Conflict, confidence, or criticism: An empirical examination of the gender gap in wikipedia

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 383-392

  Collier, Benjamin ^a   Bear, Julia ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

confidence; conflict; criticism; gender; survey; wikipedia

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE; CONFLICT; CRITICISM; GENDER; WIKIPEDIA;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; SURVEYS; WEBSITES;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84858225738     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145265     Document Type: Conference Paper

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