[Gendergap] fyi: Gender Bias in Wikipedia and Britannica

[Sarah Stierch]

Thanks for sharing your research, Joseph!

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011 at reagle.org>wrote:

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> http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/social/wikipedia/gender-bias-in-wp-eb
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> Abstract: Is there a bias in the against women's representation in
> Wikipedia biographies? Thousands of biographical subjects, from six sources,
> are compared against the English-language Wikipedia and the online
> Encyclopædia Britannica with respect to coverage, gender representation, and
> article length. We conclude that Wikipedia provides better coverage and
> longer articles, that Wikipedia typically has more articles on women than
> Britannica in absolute terms, but Wikipedia articles on women are more
> likely to be missing than articles on men relative to Britannica. For both
> reference works, article length did not consistently differ by gender.
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