Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia

@article{Wagner2016WomenTT,
  title={Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia},
  author={Claudia Wagner and Eduardo Graells-Garrido and David Garc{\'i}a},
  journal={EPJ Data Science},
  year={2016},
  volume={5},
  pages={1-24}
}
Contributing to the writing of history has never been as easy as it is today thanks to Wikipedia, a community-created encyclopedia that aims to document the world’s knowledge from a neutral point of view. Though everyone can participate it is well known that the editor community has a narrow diversity, with a majority of white male editors. While this participatory gender gap has been studied extensively in the literature, this work sets out to assess potential gender inequalities in Wikipedia… Expand
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