Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Gender gap task force/Media and research

Gender gap task force

Project	WP:GGTF
Founded	May 2013
Aims	Examining the factors that affect women's interactions with Wikipedia, as editors and article subjects

The following is a selection of articles related to Wikipedia's gender gap. According to New York Magazine in 2014, "Wikipedia famously bears one of the starkest gender gaps in contemporary culture." Estimates of the percentage of Wikipedians who are female range from 8.5 to 16.1 percent.

The gender gap means not only that most articles are written by men, but that most of the content policies are too, including the notability and sourcing policies. These policies determine which articles about women can be hosted, and frame how they are written and sourced.

As of January 2015, just 15.5 percent of the 1,445,021 biographies on the English Wikipedia were of women. As a result of notability and sourcing issues, a great majority of Wikipedia's pre-20th-century biographies are of men. By 2022, the overall percentage was 19%.

2026

• Charlie Lynch (7 April 2026). "Meet the group correcting gender bias on Wikipedia". The National Scot.

2025

• Yahya Yunus, Tianwa Chen, Gianluca Demartini (2025), Exploring Wikipedia Gender Diversity Over Time — The Wikipedia Gender Dashboard (WGD), ACM, doi:10.1145/3701716.3715175
• Núria Ferran-Ferrer (7 March 2025). "Wikipedia has a huge gender equality problem – here's why it matters". The Conversation.

2024

• Rocio Antelis (2024). "Students Seek to Correct Gender Bias on Wikipedia". Meredith Magazine.
• "Wikipedia is also affected by the gender gap". UOC News. 5 March 2024.

2023

• Núria Ferran-Ferrer, Juan-José Boté-Vericad, Julià Minguillón (16 December 2023). "Wikipedia gender gap: a scoping review". El Profesional de la información. 36 (6). Ediciones Profesionales de la Informacion SL. doi:10.3145/epi.2023.nov.17.

2021

• Mary Loiose Kelly, Francesca Tripodi (13 July 2021), Who Gets To Be Notable And Who Doesn't: Gender Bias On Wiki, National Public Radio

2017

• Ford, Heather; Wajcman, Judy (1 March 2017). "'Anyone can edit', not everyone does: Wikipedia's infrastructure and the gender gap" (PDF). Social Studies of Science. 47 (4): 511–527. doi:10.1177/0306312717692172. ISSN 0306-3127. PMID 28791929.

2016

• Barbara Fister, "The Woes of Wikipedia", Inside Higher Ed, 23 August 2016.
• Ariel Bogle, "After years of exclusion, female Antarctic scientists are finally being spotlighted", Mashable, 12 August 2016.
• Rick Paulus, "Closing Wikipedia’s Gender Gap", Pacific Standard, 28 July 2016.
• Molly Redden, "Women in science on Wikipedia: will we ever fill the information gap?", The Guardian, 19 March 2016.
• Taylor Kate Brown, "Female scientist fights harassment with Wikipedia", BBC News, 14 March 2016.
• Claudia Wagner, Eduardo Graells-Garrido, David Garcia, "Women Through the Glass-Ceiling: Gender Asymmetries in Wikipedia", arXiv, 19 January 2016.
• Sirena Bergman, "Happy birthday sexist Wikipedia. Why do men still control our history?", The Daily Telegraph, 15 January 2016.

2015

December–October

Art+Feminism edit-a-thon, the Oracle Club, Queens, New York, June 2015

• Viola Bernacchi, "Gender imbalance and Wikipedia", MSc thesis, Politecnico Milano (also here).
• Anna Quinlan, "Wikipedia Has a Misogyny Problem", Verily, 28 October 2015.
• Gamaliel, "Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching", Wikipedia Signpost, 21 October 2015 (discussion).
• Emma Paling, "Wikipedia's Hostility to Women", The Atlantic, 21 October 2015.
• Caroline Massie, "Takeaways from the Guggenheim’s Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Women in Architecture", Architect Magazine, 16 October 2015.
• Audrey O'Donnell, "Q&A: SU professor to attend Wikipedia edit-a-thon for women in architecture", The Daily Orange, 14 October 2015.
• Julia Adams, Hannah Brückner, “Wikipedia, sociology, and the promise and pitfalls of Big Data", Big Data & Society, 2 (2), December 2015.
• Amanda Menking, Ingrid Erickson, "The Heart Work of Wikipedia: Gendered, Emotional Labor in the World's Largest Online Encyclopedia", in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15), ACM, New York, NY: 2015, pp. 207–210 (draft).

September–July

• J. F. Sargent, Abigail Brady, "Wikipedia Hates Women: 4 Dark Sides of The Site We All Use", Cracked, 15 August 2015.
• Caitlin Grimes, "WVU hiring Wikipedian to bridge Wikipedia 'gender gap'", Campus Reform, 21 July 2015.
• Carl Straumsheim, "University hopes 'Wikipedian in residence' will tackle gender gap", Times Higher Education, 20 July 2015.

June–April

Wikipedia women's meeting in Palafrugell, Spain, March 2015

• Anupama Mili, "'Few Women in Wiki Editing'", The New Indian Express, 26 June 2015.
• Emma Reynolds, "Australians fill in the gaps on Wikipedia", news.com.au, 11 June 2015.
• Cyndi Moritz, "Project Aims to Raise Profile of Women Architects on Wikipedia", Syracuse University, 1 June 2015.
• Jenny Kleeman, "The Wikipedia wars: does it matter if our biggest source of knowledge is written by men?", New Statesman, 26 May 2015.
• Bryce Peake, "WP:THREATENING2MEN: Misogynist Infopolitics and the Hegemony of the Asshole Consensus on English Wikipedia", Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, April 2015 (published by the Wikipedia Signpost, 19 August 2015).
• Tilman Bayer, "How many women edit Wikipedia?", Wikimedia Foundation, 30 April 2015.
• Claudia Wagner, David Garcia, Mohsen Jadidi, Markus Strohmaier, "It's a Man's Wikipedia? Assessing Gender Inequality in an Online Encyclopedia", AAAI Publications, Ninth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 21 April 2015.
• Sara Boboltz, "Editors Are Trying To Fix Wikipedia's Gender And Racial Bias Problem", The Huffington Post, 15 April 2015.

March–January

Art+Feminism edit-a-thon, Madrid, March 2015

• Tyler Hellard, "Wiki gap", This Magazine, 19 March 2015.
• Mina Kim, "Wikipedia's Gender and Race Gaps", KQED Radio, 13 March 2015.
• Hannah Ghorashi, "Art+Feminism’s 2015 Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Adds 334 Articles on Female Artists", Art News, 10 March 2015.
• Amanda Marcotte, "On Wikipedia, Gamergate Refuses to Die", Slate, 6 March 2015.
• Lauren C. Williams, "The ‘Five Horsemen’ Of Wikipedia Paid The Price For Getting Between Trolls And Their Victims", Think Progress, 6 March 2015.
• Issie Lapowsky, "Meet the Editors Fighting Racism and Sexism on Wikipedia", Wired, 5 March 2015.
• John Paul Titlow, "Think Wikipedia Is Sexist? They Want To Pay You To Help Change That", Fast Company, 5 March 2015.
• Glynis Board, "Wiki Gender Gap to Be Discussed in Morgantown", West Virginia Public Broadcasting, 3 March 2015.
• Dawn Eyestone, "Wikipedia, Controversy, and the Myth of Neutrality", PopMatters, 23 February 2015.
• Victoria McNally, "Art+Feminism Is Hosting Its Second Ever Wikipedia Edit-a-thon To Promote Gender Equality", The Mary Sue, 18 February 2015.
• Kendra Hanna, "Feminists aim to fix the Wikipedia gender gap", The Daily of the University of Washington, 16 February 2015.
• Jason Wilson, "Are misogynists running Wikipedia?", Overland, 11 February 2015.
• Eduardo Graells-Garrido, Mounia Lalmas, Filippo Menczer, "First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia", arxiv, 9 February 2015.
• James Dean, "Wikipedia editors are accused of sexism", The Times, 5 February 2015.
• David Auerbach, "The Wikipedia Ouroboros", Slate, 5 February 2015.
• John Paul Titlow, "More Like Dude-ipedia: Study Shows Wikipedia's Sexist Bias", Fast Company, 2 February 2015.
• "Computational Linguistics Reveals How Wikipedia Articles Are Biased Against Women", MIT Technology Review, 2 February 2015 (re: arXiv:1501.06307).
• Michael Mandiberg, "The Affective Labor of Wikipedia: GamerGate, Harassment, and Peer Production", Social Text, 1 February 2015.
• Andy Cush, "The Gamergate Decision Shows Exactly What's Broken About Wikipedia", Gawker, 30 January 2015.
• Richard Adhikari, "Gamergate Bleeds Into Wikipedia", Tech News World, 30 January 2015.
• Caitlin Dewey, "Gamergate, Wikipedia and the limits of 'human knowledge'", The Washington Post, 29 January 2015.
• Sravanth Verma, "Gamergate sucks in Wikipedia with ban controversy", Digital Journal, 29 January 2015.
• Adi Robertson, "Wikipedia denies 'purging' feminist editors over Gamergate debate", The Verge, 28 January 2015.
• Go Phightins! and Harry Mitchell, "Thirteen editors sanctioned in mammoth GamerGate arbitration case", The Signpost (Wikipedia), 28 January 2015.
• Masem and Protonk, "Evaluating the Arbitration Committee's handling of GamerGate", The Signpost (Wikipedia), 28 January 2015.
• Carolyn Cox, "Wikipedia Organizations Address Gamergate Editor Controversy: Women Are 'Invaluable Contributors'", The Mary Sue, 28 January 2015.
• Claudia Wagner, David Garcia, Mohsen Jadidi, Markus Strohmaier, "It's a Man's Wikipedia? Assessing Gender Inequality in an Online Encyclopedia", arXiv, 26 January 2015. arXiv:1501.06307
• Philippe Beaudette, "Civility, Wikipedia, and the conversation on Gamergate", Wikimedia Foundation, 27 January 2015.
• Alanna Bennett, "Wikipedia Has Banned Five Feminist Editors From Gamergate Articles & More", The Mary Sue, 24 January 2015.
• Andy Cush, "Wikipedia Purged a Group of Feminist Editors Because of Gamergate", Gawker, 23 January 2015.
• Nathaniel Mott, "Wikipedia tacitly endorses GamerGate by blocking its opponents from editing gender-related articles", PandoDaily, 23 January 2015.
• Alex Hern, "Wikipedia votes to ban some editors from gender-related articles", The Guardian, 23 January 2015.
• Dawn Leonard Tripp, "How to Edit Wikipedia: Lessons from a Female Contributor", Anita Borg Institute, 13 January 2015.
• Nathaniel Tkacz, Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness, University of Chicago Press, 2015.

2014

December–October

Women in STEM edit-a-thon, Austin, Texas, October 2014

• David Auerbach, "Encyclopedia Frown: Wikipedia is amazing. But it's become a rancorous, sexist, elitist, stupidly bureaucratic mess.", Slate, 11 December 2014.
• Stephanie Pappas, "Wikipedia's Gender Problem Gets a Closer Look", LiveScience, 3 December 2014.
• Amy Goodman, "Women Are Being Driven Offline ..." , Democracy Now, 20 October 2014 (Anita Sarkeesian interview).
• David Bamman, Noel Smith, "Unsupervised Discovery of Biographical Structure from Text", Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2, October 2014, pp. 363–376.

September–July

• Daniela Iosub, et al, "Emotions under Discussion: Gender, Status and Communication in Online Collaboration", PLOS ONE, 20 August 2014.
• Caroline Hepker, "Wikipedia 'completely failed' to fix gender imbalance", BBC News, 8 August 2014 (Jimmy Wales interview).
• Anne Perkins, "Whose truth is Wikipedia guarding?", The Guardian, 7 August 2014.
• Joe Miller, Wiki wars: Do Wikipedia's internal tiffs deter newcomers?, BBC News, 5 August 2014.
• Caitlin Dewey, "Men’s rights activists think a 'hateful' feminist conspiracy is ruining Wikipedia", The Washington Post, 4 August 2014.
• Ilona Buchem, et al., "Charting Diversity", Wikimedia Deutschland, August 2014 (see Charting diversity).
• Elizabeth Harrington, "Government-Funded Study: Why Is Wikipedia Sexist?", Washington Free Beacon, 30 July 2014.
• Danika Fears, "Why is Wikipedia so sexist?", New York Post, 30 July 2014.
• Kelly Cohen, "US science group to study sexism at one of the most popular websites in the world", Washington Examiner, 30 July 2014.
• Lauren Barbato, "Wikipedia Sexism Is So Entrenched, Even The Government's Trying To Fix It", Bustle, 30 July 2014.

June–April

• Jordan Pearson, "Editing Sexism out of Wikipedia", Motherboard, 12 June 2014.
• Zuleyka Zevallos, "Sexism on Wikipedia: Why the #YesAllWomen Edits Matter", OtherSociologist, 8 June 2014.
• Jemielniak Dariusz, Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Stanford University Press, 2014.
• Sumana Harihareswara, "Hospitality, Jerks, and What I Learned", keynote address at Wiki Conference USA, 30 May 2014 (includes video).
• Sarah Sentilles, "Writing Her In: Wikipedia As Feminist Activism", Ms. magazine, 21 May 2014.
• Tracy Wholf, "‘Wikipedian’ editor took on website’s gender gap", PBS NewsHour, 18 May 2014 (about Adrianne Wadewitz).
• Young-Ho Eom, et al, "Interactions of cultures and top people of Wikipedia from ranking of 24 language editions", arXiv. org. arXiv:1405.7183
• Lynsea Garrison, "How can Wikipedia woo women editors?", BBC News Magazine, 7 April 2014.

March–January

• Kevin Mathews, "How Women Are Trying to Make Wikipedia Less Sexist", Care2, 18 March 2014.
• Nora Young, "Wikipedia gender gap", CBC Radio, 16 March 2014.
• Victoria Turk, "The Mission to Get Women Scientists on Wikipedia", Motherboard, 4 March 2014.
• Kat Stoeffel, "Closing Wikipedia’s Gender Gap — Reluctantly", New York Magazine, 11 February 2014.
• Julie Bort, "A Growing Army Of Women Are Taking On Wikipedia's Sexism Problem", Business Insider, 15 February 2014.
• Lennart Guldbrandsson, "Wikipedia: A Field report", Culture Unbound, 6, 2014, pp. 633–636.
• Kate Knibbs, "Chipping away at Wikipedia's gender bias, one article at a time", The Daily Dot, 10 February 2014.
• Sarah Mirk, "An Epic Feminist Edit-a-Thon Takes Aim at Wikipedia's Gender Gap", Bitch Media, 24 January 2014.
• Eszter Hargittai, Aaron Shaw, "Internet Skills and Wikipedia's Gender Inequality", Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 21 January 2014.
• Netha Hussain, "Countering the Systemic Bias on Wikipedia: An Interview With Emily Temple-Wood", The Huffington Post, 4 January 2014.
• Amanda Hess, "Why Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet", Pacific Standard, 6 January 2014.

2013

December–October

• Olivia Biller, "Three Obstacles to Underrepresented Peoples on Wikipedia: the Role Edit-a-Thons Have to Play", The Black Sheep Journal, 13 November 2013.
• Steiner, Linda; Eckert, Stine (October 2013). "(Re)triggering backlash: responses to news about Wikipedia's gender gap". Journal of Communication Inquiry. 37 (4). Sage: 284–303. doi:10.1177/0196859913505618. Available from ResearchGate.

Also available as: Steiner, Linda; Eckert, Stine (2013), "Wikipedia's gender gap", in Armstrong, Cory L. (ed.), Media disparity: a gender battleground, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, pp. 87–98, ISBN 9780739181874.

• Robinson Meyer, "90% of Wikipedia's Editors Are Male—Here's What They're Doing About It", The Atlantic, 25 October 2013.
• Alex Hern, "Chelsea Manning name row: Wikipedia editors banned from trans pages", The Guardian, 24 October 2013.
• Robinson Meyer, "To Fix Wikipedia’s Gender Imbalance: A Big Editing Party?", The Atlantic, 10 October 2013.

September–July

• Alex Hern, "Chelsea Manning gets put back in the closet by Wikipedia", New Statesmen, 4 September 2013.
• Sue Gardner, "How Wikipedia got it wrong on Chelsea Manning, and why", suegardner.org, 4 September 2013.
• Jay Hathaway, "Wikipedia decides Chelsea Manning will remain 'Bradley' for now", Daily Dot, 31 August 2013.
• Alex Hern, "Behind the Wikipedia wars: what happened when Bradley Manning became Chelsea", New Statesman, 23 August 2013.
• Nina Liss-Schultz, "Can These Students Fix Wikipedia's Lady Problem?", Mother Jones, 23 August 2013.
• Mark Joseph Stern, "Wikipedia Beats Major News Organizations, Perfectly Reflects Chelsea Manning’s New Gender", Slate, 22 August 2013.
• Keira Huang, "Wikipedia fails to bridge gender gap", South China Morning Post, 11 August 2013.
• Adrianne Wadewitz, "Wikipedia's gender gap and the complicated reality of systemic gender bias", HASTAC, 26 July 2013.
• Meghan Neal, "Wikipedia Isn't Quite as Sexist as Everyone Thinks", Motherboard, 22 July 2013.
• Amanda Filipacchi (10 July 2013). "My Strange Addiction: Wikipedia". The Wall Street Journal.

June–April

• Benjamin Mako Hill, Aaron Shaw, "The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: Characterizing Survey Response Bias with Propensity Score Estimation", PLOS ONE, 26 June 2013 (estimates that 16.1% of editors are female).
• Maximilian Klein, "Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF", hangingtogether.org, 13 May 2013.
• Andrew Leonard, "Revenge, ego and the corruption of Wikipedia", Salon, 17 May 2013.
• Adrianne Wadewitz, "Who speaks for the women of Wikipedia? Not the women of Wikipedia", HASTAC, 1 May 2013.
• Sue Gardner (then-executive director Wikimedia Foundation), What's Missing from the Media Discussion of Wikipedia and Sexism, Wikimedia Blog, 1 May 2013.
• Kevin Morris, "Does Wikipedia's sexism problem really prove that the system works?", The Daily Dot, 1 May 2013.
• Sandip Roy, Wikipedia’s sexist turn: Men are novelists, women are women novelists, AlterNet, 1 May 2013.
• Andrew Leonard, "Wikipedia's shame", Salon, 30 April 2013.
• Amanda Filipacchi, "Sexism on Wikipedia Is Not the Work of 'a Single Misguided Editor', The Atlantic, 30 April 2013.
• Lynn Neary, What's In A Category? 'Women Novelists' Sparks Wiki-Controversy, National Public Radio, 29 April 2013.
• Joseph Reagle, "Wikipedia and gendered categories", reagle.org, 29 April 2013.
• James Gleick, "Wikipedia's Women Problem", The New York Review of Books, 29 April 2013.
• Amanda Filipacchi (27 April 2013). "Wikipedia's Sexism". The New York Times. (see Amanda_Filipacchi#Wikipedia_op-ed)
• Kevin Rawlinson, "Wikipedia in sexism row after labelling Harper Lee and others 'women novelists' while men are 'American novelists'", The Independent, 26 April 2013.
• Deanna Zandt (26 April 2013). "Yes, Wikipedia is Sexist -- That's Why It Needs You". Forbes.
• Amanda Filipacchi (24 April 2013). "Wikipedia's Sexism Toward Female Novelists". The New York Times.
• Adrianne Wadewitz, "Wikipedia is pushing the boundaries of scholarly practice but the gender gap must be addressed", HASTAC, 9 April 2013.

March–January

Women's history edit-a-thon at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, March 2013

• Jonathan T. Morgan, Siko Bouterse, Sarah Stierch, Heather Walls (Wikimedia Foundation), "Tea and Sympathy: Crafting Positive New User Experiences on Wikipedia", Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, New York, NY, 23–27 February 2013, pp. 839–848. doi:10.1145/2441776.2441871
• Netha Hussain, "Wikipedia: Towards Closing the Gender Gap", The Huffington Post, 2 February 2013.
• Joseph Reagle, "The Nuance of the Gendergap Statistics", reagle.org, 30 January 2013.
• Tim Sampson, "The women of Wikipedia: Closing the site's giant gender gap", The Daily Dot, 24 January 2013.
• Joseph Reagle, "'Free as in sexist?' Free culture and the gender gap", First Monday, 18(1), 7 January 2013.

2012

• Nina Bahadur, "Wikipedia Pushes To Cover More Women, Attract Female Editors", The Huffington Post, 25 September 2012.
• David Laniado, et al, "Emotions and dialogue in a peer-production community: the case of Wikipedia", International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym), 27–29 August 2012.
• Netha Hussain, "Ladies, Let's Contribute To Wikipedia!", Forbes, 22 August 2012.
• Damon Poeter, "Infographic: Wikipedia's Gender Gap Exposed", PC magazine, 8 August 2012.
• Helen Lewis, "Dear The Internet, This Is Why You Can't Have Anything Nice", The New Statesman, 12 June 2012.
• Anita Sarkeesian, "Harassment via Wikipedia Vandalism", Feminist Frequency, 10 June 2012.
• "The Worrying Consequences of the Wikipedia Gender Gap", MIT Technology Review, 19 April 2012.
• Pablo Aragón et al, "Biographical Social Networks on Wikipedia - A cross-cultural study of links that made history", International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym), this version 4 July 2012, first published 17 April 2012 (for summary, see article above).
• Tbayer, et al, "Gender gap and conflict aversion", Signpost, 27 February 2012.
• Benjamin Collier, Julie Bear, "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, New York, NY, February 2012. doi:10.1145/2145204.2145265
• "Research: Wikipedia Editor Survey 2012", Wikimedia Foundation (not published as of January 2015).
• Torie Bosch, “How Kate Middleton’s wedding gown demonstrates Wikipedia’s women problem”, Slate, 13 July 2012.
• Steiner, Linda; Eckert, Stine (October 2013). "(Re)triggering backlash: responses to news about Wikipedia's gender gap". Journal of Communication Inquiry. 37 (4). Sage: 284–303. doi:10.1177/0196859913505618. Available from ResearchGate., Conference paper, 2012.

2011

• Joseph Reagle, Lauren Rhue, "Gender Bias in Wikipedia and Britannica", International Journal of Communication, 5, 2011, pp. 1138–1158.
• Laura Hale, "Mind the Gap(s)! Writing Styles of Female Editors on Wikipedia", Wikimedia Meta, 7 November 2011.
• Judd Antin, Raymond Yee, Coye Cheshire, Oded Nov, "Gender Differences in Wikipedia Editing", International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym), 3–5 October 2011.
• Shyong Lam, et al, "WP:Clubhouse? An Exploration of Wikipedia's Gender Imbalance", International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym), 3–5 October 2011.
• Sue Gardner, "On editorial judgment, and empathy", suegardner.org, 28 September 2011.
• "University of Minnesota researchers reveal Wikipedia gender biases", University of Minnesota, 11 August 2011.
• "Wikipedia Editors Study: Results from the Editor Survey", Wikimedia Foundation, April 2011 (estimates that 8.5% of editors are women).
• Sue Gardner, "Nine Reasons Women Don't Edit Wikipedia (in their own words)", suegardner.org, 19 February 2011.
• Michael Bywater, "Wikipedia: This is a man's world", The Independent, 7 February 2011.
• "Where Are the Women in Wikipedia? Introduction", The New York Times, 4 February 2011:

• Susan C. Herring, "Communication Styles Make a Difference".
• Joseph M. Reagle, "'Open' Doesn't Include Everyone".
• Justine Cassell, "Editing Wars Behind the Scenes".
• Terri Oda, "Trolls and Other Nuisances".
• Anna North, "The Antisocial Factor".
• Jessamyn West, "More About Power Than Gender".
• Jane Margolis, "Hearing Women's Voices".
• Henry Etzkowitz, Marina Ranga, "Wikipedia: Nerd Avoidance".

• Noam Cohen, "Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List", The New York Times, 30 January 2011.

2010

• Sue Gardner, "Unlocking the Clubhouse: Five ways to encourage women to edit Wikipedia", suegardner.org, 14 November 2010.
• Sook Lim, Nahyun Kwon, "Gender differences in information behavior concerning Wikipedia, an unorthodox information source?", Library and Information Science Research, 32(3), July 2010, pp. 212–220. doi:10.1016/j.lisr.2010.01.003
• Ruediger Glott, Philipp Schmidt, Rishab Ghosh, "Wikipedia Survey – Overview of Results", United Nations University, March 2010 (12.64% of respondents were female).

2009

• Danielle Keats Citron, "Law's Expressive Value in Combating Cyber Gender Harassment", Michigan Law Review, 108(3), December 2009, pp. 373–415.
• Tanja Carstensen, "Gender Trouble in Web 2.0: Gender Relations in Social Network Sites, Wikis and Weblogs", International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 1(1), 2009.
• Andrew LaVallee, "Only 13% of Wikipedia Contributors Are Women, Study Says", The Wall Street Journal, 31 August 2009.
• "Wikipedia Survey", slideshow, Wikimania, 26 August 2009.

2008

• Jay Walsh, "Wikimedia Foundation and UNU-MERIT announce First Survey of Wikipedians", Wikimedia Foundation, 24 January 2008.

Foreign-language articles

German

• Dominik Schönleben, "Wikipedia schließt fünf feministische Autoren aus, weil sie den Artikel zu GamerGate bearbeitet haben", WIRED, 30 January 2015.
• Torsten Kleinz, "Sexismus in der Spieleszene: Streit über Gamergate in der Wikipedia", Heise online, 28 January 2015.
• "Eintrag zu 'GamerGate': Wikipedia sperrt feministische Nutzer", Der Standard, 25 January 2015.

Italian

• Paolo Minucci, Perché Wikipedia non è un posto per donne, almeno per ora, ProNews, 3 September 2014.

Spanish

• Rocío P. Benavente, ¿Por qué las mujeres no escriben en la Wikipedia?, El Confidencial, 2 September 2014.

Research

Miscellaneous

The following are also listed above.

Forthcoming

• Adams, Julia; Brückner, Hannah. "Wikipedia and the Democratization of Academic Knowledge", National Science Foundation (forthcoming).

2016

• Wagner, Claudia; Graells-Garrido, Eduardo; Garcia, David. "Women Through the Glass-Ceiling: Gender Asymmetries in Wikipedia", arXiv, 19 January 2016.

2015

• Adams, Julia; Brückner, Hannah. http://bds.sagepub.com/content/2/2/2053951715614332 “Wikipedia, sociology, and the promise and pitfalls of Big Data"], Big Data & Society, 2 (2), December 2015.
• Bernacchi, Viola. "Gender imbalance and Wikipedia", MSc thesis, Politecnico Milano (also here).
• Graells-Garrido, Eduardo, et al, "First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia", arxiv, 9 February 2015.
• Menking, Amanda; Erickson, Ingrid. "The Heart Work of Wikipedia: Gendered, Emotional Labor in the World's Largest Online Encyclopedia", in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15), ACM, New York, NY: 2015, pp. 207–210.
• Tkacz, Nathaniel. Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness, University of Chicago Press, 2015.
• Wagner, Claudia, Garcia, David; Jadidi, Mohsen; Strohmaier, Markus. "It's a Man's Wikipedia? Assessing Gender Inequality in an Online Encyclopedia", arXiv, 26 January 2015. arXiv:1501.06307

2014

• Bamman, David; Smith, Noel. "Unsupervised Discovery of Biographical Structure from Text", Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2, October 2014, pp. 363–376.
• Dariusz, Jemielniak. Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Stanford University Press, 2014 (May).
• Iosub, Daniela, et al., "Emotions under Discussion: Gender, Status and Communication in Online Collaboration", PLOS ONE, 20 August 2014.
• Eom, Young-Ho, et al, "Interactions of cultures and top people of Wikipedia from ranking of 24 language editions", arXiv. org, May 2014. arXiv:1405.7183

2013

• Eckert, Stine; Steiner, Linda. "(Re)triggering Backlash: Responses to News About Wikipedia's Gender Gap", Journal of Communication Inquiry, 37(4), October 2013, pp. 284–303. doi:10.1177/0196859913505618
• Hill, Benjamin Mako; Shaw, Aaron. "The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: Characterizing Survey Response Bias with Propensity Score Estimation", PLOS ONE, 26 June 2013 (estimates that 16.1% of editors are female).
• Morgan, Jonathan T.; Bouterse, Siko; Stierch, Sarah; Walls, Heather (Wikimedia Foundation). "Tea and Sympathy: Crafting Positive New User Experiences on Wikipedia", Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 23–27 February 2013, pp. 839–848. doi:10.1145/2441776.2441871

2012

• Aragón, Pablo et al, "Biographical Social Networks on Wikipedia - A cross-cultural study of links that made history", International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym), this version 4 July 2012, first published 17 April 2012.
• Collier, Benjamin; Bear, Julie. "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, February 2012. doi:10.1145/2145204.2145265
• Laniado, David, et al, "Emotions and dialogue in a peer-production community: the case of Wikipedia", International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym), 27–29 August 2012.
• Steiner, Linda; Eckert, Stine. "Wikipedia's Gender Gap", International Communication Association, conference, 2012.

2011

• Antin, Judd et al. "Gender Differences in Wikipedia Editing", International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym), 3–5 October 2011.
• Lam, Shyong, et al, "WP:Clubhouse? An Exploration of Wikipedia's Gender Imbalance", International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym), 3–5 October 2011.
• Reagle, Joseph; Rhue, Lauren. "Gender Bias in Wikipedia and Britannica", International Journal of Communication, 5, 2011, pp. 1138–1158.

2010

• Glott, Ruediger; Schmidt, Philipp; Ghosh, Rishab; "Wikipedia Survey – Overview of Results", United Nations University, March 2010 (12.64% of respondents were female).
• Lim, Sook; Kwon, Nahyun. "Gender differences in information behavior concerning Wikipedia, an unorthodox information source?", Library and Information Science Research, 32(3), July 2010, pp. 212–220. doi:10.1016/j.lisr.2010.01.003

2009

• Carstensen, Tanja. "Gender Trouble in Web 2.0: Gender Relations in Social Network Sites, Wikis and Weblogs", International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 1(1), 2009.
• Citron, Danielle Keats. "Law's Expressive Value in Combating Cyber Gender Harassment", Michigan Law Review, 108(3), December 2009, pp. 373–415.

Wikimedia Foundation

• Survey data
• Wikimedia Foundation. "Wikipedia Editors Study: Results from the Editor Survey", April 2011 (estimates that 8.5% of editors are women).
• Wikimedia Foundation. "Editor Survey 2011/Women Editors".
• Wikimedia Foundation. "Research: Wikipedia Editor Survey 2012" (published April 2015).
• Tilman Bayer, et al. "Gender gap and conflict aversion", Signpost, 27 February 2012.
• Tilman Bayer, "How many women edit Wikipedia?", Wikimedia Foundation, 30 April 2015.

See also

• Wikipedia:Writing about women
• Research studies on online gender gap, related resources
• User:Sphilbrick/Gender Gap resources (sortable list)
• Wikimedia and Wikipedia gender-gap projects