Gender differences in Wikipedia editing

WikiSym 2011 Conference Proceedings - 7th Annual International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 11-14

  Antin, Judd ^a   Yee, Raymond ^b   Cheshire, Coye ^c   Nov, Oded ^d  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Data Unbound LLC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gender; participation; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

GENDER; GENDER DIFFERENCES; ON-LINE INFORMATION; PARTICIPATION; SIMILAR NUMBERS; WIKIPEDIA;

EID: 80054781837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2038558.2038561     Document Type: Conference Paper

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