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Gender bias on Wikipedia
Gender bias on Wikipedia is the overweighting of male perspectives and topics, resulting from the phenomenon that men are more likely than women to be volunteer contributors and be the subject of Wikipedia articles. As of June 2024, the English Wikipedia had almost 400,000 biographies of women, representing about 20% of total biographies. Wikipedia has no significant difference in readership, yet coverage of topics and individuals skews towards men. As of 2024, 80% of active Wikipedia editors globally were male, 14% were female, 5% were gender diverse, and 4% chose not to state their gender. In a 2018 survey covering 12 language versions of Wikipedia and some other Wikimedia Foundation projects, 90% of 3,734 respondents reported their gender as male, 8.8% as female, and 1% as other; among contributors to the English Wikipedia, 84.7% identified as male, 13.6% as female, and 1.7% as other (total of 88 respondents). In 2019, Katherine Maher, then CEO of Wikimedia Foundation, said her team...
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