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WikiProject Women in Red
Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR), a WikiProject whose objective is to turn "redlinks" into blue ones within the project scope. The project scope includes women -real and fictional- their biographies and their works, broadly construed. In November 2014, only just over 15% of the English Wikipedia's biographies were on women. Since then, we have managed to improve the situation slightly, bringing the figure up to 16.38%, as of 7 August 2016. But that means only 226,706 of our 1,383,736 biographies are about women. Not impressed? "Content gender gap" is a form of systemic bias, and WiR addresses it in a positive way. We do this by hosting edit-a-thons on various topics, and socializing the scope and objective via social media. We invite you to take part whenever and however you wish. There is no requirement to participate in everything we do, or to even sign up.
The former Announcements page is being kept for editing history.
If the objective and scope of our project interest you, please join in the discussion on our talkpage or jump in and create articles. You might like to start by participating in the editathon on Wikipedia and United Nations Women Project until August 12 or those on Indigenous Women and Polar Women for the whole of August, in addition to the ongoing Women Scientists. We warmly welcome you.
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| Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's representation on all language Wikipedias (biographies, women's works, women's issues, broadly construed). Did you know that, according to Humaniki, only 19.98% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed? Content gender gap is a form of systemic bias, and this is what WiR addresses. We invite you to participate, whenever you like, in whatever way suits you and your schedule. Editors of all genders are equally and warmly welcome at Women in Red! |
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[edit]The articles created for any month, including the current month, can be displayed by clicking on one of the months in the archive box.
We track the articles we create each month. Reports bot updates these lists automatically, but you can manually add and annotate entries. The bot will remove non-existent pages. More details about the bot. Our metrics talkpage is here: Metrics talkpage
The evolving list for this month (see Archives box) is created by the bot which lists new women's biographies on the basis of their female gender on Wikidata. At present, the bot does not list women's works, associations or related articles but you are encouraged to add these to the list manually. A WiR Wikidata page provides information on how you can help ensure WiR metrics are up-to-date.
The graph shows the number of articles created each month. The apparent decrease for the current month reflects the number of articles created up to today's date. Only data on completed months indicate overall progress.
For personal metrics on how many articles you've created about women, see this tool.
If you want to measure gender diversity in a given Wikipedia article, use this tool.
Totals at a glance
[edit]| Year | Portion if applicable |
Total | Daily average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 Jul – 31 Dec | 11,711 | 70 |
| 2016 | 28,399 | 77 | |
| 2017 | 28,271 | 77 | |
| 2018 | 27,323 | 75 | |
| 2019 | 27,207 | 75 | |
| 2020 | 30,119 | 82 | |
| 2021 | 26,780 | 73 | |
| 2022 | 18,893 | 52 | |
| 2023 | 17,925 | 49 | |
| 2024 | |||
| Grand total | 216,628 |
Updated: Rosiestep (talk) 17:31, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
Summary of Women in Red statistics from main page
[edit]| Date | Women | Bios | Percentage | Increase in % for year |
Increase in Women for year |
Increase in Bios for year |
Percentage for year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30-Sep-2015 | 205,814 | 1,299,047 | 15.84% | ||||
| 1-Jan-2017 | 240,445 | 1,432,907 | 16.78% | 0.94% | 34,631 | 133,860 | 25.87% |
| 1-Jan-2018 | 262,099 | 1,509,348 | 17.37% | 0.58% | 21,654 | 76,441 | 28.33% |
| 31-Dec-2018 | 279,959 | 1,573,341 | 17.79% | 0.43% | 17,860 | 63,993 | 27.91% |
| 30-Dec-2019 | 305,072 | 1,678,323 | 18.18% | 0.38% | 25,113 | 104,982 | 23.92% |
| 11-Jan-2021 | 332,622 | 1,778,126 | 18.71% | 0.53% | 27,550 | 99,803 | 27.60% |
| 3-Jan-2022 | 356,439 | 1,865,516 | 19.11% | 0.40% | 23,817 | 87,390 | 27.25% |
| 2-Jan-2023 | 373,263 | 1,921,359 | 19.43% | 0.32% | 16,824 | 55,843 | 30.13% |
| 1-Jan-2024 | 390,207 | 1,978,991 | 19.72% | 0.29% | 16,944 | 57,632 | 29.40% |
| Total | 184,393 | 679,944 | 27.12% |
Note: the September 2015 figure was reported here.
Updated by: TSventon (talk) 22:04, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
Further background on metrics
[edit]As a result of figures presented by Humaniki, we keep posting on the main Women in Red page the percentage of women's biographies on the English version of Wikipedia. Increases are steady but marginal: for example from July 2022 to July 2023, the percentage has risen from around 19.3% to around 19.6%.
Thanks to an analysis presented by Andrew Gray on the WIR talk page, it certainly looks as if the number of men and women involved in sports has a significant influence on the statistics for women. A detailed account of Gray's work is presented in "Gender and BLPs on Wikipedia, redux", which he published on 2 August 2023.
The two lists below show that biographies of living people (BLPs) born in recent years are approximately 50% female if data on all categories of athletes are excluded. By contrast, the equivalent overall figures (including athletes) are only around 25%. As a result, biographies of very large numbers of male sportspeople seem to be responsible for the huge difference. Andrew Gray's detailed lists below document how figures for BLPs by year of birth have evolved over the years:
Overall development of BLPs since the 1920s for all biographies
- Missing birth year BLPs – 150,574, of which 53,355 female – 35.4%
- 1920s birth BLPs – 5,096, of which 1,325 female – 26.0%
- 1930s birth BLPs – 39,055, of which 7,086 female – 18.1%
- 1940s birth BLPs – 95,602, of which 18,495 female – 19.3%
- 1950s birth BLPs – 128,518, of which 27,172 female – 21.1%
- 1960s birth BLPs – 145,300, of which 33,390 female – 23.0%
- 1970s birth BLPs – 150,539, of which 37,893 female – 25.2%
- 1980s birth BLPs – 171,072, of which 42,880 female – 25.1%
- 1990s birth BLPs – 150,880, of which 36,944 female – 24.5%
- 2000s birth BLPs – 30,042, of which 7,542 female – 25.1%
Development of BLPs since the 1920s for biographies excluding athletes
If we discount all athletes using the infobox method, the results are:
- Missing birth year BLPs – 140,177, of which 51,021 female – 36.4%
- 1920s birth BLPs – 4,321, of which 1,228 female – 28.4%
- 1930s birth BLPs – 28,978, of which 6,161 female – 21.2%
- 1940s birth BLPs – 73,095, of which 16,566 female – 22.7%
- 1950s birth BLPs – 95,893, of which 23,644 female – 24.7%
- 1960s birth BLPs – 96,175, of which 26,632 female – 27.8%
- 1970s birth BLPs – 81,682, of which 27,562 female – 33.7%
- 1980s birth BLPs – 58,078, of which 24,816 female – 42.7%
- 1990s birth BLPs – 23,281, of which 11,754 female – 50.5%
- 2000s birth BLPs – 2,850, of which 1,539 female – 54.0%
 | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
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2024
[edit]- Wikipedia Donations Go Toward Embedding Feminism And Racial Justice In World’s Largest Encyclopedia, by Robert Schmad, Daily Caller (not considered reliable), 23 September 2024
- Niagara resident named Wikimedian of the Year, by Richard Hutton, Thorold Today, 19 August 2024
- "This Researcher Is on a Crusade to Correct Wikipedia’s Gender Imbalance", by Katie Hafner and Sophie McNulty, Scientific American, 30 July 2024
- "Less than 20 per cent of Wikipedia bios are on women. These Wikipedians want to change that.", by Olivia Cleal, Women's Agenda, 30 July 2024
- "‘Women in Red’: PennWest prof helps close gender gap in Wikipedia entries", by Paul Paterra, Observer-Reporter, 8 July 2024
- "This Canadian Non-Profit Is Helping To Fix Wikipedia’s Diversity Gap", by Maureen Halushak, Chatelaine, 17 June 2024
- "Wikipedia is also affected by the gender gap", Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 3 May 2024
- " Georgetown hosts Wikipedia edit-a-thon, harnessing anger into action", by Julia Vasilj, The Georgetown Voice, 14 April 2024
- "Wikipedia Needs More Women: Bridging The Gender Gap In Knowledge Representation", Africa.com, 5 April 2024
- "Wikimedia Foundation launches ‘Wikipedia Needs More Women’ campaign" by Josephine Agbonkhese, Vanguard, 8 March 2024
- "On International Women’s Day, Wikimedia Foundation celebrates efforts in Africa to improve gender equity on Wikipedia", The Sun, 8 March 2024
- "Int'l Women's Day: Wikimedia launches 'Wikipedia needs more women' campaign", Business Standard, 8 March 2024
- "Wikipedia needs more women. And India can help bridge this gender gap" by Anusha Alikhan, The Print, 8 March 2024
- "The Guardian view on Wikipedia’s female volunteers: a hive heroism that changes history", editorial, The Guardian, 8 March 2024, also in connection with Lucy Moore
- "UK academic’s Wikipedia project raises profile of women around the world", by Robyn Vinter on Wikipedian Lucy Moore, The Guardian, 5 March 2024
- "Review highlights gender gap on Wikipedia", by University of Barcelone, Phys.org, 5 March 2024
2023
[edit]- "What a Wikipedia page can do for women in STEM", by Olivia Clear, womensagenda.com.au, 11 October 2023
- "‘Why are they not on Wikipedia?’: Dr Jess Wade’s mission for recognition for unsung scientists", by Donna Ferguson, The Observer, 1 October 2023
- "Some Things I Like About the Expanding Wikipedia Universe", by Hilda Bastian, Absolutely Maybe (PLOS) blog, 2 August 2023
- "Bestselling author Kate Mosse urges budding historians and writers to add more biographies of women to Wikipedia", by Fiona Parker, Daily Mail, 3 July 2023
- "The British physicist making women scientists visible online", article about Jess Wade by Anna Cuenca, Phys Org, 20 April 2023
- "Social Scientists Can’t Ignore the Power of Wikipedia—or Its Systemic Biases", by Mariah John-Leighton and Hannah Jane Pearson, London School of Economics and Political Science, 6 April 2023
- "Wheres Russo?" Sky Sports profile Lewes FC including Women in Red Barnstar winner James Boyes 31 March 2023
- "Closing Wikipedia’s Gender Gap, One Edit at a Time", by Sara Norberg, Tufts Now, 27 March 2023
- Nature asks 6 to comment on their plans for International Women's Day including Jess Wade.
- "Majority of Wikipedia editors are still men - so how is the online encyclopaedia addressing the issue?", Evening Standard, 8 March 2023.
- "Lewes FC is delighted that our own volunteer club photographer James Boyes has received a ‘Barnstar’ award from Women in Red, and is indeed the only person to receive one in 2022."
2022
[edit]- This Australian has written 400 profiles of deserving women on Wikipedia. Here's why she's 'obsessed', by Rayane Tanner, SBSNews, 26 October 2022
- "Who Is Jessica Wade? Physicist On A Mission To Diversify Wikipedia Science Profiles", SheThePeople, 18 October 2022
- "She’s made 1,750 Wikipedia bios for female scientists who haven’t gotten their due", by Sydney Page, Washington Post, 17 October 2022
- "This 33-year-old made more than 1,000 Wikipedia bios for unknown female scientists" by Timothy Harper, NBC News, 16 October 2022
- I joined a Wikipedia Editathon to #ChangeTheStory and address the Wikipedia Gender Gap by Meg Kneafsey of CARE, 1 August 2022
- "The problem with Wikipedia? There aren’t enough women" by Helen Pankhurst, copied to Yahoo!news from the Independent, 5 July 2022
- "Jess Wade on Wikipedia and work-life balance" by Kerri Jensen, c&en, 21 June 2022
- "How academic institutions can help to close Wikipedia’s gender gap" by Farah Qaiser, Maryam Zaringhalam, Francesca Bernardi, Jess Wade & Emily Pinckney, Nature, 23 May 2022
- "What's with Wikipedia and women?" by Laurel Oldach, ASBMBTODAY, 8 March 2022
- "UMN Morris Intro Class Gets Wikified" by Sue Dieter, University of Minnesota Morris, 7 February 2022
2021
[edit]- “You Have To See It To Be It”: Missing Female Role Models and What We Can Do About It by Amy Diehl, Ms. Magazine, 27 December 2021
- Time Magazine Named Steven Pruitt One of the Most Influential People on the Internet–Just For His Wikipedia Edits, by Jesse Rifkin, Northern Virginia Magazine, 24 November 2021
- Wikipedia editor 'warriors' fight lies, bigotry and even Nazis, RTL Today, attributed to AFP, 17 November 2021.--Ipigott (talk) 11:33, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
- Feminists fight ... 24 hour editathon Well researched piece covering Carol W, Mahwish, On This Day She and Roger. 15 October 2021
- Discussion of the issues and talk prior to AdaWiki24.org (WIR-211), comments by Roger Bamkin
- Big Tech's Big Tobacco moment. Despite the title, today's Axios podcast introduced by Niala Boodhoo includes comments by Roger Bamkin on today's 24-hour ADA marathon, 12 October 2021
- Global 24-hour Wikipedia "Edit-a-thon" Kicks Off In New Zealand, Scoop.co.nz, 29 September 2021
- "Member-Led Effort Will Bring Histories of Women, People of Color in Design to Wikipedia", by Lisa Boylan, Associations Now, 24 September 2021, on cooperation between AIGA and WikiEdu
- "Why we need more biographies of women journalists on Wikipedia" by Marcela Kunova, Jounalism.co.uk, 23 September 2021
- KCPL’s new Wikipedian in Residence gives us the tools to edit our own stories, by Lily Wulfemeyer in The Pitch, 13 September 2021
- Wikipediaan halutaan lisää naisia – sisällöstä paistaa miehinen näkökulma: "Hänestä puhuttiin vain miehensä rouvana" by MTV uutiset in Finnish, 26 April 2021 (More women are wanted on Wikipedia - the content has a masculine perspective: "She was refered as Mrs John Smith")
- Tyttöjen ja poikien kasvatus näkyy jopa Wikipediassa, sanoo Jenni Janakka – ja kannustaa naisia hylkäämään täydellisyydentavoittelun by MeNaiset in Finnish, 26 April 2021 (The upbringing of girls and boys can even be seen on Wikipedia, says Jenni Janakka - and encourages women to abandon the pursuit of perfection)
- "Guinness and Wikipedia to tackle rugby gender disparity" by Sport Industry Group, 16 April 2021
- "Wikipedia gives a picture distorted by men" by Faye Welch, Commentary Box Sports, 12 April 2021
- "Challenging the massive gender imbalance on Wikipedia. Hundreds of dedicated volunteers are defying the sexists to write women back into history." by Joshua Zitser, The Insider, 11 April 2021
- "How Wikipedia is fighting the gender gap, one biography at a time" by Rahel Philipose, The Indian Express, 9 April 2021
- "Women Are Writing Themselves Back Into History on Wikipedia", by Meghan McDonough, NBC LX, 31 March 2021
- "Award-winning professor writes forgotten women into tech-history" by Pernille Bjørn and Michael Skov Jensen, EurekAlert, 11 March 2021
- "Wikipedia is a man – and he's a bit narrow-minded", by Sally Frydenlund, University of Copenhagen, 1 March 2021
- "Only 20% of Wikipedia’s Biographies Are About Women — #WikiGap Wants to Change That": Eric Luth {Eric Luth (WMSE) reports on progress since 2018 and calls on everyone to "tell the missing stories of women on Wikipedia". Reported by Leah Rodriguez, Global Citizen, 8 March 2021
- The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History, by Jenny Singer, Glamour, 26 January 2021
- Wikipedia at 20: Why it often overlooks stories of women in history, by Tamar Carroll and Lara Nicosia, The Conversation, originally published 16 March 2018, updated 14 January 2021
- One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia, interview by Emily Wong on NPR, 6 January 2021
2020
[edit]- Twitter Wants to Use Wikipedia to Help Determine Who Gets a Blue Checkmark by Stephen Harrison, Slate, 4 December 2020
- What We Know And Can Agree On: Wikipedia At 20 by Simon Garfield, Esquire, 20 October 2020
- Unraveling Wikipedia’s Mystery Over Women’s History by David B. Grinber, Good Men Project, 8 July 2020
- The people solving mysteries during lockdown by Frank Swain, BBC Future, 15 June 2020
- Wikipedia is a world built by and for men. Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight is changing that. by Rachael Allen The Lily 11 April 2020
- Filling in the gender gap on Wikipedia, by Kate Jacobson, Fortune, 11 March 2020
- International Women's Day: Closing the online gender gap, BBC News, 8 March 2020, emphasis on Wales.
- Cincinatti radio covers Women in Red work at Earlham College March 2?
- Everything’s on Wikipedia. Misinformation, too. But Wiki says its editing process quickly shuts that down., article by Molly Wood, Marketplace, 12 February 2020
- The Sum of What? On Gender, Visibility, and Wikipedia, by Kirsten Menger-Anderson, Undark, 2 February 2020
- Scott Polar Research Institute's exhib features the 100 Wikibomb women from Women in Antactica, 15 January 2020
- How Wikipedia’s volunteer army combats misinformation in the 'post-truth' era, article by Sarah Leeson in PRI, 16 January 2020
- The Sum of What? On Gender, Visibility, and Wikipedia, article by Kirsten Menger-Anderson, Undark, 1 January 2020
2019
[edit]- Physicist embroiled in sexism row with Wikipedia after female scientists she wrote profiles for 'not notable enough', article by Phoebe Southworth in The Telegraph, 7 December 2019
- "Most Wikipedia profiles are about men - these women in Australia are hoping to change that". SBS News. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
- “Inclusipedia” brings underrepresented people of Boulder to light, article by Isabella Fincher, CuiIndependent, 25 May 2019
- Seeking Equality—One Biography at a Time, Kochi Post, 8 May 2019, Ardra Manasi
- Male scientists are often cast as lone geniuses. Here’s what happened when a woman was., Vox article by Brian Resnick, 16 April 2019.
- Wikipedia Isn’t Officially a Social Network. But the Harassment Can Get Ugly, by Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 8 April 2019.
- Why we need to address the digital divide if we want to foster more democratic societies, OuiShare
- Why policymakers need to tackle the digital gender gap, Open Global Rights
- Students inspired by York University Libraries make impressive edits to Wikipedia, by Katrina Cohen-Palacios, yFile: York University News, 26 March 2019
- RIT Libraries hosts Women on Wikipedia Edit-a-thon March 22, by Susan Gawlowicz, Rochester Institute of Technology News, 21 March 2019
- Event at RIT aims to improve online gender equity, by Beth Adams, WXXI News, 19 March 2019
- Wiki women: Volunteers add female and non-binary artists to Wikipedia, CBC, 15 March 2019
- Boulder Group is Rewriting History One Wikipedia Article at a Time, by Daliah Singer, 5280, 15 March 2019
- Libraries’ day-long Wiki Edit-a-thon to help shrink gender gap, by Jill Shockey, Penn State News, 15 March 2019
- Cornell Celebrates International Women’s Day with Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, by Chantal Raguin, The Cornell Daily Sun, 10 March 2019
- Edit-a-thon aims to give recognition to more women, arts on Wikipedia, by Alexsandra Coltun Schneider, Daily Bruin, 11 March 2019
- ICA holds ‘Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon’ to increase female, gender non-binary representation online, by Jennifer Suryadjaja, The Daily Free Press, 7 March 2019 Wikipedia ‘Edit-a-Thon’ translates Spanish entries on Latin artists], by Jesenia De Moya Correa, The Inquirer, 6 March 2019
- Fine Arts Library to Host Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, University of Arkansas News, 4 March 2019
- Wikipedia ‘Edit-a-Thon’ translates Spanish entries on Latin artists, by Jesenia De Moya Correa, The Inquirer, 6 March 2019
- UNC libraries give feminism a voice with Wikipedia edit-a-thon, by Ava Eucker, The Daily Tar Heel, 3 May 2019
- UNLV hosts feminist 'edit-a-thon' on Wikipedia, by Jesse Stiller, CampusReform, 26 February 2019
- Women scientists being whitewashed from Wikipedia, by Ewan McAndrew, Siobhan O’Connor, Dr Sara Thomas and Dr Alice White in The Scotsman, 12 March 2019
- Volunteers work to bolster Canadian women's biographies on Wikipedia, by Paul Chiasson, the Canadian Press, 8 March 2019
- The Royal Society are shouting out diversity champions on National Science Day - and we feature - Victuallers (talk) 15:21, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
- Happy 18th birthday, Wikipedia. Let’s celebrate the Internet’s good grown-up., by Stephen Harrison, The Washington Post, 14 January 2019
- From Chinese spies to award-winning geologists, we’re making women visible on Wikipedia, by Ewan McAndrew, Sioban O'Connor, Sara Thomas and Alice White, New Statesman, 8 January 2019
2018
[edit]Mozilla Internet Health Report, Who's Online and Who Isn't
- I'm not quoting enough women, The New York Times
- Female scholars are marginalised on Wikipedia because it's written by men, by Victoria Leonard in The Guardian, 12 December 2018.--Ipigott (talk) 16:21, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
- Dr Sara Thomas gave this interview from one of the Edinburgh meet ups on Women in Red - She starts talking at 12 minutes. Listen here Victuallers (talk) 17:42, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
- If we claim to talk about scientists then we need a reliable source like "Nature". Oh here we go! Why we’re editing women scientists onto Wikipedia by Jess Wade & Maryam Zaringhalam, 14 August 2018 Victuallers (talk) 07:40, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
- Physicist highlighting female scientists, one Wikipedia entry at a time, by By Meera Jagannathan, Moneyish, New York Post, Describes Jesswade88's contribution with a namecheck for us and Keilana, 8 August 2018. Victuallers (talk) 08:20, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
- Academic writes 270 Wikipedia pages in a year to get female scientists noticed, by Hannah Devlin, The Guardian, 24 June 2018. Describes Jesswade88's contribution.--Ipigott (talk) 14:21, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
- Why we need to close Wikipedia's gender page gap, The Telegraph, 12 June 2018, by Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London --Rosiestep (talk) 20:34, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
- Kosovo Women Take Aim at Wikipedia Gender Imbalance, BalkanInsight, 30 May 2018.--Ipigott (talk) 16:42, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
- Putting women human rights activists on the world map, Amnesty International initiative reported in The Hindu, 19 May 2018.--Ipigott (talk) 09:07, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
- Women’s-Studies Students Across the Nation Are Editing Wikipedia, Emma Kerr, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 20 March 2018.--Ipigott (talk) 10:40, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- Why Wikipedia often overlooks stories of women in history, by Tamar Carroll and Lara Nicosia, The Conversation, 16 March 2018
- Wikipedia's forgotten women: inside the editing marathon to fix imbalance, Nadja Sayej, The Guardian, 15 March 2018.--Ipigott (talk) 10:45, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
- Less than 1 in 5 Wikipedia biographies are about women—and this group wants that to change, The Daily Dot, 8 March 2018.--Ipigott (talk) 16:18, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
- Sweden tries to increase gender equality on the web, The Economist, 8 March 2018.--Ipigott (talk) 16:12, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
- UNESCO wants to bridge the gender gap in the digital space, UNESCO via IPS, 3 March 2018.--Ipigott (talk) 13:21, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
- UNESCO say they are inspired by WiR
- Wikipedia Needs Shaking, Derby Uni Blog by Caroline Ball 3 March 2018
- Aussies join push for more Wiki women, by Marnie Banger of news.com.au, published 3 January 2018.--Ipigott (talk) 11:10, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
- Femmes Rouge Wikipedia in the French Slate in January 2018 -- Victuallers (talk) 14:06, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
2017
[edit]- There’s a Gender Gap in Internet Usage. Closing It Would Open Up Opportunities for Everyone
- Wikipedia editing marathons add women's voices to online resource: article by Maggie Gordon, Houston Chronicle, 9 November 2017, with WiR details from Rosiestep--Ipigott (talk) 10:33, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
- We’re all connected now, so why is the internet so white and western?: article by Mark Graham of the Oxford Internet Institute and Anasuya Sengupta of Whose Knowledge?, The Guardian, 5 October 2017.--Ipigott (talk) 10:19, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
- How Wikipedia Changed The Exchange Of Knowledge (And Where It's Going Next): article by Wikipedia Executive Director Katherine Maher, Forbes, 4 October 2017--Ipigott (talk) 14:43, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
- Community digest: Odia Wikipedians document the Asian Athletics Championships, Women of India on Wikimedia blog
- The 25 Most Influential People on the Internet, by TIME Staff, Time, 26 June 2017, featuring Melissa Chan's coverage of user:Ser Amantio di Nicolao
- How we doubled the representation of female classical scholars on Wikipedia, by Victoria Leonard, Times Higher Education, 11 June 2017.
- How To Get More Women On Wikipedia, article by Lily Silverton, Refinery29, 18 May 2017
- Community digest: Women in Red’s impact on Wikipedia’s gender gap, article by Samir Elsharbaty, Wikimedia Blog, 2 May 2017
- Narrowing Gender Gap, Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Writes 6,500 More Women Into Art History, article by Sarah Cascone, Artnet Worldwide, 18 April 2017
- Is Wikipedia Woke?, BloombergApp, 22 December 2016
- Wikipedia Wunderkind: Barbara Page helps readers of the online encyclopedia understand women’s health, among other topics, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 15 December 2016.--Ipigott (talk) 13:22, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
2016
[edit]- The Wikipedia gap is the latest gender gap you need to be worried about, Metro UK, 12 December 2016.--Ipigott (talk) 12:41, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- 100 Women History Hour, BBC, 11 December 2016: 50-minute sound broadcast on the gender gap with lengthy coverage of Wikipedia.--Ipigott (talk) 08:46, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
- Wikipedia edit-a-thon tackles internet gender gap, ABC Australia, 9 December 2016.--Ipigott (talk) 08:17, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
- Episode of Science in Action, Wikipedia and the gender gap, BBC, 8 December 2016.--Ipigott (talk) 08:17, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
- Viewpoint: How I tackle Wiki gender gap one article at a time, by Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, aka Rosiestep, BBC, 7 December 2016.--Ipigott (talk) 12:07, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
- BBC 100 Women 2016: Who are our forgotten women? Join our edit-a-thon, BBC, 7 December 2016.--Ipigott (talk) 09:17, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- The Science Show: Women in Antarctica making up for lost time, interview with user:Janstrugnell on ABC Radio National, 12 August 2016
- After years of exclusion, female Antarctic scientists are finally being spotlighted, article by Ariel Bogle, Mashable, 12 August 2016
- Profiles: Kudos for female Antarctic researchers, letter in Nature, 11 August 2016, from user:Janstrugnell, user:Evolution and evolvability and five others
- Wikiproject Women in Red achieved "828 pages edited and 155 new pages created" during the Women in Espionage edit-a-thon University of Edinburg, 28 April 2016
- WISE women work to change Wikipedia, UIC News Center, 17 May 2016
- Meet the Women Bringing the Kitchen to Wikipedia, New Statesman, 17 April 2016, article about food and the women who make food, also a project called Wiki-Food.
- Women in science on Wikipedia: will we ever fill the information gap?, The Guardian, 19 March 2016, article on Emily Temple-Wood, information about Women in Red and interview with Rosiestep
- Female scientist fights harassment with Wikipedia, BBC, 14 March 2016, detailed article on Emily Temple-Wood, aka Keilana
- "Third Annual Edit-a-thon to Bring More Women Artists, and Editors, to Wikipedia", interesting article by Jade Angeles Fitton on Artsland, 26 February 2016
- Why Wikipedia Is in Trouble, Chris Wilson, Time magazine, 14 January 2016 – How Wikipedia is doing at age 15
2015
[edit]- Why Don’t More Latinos Contribute To Wikipedia? El Tecolote, 3 December 2015.
- Wikipedia boost for women architects ArchitectureAU, 22 November 2015
- Wikipedia's Hostility to Women by Emma Paling, The Atlantic, 21 October 2015
- AWA+D + Wiki, 17 September 2015, Women in Architecture edit-a-thon
- 2015 Women in Media Report, prepared by Women's Media Center.
- #wikiD: Help ArchiteXX Add Women Architects to Wikipedia, 25 February 2015, ArchDaily
- Harvard students edit Wikipedia in effort to ‘dismantle the patriarchy’, 9 September 2015, College Fix
- Iberocoop content on women biographies, 4 August 2015, Wikimedia blog
- [http://www.wikimedia.org.ar/2015/07/08/a-que-llamamos-brecha-de-genero-en-wp/ "¿A qué llamamos brecha de género en Wikipedia?" (What do we call gender gap in Wikipedia?), 8 July 2015, by user:Jaluj
- Job vacant: Wikipedian-in-residence, 20 July 2015, The Australian
- Wiki Worker Wanted, 17 July 2015, Inside Higher Ed
- Few Women in Wiki Editing, 26 June 2015, Anupama Mili, The New Indian Express
- Wikipedia Forms Partnership with WVU to Lessen Gender Gap, 7 July 2015, WBOY.com
- Wikipedia has lots of weaknesses, the worst of which is lack of women editors, Jenny Kleeman, The Australian Financial Review
- Can Wikipedia Survive?, 20 June 2015, Andrew Lih, The New York Times
- The Wikipedia wars: does it matter if our biggest source of knowledge is written by men?, 26 May 2015, Jenny Kleeman, New Statesman
- Editors Are Trying To Fix Wikipedia's Gender And Racial Bias Problem, 15 April 2015, Sara Boboltz, Huffington Post
- Edit-a-thon aims to fix Wikipedia gender gap, 28 April 2015, Chris Oberholt, KCTV5 Kansas City
- Wikipedia’s Women Problem, 29 April 2015, James Gleick, The New York Review
- Computational Linguistics Reveals How Wikipedia Articles Are Biased Against Women, 2 February 2015, MIT Technology Review
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This page documents published peer-reviewed research on gender gaps within Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. Most of the research is related to English Wikipedia's content gender gap, but not all.
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2024
[edit]- Hrivaa, Lea; Coscia, Michele (14 June 2024). "Traces of Unequal Entry Requirement for Illustrious People on Wikipedia Based on their Gender". Advances in Complex Systems. 27 (3). Retrieved 24 September 2024.
- Venus, Nicole (14 August 2024). "The Representation of Female Economists on Wikipedia". SSRN. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
- Patel, Hrishikesh; Chen, Tianwa; Bongiovanni, Ivano; Demartini, Gianluca (17 January 2024). "Estimating Gender Completeness in Wikipedia". Computers and Society. arXiv:2401.08993. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
- Perkins, Tracy; Hussein, Sophia; Trent, Mariam; Davis, Lundyn (16 January 2024). "Wikipedia and the Outsider Within: Black Feminism and Social Inequality in Knowledge Sharing". Civic Sociology. 5 (1). Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- Guilbeault, Doughlas; Delacourt, Solène; Tasker Hull, Bhargav; Bhargav, Srinivasa Desikan; Chu, Mark; Nadler, Ethan (14 February 2024). "Online images amplify gender bias". Nature. 626. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- Venus, Nicole (9 January 2024). "The Representation of Female Economists on Wikipedia". Available from SSRN. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
2023
[edit]- XOR'easter; Bayer, Tilman (8 May 2023). "Recent research/Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions". Wikipedia Signpost.
- Ford, Heather; Pietsch, Tamson; Tall, Kelly (29 October 2023). "Gender and the invisibility of care on Wikipedia". Big Data & Society. 10 (2).
- Smimov, Ivan; Oprea, Camelia; Strohmaier, Markus (December 2023). "Toxic comments are associated with reduced activity of volunteer editors on Wikipedia". PNAS Nexus. 2 (12): 385–. doi:10.1093/pnasnexus. ISSN 2752-6542.
- Zheng, Xiang; Chen, Jiajing; Yan, Erjia; Ni, Chaoqun (February 2023). "Gender and country biases in Wikipedia citations to scholarly publications". Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 74 (2): 219–233. doi:10.1002/asi.24723. ISSN 2330-1635. S2CID 253379599.
- Arnaout, Hiba; Razniewski, Simon; Pan, Jeff Z. (2 June 2023). "Wiki-based Communities of Interest: Demographics and Outliers". Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 17: 990–996. arXiv:2303.09189. doi:10.1609/icwsm.v17i1.22206.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Conroy, Melanie (11 May 2023). "Quantifying the Gap: The Gender Gap in French Writers' Wikidata". Journal of Cultural Analytics. 8 (2). doi:10.22148/001c.74068. S2CID 258652988.
- Lemieux, Mackenzie Emily; Zhang, Rebecca; Tripodi, Francesca (29 March 2023). ""Too Soon" to count? How gender and race cloud notability considerations on Wikipedia". Big Data & Society. 10. doi:10.1177/20539517231165490. S2CID 257861139.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Zheng, Xiang; Chen, Jiajing; Yan, Erjia; Ni, Chaoqun (February 2023). "Gender and country biases in Wikipedia citations to scholarly publications". JASIST. 74 (2): 219–233. doi:10.1002/asi.24723. S2CID 253379599.
- Venus, Nicole (14 August 2023). "The Representation of Female Economists on Wikipedia". SSRN 4540744.
2022
[edit]- Meyer, Christine (May 2022). "'If You Want to Change the World, Edit Wikipedia': Mitigating the Gender Gap and Systemic Bias on Wikipedia". University of Idaho. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
- Fan, Angela; Gardent, Claire (30 March 2022). "Generating Full Length Wikipedia Biographies: The Impact of Gender Bias on the Retrieval-Based Generation of Women Biographies" (PDF). ACL. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- Oldach, Laurel (8 March 2022). "What's with Wikipedia and women?". ASBMBTODAY. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- Langrock, Isabelle; González-Bailón, Sandra (June 2022). "The Gender Divide in Wikipedia: Quantifying and Assessing the Impact of Two Feminist Interventions". Journal of Communication. 72 (3): 297–321. doi:10.1093/joc/jqac004.
- Beytía, Pablo; Wagner, Claudia (22 March 2022). "Visibility layers: a framework for systematising the gender gap in Wikipedia content". Internet Policy Review. 11 (1). doi:10.14763/2022.1.1621.
- Gupta, Sneh; Trehan, Kulveen (2022). "Twitter reacts to absence of women on Wikipedia: a mixed-methods analysis of #VisibleWikiWomen campaign". Media Asia. 49 (2): 130–154. doi:10.1080/01296612.2021.2003100. S2CID 245065502.
- Chakraborty, Anwesha; Hussain, Netha (7 March 2022). "Documenting the gender gap in Indian Wikipedia communities: Findings from a qualitative pilot study". First Monday. 27 (3). doi:10.5210/fm.v27i3.11443.
2021
[edit]- Bayer, Tilman (25 July 2021). "Recent research/Gender bias and statistical fallacies, disinformation and mutual intelligibility". Wikipedia Signpost. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
- Beytía, Pablo; Agarwal, Pushkal; Redi, Miriam; Singh, Vivek K. (December 2021). "Visual Gender Biases in Wikipedia: A Systematic Evaluation across the Ten Most Spoken Languages" (Preprint). SocArXiv. doi:10.31235/osf.io/59rey. S2CID 244806764. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- Zhang, Charles Chuankai; Terveen, Loren (15 October 2021). "Quantifying the Gap: A Case Study of Wikidata Gender Disparities". 17th International Symposium on Open Collaboration. ACM Digital Library. pp. 1–12. doi:10.1145/3479986.3479992. ISBN 9781450385008. S2CID 238992534. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
- Ferran-Ferrer, Núria; Castellanos-Pineda, Patricia; Minguillón, Julià; Meneses, Julio (September 6, 2021). "The gender gap on the Spanish Wikipedia: Listening to the voices of women editors". El Profesional de la Información. 30 (5). doi:10.3145/epi.2021.sep.16. S2CID 241442991. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
- Tripodi, Francesca (27 June 2021). "Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Wikipedia". New Media & Society. 25 (7): 1687–1707. doi:10.1177/14614448211023772. S2CID 237883867.
- Berson, Amber; Sengul-Jones, Monika; Tamani, Melissa (June 2021). "Unreliable Guidelines: Reliable Sources and Marginalized Communities in French, English and Spanish Wikipedias" (PDF). Art+Feminism.
- Klein, Maximilian (15 March 2021). "Humaniki March Update: Public Launch of Alpha Release". Wikimedia. Retrieved 26 March 2021. Humaniki provides a wide variety of gender gap statistics based on Wikidata.
- Minguillón, Julià; Mesneses, Julio; Aibar, Eduard; Ferran-Ferrer, Núria (23 February 2021). "Exploring the gender gap in the Spanish Wikipedia: Differences in engagement and editing practices". PLOS ONE. 16 (2): e0246702. Bibcode:2021PLoSO..1646702M. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0246702. PMC 7901774. PMID 33621229.
- Sun, Jiao; Peng, Nanyun (2021). Men Are Elected, Women Are Married: Events Gender Bias on Wikipedia (PDF). ACL. arXiv:2106.01601. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- Lir, Shlomit Aharoni (2021). "Strangers in a seemingly open-to-all website: the gender bias in Wikipedia". Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. 40 (7): 801–818. doi:10.1108/EDI-10-2018-0198. S2CID 214364954.
- Falenska, Agnieszka; Çetinoglu, Özlem (2021). Assessing Gender Bias in Wikipedia: Inequalities in Article Titles (PDF). ACL. pp. 75–85. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
2020
[edit]- Johnson, Isaac; Lemmerich, Florian; Sáez-Trumper, Diego; Strohmaier, Markus; West, Robert; Zia, Leila (20 July 2020). "Global gender differences in Wikipedia readership". arXiv:2007.10403 [cs.CY].
- Gerlach, Martin (June 2020). "Metrics for quantifying the gender content gap". Wikimedia. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- Schmahl, Katja Geertruida; Viering, Tom Julian; Makrodimitris1, Stavros; Naseri Jahfari, Arman; Tax, David M. J.; Loog, Marco (2020). Is Wikipedia succeeding in reducing gender bias? Assessing changes in gender bias in Wikipedia using word embeddings (PDF). ALC. doi:10.18653/v1/2020.nlpcss-1.11. S2CID 226283827. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
{{cite conference}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - Young, Amber G; Wigdor, Ariel D.; Kane, Gerald C. (2020). "The Gender Bias Tug-of-War in a Co-creation Community: Core-Periphery Tension on Wikipedia". Journal of Management Information Systems. 37 (4): 1047=1072. doi:10.1080/07421222.2020.1831773. S2CID 227240954.
- Bolón Brun, Natalie; Kypraiou, Sofia; Gullón Altés, Natalia; Petlacalco Barrios, Irene (April 2020). Wikigender: A Machine Learning Model to Detect Gender Bias in Wikipedia (PDF). Wiki Workshop 2020. arXiv:2211.07520. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
2019
[edit]- Schellekens, Menno; Holstege, Floris; Yasseri, Taha (12 April 2019). "Female scholars need to achieve more for equal public recognition". arXiv:1904.06310 [cs.DL].
- Menking, Amanda; Erickson, Ingrid; Pratt, Wanda (9 May 2019). "People Who Can Take It: How Women Wikipedians Negotiate and Navigate Safety in Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (CHI 2019)". ACM, New York. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
- Adams, Julia; Bruckner, Hannah; Naslund, Cambria (2019). "Who Counts as a Notable Sociologist on Wikipedia? Gender, Race, and the "Professor Test"". Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 5: 1–14. doi:10.1177/2378023118823946.
2018
[edit]- Cabrera, Benjamin; Ross, Björn; Dado, Marielle; Heisel, Maritta (15 June 2018). "The Gender Gap in Wikipedia Talk Pages". Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 12 (1). doi:10.1609/icwsm.v12i1.15053. ISSN 2334-0770. S2CID 49414503. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
- Björn Ross, Marielle Dado, Maritta Heisel, Benjamin Cabrera, Gender Markers in Wikipedia Usernames, Wiki Workshop, April 2018, Lyon, France
- Luo, Wei; Adams, Julia; Brueckner, Hannah (2018). "The Ladies Vanish? American Sociology and the Genealogy of its Missing Women on Wikipedia". Comparative Sociology. 17 (5): 519–556. doi:10.1163/15691330-12341471.
2017
[edit]- Vitulli, Marie A. (20 October 2017). "Writing Women in Mathematics into Wikipedia". arXiv:1710.11103v3 [math.HO].
- Hube, Christoph (3 April 2017). "Bias in Wikipedia" (PDF). Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion - WWW '17 Companion. Semantic Scholar. pp. 717–721. doi:10.1145/3041021.3053375. ISBN 9781450349147. S2CID 10472970. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- Ford, Heather; Wajcman, Judy (1 August 2017). "'Anyone can edit' not everyone does: Wikipedia and the gender gap". Social Studies of Science : SSS : An International Review of Research in the Social Dimensions of Science and Technology. 47 (4). Social Studies of Science (via LSE). doi:10.1177/0306312717692172. ISSN 0306-3127. PMID 28791929. S2CID 32835293. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- Hinnosaar, Marit (May 2015). "Gender Inequality in New Media: Evidence from Wikipedia". Carlo Alberto Notebooks. EconPapers. ISSN 2279-9362. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- Zagovora, Olga; Flöck, Fabian; Wagner, Claudia (2017). ""(Weitergeleitet von Journalistin)": The Gendered Presentation of Professions on Wikipedia". Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Web Science Conference. pp. 83–92. arXiv:1706.03848. doi:10.1145/3091478.3091488. ISBN 9781450348966. S2CID 11059274.
- AKKI, Amine; EL HAREM, Hicham; EL MAHFOUDI, Saad; IRHBOULA, Anas (19 July 2017). "La guerre contre les guerres d'édition dans Wikipedia – Data Science IMT Atlantique" (in French). Data Science IMT Atlantique. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
2016
[edit]- Klein, Maximilian; et al. (2016). "Monitoring the Gender Gap with Wikidata Human Gender Indicators" (PDF). Berlin: OpenSym. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-12-29. Retrieved 1 September 2023 – via Internet Archive.
- Wagner, Claudia; Graells-Garrido, Eduardo; Garcia, David; Menczer, Filippo (1 March 2016). "Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia". EPJ Data Science. 5. arXiv:1601.04890. doi:10.1140/epjds/s13688-016-0066-4. S2CID 1769950.
- Young, Amber; Wigdor, Ari; Kane, Gerald C. (December 2016). "It's Not What You Think: Gender Bias in Information about Fortune 1000 CEOs on Wikipedia". International Conference for Information Systems, Dublin. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
- Nicolaes, Feli (2016). "Gender Bias on Wikipedia. An analysis of the affiliation network". scripties.uba.uva.nl. Scripties - Bibliotheek - Universiteit van Amsterdam. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
- Jemielniak, Dariusz (2016). "breaking the glass ceiling on Wikipedia". Feminist Review. 113 (113): 103–108. doi:10.1057/fr.2016.9. JSTOR 44987268. S2CID 73656903.
2015
[edit]- Klein, Maximilian (2 December 2015). "Wikipedia Gender Indicators (WIGI)". WMF labs. Archived from the original on 2021-03-01. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- Graells-Garrido, Eduardo; Lalmas, Mounia; Menczer, Filippo (2 June 2015). "First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia". Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media. p. 165. arXiv:1502.02341. doi:10.1145/2700171.2791036. ISBN 978-1-4503-3395-5. S2CID 1082360. (Important finding: an analysis of the DBPedia Wikipedia subset shows that 15% of biographies are of women.)
- Klein, Maximilian; Konieczny, Piotr (2015). "Gender Gap Through Time and Space: A Journey Through Wikipedia Biographies and the "WIGI" Index". arXiv:1502.03086 [cs.CY]. (Interesting study, currently under peer review)
- Wagner, Claudia; Garcia, David; Jadidi, Mohsen; Strohmaier, Markus (23 March 2015). "It's a Man's Wikipedia? Assessing Gender Inequality in an Online Encyclopedia". arXiv:1501.06307 [cs.CY].
- Wilson, Jason (10 February 2015). "Are misogynists running Wikipedia?". Overland.
- Helgeson, Björn (2015). The Swedish Wikipedia Gender Gap (PDF) (MSc). KTH. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
2014
[edit]- Bourdeloie, Hélène; Vicente, Michaël (2014). "Contributing to Wikipedia: A Question of Gender". In Fichman, Pnina; Hara, Noriko (eds.). Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration. Lanham: Rowman et Littlefield.
- Hargittai, Eszter; Shaw, Aaron (4 November 2014). "Mind the skills gap: the role of Internet know-how and gender in differentiated contributions to Wikipedia". Information, Communication & Society. 18 (4): 424–442. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2014.957711. S2CID 143468397.
- Massa, Paolo; Zelenkauskaite, Asta (2014). "Gender Gap in Wikipedia Editing: A Cross Language Comparison" (PDF). In Fichman, Pnina; Hara, Noriko (eds.). Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration. Lanham: Rowman et Littlefield. pp. 85–96.
2013
[edit]- Hill, Benjamin Mako; Shaw, Aaron (26 June 2013). "The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: Characterizing Survey Response Bias with Propensity Score Estimation". PLOS ONE. 8 (6): e65782. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...865782H. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065782. PMC 3694126. PMID 23840366.
- Ridge, Mia (2013). "New Challenges in Digital History: Sharing Women's History on Wikipedia". Women's History in the Digital World. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
2011
[edit]- Reagle, Joseph; Rhue, Lauren (2011). "Gender Bias in Wikipedia and Britannica". International Journal of Communication. 5. Joseph Reagle & Lauren Rhue: 1138–1158. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- Gardner, Sue (20 February 2011). "Nine Reasons Women Don't Edit Wikipedia (in their own words)". suegardner.org.
See also
[edit]- Gender bias on Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Gender gap task force/Media and research
- m:Gender gap/Research
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- List of Women's history books in Megalibrarygirl's personal collection
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Help tools
[edit]- Wikipedia:Citation expander – Easily fill, cleanup and expand citations with User:Citation bot.
- Works very well for journal citations, see User:Citation bot/use and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-08-01/Tips and tricks
- User:Headbomb/unreliable – Detect and highlight unreliable sources.
- User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors – Highlight problems and potential problems when using Harvard citations templates like {{harvnb}} and others. To only flag problems, replace
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Biographical dictionaries
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- Dictionary of African Biography
- Singapore Digital Newspaper Archive (National Library Board)
- Jewish Women's Archive
- She Source
- Kvinfo: Danish feminists
- The History of Nordic Women's Literature
- A Celebration of Women Writers
- Women and Social Movements, International – 1840 to Present
- Evaluating Information Sources
- Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
- Magyar Lexikon, Hungarian-language biographical dictionary with plenty of women articles in it.
- Friedman, Ann. "Queens of Nonfiction: 56 Women Writers Everyone Should Read," The Cut – New York Magazine. April 2016. (As noted by author, list of in-depth articles reported by (mostly white, mostly American) journalists between 1960–2016.
- DMOZ – Society: People: Women: Science and Technology (DMOZ)
- "women scientists" at DuckDuckGo (DuckDuckGo)
- Passing On
- Australian Women's History Network Scholarly Research Blog VIDA
- Perfume Drinker’s directory of digitized women’s magazines on fashion, textiles and design
- Books
- Majher, Patricia (2011). Ladies of the Lights: Michigan Women in the U.S. Lighthouse Service. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-02801-6 – via Project MUSE.
- Roces, Mina (2012). Women's Movements and the Filipina: 1986–2008. University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-6121-6 – via Project MUSE.
- Schneider, Karen (2015). Loving Arms: British Women Writing the Second World War. The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-6134-1 – via Project MUSE.
- Hautzinger, Sarah (2007). Violence in the City of Women: Police and Batterers in Bahia, Brazil. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-94115-1 – via Project MUSE.
- Aldama, Arturo J.; Sandoval, Chela; Garcia, Peter J. (2012). Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-00877-0 – via Project MUSE.
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