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Make recommendations regarding understanding the gender balance of our editor population
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Description

Write up recommendations following the analysis of the QuickSurveys-based editor gender surveys. Specifically, this will address:

  • Results and conclusions from the survey
  • Comparison to other approaches for gathering data about the gender of editors -- e.g., Community Insights surveys, user properties tables
  • Recommendations specific to the QuickSurveys tool for this purpose

Report: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Surveys_on_the_gender_of_editors/Report

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Draft write-up here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Surveys_on_the_gender_of_editors/Report

Still pending is a decision on whether we can release the proportion of respondents who identified as non-binary or transgender, given that the absolute counts behind that data is relatively small (though with no data available about who was sampled into survey or responded, the likelihood of de-identification is very minimal).

Isaac updated the task description. (Show Details)