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| authors = [[Judd Antin]]<br />[[Raymond Yee]]<br />[[Coye Cheshire]]<br />[[Oded Nov]]
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| doi = 10.1145/2038558.2038561
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'''Gender Differences in Wikipedia Editing''' - scientific work related to [[Wikipedia quality]] published in 2011, written by [[Judd Antin]], [[Raymond Yee]], [[Coye Cheshire]] and [[Oded Nov]].
 
'''Gender Differences in Wikipedia Editing''' - scientific work related to [[Wikipedia quality]] published in 2011, written by [[Judd Antin]], [[Raymond Yee]], [[Coye Cheshire]] and [[Oded Nov]].
  
 
== Overview ==
 
== Overview ==
 
As [[Wikipedia]] has become an indispensable source of online information, concerns about who writes, edits, and maintains it have come to the forefront. In particular, the 2010 UNU-MERIT survey found evidence of a significant gender skew: fewer than 13% of Wikipedia contributors are women. However, the number of contributors is just one way to examine gender differences in contribution. In this paper authors take a more fine-grained perspective by examining how much and what types of Wiki-work men and women tend to do. First, authors find that the so-called "Gender Gap" in number of editors may not be as wide as prior studies have suggested. Second, although more than 80% of editors in sample were men, among the bottom 75% of editors by activity-level, authors find that men and women made similar numbers of revisions. However, among the most active [[Wikipedians]] men tended to make many more revisions than women. Finally, authors find that the most active women in sample tended to make larger revisions than the most active men. Authors conclude by discussing directions for future research.
 
As [[Wikipedia]] has become an indispensable source of online information, concerns about who writes, edits, and maintains it have come to the forefront. In particular, the 2010 UNU-MERIT survey found evidence of a significant gender skew: fewer than 13% of Wikipedia contributors are women. However, the number of contributors is just one way to examine gender differences in contribution. In this paper authors take a more fine-grained perspective by examining how much and what types of Wiki-work men and women tend to do. First, authors find that the so-called "Gender Gap" in number of editors may not be as wide as prior studies have suggested. Second, although more than 80% of editors in sample were men, among the bottom 75% of editors by activity-level, authors find that men and women made similar numbers of revisions. However, among the most active [[Wikipedians]] men tended to make many more revisions than women. Finally, authors find that the most active women in sample tended to make larger revisions than the most active men. Authors conclude by discussing directions for future research.

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Gender Differences in Wikipedia Editing
Authors
Judd Antin
Raymond Yee
Coye Cheshire
Oded Nov
Publication date
2011
DOI
10.1145/2038558.2038561
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Gender Differences in Wikipedia Editing - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2011, written by Judd Antin, Raymond Yee, Coye Cheshire and Oded Nov.

Overview

As Wikipedia has become an indispensable source of online information, concerns about who writes, edits, and maintains it have come to the forefront. In particular, the 2010 UNU-MERIT survey found evidence of a significant gender skew: fewer than 13% of Wikipedia contributors are women. However, the number of contributors is just one way to examine gender differences in contribution. In this paper authors take a more fine-grained perspective by examining how much and what types of Wiki-work men and women tend to do. First, authors find that the so-called "Gender Gap" in number of editors may not be as wide as prior studies have suggested. Second, although more than 80% of editors in sample were men, among the bottom 75% of editors by activity-level, authors find that men and women made similar numbers of revisions. However, among the most active Wikipedians men tended to make many more revisions than women. Finally, authors find that the most active women in sample tended to make larger revisions than the most active men. Authors conclude by discussing directions for future research.