Examining potential mechanisms underlying the Wikipedia gender gap through a collaborative editing task

Highlights：

• Examined mechanisms underlying Wikipedia gender gap using a collaborative editing task.

• Women edited more overall; men trended towards editing more in a Wikipedia-like condition.

• An anonymous peer editor was more often viewed as male.

• Women viewed the anonymous editor as more critical than a gender-neutral peer.

• Visible female Wikipedians and constructive feedback may alleviate the gender gap.