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A 2007 study by researchers from Dartmouth College found that „anonymous and infrequent contributors to Wikipedia … are as reliable a source of knowledge as those contributors who register with the site“. In particular, it commonly serves as a thunder empire target knowledge base for the entity linking problem, which is then called „wikification“, and to the related problem of word-sense disambiguation. The Dilbert comic strip from May 8, 2009, features a character supporting an improbable claim by saying, „Give me ten minutes and then check Wikipedia.“ In July 2009, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a comedy series called Bigipedia, which was set on a website which was a parody of Wikipedia. Andrew Lih and Andrew Brown both maintain that editing Wikipedia with smartphones is difficult, and this discourages new potential contributors. Her exclusion from Wikipedia led to accusations of sexism, but Corinne Purtill writing for Quartz argued that „it’s also a pointed lesson in the hazards of gender bias in media, and of the broader consequences of underrepresentation.“ Purtill attributes the issue to the gender bias in media coverage. The Wikimedia Foundation’s privacy policy states, „we believe that you shouldn’t have to provide personal information to participate in the free knowledge movement“, and states that „personal information“ may be shared „For legal reasons“, „To Protect You, Ourselves & Others“, or „To Understand & Experiment“.W 53
A 2011 study conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota indicated that male and female editors focus on different coverage topics. The Economist reported that the number of contributors with an average of five or more edits per month was relatively constant since 2008 for Wikipedia in other languages, at approximately 42,000 editors within narrow seasonal variances of about 2,000 editors up or down. Taha Yasseri of the University of Oxford examined editing conflicts and their resolution in a 2013 study.