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- A New York Times article cited this Wikimedia Foundation collaboration, which indicated that fewer than 13% of contributors to Wikipedia are women.
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Mar 1, 2023 · Nearly eight years later, Women in Red has helped tremendously in closing the gender gap. Their hard work and perseverance have significantly increased the number of women’s biographies on English Wikipedia, adding over 200,000 new articles. This enormous contribution has led the number of women’s biographies to increase from 15% to 19.47%.
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To truly reflect the complexity and richness of the human...
- Wikipedia Needs More Women
Mar 8, 2023 · The most recent data from 2020 shows that newcomers to Wikipedia editing are more likely to be women than their “tenured” counterparts who are longstanding contributors.
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In 2022, an article in VICE magazine detailed how British scientist Jessica Wade has created more than 1,700 Wikipedia entries on women scientists since 2017, as many women whose contributions have gone unnoticed.
Mar 8, 2024 · 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.
Apr 30, 2015 · During this campaign, there were a lot of questions about the empirical basis for the statement that women are underrepresented among Wikipedia editors, and in particular about the estimate given in the campaign’s invitation banners (which stated that less than 20% of contributors are female).
Jul 30, 2024 · So despite women making up 51 percent of the global population only about 19 percent of the biographies on English language Wikipedia are about women. And that's not just women...
Jun 27, 2021 · For example, English-language Wikipedia contains more than 1.5 million biographies about notable writers, inventors, and academics, but less than 19% of these biographies are about women. To try and improve these statistics, activists host “edit-a-thons” to increase the visibility of notable women.
