School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK.
Department of Sociology, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
Soc Stud Sci. 2017 Aug;47(4):511-527. doi: 10.1177/0306312717692172. Epub 2017 Mar 1.
Feminist STS has long established that science's provenance as a male domain continues to define what counts as knowledge and expertise. Wikipedia, arguably one of the most powerful sources of information today, was initially lauded as providing the opportunity to rebuild knowledge institutions by providing greater representation of multiple groups. However, less than ten percent of Wikipedia editors are women. At one level, this imbalance in contributions and therefore content is yet another case of the masculine culture of technoscience. This is an important argument and, in this article, we examine the empirical research that highlights these issues. Our main objective, however, is to extend current accounts by demonstrating that Wikipedia's infrastructure introduces new and less visible sources of gender disparity. In sum, our aim here is to present a consolidated analysis of the gendering of Wikipedia.
女性主义科学技术研究长期以来一直表明，科学作为一个男性领域的起源，仍然决定着什么是知识和专长。维基百科可以说是当今最强大的信息来源之一，它最初被誉为通过为多个群体提供更多的代表性，为重建知识机构提供了机会。然而，维基百科的编辑中女性不到 10%。在某种程度上，这种在贡献和因此在内容上的不平衡，是技术科学中男性文化的又一个例证。这是一个重要的论点，在本文中，我们研究了突出这些问题的实证研究。然而，我们的主要目的是通过展示维基百科的基础设施引入了新的和不太明显的性别差距来源，来扩展当前的论述。总之，我们在这里的目的是对维基百科的性别问题进行综合分析。
