Gender differences in Wikipedia editing
Gender differences in Wikipedia editing
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维基百科编辑中的性别差异
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2011
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O. Nov
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Judd Antin;R. Yee;Coye Cheshire;O. Nov
由于维基百科已成为在线信息不可或缺的来源，因此对谁编写、编辑和维护维基百科的担忧已成为人们关注的焦点。特别是，2010 年 UNU-MERIT 调查发现了明显性别偏差的证据：维基百科贡献者中女性的比例不到 13%。然而，贡献者的数量只是考察贡献中性别差异的一种方式。在本文中，我们通过研究男性和女性倾向于从事的维基工作的数量和类型，采取更细粒度的视角。首先，我们发现所谓的编辑数量“性别差距”可能并不像之前的研究表明的那么大。其次，尽管我们样本中超过 80% 的编辑是男性，但在按活动水平排名最低的 75% 编辑中，我们发现男性和女性的修改次数相似。然而，在最活跃的维基百科中，男性所做的修改往往比女性多得多。最后，我们发现样本中最活跃的女性往往比最活跃的男性做出更大的修正。最后我们讨论了未来研究的方向。
As Wikipedia has become an indispensable source of online information, concerns about who writes, edits, and maintains it have come to the forefront. In particular, the 2010 UNU-MERIT survey found evidence of a significant gender skew: fewer than 13% of Wikipedia contributors are women. However, the number of contributors is just one way to examine gender differences in contribution. In this paper we take a more fine-grained perspective by examining how much and what types of Wiki-work men and women tend to do. First, we find 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 find that men and women made similar numbers of revisions. However, among the most active Wikipedians men tended to make many more revisions than women. Finally, we find 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.