this led her to writing entries
like jane austen and
shakespeare.
>> i and one other person worked
on the jane austen article.
it's a pretty interesting
dichotomy to me.
they read austen all the time
but they don't go to wikipedia
to edit it.
>> reporter: one example noted
by a media columnist in 2011 is
the-think descriptions in
wikipedia about the sopranos,
compared to the much shorter
entry for the female "sex in the
city."
it became clear when she
revealed her gender after
writing anonymously for seven
years.
what happened when you
identified yourself as a woman
editor?
>> there was a big change in how
people treated me and how they
viewed the information i put on
wikipedia.
there were a lot more questions
about what i was adding, a lot