No significant gender or age bias found among educators using Wikipedia assignments, unlike the Wikipedia editing community¶
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q2 i? Over 56% of surveyed educators were female, contrasting with the roughly 20% female share of Wikipedia contributors. → Shani Evenstein Sigalov 2025
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Shani Evenstein Sigalov 2025¶
Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Piotr Konieczny. (2025). Writing for the greater good: what do educators think about using Wikipedia as a teaching tool? Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-025-10505-x
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Discussion section of the 222-educator survey. The article reports the respondent gender majority (over 56% female) in the findings and contrasts it with the documented gender gap among Wikipedia contributors, where only about 20% of contributors are female; no inferential test statistic is printed.
"Our findings reveal that Wikipedia assignments are embraced by a diverse group of educators, with no significant evidence of gender or age bias."
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Related Claims¶
- Most educators report positive teaching experiences with Wikipedia assignments and intend to continue using them — related
- Wikipedia editing reproduces inequalities in editors, topics and credible knowledge, but feminist edit-a-thons can redress cultural injustice — related
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No significant gender or age bias found among educators using Wikipedia assignments, unlike the Wikipedia editing community |
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No significant gender or age bias found among educators using Wikipedia assignments, unlike the Wikipedia editing community |
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