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[[File:Charles Matthews at Newnham College.jpg|thumb|right|WiR [[Edit-a-thon]] at [[Newnham College]] in 2017]] |
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[[File:Women in Red badge.jpg|thumb|right|Button to showcase International Women's Day 2017 WiR edit-a-thons]] |
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Women in Red conducts [[edit-a-thon]]s in cities around the world, and continuously hosts a virtual one.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rsc.org/news-events/community/2017/aug/wikithon/|title=Improving gender balance on Wikipedia|last=Chemistry|first=The Royal Society of|date=2017-08-18|website=www.rsc.org|language=en|access-date=2017-11-25}}</ref> The all-day in-person [[Edit-a-thon|edit-a-thons]] are focused events conducted to train new contributors so that the [[Gender bias on Wikipedia|Wikipedia gender gap]] can become narrower and include more content on [[notable]] women.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/article/Adding-women-s-voices-to-Wikipedia-12344424.php|title=Wikipedia editing marathons add women's voices to online resource|work=Houston Chronicle|access-date=2017-11-25}}</ref> Another goal is to increase the number of women editors. Though Wikipedia is "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", only roughly 10 percent of editors are women,<ref name=":0" /> Female-focused [[Biography|biographies]] number about 17 percent versus other [[gender]]<nowiki/>s. Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site on the Internet, and the English language Wikipedia boasts nearly 5.5{{nbsp}}million articles, more than 40{{nbsp}}million worldwide on 265 separate language sites, resulting in 16 billion page views per month.<ref name="Houston 2017">{{cite news |last1 = Gordon |first1 = Maggie |title = Wikipedia editing marathons add women's voices to online resource |url = http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/article/Adding-women-s-voices-to-Wikipedia-12344424.php |accessdate = November 25, 2017 |work = Houston Chronicle |date = November 9, 2017 }}</ref> |
Women in Red conducts [[edit-a-thon]]s in cities around the world, and continuously hosts a virtual one.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rsc.org/news-events/community/2017/aug/wikithon/|title=Improving gender balance on Wikipedia|last=Chemistry|first=The Royal Society of|date=2017-08-18|website=www.rsc.org|language=en|access-date=2017-11-25}}</ref> The all-day in-person [[Edit-a-thon|edit-a-thons]] are focused events conducted to train new contributors so that the [[Gender bias on Wikipedia|Wikipedia gender gap]] can become narrower and include more content on [[notable]] women.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/article/Adding-women-s-voices-to-Wikipedia-12344424.php|title=Wikipedia editing marathons add women's voices to online resource|work=Houston Chronicle|access-date=2017-11-25}}</ref> Another goal is to increase the number of women editors. Though Wikipedia is "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", only roughly 10 percent of editors are women,<ref name=nytimes20jun2015>{{cite web |author1 = Andrew Lih |title = Can Wikipedia Survive? |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/opinion/can-wikipedia-survive.html |website = www.nytimes.com |accessdate = 21 June 2015 |location = Washington |date = 20 June 2015 |quote = ...the considerable and often-noted gender gap among Wikipedia editors; in 2011, less than 15 percent were women. }}</ref><ref name=EditorSurveys>Statistics based on Wikimedia Foundation Wikipedia editor surveys [https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AEditor_Survey_Report_-_April_2011.pdf&page=1 2011] (Nov. 2010-April 2011) and [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Editors_Survey_November_2011 November 2011] (April – October 2011)</ref><ref name=PLOS>{{cite journal |last1 = Hill |first1 = Benjamin Mako |last2 = Shaw |first2 = Aaron |last3 = Sánchez |first3 = Angel |title = The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: Characterizing Survey Response Bias with Propensity Score Estimation |url = http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0065782 |journal = PLoS ONE |date = 26 June 2013 |volume = 8 |issue = 6 |pages = e65782 |doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0065782 |pmid = 23840366 |pmc = 3694126 |bibcode = 2013PLoSO...865782H }}</ref><ref name=":0" /> Female-focused [[Biography|biographies]] number about 17 percent versus other [[gender]]<nowiki/>s. Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site on the Internet, and the English language Wikipedia boasts nearly 5.5{{nbsp}}million articles, more than 40{{nbsp}}million worldwide on 265 separate language sites, resulting in 16 billion page views per month.<ref name="Houston 2017">{{cite news |last1 = Gordon |first1 = Maggie |title = Wikipedia editing marathons add women's voices to online resource |url = http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/article/Adding-women-s-voices-to-Wikipedia-12344424.php |accessdate = November 25, 2017 |work = Houston Chronicle |date = November 9, 2017 }}</ref> |
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Anasuya Sengupta, an activist originally from [[Bangalore]], India, and who until 2015, served as chief grant-making officer for the Wikimedia Foundation, stated about the encyclopedia, "It's written entirely from the point of view of people sitting in the United States and Europe," continuing, "Making Wikipedia more plural and diverse in terms of who edits and what they edit is one of the most effective ways in which we can move beyond the stereotypes that exist all around us," and continuing, "There is something very, very meaningful about this moment in time."<ref name="Bloomberg 2017">{{cite news |last1 = Kessenides |first1 = Dimitra |last2 = Chafkin |first2 = Max |title = Is Wikipedia Woke? The ubiquitous reference site tries to expand its editor ranks beyond the Comic Con set |url = https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-12-22/how-woke-is-wikipedia-s-editorial-pool |accessdate = November 25, 2017 |work = Bloomberg.com |date = December 22, 2016 }}</ref> |
Anasuya Sengupta, an activist originally from [[Bangalore]], India, and who until 2015, served as chief grant-making officer for the Wikimedia Foundation, stated about the encyclopedia, "It's written entirely from the point of view of people sitting in the United States and Europe," continuing, "Making Wikipedia more plural and diverse in terms of who edits and what they edit is one of the most effective ways in which we can move beyond the stereotypes that exist all around us," and continuing, "There is something very, very meaningful about this moment in time."<ref name="Bloomberg 2017">{{cite news |last1 = Kessenides |first1 = Dimitra |last2 = Chafkin |first2 = Max |title = Is Wikipedia Woke? The ubiquitous reference site tries to expand its editor ranks beyond the Comic Con set |url = https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-12-22/how-woke-is-wikipedia-s-editorial-pool |accessdate = November 25, 2017 |work = Bloomberg.com |date = December 22, 2016 }}</ref> |
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Revision as of 15:53, 25 November 2017
Women in Red, initialism WiR, is a gender gap bridging project on the hive edited encyclopedia Wikipedia. WikiProject Women in Red is a focused effort to create articles about notable women that are desired, but that do not currently exist on Wikipedia. The potential for such missing articles can be noted by looking for red hyperlinks in existing articles.
History
Women in Red was conceived by volunteer Wikipedia editor Roger Bamkin in 2015 and volunteer editor Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight joined forces soon thereafter. Bamkin had initially coined a name for the project, how to pick up more women, but that was quickly scuttled in favor of WikiProject Women in Red.[1] After the project was up and running, feminist scientist and volunteer editor Emily Temple-Wood, signed on. Her specialty is adding a new Wikipedia article about a female scientist every time somebody harasses her about her volunteer editing efforts.[1]
Methods
Women in Red conducts edit-a-thons in cities around the world, and continuously hosts a virtual one.[2] The all-day in-person edit-a-thons are focused events conducted to train new contributors so that the Wikipedia gender gap can become narrower and include more content on notable women.[3] Another goal is to increase the number of women editors. Though Wikipedia is "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", only roughly 10 percent of editors are women,[4][5][6][3] Female-focused biographies number about 17 percent versus other genders. Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site on the Internet, and the English language Wikipedia boasts nearly 5.5 million articles, more than 40 million worldwide on 265 separate language sites, resulting in 16 billion page views per month.[7]
Anasuya Sengupta, an activist originally from Bangalore, India, and who until 2015, served as chief grant-making officer for the Wikimedia Foundation, stated about the encyclopedia, "It's written entirely from the point of view of people sitting in the United States and Europe," continuing, "Making Wikipedia more plural and diverse in terms of who edits and what they edit is one of the most effective ways in which we can move beyond the stereotypes that exist all around us," and continuing, "There is something very, very meaningful about this moment in time."[8]
The Women in Red participants help to collate 150 lists of red linked articles to make it easier to find and create the missing articles.[9] As of December 22, 2016[update], the Women in Red cadre of volunteer editors has added over 45,000 articles, and increased the percentage of tallied articles to about 17 percent versus other genders.[8]
At Wikimania 2016, in Esino Lario, in the Lecco, Lombardy region of Italy, Jimmy Wales, who co-founded Wikipedia in 2001, named Stephenson-Goodknight and Temple-Woods the Wikimedians of the Year, for the prior 12 months, for their joint effort to fill the gender chasm.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c Redden, Molly (March 19, 2016). "Women in science on Wikipedia: will we ever fill the information gap?". The Guardian. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ Chemistry, The Royal Society of (August 18, 2017). "Improving gender balance on Wikipedia". www.rsc.org. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ a b "Wikipedia editing marathons add women's voices to online resource". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ Andrew Lih (June 20, 2015). "Can Wikipedia Survive?". www.nytimes.com. Washington. Retrieved June 21, 2015.
...the considerable and often-noted gender gap among Wikipedia editors; in 2011, less than 15 percent were women.
- ^ Statistics based on Wikimedia Foundation Wikipedia editor surveys 2011 (Nov. 2010-April 2011) and November 2011 (April – October 2011)
- ^ Hill, Benjamin Mako; Shaw, Aaron; Sánchez, Angel (June 26, 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.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Gordon, Maggie (November 9, 2017). "Wikipedia editing marathons add women's voices to online resource". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ a b Kessenides, Dimitra; Chafkin, Max (December 22, 2016). "Is Wikipedia Woke? The ubiquitous reference site tries to expand its editor ranks beyond the Comic Con set". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ Stein, Lucia (December 9, 2016). "Wikipedia edit-a-thon tackles internet gender gap". ABC News. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
External links
- BBC – Viewpoint: How I tackle Wiki gender gap one article at a time
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