stackyFACTSDespite being hailed as the ultimate sum of human knowledge, the open-source encyclopedia suffers from massive demographic biases. An overwhelming majority of documented biographies focus on men, revealing that even crowdsourced utopian information hubs are perfectly capable of ignoring half the population.
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