The relation of community governance and editor diversity : a cross-language comparison of the Dutch-, German-, Czech-, and Slovene Wikipedia

Although the giant online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has declared itself being open and free to everyone, research has long proven that this is unfortunately not the case. Although numerous studies have documented the low rate of female participation, most of them merely focus on the English language edition of Wikipedia. Moreover, there has been a lack of studying the governance structure of Wikipedia and how this affects the gender gap. Hence, this study explores the notion of how community governance relates to editor diversity in the Czech-, Dutch-, German-, and Slovene Wikipedia using a qual... Mehr ...