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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 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.2019.04.020doi: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-10-2018-0198doi: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

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:10.1145/2145204.2145265doi:10.1145/2145204.2145265 |access-date= requires |url= (help)
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: 10.1177/0196859913505618doi: 10.1177/0196859913505618. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
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.0065782doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065782. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
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.2010.01.003doi: 10.1016/j.lisr.2010.01.003. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
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.
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.
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