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As Wikipedia has become an indispensable source of online information, concerns about who writes, edits, and main- tains it have come to the forefront. In particular, the 2010 UNU-MERIT survey found evidence of a signi cant gender skew: fewer than 13% of Wikipedia contributors are women. However, the number of contributors is just one way to ex- amine gender di erences in contribution. In this paper we take a more ne-grained perspective by examining how much and what types of Wiki-work men and women tend to do. First, we nd 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 our sample were men, among the bottom 75% of editors by activity- level, we nd that men and women made similar numbers of revisions. However, among the most active Wikipedians men tended to make many more revisions than women. Fi- nally, we nd that the most active women in our sample tended to make larger revisions than the most active men. We conclude by discussing directions for future research. http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~coye/Pubs/Articles/GenderWikiSym2011.pdf _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
