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Re:Women make up only 13% of Wikipedia contributors by kqr2 on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @05:13AM (#799767)
To me, it would be more interesting to see what % of Wikipedia's content was created by women since not everyone contributes equally.

According to this post, 50% of Wikipedia's edits are done by just 0.7% of users:

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia

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Re:Women make up only 13% of Wikipedia contributors by roundsquare on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @06:13AM (#799818)
I'd also be interested in hours spent. E.g. are women spending more time in order to create a better article (better written, more research, etc..)?
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