Hi Pine, Sure, you’re welcome. Unfortunately, I’m not aware of any more recent statistics regarding the gender of OSM contributors.
With regards to mapping party diversity work, I’ll definitely share any information I come across. I’m not aware of any at this point. Thanks, Andrew > On Jul 28, 2017, at 1:32 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > Thanks for the info. Perhaps the statistics have changed since 2010. Are > you aware of any more recent studies? > > It's entirely possible that the conference that I attended was an anomaly, > but in any case it would be good to have a more recent study (preferably > with a larger sample size and information about how sampling was done) if > that kind of information is available. > > "Mapping parties" seem to be common in OSM, and if they're successful in > narrowing the gender gap that information might be of interest to Leila > given the kind of research that she's planning to do with trying to engage > cohorts of users in Wikimedia. If you know of research about about the > success of mapping parties with regards to diversity, it would be nice if > you could share. > > Thanks, > > Pine > > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Andrew Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
