Jimmy Wales, Mary Gardiner address Wikipedia’s gender gap at Wikimania conference
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales delivered his annual State of the Wiki address at last week’s Wikimania conference in Washington, DC, where he joined Ada Initiative co-founder Mary Gardiner in calling for a more inclusive and diverse community of web editors. Gardiner and Wales focused on Wikipedia’s troubling gender gap, in particular, citing a 2011 Editor Survey that found that women comprise only nine-percent of the site’s editors, despite the fact that more than one-third of Wikipedia users are female. A major driver behind this gap, according to Wales, is bias in topic selection — a process whereby Wikipedia’s editors collectively determine whether a particular subject is worthy of its own article. Because women are already… Continue reading…
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Jimmy Wales, Mary Gardiner address Wikipedia’s gender gap at Wikimania conference
