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Sorry, everyone in the Wikimedia community is so obsessed with preserving their anonymity that "outing" myself here would put me at a significant disadvantage.
by astrodev 9y ago
Sorry, everyone in the Wikimedia community is so obsessed with preserving their anonymity that "outing" myself here would put me at a significant disadvantage.
I don't think I am trolling. There are multiple tools to analyze the statistics, e.g. [1], and the female biographies stood out for me. Everybody checks the deletion discussion stats since a high accuracy (in terms of one's vote matching the consensus) is a de facto requirement to become an admin.
I don't think there is anything sinister going on, simply a few editors with extremely inclusionist views tend to patrol articles about females [2]. Since the average deletion discussion has only ~3 participants, this results in a bias.
[1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/afdstats/ https://tools.wmflabs.org/afdstats/
[2] I kid you not, for example Megalibrarygirl, who's recently become an admin, is only involved in articles about women [3]
[3] https://tools.wmflabs.org/afdstats/afdstats.py?name=Megalibrarygirl&max=500&startdate=&enddate=&altname=&nomsonly=false https://tools.wmflabs.org/afdstats/afdstats.py?name=Megalibr...