Sri Lanka, March 17 -- Do men and women look at the Internet with different eyes? Is the Internet inherently biased? Web's promise of broad-based access looked far-flung judging by inequalities that had sprung up?
Most social networks like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Jezebel seemed popular with women while Wikipedia the free encyclopedia showed an 85 percent male participation. That disparity - a statistical impossibility - could not be fathomed.
Role
* Facebook, Twitter, My Space popular with females
* Wikipedia popular with males
* Facebook tone more civil
* Internet search engines depositories of knowledge
* Wikipedia helps construct, share knowledge
Wikipedia's over 3.5 million articles in English were fed by more men 85 to 15 percent even though there was unrestricted access to edit articles - easy instructions for editing were provided. The Wikipedia Foundation seemed determined to increase female participation to 25 percent by 2015.
What accounted for this imbalance? The domination by male-editors inputting Wikipedia site came to be extensively scrutinized. Why such preponderance occurred looked a little baffling.
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