In 10 short years, Wikipedia has accomplished some remarkable goals. More than 3.5 million articles in English? Done. More than 250 languages? Sure.But another number has proved to be an intractable obstacle for the online encyclopedia: surveys suggest that less than 15 percent of its hundreds of thousands of contributors are women.
For more, see Define Gender Gap? Look up Wikipedia's Contributor List by , January 30, 2011 at The New York Times.
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