[CITASA] wikipedia-gender

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Barry Wellman
Fri, Feb 4, 2011 6:05 PM

Puzzled as to why sci/meth/tech and gender entered into the Wikipedia
discussion as in my Wiki experience, most articles are more about society,
humanities, arts.

BTW, the gender gap in WPedia has long been known, NYT doing good by
publicizing it.
Barry Wellman


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Puzzled as to why sci/meth/tech and gender entered into the Wikipedia discussion as in my Wiki experience, most articles are more about society, humanities, arts. BTW, the gender gap in WPedia has long been known, NYT doing good by publicizing it. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________