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'''Gender bias on Wikipedia''' is the phenomenon that men are more likely than women to be volunteer contributors and article subjects of [[Wikipedia]] (although the [[English Wikipedia]] has almost 400,000 encyclopedic biographies about women, men have about four times as many),{{efn|As of June 2024.}} as well as the lesser coverage on Wikipedia of topics primarily of interest to women.[{{Cite news|last=Torres|first=Nicole|date=2016-06-02|title=Why Do So Few Women Edit Wikipedia?|work=Harvard Business Review|url=https://hbr.org/2016/06/why-do-so-few-women-edit-wikipedia|access-date=2020-06-26|issn=0017-8012}}][{{Cite web|last=Kleeman|first=Jenny|date=26 May 2016|title=The Wikipedia wars: does it matter if our biggest source of knowledge is written by men?|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2015/05/wikipedia-has-colossal-problem-women-dont-edit-it|access-date=2020-06-26|website=www.newstatesman.com|language=en}}] |
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'''Gender bias on Wikipedia''' is the phenomenon that men are more likely than women to be [[Wikipedians|volunteer contributors]] and article subjects of [[Wikipedia]] (although the [[English Wikipedia]] has almost 400,000 encyclopedic biographies about women, men have about four times as many),{{efn|As of June 2024.}} as well as the lesser coverage on Wikipedia of topics primarily of interest to women.[{{Cite news|last=Torres|first=Nicole|date=2016-06-02|title=Why Do So Few Women Edit Wikipedia?|work=Harvard Business Review|url=https://hbr.org/2016/06/why-do-so-few-women-edit-wikipedia|access-date=2020-06-26|issn=0017-8012}}][{{Cite web|last=Kleeman|first=Jenny|date=26 May 2016|title=The Wikipedia wars: does it matter if our biggest source of knowledge is written by men?|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2015/05/wikipedia-has-colossal-problem-women-dont-edit-it|access-date=2020-06-26|website=www.newstatesman.com|language=en}}] |
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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).[{{Cite web|title=Community Insights/2018 Report/Contributors - Meta|url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Insights/2018_Report/Contributors|access-date=2020-09-28|website=meta.wikimedia.org|language=en}}] In 2019, [[Katherine Maher]], then [[CEO]] of Wikimedia Foundation, said her team's working assumption was that women made up 15–20% of total contributors.[{{Cite news|last=Balch|first=Oliver|date=2019-11-28|title=Making the edit: why we need more women in Wikipedia|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/careers/2019/nov/28/making-the-edit-why-we-need-more-women-in-wikipedia|access-date=2020-06-26|issn=0261-3077}}] |
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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).[{{Cite web|title=Community Insights/2018 Report/Contributors - Meta|url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Insights/2018_Report/Contributors|access-date=2020-09-28|website=meta.wikimedia.org|language=en}}] In 2019, [[Katherine Maher]], then [[CEO]] of Wikimedia Foundation, said her team's working assumption was that women made up 15–20% of total contributors.[{{Cite news|last=Balch|first=Oliver|date=2019-11-28|title=Making the edit: why we need more women in Wikipedia|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/careers/2019/nov/28/making-the-edit-why-we-need-more-women-in-wikipedia|access-date=2020-06-26|issn=0261-3077}}] |
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