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Recent studies and stats

• Humaniki: Wikimedia gender gap statistics, including Announcement of alpha release. Humaniki provides a wide variety of gender gap statistics based on Wikidata. (March 2021)
• Measuring digital development Facts and figures 2019 - ITU
• Gender equity report 2018
• Community Insights reports: 2023, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017

Research in 2024

• Mind the Gap! An interpretative phenomenological analysis of solidarity among Ibero-American female translators in the Spanish Wikipedia Néstor Singer Universidad de Santiago de Chile; José Gustavo Góngora-Goloubintseff University of York

Research in 2023

• Tripodi, F. (2023). Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Wikipedia. New media & society, 25(7), 1687-1707.

Research in 2021

• Unreliable Guidelines : Reliable Sources and Marginalized Communities in French, English and Spanish Wikipedias (PDF). Art+Feminism. - Berson, Amber; Sengul-Jones, Monika; Tamani, Melissa (June 2021).
• Men Are Elected, Women Are Married: Events Gender Bias on Wikipedia, Jiao Sun, Nanyun Peng. June 2021 on twitter. Event-centric study of gender biases on a large English Wikipedia corpus shows that personal life related events are more likely to appear for females than males.
• Humaniki: Wikimedia gender gap statistics - see above
• Humaniki March Update: Public Launch of Alpha Release. Wikimedia. Retrieved 26 March 2021. Klein, Maximilian (15 March 2021).

Research in 2020

• Research:Metrics for quantifying the gender content gap (Martin Gerlach)
• von der Malsburg et al. (2020) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797619890619 : epicen form is not sufficient to avoid biases in representation

Research in 2019

• Research:Surveys on the gender of editors (Isaac Johnson)
• Research:Explaining the Wikipedia reader gender gap (Jonathan Morgan)
• Research:Closing the Gender Content Gap in Wikipedia, Ruotong Wang (Macalester College), Caitlin O'Callaghan (University of Texas at Austin), Bowen Yu (University of Minnesota) - ongoing
• (en) Marit Hinnosaar Gender inequality in new media: Evidence from Wikipedia, doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2019.04.020 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Volume 163, July 2019, Pages 262-276
• (en) Shlomit Aharoni Lir Strangers in a seemingly open-to-all website: the gender bias in Wikipedia Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, doi:10.1108/EDI-10-2018-0198
• Schellekens, Menno; Holstege, Floris; Yasseri, Taha (12 April 2019). "Female scholars need to achieve more for equal public recognition". Cornell University. Retrieved 2 May 2019. 

Research in 2018

• (en) Benjamin Cabrera, Björn Ross, Marielle Dado, Maritta Heisel, The Gender Gap in Wikipedia Talk Pages, Proceedings of the Twelfth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2018)
• (en) Björn Ross, Marielle Dado, Maritta Heisel, Benjamin Cabrera, Gender Markers in Wikipedia Usernames, Wiki Workshop, April 2018, Lyon, France
• Shaw, A., & Hargittai, E. (2018). The pipeline of online participation inequalities: The case of Wikipedia editing. Journal of communication, 68(1), 143-168.

Research in 2017

Presentation about key findings

• Research:Gender gap in Wikipedia's content (Netha Hussain)
• (en) Carol Smallwood et Lura Sanborn, Gender Issues and the Library : Case Studies of Innovative Programs and Resources, 3 novembre 2017, 233 p.
• Vitulli, Marie A. (20 October 2017). "Writing Women in Mathematics into Wikipedia" (PDF). Cornell University Library. Retrieved 20 January 2017. 
• Hube, Christoph (3 April 2017). "Bias in Wikipedia" (PDF). Semantic Scholar. Retrieved 16 September 2019. 
• Ford, Heather; Wajcman, Judy (2016). "'Anyone can edit' not everyone does: Wikipedia and the gender gap" (PDF). Social Studies of Science (via LSE). ISSN 0306-3127. Retrieved 18 January 2017. 

Research in 2016

• Research:Interpolating quality dynamics in Wikipedia and demonstrating the Keilana Effect (Aaron Halfaker)
• Claudia Wagner, Eduardo Graells-Garrido, David Garcia & Filippo Menczer (1 March 2016). "Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia". EPJ Data Science. 
• Klein, Maximilian. "Wikipedia Gender Indicators (WIGI)". WMF labs. Retrieved 15 June 2016. 
• Klein, Maximilian; et al. "Monitoring the Gender Gap with Wikidata Human Gender Indicators" (PDF). Retrieved 18 June 2016. 
• Amber Young; Ari D. Wigdor; Gerald Kane (2016). "It’s Not What You Think: Gender Bias in Information about Fortune 1000 CEOs on Wikipedia". 
• Gender Bias on Wikipedia. An analysis of the affiliation network (by Feli Nicolaes)
• Sczesny et al. (2016) https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00025/full : epicen form is not sufficient to avoid biases in representation

Research in 2015

• Graells-Garrido, Eduardo; Lalmas, Mounia; Menczer, Filippo (2015). "First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia". Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media. p. 165. ISBN 978-1-4503-3395-5. arXiv:1502.02341. doi:10.1145/2700171.2791036.  (Important finding: an analysis of the DBPedia Wikipedia subset shows that 15% of biographies are of women.)
• Klein, Maximilian; Konieczny, Piotr (2015). "Gender Gap Through Time and Space: A Journey Through Wikipedia Biographies and the "WIGI" Index". arXiv:1502.03086 [cs.CY].  (Interesting study, currently under peer review)
• Wagner, Claudia; Garcia, David; Jadidi, Mohsen; Strohmaier, Markus (2015). "It's a Man's Wikipedia? Assessing Gender Inequality in an Online Encyclopedia". arXiv:1501.06307 [cs.CY]. 
• Jason Wilson, "Are misogynists running Wikipedia?", Overland, 11 February 2015.
• Eduardo Graells-Garrido, Mounia Lalmas, Filippo Menczer, "First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia", arxiv, 9 February 2015
• Hinnosaar, Marit (May 2015). "Gender Inequality in New Media: Evidence from Wikipedia". EconPapers. ISSN 2279-9362. Retrieved 18 January 2017. 

Research in 2014

• Research:Communicating on Wikipedia while female, a completed research project (Laura Hale)
• The Swedish Wikipedia Gender Gap; Master thesis by Helgesson, Björn
• Research:Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index (Piotr Konieczny from Hanyang University and Maximilian Klein)

Research in 2012

• Antin, J.; Yee, R.; Cheshire, C.; Nov, O. (2011). "Gender Differences in Wikipedia Editing". WikiSym. 
• Collier, Benjamin; Bear, Julia (2012), "Conflict, criticism, or confidence: an empirical examination of the gender gap in Wikipedia contributions", Proc. of CSCW, doi:10.1145/2145204.2145265 
• Laniado, David; Castillo, Carlos; Kaltenbrunner, Andreas; Fuster Morell, Mayo (Aug 27–29, 2012). "Emotions and dialogue in a peer-production community: the case of Wikipedia" (PDF). WikiSym. Linz, Austria: ACM Press. 
• Stine Eckert; Linda Steiner (2013). "(Re)triggering Backlash: Responses to News About Wikipedia’s Gender Gap". Journal of Communication Inquiry 37 (284): 284–303. doi: 10.1177/0196859913505618. 
• Hill B.M., Shaw A. (2013). "The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: Characterizing Survey Response Bias with Propensity Score Estimation". PLoS ONE 8 (6). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065782. 
• Lam, S. K.; Uduwage, A.; Dong, Z.; Sen, S.; Musicant, D. R.; Terveen, L.; Riedl, J. (2011). "WP:Clubhouse? An Exploration of Wikipedia's Gender Imbalance". WikiSym. 
• Sook Lim; Nahyun Kwon (2010). "Gender differences in information behavior concerning Wikipedia, an unorthodox information source?". Library and Information Science Research 32 (3): 212–220. doi: 10.1016/j.lisr.2010.01.003. 
• Steiner, Linda; Eckert, Stine (2012). Wikipedia's Gender Gap: Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Sheraton Phoenix Downtown, Phoenix, AZ, May 24, 2012.  (PDF)

Research in 2011

• Joseph Reagle et Lauren Rhue, « Gender bias in Wikipedia and Britanica », International Journal of Communication, no 5, 2011.
• Glott, Ruediger; Schmidt, Philipp; Ghosh, Rishab; et al. (March 2010). "Quality of Wikipedia Content" (PDF). UNU-MERIT. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011.  CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link)
• Glott, Ruediger; Schmidt, Philipp; Ghosh, Rishab; et al. (March 2010). "Reasons for non-contribution" (PDF). UNU-MERIT. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011.  CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link)
• Glott, Ruediger; Ghosh, Rishab (March 2010). "Age and Gender Differences" (PDF). UNU-MERIT. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. 
• Shyong K. Lam, Anuradha Uduwage, Zhenhua Dong, Shilad Sen, David R. Musicant, Loren G Terveen, John Riedl, WP:clubhouse? An exploration of Wikipedia's gender imbalance, in Computer Science and Engineering
• (fr) Nicolas Jullien, Enquête sur les utilisateurs des Wikipédia., April 2011

Research in 2005

• Oakhill et al. (2005) https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/BF03193206.pdf : epicen form is not sufficient to avoid biases in representation