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Gender bias on Wikipedia

The Wikipedia Monument in Słubice, Poland, features both male and female editors.[1][2] The initial model for the sculpture featured only men.

Gender bias on Wikipedia is a term used to describe various gender-related disparities on Wikipedia, particularly the overrepresentation of men among both volunteer contributors and article subjects, as well as lesser coverage of and topics primarily of interest to women.[3][4]

In a 2018 survey covering 12 language versions of Wikipedia and some other Wikimedia Foundation projects, 90% of 3,734 respondents reported their gender as male, 8.8% as female, and 1% as other; among contributors to the English Wikipedia, 84.7% identified as male, 13.6% as female, and 1.7% as other (total of 88 respondents).[5] In 2019, Katherine Maher, then CEO of Wikimedia Foundation, said her team's working assumption was that women make up 15–20% of total contributors.[6]

A 2021 study found that, in April 2017, 41% of biographies nominated for deletion were women despite only 17% of published biographies being women.[7] The visibility and reachability of women on Wikipedia is limited, with a 2015 report finding that female pages generally "tend to be more linked to men".[8][needs update] Language that is considered sexist, loaded, or otherwise gendered has been identified in articles about women.[4] Gender bias features among the most frequent criticisms of Wikipedia, sometimes as part of a more general criticism about systemic bias in Wikipedia.

In 2015, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales announced that the encyclopedia had failed to reach its goal to retain 25% female editorship.[3] Programs such as edit-a-thons and Women in Red have been developed to encourage female editors and increase the coverage of women's topics.[9][10]

  1. ^ "Wikipedia monument to be built in Poland". The Independent. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  2. ^ Ronson, Jacqueline (22 October 2015). "Wikipedia Monument in Słubice, Poland Celebrates First Anniversary". Inverse. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  3. ^ a b Torres, Nicole (2 June 2016). "Why Do So Few Women Edit Wikipedia?". Harvard Business Review. ISSN 0017-8012. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  4. ^ a b Kleeman, Jenny (26 May 2016). "The Wikipedia wars: does it matter if our biggest source of knowledge is written by men?". www.newstatesman.com. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  5. ^ "Community Insights/2018 Report/Contributors - Meta". meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  6. ^ Balch, Oliver (28 November 2019). "Making the edit: why we need more women in Wikipedia". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  7. ^ Tripodi, Francesca (2021). "Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Wikipedia". New Media & Society. 25 (7): 1687–1707. doi:10.1177/14614448211023772. S2CID 237883867.
  8. ^ Wagner, Claudia (2015). "It's a Man's Wikipedia? Assessing Gender Inequality in an Online Encyclopedia". arXiv:1501.06307 [cs.CY].
  9. ^ Curtis, Cara (2019). "This physicist has written over 500 biographies of women scientists on Wikipedia". thenextweb.com. The Next Web. Archived from the original on 4 August 2019. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  10. ^ Wade, Jessica (11 February 2019). "This is why I've written 500 biographies of female scientists on Wikipedia". The Independent. Archived from the original on 20 May 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2020.