Editing Wikipedia: Gender Disparity Edition
via The Atlantic Wire:

It’s long been known that the ranks of Wikipedia editors are mainly male. But now illustrator Santiago Ortiz has created an interactive looking at the proportion of edits on individual Wikipedia articles made by men vs. women, and it turns out that the gender divide on “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit” is even starker than we thought.

Read About It.
Image: Screenshot of the most edited articles (green) and most visited articles (blue) by gender on Wikipedia.

Editing Wikipedia: Gender Disparity Edition

via The Atlantic Wire:

It’s long been known that the ranks of Wikipedia editors are mainly male. But now illustrator Santiago Ortiz has created an interactive looking at the proportion of edits on individual Wikipedia articles made by men vs. women, and it turns out that the gender divide on “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit” is even starker than we thought.

Read About It.

Image: Screenshot of the most edited articles (green) and most visited articles (blue) by gender on Wikipedia.

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