If history is written by Wikipedia contributors then it will likely skew toward a male perspective seeing as how just 13% of the "living" encyclopedia's contributors are female. Why does anyone devote
their time to the service? Altruism, according to a study by the Wikimedia Foundation of some 54,000 respondents. Why so few women? The creators of the study don't seem to have an answer.
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