Less Than 15% Of Wikipedia Contributors Are Women

Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List
About a year ago, the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs Wikipedia, collaborated on a study of Wikipedia’s contributor base and discovered that it was barely 13 percent women; the average age of a contributor was in the mid-20s, according to the study by a joint center of the United Nations University and Maastricht University.

February 1, 2011 by Uncategorized 2

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  1. SafeLibraries says:
    February 1, 2011 at 4:54 pm

    Well, We Know Deborah Caldwell-Stone Contributes to Wikipedia
    Well, we know Deborah Caldwell-Stone contributes to Wikipedia:

    “ALA Pushes Net Neutrality on Wikipedia; Political and Pecuniary Interests Promoted Anonymously by ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom May Violate Ethical and Tax Codes“

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  2. Anonymous says:
    February 4, 2011 at 5:46 pm

    Maybe the women are busy
    Maybe the women are busy working on other stuff that people aren’t afraid to cite…

    My son’s teachers have told him NEVER to use wikipedia for his school research papers.

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