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Wp:clubhouse?: an exploration of wikipedia’s gender imbalance (2011)
| Venue: | In Proc. of WikiSym |
| Citations: | 29 - 6 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Lam11wp:clubhouse?:an,
author = {Shyong (tony K. Lam and Anuradha Uduwage and Zhenhua Dong and Shilad Sen and David R and Loren Terveen and John Riedl},
title = {Wp:clubhouse?: an exploration of wikipedia’s gender imbalance},
booktitle = {In Proc. of WikiSym},
year = {2011},
pages = {1--10}
}
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Abstract
Wikipedia has rapidly become an invaluable destination for mil-lions of information-seeking users. However, media reports sug-gest an important challenge: only a small fraction of Wikipedia’s legion of volunteer editors are female. In the current work, we present a scientific exploration of the gender imbalance in the En-glish Wikipedia’s population of editors. We look at the nature of the imbalance itself, its effects on the quality of the encyclopedia, and several conflict-related factors that may be contributing to the gender gap. Our findings confirm the presence of a large gender gap among editors and a corresponding gender-oriented disparity in the content of Wikipedia’s articles. Further, we find evidence hinting at a culture that may be resistant to female participation.
Keyphrases
wikipedia gender imbalance large gender gap scientific exploration gender imbalance en-glish wikipedia population wikipedia article medium report invaluable destination small fraction corresponding gender-oriented disparity information-seeking user wikipedia legion evidence hinting female participation several conflict-related factor gender gap important challenge current work volunteer editor
