On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If part of the plan for the growth team is to invite > > anonymous editors to sign up, why not tailor some of those invitations > > specifically to female anonymous editors? Then you could add a measure, > > retention of female editors, to that particular growth project. The > results > > should be instructive. > > At the risk of biting into something contentious... How would that > work? What would the message say: "Have you considered creating an > account? Its free. Doubly recommended if you're a women!" I have > trouble imagining a gender-specific account creation invitation that > doesn't sound creepy. > > Additionally, actually measuring success rates by gender would require > knowing people's gender. Its conceivable that requiring people to > disclose their gender could have a negative impact on the gender gap. > (Or maybe it wouldn't. I have no idea) > > --bawolff > > ____________ I'm not sure what the messaging is planned to look like, but an appeal oriented towards women doesn't seem like an insurmountable obstacle. "Did you know only 10% of Wikipedia editors are women? If you are a woman reading this, we need your help!" And then you can track sign-ups through that particular message, figuring that a substantial proportion of them will actually be women. And you could also ask, during sign-up, for people to self-identify confidentially. "We're trying to increase the proportion of our fellow editors who are women, would you mind telling us if you identify as female? [Y/N]". And then don't publish that anywhere except in aggregate. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
