Gender Bias at Wikipedia?

摘要

A substantial gap in the number of male versus female editors at Wikipedia may be creating a gender-oriented disparity in the popular online information source's content, according to research by the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering. Only 16% of the new editors who joined Wikipedia in 2009 identified themselves as female and those females made only 9% of the edits by the editors who joined that year. The findings of Minnesota's GroupLens Research Lab were recently published in a paper, "WP: Clubhouse? An Exploration of Wikipedia's Gender Imbalance," and discussed in a YouTube video, "Research Proves Gender Imbalance on Wikipedia." "We think people who use Wikipedia as a resource need to be aware our results suggest there are disparities in the quality of its content coverage and those disparities seem to be related to the gender gap," says lead researcher Shyong(Tony) K. Lam.