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Wikipedia exists as an open source, web-based encyclopedia, and allows anonymous and registered users to edit and create articles. However, previous research has suggested that a skew toward the male gender in the users that do practice editing may exist. Some information on this has suggested that as many as 90% of Wikipedia's editors are male.[1][2] As a trend, this may have a subsequent effect on the topics edited and bias in perspectives offered and new articles created.