on Wednesday, I was referring to a survey of 426 OSM contributors by Haklay and Budhathoki [1] from 2010 where 96% of participants said they were male.
References: 1. https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/16461/Horizon%20March%202010%20(Haklay%20and%20Budhahtoki).pdf Thanks, Andrew > On Jul 26, 2017, at 5:06 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > > For what it's worth, I noted that when I tended the State of the Map USA > conference last year, there seemed to be a *higher* representation of women > in the conference than there were at the WikiConference USA events that > I've attended. I was surprised to hear the presenter say that OSM has 95%+ > male participation, and I'd like to know the origin of that number. I was > so impressed by the relatively high percentage of female participants at > State of the Map USA that I had a conversation with one of the organizers > about how OSM seemed to be much more successful than Wikimedia at engaging > female contributors. Perhaps there are at least some places in which OSM > has relatively good gender diversity. > > Pine > > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 25 July 2017 at 19:38, Sarah R <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer >>> Production CommunityBy *Andrew Hall* >> >> There's some discussion of the talk , on the UK OSM mailing list: >> >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2017-July/020401.html >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
