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Wikipedia needs knowledge from all languages and cultures. The internet has become the default for accessing information—women, people of color, and the global south remain underrepresented. We invite you to help correct history.
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Apr 8, 2014 · Women make up only 9% of Wikipedia editors. Educators say raising that number is key to improving the online encyclopaedia, and have started campaigns to do just that.
- Get the facts: Did you know only 18% of the content in all Wikimedia projects, including biographies on Wikipedia, are about women? We believe one of the first steps in solving the gender gap is through understanding the problem.
- Listen to a podcast: What causes the gender gap on Wikipedia in the first place? Tune into the “dot com” podcast to learn about some of the biggest challenges and hear from volunteers working to fix them.
- Watch a panel discussion: While the gender gap problem exists on Wikipedia, the solution requires changes outside of it. Leaders in academia, journalism, and the nonprofit sector discuss how we can work together for change.
- Read an article: Glamour interviews four amazing volunteers who are writing themselves into history. Read how they first started with editing articles on Wikipedia and how they are now making the online encyclopedia more equitable, one edit at a time.
Apr 25, 2019 · For online communities like Wikipedia, the internet’s missing women help contribute to our gender gap—both in our content, which is biased towards male biographies, and in our contributors, which are overwhelmingly male.
Mar 11, 2021 · Organised through the Women’s Classical Committee, the #WCCWiki initiative brings together people of all genders, in person and at training sessions, to create and improve the representation of women online.
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Mar 16, 2018 · But libraries, museums, individual editors and the Wikimedia Foundation itself continue to make efforts to improve gender representation on sites such as Wikipedia.
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The Foundation owns and operates 11 wiki-based content projects that are written and governed by volunteer editors. They include, by launch date: Wikipedia – online encyclopedia; Wiktionary – online dictionary and thesaurus; Wikibooks – a collection of books, mostly textbooks; Wikiquote – a collection of quotations; Wikivoyage ...