First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia

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First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2015, written by Eduardo Graells-Garrido, Mounia Lalmas and Filippo Menczer.

Overview

Contributing to the writing of history has never been as easy as it is today. Anyone with access to the Web is able to play a part on Wikipedia, an open and free encyclopedia, and arguably one of the primary sources of knowledge on the Web. In this paper, authors study gender bias in Wikipedia in terms of how women and men are characterized in their biographies. To do so, authors analyze biographical content in three aspects: meta-data, language, and network structure. Authors results show that, indeed, there are differences in characterization and structure. Some of these differences are reflected from the off-line world documented by Wikipedia, but other differences can be attributed to gender bias in Wikipedia content. Authors contextualize these differences in social theory and discuss their implications for Wikipedia policy.

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