The argument that there is no demand for such articles is itself a stale one, used to frequently justify gender disparities in all sorts of fields and media. There is a clear demand for such articles. The media reaction to Emily Temple-Wood's campaign to write articles about female scientists is only the most recent and prominent example illustrating that the audience is there. Readers want to close the gap, the media wants to close the gap, academia wants to close the gap, the WMF wants to close the gap, the only people who don't want to close the gap are stubborn volunteer encyclopedia editors.
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hoi, > When it is "SOP", why is it that you hear so little about the effects of > policies framed in terms of the rates we had or the rates we had in a > previous year. > > The argument that there is a gender gap is getting tired when the argument > why it is a problem is only framed in the existence of the gap. It is > necessary that we learn how and what improvements are made and maybe how it > has an impact on the reader numbers. When there is a demand for articles > about women, it could result in more readers for articles about women.. > > I do welcome a different tack on this issue. The arguments so far are > getting stale. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 20 April 2016 at 13:11, John Mark Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Yes. That is SOP for studies about biographies and literature in general. > > On 20 Apr 2016 18:04, "Gerard Meijssen" <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Hoi, > > > Given the existing number of articles and the gender gap in them, it is > > > unlikely that activities make much of a difference. I think that it > makes > > > more sense to compare the new articles and see if the percentages are > > > different in those. Did anyone look at it in this way? > > > Thanks, > > > GerardM > > > > > > On 20 April 2016 at 09:39, <alexhin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, as some of you may know, the Wikipedia gender indicator [1] tells > > us > > > > how many articles are biographies about women x > > language/country/culture. > > > > > > > > In order to compare these numbers...Does anyone knows if there is an > > > > existing comparison with gender balance in classical encyclopedias? > > > > (Britannica, Larousse...) or, if not, could someone prepare a WD > query > > > > about it? > > > > > > > > I think it could be a good argument for us to use: e.g "at cawiki 12% > > of > > > > bios are about women, compared to 5% in GEC, Our most famous > > > encyclopedia". > > > > > > > > We could compare it also for temathic encyclopedias or other > databases > > > > existing in projects like Mix and match. > > > > > > > > Can someone help? thanks in advance > > > > > > > > > > > > [1]http://wigi.wmflabs.org/ > > > > > > > > > > > > Àlex Hinojo > > > > User:Kippelboy > > > > Amical Wikimedia Programme manager > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
