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Title: Quality of Male versus Female Medical Content on Wikipedia

Authors: Jennifer Dawson, James Heilman, Nusa Faric

Objective: To assess the quality of male versus female health content on English Wikipedia.

Design: Google docs Based on an analysis of Wikipedia's top 1,000 most viewed medication articles in June of 2019.

Results:

Conclusions:

Introduction
Wikipedia includes over 36,000 freely accessible English medical articles that are accessed over 2 billion times per year.(REF # WPMED and REF 2018 viewership) Medical articles include topics pertaining to human health, health organizations, and notable people. Articles are ranked according to their "importance" and also assessed for quality. Wikipedia articles can be edited and created by anyone from around the world and medical editors range from physicians, researchers, policymakers, medical students, and anyone else interested in human health. ADD IN STAT ABOUT % editors that are male or female?? Online health-seeking behaviour... gender-specific? Add in 2-3 sentences. The goal of this study was to determine Wikipedia's coverage of male-related versus female-related health topics and identify any gaps that can be filled.

Methods
Potential Secondary objective to consider- determine if there is a difference between male versus female Wikipedia articles in how high up in a google search the Wikipedia article comes (to explain any differences in viewership)

A list of the 1,000 most read medical articles on Wikipedia for the month of June 2019 was identified using (INSERT DETAILS ABOUT HOW WP:MED IDENTIFIES THESE). The list was reviewed manually by two authors in order to classify the article as primarily or exclusively related to healthcare in males, in females, or in neither. Disagreements were resolved via a video call.

Discussion
Ideas for discussion:

-Reasons for increased content including the number of male versus female medical editors on Wikipedia, health-information seeking behaviours of males versus females.

-Accessibiliity of different topics on internet (i.e., with a google search how high up male versus female related content on Wikipedia comes). For example, are different sex/genders looking in different places on wwww- Wikipedia versus other.

-If we do see differences in male versus female related health articles that are available on Wikipedia, we should also consider the basics of how/when a Wikipedia article is created and why? For example, WikiProject Med volunteers who worked through a priorities list of missing articles, student initiatives to full gaps on Wikipedia, individuals who edit Wikipedia with a particular interest in a field, professionals who work in their fields and volunteer on Wikipedia, etc.

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