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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)[reply]
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 25 July 2019.
“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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
Kosovo Women Take Aim at Wikipedia Gender Imbalance, BalkanInsight, 30 May 2018.--Ipigott (talk) 16:42, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
Sweden tries to increase gender equality on the web, The Economist, 8 March 2018.--Ipigott (talk) 16:12, 9 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
Femmes Rouge Wikipedia in the French Slate in January 2018 -- Victuallers (talk) 14:06, 19 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]

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)[reply]
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)[reply]
Wikipedia edit-a-thon tackles internet gender gap, ABC Australia, 9 December 2016.--Ipigott (talk) 08:17, 9 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Episode of Science in Action, Wikipedia and the gender gap, BBC, 8 December 2016.--Ipigott (talk) 08:17, 9 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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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