<CPOV> Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List

Maja van der Velden majava at ifi.uio.no
Mon Jan 31 16:07:14 CET 2011


Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List

In 10 short years, Wikipedia has accomplished some remarkable goals. More than 3.5 million articles in English? Done. More than 250 languages? Sure. But another number has proved to be an intractable obstacle for the online encyclopedia: surveys suggest that less than 15 percent of its hundreds of thousands of contributors are women.        

More here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&emc=eta1&adxnnlx=1296486151-4fB4AiSiCizUtpXNS2UGPA

Greetings,

Maja





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