An analysis of homophobia on vandalism at Wikipedia

Wikipedia is currently one of largest source of digital information. With billion page views per month worldwide, the free digital encyclopedia is based on collaborative editing, in which any user, even anonymously, can edit and include content. Although such content is always evaluated by several users daily and also by more experienced ones, vandalism is still common, especially on pages with sensitive information. In this paper we evaluated the vandalism found on pages of LGBT computer scientists, comparing them with scientists who are not part of this minority and analyzing the types of vandalism found. Thus, this paper analyzes how being part of a minority can influence relationships in the digital society.