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If you look at wikipedia's contributor stats it's like 70% white†, college aged males. (Actually wikipedians are like 87% male. http://feministing.com/2011/02/0
by knowtheory 16y ago
If you look at wikipedia's contributor stats it's like 70% white†, college aged males. (Actually wikipedians are like 87% male. http://feministing.com/2011/02/02/why-are-only-13-of-wikipedia-contributors-women/ http://feministing.com/2011/02/02/why-are-only-13-of-wikiped... )
they're working on improving the gender balance, but i suspect that the format will still retain this skew simply due to societal/demographic reasons.
I don't know that that means that there was any overt or covert racism, but there is definitely a contributor bias :P
† upon further investigation i have not been able to find references to racial demographics for wikipedia. Consider this hearsay.
- mkramlich 16y ago> If you look at wikipedia's contributor stats it's like 70% white†, college aged males. (Actually wikipedians are like 87% male. http://feministing.com/2011/02/02/why-are-only-13-of-wikiped.. http://feministing.com/2011/02/02/why-are-only-13-of-wikiped.... ) When an all/mostly black country invents something like the Internet, and then creates a website like Wikipedia, and then most of the nerds it attracts to administrate it happen to be black male nerds, then, yes, you'll see a different demographic mix. But until that happens, you'll see demographic trends that are likely (and reasonably) going to be heavily influenced by their starting conditions.