The Gender Gap and Wikipedia

Stuart has passed long these links to those of you who raised interest in this topic last Thursday:

A good introduction/overview to the problem with lots of links:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap

Two of the most recent research papers on the gender gap:
(both are by all-male research teams, as has been pointed out)
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2038560
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2038561

The Teahouse, a great new initiative:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse

The Wikimedia foundation’s gender gap mailing list:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/

A much earlier effort to provide an off-Wikipedia space to discuss and
plan around the gender gap:
http://wikichix.org/wiki/WikiChix

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>