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Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: The Gender Gap on Wikipedia and Gender Inequity in the Arts

The Wikipedia Gender Gap

The Wikipedia Gender Gap - List of References

Academic Articles: (arranged alphabetically by primary author's last name)

Collier, B., & Bear, J. (2012). Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on computer supported cooperative work. In Conflict, criticism, or confidence: an empirical examination of the gender gap in wikipedia contributions (pp. 383–392). essay. https://doi.org/10.1145/2145204.2145265

Doyle, K. (2018). Minding the gaps: Engaging academic libraries to address content and user imbalances on Wikipedia. In M. Proffitt (Ed.), Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting communities of knowledge (pp. 55-67). ALA Editions.

Eckert, S., & Steiner, L. (2015) Wikipedia’s Gender Gap. In Armstrong, C. L. (Ed.). Media disparity : a gender battleground. (pp. 87-98). Lexington Books.

Evans, S. (2019). Art + Feminism: an interview with Siân Evans. Art Libraries Journal, 44(2), 72-77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/alj.2019.7

Ford, H., & Wajcman, J. (2017). Anyone can edit, not everyone does: Wikipedia’s infrastructure and the gender gap. Social Studies of Science, 47(4), 511–527. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44652520

Gauthier, M., & Sawchuk, K. (2017). Not notable enough: feminism and expertise in Wikipedia. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 14(4), 385–402. https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2017.1386321

Hamlin, A. K. (2020). Telling Stories Differently: Writing Women Artists into Wikipedia. In C. Henseler (Ed.), Extraordinary Partnerships: How the Arts and Humanities are Transforming America (pp. 119–136). Lever Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.11649046.11

Hood, N., & Littlejohn, A. (2018). Hacking History: Redressing Gender Inequities on Wikipedia Through an Editathon. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 19(5)http://dx.doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v19i5.3549

Jemielniak, D. (2016). Breaking the glass ceiling on Wikipedia. Feminist Review, 113, 103–108. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44987268

Konieczny, P., & Klein, M. (2018). Gender gap through time and space: a journey through wikipedia biographies via the wikidata human gender indicator. New Media and Society, 20(12), 4608–4633. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818779080

Lam, S. (T. K., Uduwage, A., Dong, Z., Sen, S., Musicant, D. R., Terveen, L., & Riedl, J. (2011). Proceedings of the 7th international symposium on wikis and open collaboration. In Wp:clubhouse?: an exploration of wikipedia's gender imbalance (pp. 1–10). essay. https://doi.org/10.1145/2038558.2038560

Luo, W., Adams, J., & Brueckner, H. (2018). The ladies vanish?: american sociology and the genealogy of its missing women on wikipedia. Comparative Sociology, 17(5), 519–556. https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341471

Reagle, J., & Rhue, L. (2011). Gender Bias in Wikipedia and Britannica. International Journal Of Communication, 5, 21. Retrieved from https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/777

Tripodi, F. (2021). Ms. categorized: gender, notability, and inequality on wikipedia. New Media & Society, (20210627). https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211023772

Wagner, C., Graells-Garrido, E., Garcia, D., & Menczer, F. (2016). Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in wikipedia. Epj Data Science, 5(1), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-016-0066-4

Wagner, C., Garcia, D., Jadidi, M., Strohmaier, M., & Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). (2015). It's a man's wikipedia? assessing gender inequality in an online encyclopedia (Ser. Proceedings of the 9th international AAAI conference on weblogs and social media). SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository. https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.06307

Media Sources: (arranged in reverse chronological order)

NPR story on Wikipedia gender bias and concept of “notability” (July 13, 2021): https://www.npr.org/2021/07/13/1015754856/who-gets-to-be-notable-and-who-doesnt-gender-bias-on-wiki

Article about and link to TedX talk on Wikipedia gender imbalance (March 9, 2020): https://ideas.ted.com/you-can-help-fix-wikipedias-gender-imbalance-heres-how-to-do-it/

Fast Company article on Wikipedia gender gap (Nov. 13, 2019): https://www.fastcompany.com/90429161/wikipedia-still-hasnt-fixed-its-colossal-gender-gap

Article from Chemistry World on disappearing Wikipedia pages on female scientists (2019): https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/female-scientists-pages-keep-disappearing-from-wikipedia-whats-going-on/3010664.article

The Atlantic article “Wikipedia’s Hostility to Women” (Oct. 21, 2015): https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/90-of-wikipedias-editors-are-male-heres-what-theyre-doing-about-it/280882/

MIT Technology Review article (Feb 2, 2015): https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/02/02/169470/computational-linguistics-reveals-how-wikipedia-articles-are-biased-against-women/

BBC Interview with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia gender imbalance (Aug. 8, 2014):

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-28701772

Article from The Atlantic in Addressing the Wikipedia Gender Gap (Oct. 25, 2013):

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/90-of-wikipedias-editors-are-male-heres-what-theyre-doing-about-it/280882/

New York Times opinion page piece on gender imbalance in editors and subjects on Wikipedia (Feb 4, 2011): https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/02/02/where-are-the-women-in-wikipedia/a-culture-of-editing-wars

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Art+Feminism builds a community of activists that is committed to closing information gaps related to gender, feminism, and the arts, beginning with Wikipedia. (https://artandfeminism.org/about/)

Art+Feminism is a global initiative addressing the gender gap on Wikipedia by improving content on cis and trans women, gender non-binary people, the arts, and feminism. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female; more recent research points to 16% globally and 22% in the US. The data relative to trans and gender non-binary editors is basically non-existent. That’s a huge problem. It’s a problem because without representation from cis and trans women and gender non-binary people in the preservation of their own stories, we get skewed content that misses the mark on the value and existence of their impact on history. We work with organizers on all 6 inhabitable continents to host events (known as edit-a-thons) that teach people of all gender identities how to edit on Wikipedia and address the gender gap. (https://artandfeminism.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/EN_Quick-Guide-for-Editors-2020.pdf)

In 2014, Art+Feminism's inaugural campaign attracted 600 volunteers at 30 separate events. The following year, a total of 1,300 volunteers attended 70 events that took place across 17 different countries, on four continents. Since then more than 20,000 people have taken part in over 1,500 events. This has led to positive results in over 100,000 Wikipedia articles. More than 18,000 people have participated and created or improved approximately 84,000 Wikipedia articles at 1,260 events globally, as of 2020. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%2BFeminism)

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