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- To truly reflect the complexity and richness of the human experience, it is essential that Wikipedia actively engages and includes more content about and contributions from women — cis, transgender, and non-binary — from around the world.
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Mar 8, 2024 · Wikipedia Needs More Women. New campaign from the nonprofit behind Wikipedia invites everyone to contribute to women’s history. In 1915, Alice Ball, an African American chemist, developed the most effective treatment for leprosy the world had ever seen.
- Closing the gender gap: Women in Red’s efforts to add more ...
Yet, of nearly 2 million biographies on Wikipedia, only...
- Closing the gender gap: Women in Red’s efforts to add more ...
To truly reflect the complexity and richness of the human experience, it is essential that Wikipedia actively engages and includes more content about and contributions from women — cis, transgender, and non-binary — from around the world.
Mar 1, 2023 · Yet, of nearly 2 million biographies on Wikipedia, only around 400,000 are about women presently. Closing the gap still has a ways to go — thankfully people like Rosie and projects like Women in Red exist.
- Anyone — Including You — Can Edit Wikipedia
- There Are A Number of Different Ways to Contribute to Wikipedia
- Here’s How to Add A Biography
- Wikipedia Needs Skills Other Than Writing and Editing
You’ll notice edit links on each section of a Wikipedia page (they’re quite small, and they take the form of the word [edit] appearing right after the title of each section). Those are there for everyone to click on. You do not need to know much about how the site works in order to correct or update an existing page; it’s set up for anonymous editi...
If you want to commit to adding several new pages a week — great, have at it! But please know that you don’t need to doing that much if you’re pressed for time. “Go to a page that already exists, and just update it in some way,” Wade recommends. “So if there’s someone who has just won an award or that you’ve just heard on a radio show, go to that p...
First, the person in question shouldn’t be connected to you. No matter how great your boss’s or friend’s achievements, you shouldn’t be creating their page. “It’s really hard to write impartially about those kinds of people,” says Wade. Once you’ve picked a person, make sure they meet Wikipedia’s notability guidelines, because not everyone can have...
Wikipedia pages need images, and they must be free to use. Even if you don’t have a page in mind that you want to create or contribute to, just adding your own images to Wiki Commons— which is Wikipedia’s media library — and tagging them properly means that they can then be used by other editors. “Not only are women underrepresented in biographies ...
The authors found that women with biographies on Wikipedia are slightly more notable than men on Wikipedia, and proposed three possible explanations for future research: 1) that editors are more likely to write about their own gender, 2) that men are more likely to create articles about themselves, and 3) that external sources make women less ...
Jul 30, 2024 · This Researcher Is on a Crusade to Correct Wikipedia’s Gender Imbalance. Physicist Jess Wade explains the importance of recognizing female scientists on Wikipedia. She’s created more than 2,000...
Jul 13, 2021 · On Wikipedia, gender inequality is hiding in plain sight. Of more than a million and a half biographies - that's on the English-language version - fewer than 19% are about women.
