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The wiki gender gap and Women’s History Month
Wikipedia’s vision is a world in which everyone has access to the sum of the world’s knowledge, but to do this, we must have representation from all the world’s voices.…
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Yorkshire Editathon championing women in STEM
We kicked off February in collaboration with University of York with another editathon to help close the gender gap on Wikipedia. Focused on Yorkshire women in STEM, the editathon aimed…
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Lucy Crompton-Reid on Feminism and Museums
Wikimedia UK Chief Executive Lucy Crompton-Reid has been published in a new book on Feminism and Museums by Museums Etc.
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Help reduce the #GenderGap and win prizes in the Women in Red World Contest
WikiProject Women in Red is holding a biographical article creation contest throughout the month of November. They aim to create 2000 new biographical articles by the end of the month…
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#100womenwiki – A global Wikipedia editathon in partnership with the BBC
On 8th December 2016, Wikimedia communities around the world held a multi-lingual, multi-location editathon in partnership with the BBC to raise awareness of the gender gap on Wikipedia, improve coverage…
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The Welsh Gender Equilibrium: Welsh becomes the biggest language Wikipedia to achieve gender balance!
In the last few years many editathons have been held in Wales encouraging people to write articles on women. Many new Women editors have been trained at the History Department…
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BBC 100 Women: Is the internet sexist?
BBC to partner with Wikipedia editors in a global 12 hour ‘edit-a-thon’
