It's a Man's Wikipedia? Assessing Gender Inequality in an Online Encyclopedia

Conference paper | Konferenzbeitrag

Wikipedia is a community-created encyclopedia that contains information about notable people from different countries, epochs and disciplines and aims to document the world's knowledge from a neutral point of view. However, the narrow diversity of the Wikipedia editor community has the potential to introduce systemic biases such as gender biases into the content of Wikipedia. In this paper we aim to tackle a sub problem of this larger challenge by presenting and applying a computational method for assessing gender bias on Wikipedia along multiple dimensions. We find that while women on Wikipedia are covered and featured well in many Wikipedia language editions, the way women are portrayed starkly differs from the way men are portrayed. We hope our work contributes to increasing awareness about gender biases online, and in particular to raising attention to the different levels in which gender biases can manifest themselves on the web.

Object Details

• Extent: Seite(n): 454-463
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; 9. International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. Oxford, UK, 2015

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Proceedings of the 9th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen ; Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung ; interaktive, elektronische Medien ; geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren ; Inhalt ; Wikipedia ; Sprachgebrauch ; Netzwerk ; Messung ; Struktur ; Ungleichheit ; Netzwerkanalyse

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Wagner, Claudia ; Garcia, David ; Jadidi, Mohsen ; Strohmaier, Markus
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• (where): Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Palo Alto, CA
• (when): 2015

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-66086-2
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 29.10.2002, 12:17 AM CET