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Title

Grades and the Gender Gap: How Student Editors are Writing Women into Wikipedia

Theme

Education and Academic Engagement

Academic Peer Review option

No

Type of submission

Presentation

Author

Jami Mathewson

E-mail address

jamiwikiedu.org

Username

User:Jami (Wiki Ed)

Affiliation

Wiki Education Foundation

Abstract

Students and instructors working with the Wiki Education Foundation (Wiki Ed) have added thousands of new articles and millions of words to the English Wikipedia. Their work has not just expanded Wikipedia as a whole but has targeted academic areas where Wikipedia's coverage is limited. Through a strategic partnership with the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA), students in our program have contributed 4% of all content added to topics related to women’s and gender studies. Adam Hyland joined Patti Provance of NWSA at the Wiki Diversity Conference for a similar presentation.

I will share updated metrics, highlight student contributions to articles related to women's and gender studies, and show how students are impacting public scholarship within the discipline. I'm excited to share how we identified an underrepresented discipline on Wikipedia and tapped into higher education to fill those gaps.

Length of presentation

15 min

Special schedule requests

None

Preferred room size

20

Will you attend WikiConference North America if your submission is not accepted?

Yes

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