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第一女性,第二性别:维基百科中的性别偏见

First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia

Eduardo Graells-Garrido, Mounia Lalmas, Filippo Menczer

摘要:

为历史做贡献从来没有像今天这样容易。任何能够访问网络的人都可以在维基百科上发挥作用,维基百科是一个开放和自由的百科全书。维基百科有多种语言版本,是世界上访问量最大的网站之一,也可以说是网络上知识的主要来源之一。然而,并不是每个人都从多样性的角度为维基百科做出贡献;有几个群体的代表性严重不足。其中一个群体是女性,她们约占当前贡献者社区的16%,这意味着大部分内容都是由男性撰写的。此外,虽然维基百科的内容必须遵守可验证性、显著性和中立观点的具体准则,但这些准则是由男性监督和执行的。在本文中,我们提出,性别偏见不仅是参与和代表性,而且对妇女的表征。我们通过定义一种方法来比较传记中男性和女性的特征,从三个方面来分析性别偏见:元数据,语言和网络结构。我们的研究结果表明,的确,在表征和结构上存在差异。其中一些差异反映在维基百科记录的离线世界中,但其他差异可以归因于维基百科内容中的性别偏见。我们将这些差异置于女权主义理论的背景下,并讨论它们对维基百科政策的影响。

英文摘要:

Contributing to history has never been as easy as it is today. Anyone with access to the Web is able to play a part on Wikipedia, an open and free encyclopedia. Wikipedia, available in many languages, is one of the most visited websites in the world and arguably one of the primary sources of knowledge on the Web. However, not everyone is contributing to Wikipedia from a diversity point of view; several groups are severely underrepresented. One of those groups is women, who make up approximately 16% of the current contributor community, meaning that most of the content is written by men. In addition, although there are specific guidelines of verifiability, notability, and neutral point of view that must be adhered by Wikipedia content, these guidelines are supervised and enforced by men. In this paper, we propose that gender bias is not about participation and representation only, but also about characterization of women. We approach the analysis of gender bias by defining a methodology for comparing the characterizations of men and women in biographies in three aspects: meta-data, language, and network structure. Our results show that, indeed, there are differences in characterization and structure. Some of these differences are reflected from the off-line world documented by Wikipedia, but other differences can be attributed to gender bias in Wikipedia content. We contextualize these differences in feminist theory and discuss their implications for Wikipedia policy.

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