Hoi,
For English asking the gender or our readers, editors is not useful. For
Slavic languages it is. The localisers at translatewiki.net actively
incorporate the difference in addressing in their work. If you want to
optimise the results, we can advertise the fact why we ask people's gender.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 10 February 2011 13:53, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10 February 2011 06:06, Dmitriy Sintsov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > * "M. Williamson" <[email protected]> [Wed, 9 Feb 2011 17:29:06 -0700]:
> >> Would it be possible to get this information for es.wp and sv.wp?
> >>
> > There should be one table with all lang.wp and a column with male to
> > female ratio.
>
> Since the vast majority of users apparently don't specify, that data
> wouldn't be very useful. It's only useful if can justify the
> assumption that people that specify have the same gender ratio as the
> general population (which could easily not be true - for example,
> women may choose not to specify because they don't want to be singled
> out for "special" treatment [insert obligatory xkcd reference here -
> I'm at work so I won't go hunting for it, but you know the one I mean]
> so the ratio for people that do specify would overestimate the number
> of men).
>
> Could we get the proportion of users with more than 10 edits that
> specify? It's possible that is significantly higher than for all
> users, in which case we could get some useful numbers for those users.
>
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