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Gender gap and systemic bias articles, women's projects

"Wikipedia has a unique power. Of the world’s top 10 websites, it is the only one that is not commercial. Once readers assumed that meant it was unreliable, but now its voluntary system of infinite peer review lends it an authority that commercial organisations can only dream of. It is not just accurate, it is also disinterested...the fact remains that what you get in Wikimedia is the world according to the young white western male with a slight personality defect."

"editors are “young white western males with a slight personality defect”"A recent survey of Wikipedians showed that the average age of them 25.22 years, young enough to know nothing but old enough to think they are gods gift to intellect. Half of the respondents are younger than 22 years. The most frequent age that can be observed within the respondents is 18 years. So that means a quarter of them are younger than 18 years old and another quarter are between 18 and 22, a further 25 quarter are between 22 and 30. Only the last quarter are between the ages of 30 and 85 years old which is the age you actually know anything...Contributors show a substantially larger share of males than readers. Among respondents only 12.64 per cent of contributors are female."