Exploring the gender gap in the Spanish Wikipedia: differences in engagement and editing practices

Wikipedia's significant gender bias is widely acknowledged. In this paper we analyze the Spanish Wikipedia with the aim of estimating the percentage of women editors and measuring their engagement and editing practices with respect to their men counterparts. To identify the gender of Wikipedia...

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Autores: Minguillón, Julià, Meneses, Julio, Aibar, Eduard, Ferran, Nuria, Fàbregues, Sergi
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Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Repositorio:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC
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Wikipedia
gènere
huella de género
género
gender gap
gender
Gender equality
Igualtat entre els sexes
Igualdad entre los sexos
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spelling Exploring the gender gap in the Spanish Wikipedia: differences in engagement and editing practicesMinguillón, JuliàMeneses, JulioAibar, EduardFerran, NuriaFàbregues, Sergipetjada de gènereWikipediagènerehuella de géneroWikipediagénerogender gapWikipediagenderGender equalityIgualtat entre els sexesIgualdad entre los sexosWikipedia's significant gender bias is widely acknowledged. In this paper we analyze the Spanish Wikipedia with the aim of estimating the percentage of women editors and measuring their engagement and editing practices with respect to their men counterparts. To identify the gender of Wikipedia registered users, we analyzed both the information contained in their user profile and the information provided by users about themselves on their personal user pages. Using our own coding procedure, it is possible to identify a greater number of women than by relying only on the gender reported in their user profile. Combining both methods, our results show that the percentage of women is small, a meagre 11.6% of all analyzed editors, though there is still a significant percentage of users whose gender cannot be determined by either method. Men outnumber women in all Wikipedia namespaces in a ratio that is always equal to or greater than 3:1. This fact can be partially explained by the lesser persistence of women editors, who tend to leave Wikipedia much more quickly. There is, however, a small group of veteran women editors who, in some cases, surpass men editors in terms of their editing practices and participation in different Wikipedia namespaces.PLoS ONEUniversitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)202120212021info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10609/130903reponame:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOCinstname:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)InglésPLoS ONE, 2021, 16(2)http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246702CC BYhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/1309032026-05-28T12:42:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Exploring the gender gap in the Spanish Wikipedia: differences in engagement and editing practices
title Exploring the gender gap in the Spanish Wikipedia: differences in engagement and editing practices
spellingShingle Exploring the gender gap in the Spanish Wikipedia: differences in engagement and editing practices
Minguillón, Julià
petjada de gènere
Wikipedia
gènere
huella de género
Wikipedia
género
gender gap
Wikipedia
gender
Gender equality
Igualtat entre els sexes
Igualdad entre los sexos
title_short Exploring the gender gap in the Spanish Wikipedia: differences in engagement and editing practices
title_full Exploring the gender gap in the Spanish Wikipedia: differences in engagement and editing practices
title_fullStr Exploring the gender gap in the Spanish Wikipedia: differences in engagement and editing practices
title_full_unstemmed Exploring the gender gap in the Spanish Wikipedia: differences in engagement and editing practices
title_sort Exploring the gender gap in the Spanish Wikipedia: differences in engagement and editing practices
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Minguillón, Julià
Meneses, Julio
Aibar, Eduard
Ferran, Nuria
Fàbregues, Sergi
author Minguillón, Julià
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Meneses, Julio
Aibar, Eduard
Ferran, Nuria
Fàbregues, Sergi
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Aibar, Eduard
Ferran, Nuria
Fàbregues, Sergi
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv petjada de gènere
Wikipedia
gènere
huella de género
Wikipedia
género
gender gap
Wikipedia
gender
Gender equality
Igualtat entre els sexes
Igualdad entre los sexos
topic petjada de gènere
Wikipedia
gènere
huella de género
Wikipedia
género
gender gap
Wikipedia
gender
Gender equality
Igualtat entre els sexes
Igualdad entre los sexos
description Wikipedia's significant gender bias is widely acknowledged. In this paper we analyze the Spanish Wikipedia with the aim of estimating the percentage of women editors and measuring their engagement and editing practices with respect to their men counterparts. To identify the gender of Wikipedia registered users, we analyzed both the information contained in their user profile and the information provided by users about themselves on their personal user pages. Using our own coding procedure, it is possible to identify a greater number of women than by relying only on the gender reported in their user profile. Combining both methods, our results show that the percentage of women is small, a meagre 11.6% of all analyzed editors, though there is still a significant percentage of users whose gender cannot be determined by either method. Men outnumber women in all Wikipedia namespaces in a ratio that is always equal to or greater than 3:1. This fact can be partially explained by the lesser persistence of women editors, who tend to leave Wikipedia much more quickly. There is, however, a small group of veteran women editors who, in some cases, surpass men editors in terms of their editing practices and participation in different Wikipedia namespaces.
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