This is definitely true for me personally.
The public is increasingly going to Wikipedia as a research source: According to a recent Pew survey, the percentage of all American adults who use the site to look for information increased to 42 percent in May 2010, from 25 percent in February 2007. This translates to 53 percent of adults who regularly use the Internet.
What I don’t do is contribute to wikis. Why?
I don’t consider myself “the expert” on much of anything and even if I did, I’m not sure I’d have the patience to sit down and clean up everybody else’s misinformation. I am constantly AMAZED at how much time my C. will spend “telling people on the internet that they are wrong.” The same people, over and over again. I am convinced a lot of insomniac men sit around in their underwear at night, talking (typing) shiz to one another. I would rather read than yell at my computer – call me crazy.
Do you contribute? Because now I’m thinking that more of us ladies should do so.
About a year ago, the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs Wikipedia, collaborated on a study of Wikipedia’s contributor base and discovered that it was barely 13 percent women; the average age of a contributor was in the mid-20s, according to the study by a joint center of the United Nations University and Maastricht University.
Consider and discuss:
…. the disparity between two popular series on HBO: The entry on “Sex and the City” includes only a brief summary of every episode, sometimes two or three sentences; the one on “The Sopranos” includes lengthy, detailed articles on each episode.
Is a category with five Mexican feminist writers impressive, or embarrassing when compared with the 45 articles on characters in “The Simpsons”?
Born Curious 
Sometimes I’ll see a typo or a grammar error (“your” rather than “you’re” or something similar) that will piss me off enough to make a quick edit.