Research proves gender imbalance on Wikipedia

[theklinikv]

He's actually referring to articles that are written about content of interest or relation to women. Whether about "films" about women, artists, or topics related to women's interests. Not necessarily by women writers.

[raftjm]

What is the composition of the team that investigated this issue. What "tools" did you use or did you roll your own. How long was the investigation?

[BelligerentPacifist]

@raftjm They won't tell you all that in an interview. You'll have to look at the publication/s that followed their research.

Still, his last words in there were the most gratifying to me as a man i.e. "articles edited by women...were of significantly lower quality". Yeah, men rock!

[vlchristensen]

@BelligerentPacifist Listen again, he didn't say the articles edited by women were of lower quality, he said the articles that were of more interest to women were of lower quality. that may indicate that men still contributed more to them but due to their lack of interest the quality was worse. Compare this to studies about open software that is maintained by a community. I can recall studies that men tended to dominate, and in fact bully the women, to the point that women eventually gave up.

[BelligerentPacifist]

@vlchristensen His definition of 'female-oriented' appears to mean 'written by women', and hence my reading of his statement. Any of us could be right, and if the author of the study concurs with you, I'd defer to your opinion. Happy youtubing!