Wikipedia’s Gender Gap Persists: Why Don’t More Women Contribute To The Online Encyclopedia? (Christopher Zara)

Wikipedia’s women problem isn’t going away. Speaking in Hong Kong at the annual Wikimania conference on Aug. 9, Jimmy Wales said that the vast majority of Wikipedia contributors -- 87 percent -- are men, according to the Wall Street Journal. The number is frustratingly high, given recent grassroots campaigns by Wikipedia users and efforts by the website itself to encourage more women to create and edit articles. (ibtimes.com)