Conflict, criticism, or confidence: an empirical examination of the gender gap in wikipedia contributions

By Ben Collier, J. Bear. 2012

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BOLD: Dataset and Metrics for Measuring Biases in Open-Ended Language Generation (2021, background): “Several works have shown that the distribution of demographics of Wikipedia authors is highly skewed resulting in various types of biases [9, 19, 36].”
It's a Man's Wikipedia? Assessing Gender Inequality in an Online Encyclopedia (2015, background): “The demographic characteristics of this set of editors is known: it is predominately white and male (Lam et al. 2011; Collier and Bear 2012; Hill and Shaw 2013).”
First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia (2015, background): “, their contributions are discarded), and reportedly women contribute less because of aggressive behavior toward them [14, 48].”
Conversations Gone Awry: Detecting Early Signs of Conversational Failure (2018, background): “…et al., 2017; Vitak et al., 2017), and bullying (Akbulut et al., 2010; Kwak et al., 2015; Singh et al., 2017), as well as their impact on aspects of engagement like user retention (Collier and Bear, 2012; Wikimedia Support and Safety Team, 2015) or discussion quality (Arazy et al., 2013).”
Beneath the Tip of the Iceberg: Current Challenges and New Directions in Sentiment Analysis Research (2020, background): “However, a survey by Collier & Bear [27] found that less than 15 percent of contributions to Wikipedia come fromwomen.”