MIT Technology Review

For several years Wikipedia has been criticized for the ways that women involved with it are marginalized or minimized. A new study from researchers at the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, ETH Zurich, and the University of Koblenz-Landau seeks greater insight into the issue by analyzing women's representation in the articles of six different language versions of Wikipedia. The researchers first compared the proportion of articles about men and women to those of other databases of notable people, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Pantheon, and found Wikipedia had slightly more even proportions of articles about men and women compared to the other databases. To read further, please visit http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534616/computational-linguistics-reveals-how-wikipedia-articles-are-biased-against-women/.