Well, thanks to "numerous efforts by left-wing feminist groups to increase participation" on Wikipedia such as "edit-a-thons" due to "claims of a gender gap in contributors to Wikipedia and a resulting bias in content towards men", we now have the following problems according to a new study from the Journal of Management Information Systems entitled "The Gender Bias Tug-of-War in a Co-creation Community: Core-Periphery Tension on Wikipedia":
According to a comparison of the treatment of 50 female Fortune 1000 CEOs to four sample groups of male CEOs, men were 22% less likely to have articles and the ones they did have were generally inferior in nature than those of women, with fewer high quality sources and edits but also less embellishment.
There was a marked shift in editorial influence between 2003 and 2016, with less active "peripheral editors" that were biased towards men slowly being replaced by more active "core editors" who were biased towards women, resulting in an overcorrection where the male majority in the Wikipedia editing community actually demonstrated gendered bias against itself.
The aforementioned was the result of a significant amount of negative attention being raised due to allegations of gender-biased content on Wikipedia, something which was directly tied into the false narrative about GamerGate.
The study's authors suggested that this gendered bias towards women could bleed over into information-focused communities, not only in the open-source community and with bloggers, but also in general society and politics, and recommended regular monitoring and automatic bias detection methods to raise awareness of this.
Well, thanks to "numerous efforts by left-wing feminist groups to increase participation" on Wikipedia such as "edit-a-thons" due to "claims of a gender gap in contributors to Wikipedia and a resulting bias in content towards men", we now have the following problems according to a new study from the Journal of Management Information Systems entitled "The Gender Bias Tug-of-War in a Co-creation Community: Core-Periphery Tension on Wikipedia":
According to a comparison of the treatment of 50 female Fortune 1000 CEOs to four sample groups of male CEOs, men were 22% less likely to have articles and the ones they did have were generally inferior in nature than those of women, with fewer high quality sources and edits but also less embellishment.
There was a marked shift in editorial influence between 2003 and 2016, with less active "peripheral editors" that were biased towards men slowly being replaced by more active "core editors" who were biased towards women, resulting in an overcorrection where the male majority in the Wikipedia editing community actually demonstrated gendered bias against itself.
The aforementioned was the result of a significant amount of negative attention being raised due to allegations of gender-biased content on Wikipedia, something which was directly tied into the false narrative about GamerGate.
The study's authors suggested that this gendered bias towards women could bleed over into information-focused communities, not only in the open-source community and with bloggers, but also in general society and politics, and recommended regular monitoring and automatic bias detection methods to raise awareness of this.
Original Article: http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/12/04/study-wikipedia-holds-pro-woman-gender-bias-after-feminist-activist-campaigns/