Curiosity prompted by being a minority that lives in the Southern hemisphere. Are we forgotten, overlooked, ignored or simply hated by those in the temperate latitudes of the North who would actually consider 'now' to be winter ;-)
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3Is there a "neither of the above" option? Basically we didn't feel a need for a second Winter Bash, so you only get one– M.A.R.Commented Dec 12, 2018 at 3:25
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2I live in King's Landing and there are Long winters there. I (Tyrion Lannister) was born in a short winter which lasted for three years. Winter came! So, you're not ignored living in other side.– Nog ShineCommented Dec 12, 2018 at 5:19
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1@Nog Something I noticed: Nog Shine...Shog Nine (Shog9); intentional?– hatCommented Dec 12, 2018 at 8:19
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@Watchthisspace I am his good friend.– Nog ShineCommented Dec 12, 2018 at 9:23
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Related: meta.stackexchange.com/q/245407/204841– user204841Commented Dec 12, 2018 at 16:09
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thank you for that link Modus. I should have searched harder/more/a bit before posting– petednz - fuzionCommented Dec 12, 2018 at 22:18
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but as an ex- (no you can never be an ex-) Geographer, there was a genuine curiousity about this, not just in the N v S hemisphere context, but also the temperate v tropical (who - i may wrongly assume - don't necessarily consider this season to be 'winter' even if they are north of the equator)– petednz - fuzionCommented Dec 12, 2018 at 22:21
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Trying to answer the specific answer on what percent of SE users are in 'winter' during 'winter bash', I created this query that gets the number of users in the Southern Hemisphere (this is only for StackOverflow btw), and the current count is quite low, which is (at the time of writing this answer) 65212, whilst the number of users that are NOT in the Southern Hemisphere are 2362818, which means that the percentage is:
2.68579877514 %
Of course we are not taking into account the users that didn't list their countries in their profiles (which is quite high), but this is a good sample.
We can also run the same query on all the SE sites to get a better estimation.
I hope this answers your question.
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1Can you remove users in tropical regions who don't experience winter? Commented Dec 12, 2018 at 5:33
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1How is this a good sample if you can't verify that your basic assumption holds - that users are equally likely to withhold the information regardless of hemisphere?– NijCommented Dec 12, 2018 at 6:39
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@Nij sadly this is the only information we can rely on right now. But I still think it is a good sample.– eLRuLLCommented Dec 12, 2018 at 6:49
Luckily this year you can at least customize the homepage of https://winterbash2018.stackexchange.com/. Here's what I knitted in order to test the knitting editor while implementing it:
answered Dec 12, 2018 at 6:55
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The Developer Survey 2018 contains geography information, including monthly Stack Overflow visits:
I've added the countries lying (predominantly) on the Southern hemisphere and came up with a percentage of about 7%, so for them 'Summer Bash' would be more appropriate. The other 93% can still enjoy 'Winter Bash' with no lexical issues.
answered Dec 12, 2018 at 7:57
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2thank you - much harder though to figure out what portion of the 'north of the equator' population actually thinks of 'now' as 'winter' Commented Dec 12, 2018 at 22:22