One explanation for why women have less space on the site could be that they aren’t writing the content, which is where this project comes in.

A survey from 2008 found that less than 13% of Wikipedia contributors worldwide were women, while a follow-up survey from 2011 revealed similar results with 9% female contributors across the globe. As for readerships rates, there was no significant difference between women and men.

According to two professors, who analysed the data, women felt less confident in editing other people’s work and were also less confident in their knowledge of the topic. The findings were published in a journal called Sex Roles in January in 2016 by Professors Julia Bear of Stony Brook University’s College of Business and Benjamin Collier of Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar.

“To a certain extent it takes a baseline level of confidence to start editing, and men and women may be setting different bars for the expertise required to do that,” said Bear.

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