Addressing the Gender Gap - Wiki Edu Projects for Digital Humanities at WikiConference USA 2015
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| Description | From the conference program: In recent years, the Wikipedia community, including Wiki Edu, has become increasingly aware of systemic problems of representation in the encyclopedia resulting from a significant gap in the number of female vs. male editors (Glott, Schmidt, and Ghosh). The homogenous demographic of male editors has produced a number of problems in terms of representation, with articles and topics that might matter more to female or LGBTQ audiences less developed or even absent in the encyclopedia (Cohen). Wiki Edu, as a program that can encourage new demographics of editors to participate in Wikipedia editing projects, is in a unique position to 1) spread awareness of systemic problems of representation and 2) work to address the gaps in content that arise because of the homogenous editor demographic. In this presentation, I describe a collaborative project undertaken in the spring of 2015 in which a colleague and I (together teaching three courses) participated in the Wik |
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| Date | 2015-10-10 |
| Source | commons.wikimedia.org |
| Author | US National Archives |
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Attribution: US National Archives, 2015-10-10
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