Wikipedia and Data Contribution

The last article, about the gender gap in Wikipedia’s contributors, was quite interesting. It pointed out that less than 15% of Wikipedia’s contributors were women, which I believe, but then it tried to bring up another fact. It compared articles on Wikipedia that had tendencies to different genders. One example used was friendship bracelets as opposed to baseball cards. Although I generally agree with the articles, I felt like its examples were weak. I could be biased, but there could be many reason for that such as the fact that baseball cards have a more well known origin than friendship bracelets. There’s also examples where a popular subject is compared to an unpopular subject, and although that probably contributes to what the article is trying to say, it is still weak.

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