Gender Gap In Spanish Wikipedia

Data set used to estimate the number of women editors and their editing practices in the Spanish Wikipedia.

Introductory Paper

Exploring the gender gap in the Spanish Wikipedia: Differences in engagement and editing practices

By J. Minguillón, J. Meneses, E. Aibar, Núria Ferran-Ferrer, Sergi Fàbregues. 2021

Published in PLoS ONE

Variable Information

gender: 0 (unknown), 1 (male), 2 (female)
C_api: gender extracted from WikiMedia API, codes as female / male / unknown
C_man: gender extracted from content coding, coded as 1 (male) / 2 (female) / 3 (unknown)
E_NEds: I index of stratum IJ (0,1,2,3)
E_Bpag: J index of stratum IJ (0,1,2,3)
firstDay: first edition in the Spanish Wikipedia (YYYYMMDDHHMMSS)
lastDay: last edition in the Spanish Wikipedia (YYYYMMDDHHMMSS)
NEds: total number of editions
NDays: number of days (lastDay-firstDay+1)
NActDays: number of days with editions
NPages: number of different pages edited
NPcreated: number of pages created
pagesWomen: number of edits in pages related to women
wikiprojWomen: number of edits in WikiProjects related to women
ns_user: number of edits in namespace user
ns_wikipedia: number of edits in namespace wikipedia
ns_talk: number of edits in namespace talk
ns_userTalk: number of edits in namespace user talk
ns_content: number of edits in content pages
weightIJ: correcting weight for stratum IJ
NIJ: number of elements in stratum IJ