Wikipedia, the “free encyclopedia that anyone can edit,” has more than 3.5 million articles in English covering nearly every subject under the sun. Every day, hundreds of thousands of people go there to add information or create new pages (the site offers straightforward instructions).

Yet despite the site’s openness, the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs Wikipedia, collaborated on a study of Wikipedia’s contributor base and discovered that it was barely 13 percent women; the average age of a contributor was in the mid-20s, according to the study by a joint center of the United Nations University and Maastricht University. The Wikipedia Foundation has set a goal to raise the share of female contributors to 25 percent by 2015.

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