Re: [Foundation-l] Do we even know if there is a Gender Gap

2011-02-21 Thread Fred Bauder
> We have heard a great deal lately about a "gender gap". Is there really a > gender gap? With 93% of editor not marking there gender known per > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-02-14/News_and_notes > might it just be that female editors prefer to keep the

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we even know if there is a Gender Gap

2011-02-21 Thread Andrew Gray
On 21 February 2011 17:49, James Heilman wrote: > We have heard a great deal lately about a "gender gap". Is there really a > gender gap? With 93% of editor not marking there gender known per > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-02-14/News_and_notes > might

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we even know if there is a Gender Gap

2011-02-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, There are no benefits to indicate gender for the English language at the moment. There is for Russian and the consequence is obvious. There is no reason to believe that there is any other reason for there being more women in the ru.wp then there being a benefit. Thanks, GerardM On 21 Fe

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we even know if there is a Gender Gap

2011-02-21 Thread Pedro Sanchez
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > If you take those numbers as unbiased estimators of sampled > population, you come to the conclusion (from page5, 1st doc) that > Wikipedia has the mindboggling amount of.. 200 thousand readers. And no, I'm not talking about number of peo

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we even know if there is a Gender Gap

2011-02-21 Thread Pedro Sanchez
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:49 AM, James Heilman wrote: > We have heard a great deal lately about a "gender gap". Is there really a > gender gap? With 93% of editor not marking there gender known per > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-02-14/News_and_notes >

[Foundation-l] Do we even know if there is a Gender Gap

2011-02-21 Thread James Heilman
We have heard a great deal lately about a "gender gap". Is there really a gender gap? With 93% of editor not marking there gender known per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-02-14/News_and_notes might it just be that female editors prefer to keep there gende