The Swedish Wikipedia Gender Gap

The Swedish Wikipedia Gender Gap

The proportion of women editors on the English language Wikipedia has for years been known to be very low. The purpose of this thesis is to see if this gender gap exists on the Swedish language Wikipedia as well, and investigate the reasons behind it. To do this, three methods are used. Firstly a li...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Helgeson, Björn
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: KTH, Medieteknik och interaktionsdesign, MID 2015
Subjects:
Wikipedia
Wikmedia
gender
gender gap
equality
wikipedia equality
women
editors
wikipedia editors
Swedish Wikipedia
gender disproportion
computer skills
gender bias
gender bias on wikipedia
men
encyclopedia
distribution
gender distributon
systemic bias
Wikimedia Foundation
female editorship
female
female editors
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-177493

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