Gender bias on Wikipedia

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

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Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Gender bias on Wikipedia is the overweighting of male perspectives and topics, resulting from the phenomena that men being more likely than women to be volunteer contributors and be the subject of Wikipedia articles.

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