The "
gender gap
", or gender bias, refers to the gap in representation between genders on the online encyclopedia.
For the past ten years, the Wikimedia Foundation (created in 2003 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales) has been investigating the respective proportions of men and women who contribute to the platform, as well as the gap between the number of cards dedicated to the biography of famous men, and those dedicated to famous women.
And even if it tends to decrease, the gap is significant: there are more contributors than female contributors, as well as more pages devoted to men than to women.
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That's all it takes for feminist activists to take up the cause, and set about compensating for this "
gender gap
", by all means.
On Wikipedia, the question of inclusivity is therefore not new.
On her blog, the former director of the Wikimedia Foundation, Sue Gardner, evoked the reasons which according to them explained the weak…
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