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This page documents published peer-reviewed research on gender gaps within Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. Most of the research is related to English Wikipedia's content gender gap, but not all.
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2025
[edit]- Brødreskift, Mali; Pershina, Raissa (15 August 2025). "Mobilizing for Gender Equality in Digital Spaces". AMCIS 2025 Proceedings.
- Jankowski, Steve (3 April 2025). "Becoming Wikipedian women: a sociotechnical history of the Gender Gap Task Force (2013–2023)". Internet Histories. 9 (1–2): 31–52. doi:10.1080/24701475.2024.2425150. ISSN 2470-1475.
- Macià, Yessica; Fernández, Laura; Ferran Ferrer, Núria (1 February 2025). "Editorial decision-making on Wikipedia: an analysis of gender bias and its impact on discoverability and information retrieval". Articles publicats en revistes (Biblioteconomia, Documentació i Comunicació Audiovisual). ISSN 2514-9288.
- Mukherjee, Sourabrata; Mehta, Atharva; Teotia, Soumya; Saha, Sougata; Arora, Akhil; Choudhury, Monojit (2025). "Women, Infamous, and Exotic Beings: What Honorific Usages in Wikipedia Reflect on the Cross-Cultural Sociolinguistic Norms?". arXiv:2501.03479 [cs.CL].
- Yu, Yulin; Li, Xianglong; Li, Tianyi; Dhillon, Paramveer S.; Romero, Daniel M. (1 December 2025). "Demographic disparity in Wikipedia coverage: a global perspective". EPJ Data Science. 14 (1): 15. doi:10.1140/epjds/s13688-025-00530-4. ISSN 2193-1127.
- Yunus, Yahya; Chen, Tianwa; Demartini, Gianluca (2025). "Exploring Wikipedia Gender Diversity Over Time - The Wikipedia Gender Dashboard (WGD)". arXiv:2501.12610 [cs.CY].
- Zuntriana, Ari (2025). "Wikipedia gender gap: Kesenjangan digital berbasis gender di Wikipedia" [Wikipedia gender gap: The gender-based digital divide on Wikipedia]. Jurnal Kepustakawanan Indonesia (in Indonesian). 1 (1): 29–42.
2024
[edit]- Al-Shboul, Bashar; Al-Qudah, Dana A.; Boshmaf, Hadeel; Abu-Salih, Bilal; Beseiso, Majdi; Al-Saqqa, Samar (21 October 2024). "Arabic Wikipedia users' personalized behavior analysis considering gender gap". PLOS ONE. 19 (10) e0312176. Bibcode:2024PLoSO..1912176A. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0312176. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 11493248. PMID 39432521.
- Centelles, Miquel; Ferran-Ferrer, Núria (5 April 2024). "Assessing knowledge organization systems from a gender perspective: Wikipedia taxonomy and Wikidata ontologies". Journal of Documentation. 80 (7): 124–147. doi:10.1108/JD-11-2023-0230. ISSN 0022-0418.
- Farič, Nuša; Potts, Henry WW; Heilman, James M. (12 September 2024). "Quality of Male and Female Medical Content on English-Language Wikipedia: Quantitative Content Analysis". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 26 (1) e47562. doi:10.2196/47562.
- Ferran Ferrer, Núria; Boté Vericad, Juan José; Minguillón i Alfonso, Julià; Ferran Ferrer, Núria; Boté Vericad, Juan José; Minguillón i Alfonso, Julià (2024). "Bibliographic data for Wikipedia gender gap: a scoping review" (in Spanish). CORA.Repositori de Dades de Recerca. doi:10.34810/DATA980.
- Ferran-Ferrer, Núria; Centelles Velilla, Miguel Angel; Fernández, Laura (25 November 2024). "Wikipedia's Front page ten years evolution: Analysis of the representation of gender and intersectionalities on biographic content and its editorial policies" (in Spanish). Universitat de Barcelona - Repositori de Dades de Recerca. doi:10.34810/data1427.
- Guilbeault, Doughlas; Delacourt, Solène; Tasker Hull, Bhargav; Bhargav, Srinivasa Desikan; Chu, Mark; Nadler, Ethan (14 February 2024). "Online images amplify gender bias". Nature. 626 (8001): 1049–1055. Bibcode:2024Natur.626.1049G. doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07068-x. PMC 10901730. PMID 38355800.
- Hrivaa, Lea; Coscia, Michele (14 June 2024). "Traces of Unequal Entry Requirement for Illustrious People on Wikipedia Based on their Gender". Advances in Complex Systems. 27 (3) 2450003. doi:10.1142/S0219525924500036.
- Tasnim Huq, Khandaker; Ciampaglia, Giovanni Luca (2024). "Survival of the Notable: Gender Asymmetry in Wikipedia Collective Deliberations". arXiv:2411.04340 [cs.HC].
- Kenney, Sally (2 April 2025). "Women Judges and Wikipedia". ConLawNOW. 16 (2): 109. ISSN 2380-4688.
- Martini, Franziska (16 November 2024). "Notable enough? The questioning of women's biographies on Wikipedia". Feminist Media Studies. 24 (8): 1877–1893. doi:10.1080/14680777.2023.2266585. ISSN 1468-0777.
- Patel, Hrishikesh; Chen, Tianwa; Bongiovanni, Ivano; Demartini, Gianluca (17 January 2024). "Estimating Gender Completeness in Wikipedia". arXiv:2401.08993 [cs.CY].
- Perkins, Tracy; Hussein, Sophia; Trent, Mariam; Davis, Lundyn (16 January 2024). "Wikipedia and the Outsider Within: Black Feminism and Social Inequality in Knowledge Sharing". Civic Sociology. 5 (1) 90253. doi:10.1525/cs.2024.90253.
- Singer, Nestor; Gongora, -Goloubintseff Jose Gustavo (July 2024). "Mind the gap! An interpretative phenomenological analysis of solidarity among Ibero-American female translators in the Spanish Wikipedia". Translation & Interpreting. 16 (2): 72–88. doi:10.12807/ti.116202.2024.a06.
- Soubki, Adil; Choi, Shyne; Rambow, Owen (2024). "Examining Gender and Power on Wikipedia Through Face and Politeness". arXiv:2408.02798 [cs.CL].
2023
[edit]- Al Tamime, Reham; Weber, Ingmar (2023). Addressing Wikipedia’s Gender Gaps Through Linkedin Ads. Wiki Workshop 2023.
- Arnaout, Hiba; Razniewski, Simon; Pan, Jeff Z. (2 June 2023). "Wiki-Based Communities of Interest: Demographics and Outliers". Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 17: 990–996. arXiv:2303.09189. doi:10.1609/icwsm.v17i1.22206.
- Conroy, Melanie (11 May 2023). "Quantifying the Gap: The Gender Gap in French Writers' Wikidata". Journal of Cultural Analytics. 8 (2). doi:10.22148/001c.74068. S2CID 258652988.
- Fernández, Laura; Ferran-Ferrer, Núria (2023). Addressing the Wikipedia’s Gender Gap: Towards a Full Inclusion of Intersex and Trans-Non-Binary Gender Identities. Wiki Workshop 2023.
- Ferran-Ferrer, Núria; Boté-Vericad, Juan-José; Minguillón, Julià (16 December 2023). "Wikipedia gender gap: a scoping review". Profesional de la información. 32 (6) e320617. doi:10.3145/epi.2023.nov.17. ISSN 1699-2407.
- Ford, Heather; Pietsch, Tamson; Tall, Kelly (29 October 2023). "Gender and the invisibility of care on Wikipedia". Big Data & Society. 10 (2) 20539517231210276. doi:10.1177/20539517231210276.
- Gray, Andrew (2023). "Gender and BLPs on Wikipedia, redux". generalist.org.uk.
- Gupta, Sneh; Trehan, Kulveen (2023). Feminist Activism and Power Dynamics in the Digital Sphere: A Case study of #VisibleWikiWomen campaign. Wiki Workshop 2023.
- Kandek, Barbara (1 March 2023). "Closing the gender gap: Women in Red's efforts to add more women to Wikipedia". Wikimedia Foundation.
- Kirtane, Neeraja; Shankar, Anuraag; Jain, Chelsi; Katrapati, Ganesh; V, Senthamizhan; Baskaran, Raji; Ravindran, Balaraman (2023). Hidden Voices: Reducing gender data gap, one Wikipedia article at a time. Wiki Workshop 2023.
- Lemieux, Mackenzie Emily; Zhang, Rebecca; Tripodi, Francesca (29 March 2023). ""Too Soon" to count? How gender and race cloud notability considerations on Wikipedia". Big Data & Society. 10 20539517231165490. doi:10.1177/20539517231165490. S2CID 257861139.
- Metilli, Daniele; Melis, Beatrice; Paolini, Chiara; Fioravanti, Marta (2023). How does Wikidata shape gender identities? Initial findings and developments from the WiGeDi project. Wiki Workshop 2023.
- Perkins, Tracy; Hussein, Sophia; Davis, Lundyn; Trent, Mariam (2023). Wikipedia and the Outsider Within: Black Feminism and Racialized, Gendered Knowledge Sharing. Wiki Workshop 2023.
- Ramírez-Ordóñez, D.; Ferran Ferrer, N. (11 May 2023). Endurance against oblivion: The case of the Articles for Deletion with gender perspective in Wikipedia. Wiki Workshop (10th edition). hdl:10609/153081.
- Silva, Elise; Scott, Khirsten L. (June 2023). "Developing Black Feminist Researcher Identities: A Youth-Engaged Wikipedia Case Study in Information Activism". Journal of Information Literacy. 17 (1): 244–258. doi:10.11645/17.1.3359.
- Smimov, Ivan; Oprea, Camelia; Strohmaier, Markus (December 2023). "Toxic comments are associated with reduced activity of volunteer editors on Wikipedia". PNAS Nexus. 2 (12): 385–. doi:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad385. ISSN 2752-6542. PMC 10697426. PMID 38059265.
- Venus, Nicole (14 August 2023). "The Representation of Female Economists on Wikipedia". SSRN 4540744.
- Wang, Yurong; Wagner, Claudia; Bazzan, Ana LC (2023). Gender Asymmetries in the depiction of Historical Figures A Comparison of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica and Wikipedia. Wiki Workshop 2023.
- XOR'easter; Bayer, Tilman (8 May 2023). "Recent research/Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions". Wikipedia Signpost.
- Zheng, Xiang; Chen, Jiajing; Yan, Erjia; Ni, Chaoqun (February 2023). "Gender and country biases in Wikipedia citations to scholarly publications". Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 74 (2): 219–233. doi:10.1002/asi.24723. ISSN 2330-1635. S2CID 253379599.
2022
[edit]- Beytía, Pablo; Wagner, Claudia (22 March 2022). "Visibility layers: a framework for systematising the gender gap in Wikipedia content". Internet Policy Review. 11 (1). doi:10.14763/2022.1.1621.
- Chakraborty, Anwesha; Hussain, Netha (7 March 2022). "Documenting the gender gap in Indian Wikipedia communities: Findings from a qualitative pilot study". First Monday. 27 (3). doi:10.5210/fm.v27i3.11443.
- Fan, Angela; Gardent, Claire (30 March 2022). "Generating Full Length Wikipedia Biographies: The Impact of Gender Bias on the Retrieval-Based Generation of Women Biographies" (PDF). ACL.
- Ferran-Ferrer, Núria; Miquel-Ribé, Marc; Meneses, Julio; Minguillón, Julià (16 August 2022). "The Gender Perspective in Wikipedia: A Content and Participation Challenge". Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2022. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1319–1323. doi:10.1145/3487553.3524937. ISBN 978-1-4503-9130-6.
- Field, Anjalie; Park, Chan Young; Lin, Kevin Z.; Tsvetkov, Yulia (25 April 2022). "Controlled Analyses of Social Biases in Wikipedia Bios". Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 2624–2635. doi:10.1145/3485447.3512134. ISBN 978-1-4503-9096-5.
- Gredel, Eva; Bröcher, Leonie; Storrer, Angelika (19 January 2022). "Wikilog@bw: Linguistische Analysen zum Gender Bias in der Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia". In Kämper, Heidrun; Plewnia, Albrecht (eds.). Sprache in Politik und Gesellschaft: Perspektiven und Zugänge [Language in politics and society: perspectives and approaches] (in German). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. pp. 319–322. ISBN 978-3-11-077430-6.
- Gupta, Sneh; Trehan, Kulveen (2022). "Twitter reacts to absence of women on Wikipedia: a mixed-methods analysis of #VisibleWikiWomen campaign". Media Asia. 49 (2): 130–154. doi:10.1080/01296612.2021.2003100. S2CID 245065502.
- Langrock, Isabelle; González-Bailón, Sandra (June 2022). "The Gender Divide in Wikipedia: Quantifying and Assessing the Impact of Two Feminist Interventions". Journal of Communication. 72 (3): 297–321. doi:10.1093/joc/jqac004.
- Meyer, Christine (May 2022). "'If You Want to Change the World, Edit Wikipedia': Mitigating the Gender Gap and Systemic Bias on Wikipedia". University of Idaho.
- Oldach, Laurel (8 March 2022). "What's with Wikipedia and women?". ASBMBTODAY.
- Oliveira, Rose (26 April 2022). "Filling in the Gaps Together: International Women's Day Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon".
- Ramírez-Ordóñez, D.; Ferran-Ferrer, N.; Meneses, J. (2022). Wikipedia and gender: The deleted, the marked, and the unpolluted biographies. Wiki Workshop 2022.
- Srinivas, Yashashwani (2022). The Digital Gender Disparity. Wiki Workshop 2022.
2021
[edit]- Bayer, Tilman (25 July 2021). "Recent research/Gender bias and statistical fallacies, disinformation and mutual intelligibility". Wikipedia Signpost.
- Berson, Amber; Sengul-Jones, Monika; Tamani, Melissa (June 2021). "Unreliable Guidelines: Reliable Sources and Marginalized Communities in French, English and Spanish Wikipedias" (PDF). Art+Feminism.
- Beytía, Pablo; Agarwal, Pushkal; Redi, Miriam; Singh, Vivek K. (December 2021). "Visual Gender Biases in Wikipedia: A Systematic Evaluation across the Ten Most Spoken Languages" (Preprint). SocArXiv. doi:10.31235/osf.io/59rey. S2CID 244806764.
- Meenakshi Koteeswaran, Bhuvana (2021). Bridging the Gender Gap: A research study on Indian Language Wikimedia Communities. Wiki Workshop 2021.
- Costa-Jussà, Marta R.; Lin, Pau Li; España-Bonet, Cristina (2019). "GeBioToolkit: Automatic Extraction of Gender-Balanced Multilingual Corpus of Wikipedia Biographies". arXiv:1912.04778 [cs.CL].
- Crowe, Clare; Morgan, Helen; Tomsic, Mary (April 2021). "Women, history and wikipedia editing". Agora. 56 (1): 50–53.
- Falenska, Agnieszka; Çetinoglu, Özlem (2021). Assessing Gender Bias in Wikipedia: Inequalities in Article Titles (PDF). ACL. pp. 75–85.
- Ferran-Ferrer, Núria; Castellanos-Pineda, Patricia; Minguillón, Julià; Meneses, Julio (September 6, 2021). "The gender gap on the Spanish Wikipedia: Listening to the voices of women editors". El Profesional de la Información. 30 (5) e300516. doi:10.3145/epi.2021.sep.16. S2CID 241442991.
- Grand d'Esnon, Anne (July 2021). "Who cares about calling non-consensual sex "rape" in summaries of fictional narratives on Wikipedia ? From a gender identity hypothesis to recurrent activist discursive practices. ⟨hal-03293248⟩". Germany: Exploring Gender Identities Online - Greifswald - Constance (on line).
- Kalaf-Hughes, Nicole; Cravens, R.G. (22 December 2021). "Does a Wikipedia-based assignment increase self-efficacy among female students? A qualified maybe". Journal of Political Science Education. 17 (sup1): 862–879. doi:10.1080/15512169.2021.1921586. ISSN 1551-2169.
- Klein, Maximilian (15 March 2021). "Humaniki March Update: Public Launch of Alpha Release". Wikimedia. Humaniki provides a wide variety of gender gap statistics based on Wikidata.
- Lir, Shlomit Aharoni (2021). "Strangers in a seemingly open-to-all website: the gender bias in Wikipedia". Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. 40 (7): 801–818. doi:10.1108/EDI-10-2018-0198. S2CID 214364954.
- Mcdonald, David W.; Zachry, Mark (28 June 2021). "On the Alignment Between Self-Declared Gender Identity and Topical Content from Wikipedia". Trans. Soc. Comput. 4 (2): 7:1–7:69. doi:10.1145/3450753.
- Menking, Amanda; Rosenberg, Jon (1 May 2021). "WP:NOT, WP:NPOV, and Other Stories Wikipedia Tells Us: A Feminist Critique of Wikipedia's Epistemology". Science, Technology, & Human Values. 46 (3): 455–479. doi:10.1177/0162243920924783. ISSN 0162-2439.
- Minguillón, Julià; Mesneses, Julio; Aibar, Eduard; Ferran-Ferrer, Núria (23 February 2021). "Exploring the gender gap in the Spanish Wikipedia: Differences in engagement and editing practices". PLOS ONE. 16 (2) e0246702. Bibcode:2021PLoSO..1646702M. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0246702. PMC 7901774. PMID 33621229.
- Pradel, Franziska (4 July 2021). "Biased Representation of Politicians in Google and Wikipedia Search? The Joint Effect of Party Identity, Gender Identity and Elections". Political Communication. 38 (4): 447–478. doi:10.1080/10584609.2020.1793846. ISSN 1058-4609.
- Ratković, Nebojša; Madzarević, Ivana (May 2021). "Women's Participation in Wikipedia: Cross-Border Balkan Perspective". Área Abierta. Revista de comunicación audiovisual y publicitaria. 21 (2): 237–256. doi:10.5209/arab.72763.
- Sebo, Paul (1 July 2021). "Performance of gender detection tools: a comparative study of name-to-gender inference services". Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA. 109 (3): 414–421. doi:10.5195/jmla.2021.1185. ISSN 1558-9439. PMC 8485937. PMID 34629970.
- Sun, Jiao; Peng, Nanyun (2021). Men Are Elected, Women Are Married: Events Gender Bias on Wikipedia (PDF). ACL. arXiv:2106.01601.
- Tripodi, Francesca (27 June 2021). "Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Wikipedia". New Media & Society. 25 (7): 1687–1707. doi:10.1177/14614448211023772. S2CID 237883867.
- Ukwoma, Scholastica Chizoma; Osadebe, Ngozi Eunice; Okafor, Victoria Nwamaka; Ezeani, Chinwe Nwogo (9 July 2021). "Unveiling the veiled: Wikipedia collaborating with academic libraries in Africa in creating visibility for African women through Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon". Digital Library Perspectives. 37 (4): 449–462. doi:10.1108/DLP-08-2020-0079. ISSN 2059-5816.
- Wang, Alice; Pappu, Aasish; Cramer, Henriette (22 May 2021). "Representation of Music Creators on Wikipedia, Differences in Gender and Genre". Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 15: 764–775. doi:10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18101. ISSN 2334-0770.
- Zhang, Charles Chuankai; Terveen, Loren (15 October 2021). "Quantifying the Gap: A Case Study of Wikidata Gender Disparities". 17th International Symposium on Open Collaboration. ACM Digital Library. pp. 1–12. doi:10.1145/3479986.3479992. ISBN 978-1-4503-8500-8. S2CID 238992534.
2020
[edit]- Bérubé, Nicolas; Ghiasi, Gita; Sainte-Marie, Maxime; Larivière, Vincent (2020). "Wiki-Gendersort: Automatic gender detection using first names in Wikipedia". osf.io.
- Bolón Brun, Natalie; Kypraiou, Sofia; Gullón Altés, Natalia; Petlacalco Barrios, Irene (April 2020). Wikigender: A Machine Learning Model to Detect Gender Bias in Wikipedia (PDF). Wiki Workshop 2020. arXiv:2211.07520.
- D'Alessandro, Zoe (2020). Wiki-Donna: A Contribution to a More Gender-Balanced History of Italian Literature Online (Bachelor thesis).
- DeFranza, David; Mishra, Himanshu; Mishra, Arul (July 2020). "How language shapes prejudice against women: An examination across 45 world languages". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 119 (1): 7–22. doi:10.1037/pspa0000188. PMID 32077734.
- Gajewski, Krzysztof (2020). Gender Gap in the Processes of Social Production of Knowledge. A Case of Polish Wikipedia. Mind the Gap! Proceedings of the Sixth Argumentor Conference.
- Gerlach, Martin (June 2020). "Metrics for quantifying the gender content gap". Wikimedia.
- Gallus, Jana; Bhatia, Sudeep (1 September 2020). "Gender, power and emotions in the collaborative production of knowledge: A large-scale analysis of Wikipedia editor conversations". Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 160: 115–130. doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2020.02.003. ISSN 0749-5978.
- Hamlin, Amy K. (1 May 2020). "Telling Stories differently. Writing women Artists into Wikipedia". In Henseler, Christine (ed.). Extraordinary Partnerships: How the Arts and Humanities are Transforming America. Lever Press. pp. 119–136. ISBN 978-1-64315-009-3.
- Iglesias, Encina Calvo (August 2020). "Preparing Biographies of STEM Women in the Wikipedia Format, a Teaching Experience". IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje. 15 (3): 211–214. Bibcode:2020IRITA..15..211I. doi:10.1109/RITA.2020.3008144. hdl:10347/31816. ISSN 1932-8540.
- Johnson, Isaac; Lemmerich, Florian; Sáez-Trumper, Diego; Strohmaier, Markus; West, Robert; Zia, Leila (20 July 2020). "Global gender differences in Wikipedia readership". arXiv:2007.10403 [cs.CY].
- Maudslay, 1Rowan Hall; Gonen, Hila; Cotterell, Ryan; Teufel, Simone (2020). "It's All in the Name: Mitigating Gender Bias with Name-Based Counterfactual Data Substitution". arXiv:1909.00871 [cs.CL].
{{cite arXiv}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - Schmahl, Katja Geertruida; Viering, Tom Julian; Makrodimitris, Stavros; Naseri Jahfari, Arman; Tax, David M. J.; Loog, Marco (2020). Is Wikipedia succeeding in reducing gender bias? Assessing changes in gender bias in Wikipedia using word embeddings (PDF). ALC. doi:10.18653/v1/2020.nlpcss-1.11. S2CID 226283827.
- Singh, Vivek K.; Chayko, Mary; Inamdar, Raj; Floegel, Diana (2020). "Female librarians and male computer programmers? Gender bias in occupational images on digital media platforms". Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 71 (11): 1281–1294. arXiv:1912.05474. doi:10.1002/asi.24335. ISSN 2330-1643.
- Vrana, Adele Godoy; Sengupta, Anasuya; Bouterse, Siko (13 October 2020). "Toward a Wikipedia For and From Us All". Wikipedia @ 20.
- Wang, Yanyan; Zhang, Jin (17 July 2020). "Investigation of Women's Health on Wikipedia—A Temporal Analysis of Women's Health Topic". Informatics. 7 (3): 22. doi:10.3390/informatics7030022. ISSN 2227-9709.
- Young, Amber G; Wigdor, Ariel D.; Kane, Gerald C. (2020). "The Gender Bias Tug-of-War in a Co-creation Community: Core-Periphery Tension on Wikipedia". Journal of Management Information Systems. 37 (4): 1047=1072. doi:10.1080/07421222.2020.1831773. S2CID 227240954.
2019
[edit]- Adams, Julia; Bruckner, Hannah; Naslund, Cambria (2019). "Who Counts as a Notable Sociologist on Wikipedia? Gender, Race, and the "Professor Test"". Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 5 2378023118823946: 1–14. doi:10.1177/2378023118823946.
- Ferran, N.; Castellanos Pineda, P.; Meneses, J.; Minguillón, J.; Fàbregues, S.; Aibar, E. (2019). "Why do female editors leave Wikipedia? A qualitative analysis of gender bias in the Spanish Wikipedia". Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). hdl:10609/99188.
- Marinina, Anna (12 December 2019). Overrepresentation of the Underrepresented: Gender Bias in Wikipedia. digitalcommons.pace.edu (Thesis). Honors College Theses.
- Menking, Amanda; Erickson, Ingrid; Pratt, Wanda (9 May 2019). "People Who Can Take It: How Women Wikipedians Negotiate and Navigate Safety in Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (CHI 2019)". ACM, New York.
- Schellekens, Menno; Holstege, Floris; Yasseri, Taha (12 April 2019). "Female scholars need to achieve more for equal public recognition". arXiv:1904.06310 [cs.DL].
- Strasser, Ulrike (March 2019). "Women Matter, Facts Matter, History Matters: Or, Why I Started Teaching with Wikipedia". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 50 (1): 245–251. doi:10.1086/SCJ5001035. ISSN 0361-0160.
- Weijand, Sasha (2019). AUTOMATED GENDER CLASSIFICATION IN WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHIES, a cross-lingual comparison. diva-portal.org (Bachelor of Science Programme in Computing Science thesis).
2018
[edit]- Bazely, Dawn (2018). "Why Nobel winner Donna Strickland didn't have a Wikipedia page". washingtonpost.com.
- Cabrera, Benjamin; Ross, Björn; Dado, Marielle; Heisel, Maritta (15 June 2018). "The Gender Gap in Wikipedia Talk Pages". Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 12 (1). doi:10.1609/icwsm.v12i1.15053. ISSN 2334-0770. S2CID 49414503.
- Chakraborty, Anwesha; Hussain, Netha (2018). Mapping and Bridging the Gender Gap: An Ethnographic Study of Indian Wikipedians and Their Motivations to Contribute. Wiki Workshop 2018.
- Ehlers, Saskia (2018). Gender imbalance on Wikipedia—an insider's perspective (PDF). Wikimedia Diversity Conference.
- Highton, Melissa (2018). "Gender balancing Wikipedia entries". EqualBITE. pp. 43–45. doi:10.1163/9789463511438_006. ISBN 978-94-6351-143-8.
- Hood, Nina; Littlejohn, Allison (2018). "Hacking History: Redressing Gender Inequities on Wikipedia Through an Editathon". International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning. 19 (5). doi:10.19173/irrodl.v19i5.3549. ISSN 1492-3831.
- Luo, Wei; Adams, Julia; Brueckner, Hannah (2018). "The Ladies Vanish? American Sociology and the Genealogy of its Missing Women on Wikipedia". Comparative Sociology. 17 (5): 519–556. doi:10.1163/15691330-12341471.
- Paoloni, Paola; Drago, Carlo (2019). "Analysing the Diffusion of the Ideas and Knowledge on Economic Open Problems on Female Entrepreneur in US Over Time: The Case of Wikipedia (Year 2015–2017)". Advances in Gender and Cultural Research in Business and Economics. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer International Publishing: 195–203. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-00335-7_13. ISBN 978-3-030-00334-0.
- Ross, Björn; Dado, Marielle; Heisel, Maritta; Cabrera, Benjamin (April 2018). "Gender Markers in Wikipedia Usernames]" (PDF). Lyon, France: Wiki Workshop 2018.
- Sengul-Jones, Monika (14 September 2018). "Intervening in Wikipedia : Feminist inquiries and opportunities". Feminist Interventions in Participatory Media. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781351238984-2.
- Shaw, Aaron; Hargittai, Eszter (February 2018). "The Pipeline of Online Participation Inequalities: The Case of Wikipedia Editing". Journal of Communication. 68 (1): 143–168. doi:10.1093/joc/jqx003.
- White, Alice (1 September 2018). "The history of women in engineering on Wikipedia". Science Museum Group Journal. 10 (10): 1. doi:10.15180/181008. ISSN 2054-5770 – via EBSCOhost.
2017
[edit]- Akki, Amine; El Harem, Hicham; El Mahfoudi, Saad; Irhboula, Anas (19 July 2017). "La guerre contre les guerres d'édition dans Wikipedia" [The War on Edit Wars in Wikipedia] (in French). Data Science IMT Atlantique.
- Alemany-Martínez, Dolores (1 January 2017). "Making women's history matter: Female presence in and through Wikipedia".
- Ford, Heather; Wajcman, Judy (1 August 2017). "'Anyone can edit' not everyone does: Wikipedia and the gender gap". Social Studies of Science : SSS : An International Review of Research in the Social Dimensions of Science and Technology. 47 (4). Social Studies of Science: 511–527. doi:10.1177/0306312717692172. ISSN 0306-3127. PMID 28791929. S2CID 32835293 – via LSE.
- Gauthier, Maude; Sawchuk, Kim (2 October 2017). "Not notable enough: feminism and expertise in Wikipedia". Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. 14 (4): 385–402. doi:10.1080/14791420.2017.1386321. ISSN 1479-1420.
- Hinnosaar, Marit (May 2015). "Gender Inequality in New Media: Evidence from Wikipedia". Carlo Alberto Notebooks. EconPapers. ISSN 2279-9362.
- Hube, Christoph (3 April 2017). "Bias in Wikipedia" (PDF). Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion - WWW '17 Companion. Semantic Scholar. pp. 717–721. doi:10.1145/3041021.3053375. ISBN 978-1-4503-4914-7. S2CID 10472970.
- Kennedy, Kara (1 January 2017). "Why Women Should Be Editing Wikipedia". Women's Studies Journal.
- Shane-Simpson, Christina; Gillespie-Lynch, Kristen (1 January 2017). "Examining potential mechanisms underlying the Wikipedia gender gap through a collaborative editing task". Computers in Human Behavior. 66: 312–328. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.09.043. ISSN 0747-5632.
- Triumph, Therese F.; Henze, Kimberley M. (20 November 2017). "Women and Wikipedia. Diversifying Editors and enhancing Content through Library Ediit-a-Thons". In Smallwood, Carol; Sanborn, Lura (eds.). Gender Issues and the Library: Case Studies of Innovative Programs and Resources. McFarland. pp. 155–162. ISBN 978-1-4766-6473-6.
- Vitulli, Marie A. (20 October 2017). "Writing Women in Mathematics into Wikipedia". arXiv:1710.11103v3 [math.HO].
- Yazdani, Mehrdad (29 September 2017). "Investigating the Gender Pronoun Gap in Wikipedia". WikiStudies. 4.
- Zagovora, Olga; Flöck, Fabian; Wagner, Claudia (2017). ""(Weitergeleitet von Journalistin)": The Gendered Presentation of Professions on Wikipedia". Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Web Science Conference. pp. 83–92. arXiv:1706.03848. doi:10.1145/3091478.3091488. ISBN 978-1-4503-4896-6. S2CID 11059274.
2016
[edit]- Bear, Julia B.; Collier, Benjamin (1 March 2016). "Where are the Women in Wikipedia? Understanding the Different Psychological Experiences of Men and Women in Wikipedia". Sex Roles. 74 (5): 254–265. doi:10.1007/s11199-015-0573-y. ISSN 1573-2762.
- Corple, Danielle J (2016). Beyond the Gender Gap: Understanding Women's Participation in Wikipedia (Thesis). Purdue University – via ProQuest.
- Jemielniak, Dariusz (2016). "breaking the glass ceiling on Wikipedia". Feminist Review. 113 (113): 103–108. doi:10.1057/fr.2016.9. JSTOR 44987268. S2CID 73656903.
- Huang, Jun; Shi, Si; Chen, Yang; Chow, Wing S. (7 November 2016). "How do students trust Wikipedia? An examination across genders". Information Technology & People. 29 (4): 750–773. doi:10.1108/ITP-12-2014-0267.
- Klein, Maximilian; et al. (2016). "Monitoring the Gender Gap with Wikidata Human Gender Indicators" (PDF). Berlin: OpenSym. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-12-29 – via Internet Archive.
- MacAulay, Maggie; Visser, Rebecca (May 2016). "Editing in Diversity In: Reading Diversity Discourses on Wikipedia". Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology (9). ISSN 2325-0496.
- Nicolaes, Feli (2016). "Gender Bias on Wikipedia. An analysis of the affiliation network". scripties.uba.uva.nl. Scripties - Bibliotheek - Universiteit van Amsterdam.
- Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar; Rambow, Owen (May 2016). "A Corpus of Wikipedia Discussions: Over the Years, with Topic, Power and Gender Labels". Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16). European Language Resources Association (ELRA): 2034–2038.
- Protonotarios, Ioannis; Sarimpei, Vasiliki; Otterbacher, Jahna (2016). "Similar Gaps, Different Origins? Women Readers and Editors at Greek Wikipedia". Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 10 (2): 80–87. doi:10.1609/icwsm.v10i2.14827. ISSN 2334-0770.
- Wagner, Claudia; Graells-Garrido, Eduardo; Garcia, David; Menczer, Filippo (1 March 2016). "Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia". EPJ Data Science. 5 5. arXiv:1601.04890. doi:10.1140/epjds/s13688-016-0066-4. S2CID 1769950.
- Young, Amber; Wigdor, Ari; Kane, Gerald C. (December 2016). "It's Not What You Think: Gender Bias in Information about Fortune 1000 CEOs on Wikipedia". International Conference for Information Systems, Dublin.
2015
[edit]- Edwards, Jennifer C. (2015). "Wiki Women: Bringing Women Into Wikipedia through Activism and Pedagogy". The History Teacher. 48 (3): 409–436. ISSN 0018-2745. JSTOR 24810523.
- Graells-Garrido, Eduardo; Lalmas, Mounia; Menczer, Filippo (2 June 2015). "First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia". Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media. p. 165. arXiv:1502.02341. doi:10.1145/2700171.2791036. ISBN 978-1-4503-3395-5. S2CID 1082360. (Important finding: an analysis of the DBPedia Wikipedia subset shows that 15% of biographies are of women.)
- Gruwell, Leigh (1 September 2015). "Wikipedia's Politics of Exclusion: Gender, Epistemology, and Feminist Rhetorical (In)action". Computers and Composition. 37: 117–131. doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2015.06.009. ISSN 8755-4615.
- Helgeson, Björn (2015). The Swedish Wikipedia Gender Gap (PDF) (MSc). KTH.
- Klein, Maximilian (2 December 2015). "Wikipedia Gender Indicators (WIGI)". WMF labs. Archived from the original on 2021-03-01.
- Klein, Maximilian; Konieczny, Piotr (2015). "Gender Gap Through Time and Space: A Journey Through Wikipedia Biographies and the "WIGI" Index". arXiv:1502.03086 [cs.CY]. (Interesting study, currently under peer review)
- Klein, Max; Konieczny, Piotr (19 August 2015). "Wikipedia in the world of global gender inequality indices: what the biography gender gap is measuring". Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration. Association for Computing Machinery: 1–2. doi:10.1145/2788993.2789849.
- Matias, J. Nathan; Diehl, Sophie; Zuckerman, Ethan (18 April 2015). "Passing on: Reader-Sourcing Gender Diversity in Wikipedia". Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1073–1078. doi:10.1145/2702613.2732907. ISBN 978-1-4503-3146-3.
- Menking, Amanda; Erickson, Ingrid (18 April 2015). "The Heart Work of Wikipedia: Gendered, Emotional Labor in the World's Largest Online Encyclopedia". Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 207–210. doi:10.1145/2702123.2702514. ISBN 978-1-4503-3145-6.
- Peake, Bryce (2015). "WP:THREATENING2MEN: Misogynist Infopolitics and the Hegemony of the Asshole Consensus on English Wikipedia". Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology (7). doi:10.7264/N3TH8JZS (inactive 17 September 2025).
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of September 2025 (link) - Wagner, Claudia; Garcia, David; Jadidi, Mohsen; Strohmaier, Markus (23 March 2015). "It's a Man's Wikipedia? Assessing Gender Inequality in an Online Encyclopedia". arXiv:1501.06307 [cs.CY].
- Wayne-Nixon, Laurel (9 April 2015). "Women and the Environment: Wikipedia Post". onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca. UVic Online Academic Community - FABFEM328.
- Wilson, Jason (10 February 2015). "Are misogynists running Wikipedia?". Overland.
- Yanisky-Ravid, Shlomit; Mittelman, Amy (2015–2016). "Gender Biases in Cyberspace: A Two-Stage Model, the New Arena of Wikipedia and Other Websites". Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. 26: 381.
2014
[edit]- Bäckström, Max (2014). The conceptualisation of FEMININITY on English Wikipedia. www.lunduniversity.lu.se (Bachelor's degree thesis). Lund University.
- Bourdeloie, Hélène; Vicente, Michaël (2014). "Contributing to Wikipedia: A Question of Gender". In Fichman, Pnina; Hara, Noriko (eds.). Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration. Lanham: Rowman et Littlefield.
- Hargittai, Eszter; Shaw, Aaron (4 November 2014). "Mind the skills gap: the role of Internet know-how and gender in differentiated contributions to Wikipedia". Information, Communication & Society. 18 (4): 424–442. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2014.957711. S2CID 143468397.
- Iosub, Daniela; Laniado, David; Castillo, Carlos; Morell, Mayo Fuster; Kaltenbrunner, Andreas (20 August 2014). "Emotions under Discussion: Gender, Status and Communication in Online Collaboration". PLOS ONE. 9 (8) e104880. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...9j4880I. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0104880. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4139304. PMID 25140870.
- Kim, Jinyoung (2013). "Wikipedians from Mars: Female students' perceptions toward wikipedia". Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 50 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1002/meet.14505001129. ISSN 1550-8390.
- Kolbe, Andreas (26 August 2014). "Why women have no time for Wikipedia: Thoughts on the online encyclopedia's gender imbalance". academia.edu.
- Lannon, Eva Jadine (11 September 2014). Same Gap, Different Experiences: An Exploration of the Similarities and Differences Between the Gender Gap in the Indian Wikipedia Editor Community and the Gap in the General Editor Community (Thesis). University of Toronto.
- Massa, Paolo; Zelenkauskaite, Asta (2014). "Gender Gap in Wikipedia Editing: A Cross Language Comparison" (PDF). In Fichman, Pnina; Hara, Noriko (eds.). Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration. Lanham: Rowman et Littlefield. pp. 85–96.
- Prommer, Elizabeth; Sichler, Almut (2014). "Les différences entre les sexes au sein du projet Wikipédia en allemand". ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies. VII (1): 77–93. ISSN 2066-5083.
2013
[edit]- Eckert, Stine; Steiner, Linda (1 October 2013). "(Re)triggering Backlash: Responses to News About Wikipedia's Gender Gap". Journal of Communication Inquiry. 37 (4): 284–303. doi:10.1177/0196859913505618. ISSN 0196-8599.
- Hill, Benjamin Mako; Shaw, Aaron (26 June 2013). "The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: Characterizing Survey Response Bias with Propensity Score Estimation". PLOS ONE. 8 (6) e65782. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...865782H. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065782. PMC 3694126. PMID 23840366.
- Lim, Sook (2012). "Gender differences concerning Wikipedia: A follow-up study". Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 49 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1002/meet.14504901323. ISSN 1550-8390.
- Pagola, Lila (September 2013). "Perspectiva de género en los recursos colaborativos libres para fines educativos e informativos" [Gender perspective in free collaborative resources for educational and informational purposes: The case of Wikipedia]. III Jornadas CINIG de Estudios de Género y Feminismos (in Spanish). La Plata: Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. ISSN 2250-5695.
- Reagle, Joseph (7 January 2013). ""Free as in sexist?" Free culture and the gender gap". First Monday. 18 (1). doi:10.5210/fm.v18i1.4291. ISSN 1396-0466.
- Ridge, Mia (2013). "New Challenges in Digital History: Sharing Women's History on Wikipedia". Women's History in the Digital World.
- Stephens, Monica (1 December 2013). "Gender and the GeoWeb: divisions in the production of user-generated cartographic information". GeoJournal. 78 (6): 981–996. Bibcode:2013GeoJo..78..981S. doi:10.1007/s10708-013-9492-z. ISSN 1572-9893.
- Wadewitz, Adrianne (9 April 2013). "Wikipedia is pushing the boundaries of scholarly practice but the gender gap must be addressed". Impact of Social Sciences Blog.
2012
[edit]- Cattapan, Alana (2012). "(Re)Writing "Feminism in Canada": Wikipedia in the Feminist Classroom". Feminist Teacher. 22 (2): 125–136. doi:10.5406/femteacher.22.2.0125. ISSN 0882-4843. JSTOR 10.5406/femteacher.22.2.0125.
- Collier, Benjamin; Bear, Julia (11 February 2012). "Conflict, criticism, or confidence: An empirical examination of the gender gap in wikipedia contributions". Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 383–392. doi:10.1145/2145204.2145265. ISBN 978-1-4503-1086-4.
- Shen, Aviva. "How Many Women Does It Take to Change Wikipedia?". Smithsonian Magazine.
- Yong, Ed (22 October 2012). "Edit-a-thon gets women scientists into Wikipedia". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2012.11636. ISSN 1476-4687.
2011
[edit]- Antin, Judd; Yee, Raymond; Cheshire, Coye; Nov, Oded (3 October 2011). "Gender differences in Wikipedia editing". Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 11–14. doi:10.1145/2038558.2038561. ISBN 978-1-4503-0909-7.
- Cohen, Noam (30 January 2011). "Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia's Contributor List". The New York Times.
- Gardner, Sue (20 February 2011). "Nine Reasons Women Don't Edit Wikipedia (in their own words)". suegardner.org.
- Lam, Shyong (Tony) K.; Uduwage, Anuradha; Dong, Zhenhua; Sen, Shilad; Musicant, David R.; Terveen, Loren; Riedl, John (3 October 2011). "WP:clubhouse?: An exploration of Wikipedia's gender imbalance". Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1–10. doi:10.1145/2038558.2038560. ISBN 978-1-4503-0909-7.
- Reagle, Joseph; Rhue, Lauren (2011). "Gender Bias in Wikipedia and Britannica". International Journal of Communication. 5. Joseph Reagle & Lauren Rhue: 1138–1158. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016.
2010
[edit]- Lim, Sook; Kwon, Nahyun (1 July 2010). "Gender differences in information behavior concerning Wikipedia, an unorthodox information source?". Library & Information Science Research. 32 (3): 212–220. doi:10.1016/j.lisr.2010.01.003. ISSN 0740-8188.
2009
[edit]- Carstensen, Tanja (1 October 2009). "Gender Trouble in Web 2.0. Gender Perspectives on Social Network Sites, Wikis and Weblogs". International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology. 1 (1). ISSN 2040-0748.
- Lim, Sook; Kwon, Nahyun (2009). "Gender perspective, information behaviors, and Wikipedia". Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 46 (1): 1–5. doi:10.1002/meet.2009.1450460343. ISSN 1550-8390.
2007
[edit]- Heo, Misook; Myrick, Monique (26 March 2007). Coping with gender inequity in computing: Using WIKI to foster female interest in CS. Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference. learntechlib.org. San Antonio, Texas: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). ISBN 978-1-880094-61-7.
