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> Wikipedia's women, Butch?
thekohser
post Mon 7th November 2011, 12:21pm
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Interesting study just released.
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post Mon 7th November 2011, 12:43pm
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Interesting study just released.

I'll wait for the second draft. In one of the first sections, they state that according to a survey, 8% of female respondents state that they are lesbians (and 24% are "non-heterosexual", but that includes lesbians). A couple of sentences later, they say:
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Wikipedia is not attracting a representative population of female contributors, as lesbians account for 24% of the contributors while only compromising between 1.5% and 4.1% of the female population.
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post Mon 7th November 2011, 1:04pm
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Mon 7th November 2011, 12:21pm) *

Interesting study just released.

I'll wait for the second draft. In one of the first sections, they state that according to a survey, 8% of female respondents state that they are lesbians (and 24% are "non-heterosexual", but that includes lesbians). A couple of sentences later, they say:
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Wikipedia is not attracting a representative population of female contributors, as lesbians account for 24% of the contributors while only compromising between 1.5% and 4.1% of the female population.
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* proofreading.


The first draft will be perfect for Examiner, then.
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post Mon 7th November 2011, 2:33pm
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post Mon 7th November 2011, 2:44pm
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Someone really need to teach these people some statistical method before they publish another turd dropping like that one.
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post Fri 11th November 2011, 10:04pm
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Someone really need to teach these people some statistical method before they publish another turd dropping like that one.


Indeed, it's completely unreadable.

The obvious conclusion is that most of the women posting on WP are actually men.

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post Fri 11th November 2011, 10:17pm
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The article is drivel, but some of the stats and charts are okay.


I'd still like to know why Sue Gardner isn't being pilloried in public for this, given that she's been trying to encourage female participation since she showed up in mid-2008.
(Not that she could do anything about it, of course.)

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Can someone explain how the "gendered language" parts of it work exactly? Considering that for the one, just as many women didn't use such language, it seems like there is little to no correlation to...whatever the heck they were trying to correlate there.
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