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.
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.
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.
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.
S2CID245065502.
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.
S2CID214364954.
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.
S2CID227240954.
Schellekens, Menno; Holstege, Floris;
Yasseri, Taha (12 April 2019). "Female scholars need to achieve more for equal public recognition".
arXiv:1904.06310 [
cs.DL].
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.
ISBN9781450348966.
S2CID11059274.
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.
ISBN978-1-4503-3395-5.
S2CID1082360. (Important finding: an analysis of the DBPedia Wikipedia subset shows that 15% of biographies are of women.)
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)
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].
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
S2CID245065502.
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.
S2CID214364954.
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.
S2CID227240954.
Schellekens, Menno; Holstege, Floris;
Yasseri, Taha (12 April 2019). "Female scholars need to achieve more for equal public recognition".
arXiv:1904.06310 [
cs.DL].
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.
ISBN9781450348966.
S2CID11059274.
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.
ISBN978-1-4503-3395-5.
S2CID1082360. (Important finding: an analysis of the DBPedia Wikipedia subset shows that 15% of biographies are of women.)
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)
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].
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.
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.