Rishab Aiyer Ghosh 's Groups, UNU-MERIT, has done a large survery of wikipedia readers and contributors (130'000 completed surveys). Among the key (preliminary) results with regard to gender are:
- Readers and contributors are on average in their mid-twenties, and predominantly male (75%)
- Women, with a share of 25% in all respondents, are more strongly
represented among readers (32%) and less strongly represented among
contributors (13%).
Source: Wikimedia Blog, April 16, 2009
A short discussion of these results at salon.com
