TY - GEN
T1 - Some of all human knowledge
T2 - ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion, CSCW'12
AU - Forte, Andrea
AU - Antin, Judd
AU - Bardzell, Shaowen
AU - Honeywell, Leigh
AU - Riedl, John
AU - Stierch, Sarah
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The promise of peer production includes resources produced by volunteers and released freely for the world to use. Wikipedia and Open Source Software are famous examples of peer-produced projects. Anyone is free to participate, but not everybody does. Wikipedia aims to collect the "sum of all human knowledge", but only about 13% of editors on the site are female [3]. In Open Source Software, the percentage of female contributors has been estimated near 1% [4]. If women are not well represented among authors of the most widely accessed reference source on the planet, are important voices muted? Could these projects be even more impactful with more female participation? This panel includes experts in gender theory and open collaboration, activists, and representatives from peer-produced projects to discuss recent findings and trends in this complex and often contentious research space.
AB - The promise of peer production includes resources produced by volunteers and released freely for the world to use. Wikipedia and Open Source Software are famous examples of peer-produced projects. Anyone is free to participate, but not everybody does. Wikipedia aims to collect the "sum of all human knowledge", but only about 13% of editors on the site are female [3]. In Open Source Software, the percentage of female contributors has been estimated near 1% [4]. If women are not well represented among authors of the most widely accessed reference source on the planet, are important voices muted? Could these projects be even more impactful with more female participation? This panel includes experts in gender theory and open collaboration, activists, and representatives from peer-produced projects to discuss recent findings and trends in this complex and often contentious research space.
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U2 - 10.1145/2141512.2141530
DO - 10.1145/2141512.2141530
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84858193555
SN - 9781450310512
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 33
EP - 36
BT - CSCW'12 - Proceedings of the ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion
Y2 - 11 February 2012 through 15 February 2012
ER -