Quality of Male and Female Medical Content on English-Language Wikipedia: Quantitative Content Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Wikipedia is the largest free online encyclopedia and the seventh most visited website worldwide, containing >45,000 freely accessible English-language medical articles accessed nearly 1.6 billion times annually. Concerns have been expressed about the balance of content related to biological sex on Wikipedia.

Objective

This study aims to categorize the top 1000 most-read (most popular) English-language Wikipedia health articles for June 2019 according to the relevance of the article topic to each sex and quality.

Methods

In the first step, Wikipedia articles were identified using WikiProject Medicine Popular Pages. These were analyzed on 13 factors, including total views, article quality, and total number of references. In the second step, 2 general medical

SUBMITTER: Faric N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11424011 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature