ABSTRACT Commitment to a neutral point of view is a pillar of Wikipedia culture. Despite a strong culture, the open nature of the community presents challenges for cultural assimilation. Central contributors who make up the community’s core engage in activism to combat traditional forms of bias. However, peripheral contributors may not adopt or adhere to the community’s cultural values and may reflect the very bias the community attempts to combat. These differences create tensions between central and peripheral contributors. Peripheral contributors are likely to contribute traditional types of information bias (e.g., bias against women). In response, central contributors may overcorrect in ways that reverse traditional biases. We compare gender bias on female and male CEO profiles and find evidence of bias that advantages women and disadvantages men. While peripheral contributors may dominate early in the life cycle of core-periphery structured open collaboration communities—due to the volume of contributions—the core dominates in the long term through sustained, systematic activism. Our results suggest that a balance of activity from central and peripheral contributors results in content with the most neutral point of view.

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共同创造社区中的性别偏见拔河：维基百科上的核心-外围紧张局势

摘要 对中立观点的承诺是维基百科文化的支柱。尽管有强大的文化，但社区的开放性对文化同化提出了挑战。构成社区核心的中央贡献者积极参与对抗传统形式的偏见。然而，外围贡献者可能不会采用或坚持社区的文化价值观，并且可能反映了社区试图打击的偏见。这些差异造成中央和外围贡献者之间的紧张关系。外围贡献者可能会造成传统类型的信息偏见（例如，对女性的偏见）。作为回应，中心贡献者可能会以扭转传统偏见的方式过度纠正。我们比较了女性和男性 CEO 档案中的性别偏见，并找到了对女性有利而男性不利的偏见证据。虽然外围贡献者可能在核心-外围结构化开放协作社区的生命周期早期占据主导地位——由于贡献的数量——核心通过持续、系统的行动主义在长期内占据主导地位。我们的结果表明，中心和外围贡献者的活动平衡会产生具有最中立观点的内容。