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It's a Man's Wikipedia? Assessing Gender Inequality in an Online Encyclopedia
[conference paper]
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Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Abstract Wikipedia is a community-created encyclopedia that contains information about notable people from different countries, epochs and disciplines and aims to document the world's knowledge from a neutral point of view. However, the narrow diversity of the Wikipedia editor community has the potential to ... view more
Wikipedia is a community-created encyclopedia that contains information about notable people from different countries, epochs and disciplines and aims to document the world's knowledge from a neutral point of view. However, the narrow diversity of the Wikipedia editor community has the potential to introduce systemic biases such as gender biases into the content of Wikipedia. In this paper we aim to tackle a sub problem of this larger challenge by presenting and applying a computational method for assessing gender bias on Wikipedia along multiple dimensions. We find that while women on Wikipedia are covered and featured well in many Wikipedia language editions, the way women are portrayed starkly differs from the way men are portrayed. We hope our work contributes to increasing awareness about gender biases online, and in particular to raising attention to the different levels in which gender biases can manifest themselves on the web.... view less
Keywords
network; Wikipedia; structure; content; measurement; language usage; gender-specific factors; network analysis; inequality
Classification
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Interactive, electronic Media
Free Keywords
gender inequalities; text mining; network analysis; encyclopedia
Collection Title
Proceedings of the 9th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
Conference
9. International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. Oxford, UK, 2015
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
City
Palo Alto, CA
Page/Pages
p. 454-463
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications