The August 2019 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2019/August
22 recent publications about Wikipedia's gender gaps and potential gender biases,
summarized and reviewed in the latest edition of our monthly research newsletter.
In this issue:
1 Female and nonwhite US sociologists less likely to have Wikipedia articles than scholars
of similar citation impact2 "Mapping and Bridging the Gender Gap: An Ethnographic
Study of Indian Wikipedians and Their Motivations to Contribute"3 "Investigating
the Gender Pronoun Gap in Wikipedia"4 Safety and women editors on Wikipedia5
"Hacking History: Redressing Gender Inequities on Wikipedia Through an
Editathon"6 "'(Weitergeleitet von Journalistin)': The Gendered
Presentation of Professions on Wikipedia"7 "Striking result": No bias
against contributions by female editors in quality assessment8 Other recent
publications8.1 "Unexpected forms of bias" on Wikipedia favor female over male
CEOs8.2 English Wikipedia biased against conservative and female topics, at least when
compared to US magazines8.3 "Gender and deletion on Wikipedia"8.4 "Deleted
gender wars"8.5 "Gender gap through time and space: A journey through Wikipedia
biographies via the Wikidata Human Gender Indicator"8.6 Special issue of the
"Nordic journal for information science and dissemination of culture"8.7
"Breastfeeding, Authority, and Genre: Women's Ethos in Wikipedia and
Blogs"8.8 "Cyberfeminism on Wikipedia: Visibility and deliberation in feminist
Wikiprojects"8.9 "Women and Wikipedia. Diversifying Editors and Enhancing
Content through Library Edit-a-Thons"8.10 "Similar Gaps, Different Origins?
Women Readers and Editors at Greek Wikipedia"8.11 "Writing Women in Mathematics
into Wikipedia"8.12 "How do students trust Wikipedia? An examination across
genders"8.13 "Breaking the glass ceiling on Wikipedia"8.14 Using Wikipedia
for "Analyzing Gender Stereotyping in Bollywood Movies"8.15 Contrary to
expectations, "no evidence of discrimination of female users based on their
usernames"8.16 Some informative non-research overview publications
*** 23 recent publications were covered or listed in this issue ***
Masssly and Tilman Bayer
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