Wikipedia's Gender Problem Gets a Closer Look

Source: Yahoo News - ScienceWikipedia has a gender problem. A 2011 editor survey by the Wikimedia Foundation pegged the number of active female editors at only 9 percent. Now, researchers are delving into how that gender schism affects the content of Wikipedia, even as the Wikimedia Foundation and independent groups search for ways to get more women involved. "This is something that people have lots of opinions about, but about which there is very little serious research,"...