prep to update article sources citations peer reviewed klein max and piotr konieczn wikipedia in the world of global gender inequality indices proceedings of the th international symposium on open collaboration opensym ' n pag web while wikipedia's editor gender gap is important but difficult to measure its biographical gender gap can more readily be measured we correlate a wikipedia derived gender inequality indicator wigi with four widespread gender inequality indices in use today gdi gei gggi and sigi analysing their methodologies and correlations to wikipedia we find evidence that wikipedia's bias in biographical coverage is related to the gender bias in positions of social power kalla joshua l and peter m aronow editorial bias in crowd sourced political information plos one plos one n pag web in this paper we examine what kinds of biases exist in crowd sourced information on wikipedia because any user can also be an editor no one person with any particular ideological or partisan motivation should be able to control wikipedia yet scholars have recognized the tension that comes from distributed crowd sourced platforms like wikipedia on the one hand crowd sourced information platforms create opportunities for citizens to challenge media driven narratives on the other these platforms may be captured by the self interested who have the greatest motivation to shape them for their own benefit mass media many hands make wikipedia work december sydney morning herald sydney australia p retrieved from we all use wikipedia it's hard to avoid on just about any google search wiki tops the list because it's also astoundingly comprehensive intelligible and reliable it has become the ubiquitous go to start point yet almost the first research rule our kids learn is wiki denial read it if you must but never honey never ever admit to it so yes wikipedia is flawed above all it needs more female input but the obvious response for you and me users who encounter something stupid or biased or just plain wrong is to hop in there and fix it i'll see you there yes oh and honey cite away wikipedia a bias against women apr the national retrieved from prof bruckner's hope is that having systemic data on the extent and reasons behind bias could mobilise resources to deal with the issue it might help she suggests if universities encouraged staff to become wikipedia contributors ensuring important academic work does not get ignored they could for example expand the programmes some of them already run for academics on writing newspaper editorial columns another area where female writers tend to be heavily outnumbered to cover wikipedia contributions that is not something we usually do we're scientists we're not in the business of marketing our research we have no training to do this said prof bruckner she admits she has never contributed to wikipedia herself the apparent bias could also be partly redressed by focusing on general initiatives to improve wikipedia's quality for prof bruckner the wikipedia project may also offer pointers about how the value of academic work in general is assessed there is the gender issue but also how people think about scholarship and what's reputable scholarship or not she said