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I had no idea about the survey, so I did not take it. 25% of all editors? I=
 am surprised, as almost all people I encounter on Wikipedia are males.
Tymek

--- On Mon, 6/29/09, Piotr Konieczny <piokon@post.pl> wrote:


From: Piotr Konieczny <piokon@post.pl>
Subject: Re: [WPM] Women and Wiklp
To: "Wikipedia statistics" <folks@wikipedometer.net>
Date: Monday, June 29, 2009, 11:52 AM


piotr micula wrote:
> Sorry, I messed it up, my hand slipped, and I accidentally pressed send.
>=A0=20
> Has anybody ever wondered why there are so few female editors? I do not=
=20
> keep tabs, but my hunch is that some 90% of editors are men. Why is=20
> that? Or perhaps they share my wife's opinion, she says that instead of=
=20
> Wikipedia, I should do something useful, and is often pissed off when=20
> she sees me writing stuff for the project

I wondered, certainly, and I am sure there are quite a few discussions=20
regarding this out there. But until somebody does a scientific study -=20
surveying and interviewing editors - we will not know much about the=20
reasons.

For the record, women form about 25% of the editors:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/04/16/first-preliminary-results-from-unu-mer=
it-survey-of-wikipedia-readers-and-contributors-available/

I sincerely hope all of you have done your wiki-civic duty and taken the=20
survey when it was up :)


--=20
Piotr Konieczny

"The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in=20
theory."

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<DIV>Tymek<BR><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 6/29/09, Piotr Konieczny <I>&lt;piokon@pos=
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ubject: Re: [WPM] Women and Wiklp<BR>To: "Wikipedia statistics" &lt;folks@w=
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<DIV class=3DplainMail>piotr micula wrote:<BR>&gt; Sorry, I messed it up, m=
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 anybody ever wondered why there are so few female editors? I do not <BR>&g=
t; keep tabs, but my hunch is that some 90% of editors are men. Why is <BR>=
&gt; that? Or perhaps they share my wife's opinion, she says that instead o=
f <BR>&gt; Wikipedia, I should do something useful, and is often pissed off=
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