Submitted by D.P. Juan on Tue, 01/04/2025 - 11:21
On Friday 28 March, our Postgrad and Postdoc Committee and WIDER Committee collaborated to host our first ever Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon!
This event aimed to edit, expand or create Wikipedia pages for people who have made significant contributions to science, but who have been overlooked on Wikipedia so far due to their gender, race, or any other marginalised identity.
Investigations into Wikipedia have found that “Less than 20% of the biographies on English language Wikipedia are about women,” while “research from 2022… found there were more Wikipedia entries about football and footballers than there were about women.” [Robyn Vinter, 2024, writing for The Guardian].
The event featured a representative of Wikimedia UK, who provided guidance on researching and writing for the website.