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Facing Serious Gender Gap, Wikipedia Vows To Add More Women ContributorsNPR (blog)Maybe you suspected this, but the raw numbers are still a bit surprising: After surveying contributors to Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation …
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I doubt if we can take too seriously any study sponsored by the Wikimedia Foundation itself — Sockpuppet Science has yet to begin tackling the problems associated with random sampling in populations of multiple pseudonymous accounts per person — but no one acquainted with Wikipedia Culture needs to resort to the orders of high-falutin theories we have heard today, not unless of course they have some reason to cloud-sauce the obvious truth.
The simple truth is that the statistics suggested here are comparable to the percentage of women who participate in online games and street gangs, those being the closest approximations to Wikipediot Culture in the outside world.
Jon Awbrey31 Jan 2011 @ 4:24 pm