Alina Ladyzhensky writes: “90% of [Wikipedia’s] editors are men, and women are vastly underrepresented as subjects in the encyclopedia. The problem is particularly glaring when it comes to biographical information. Of the 1.5 million biographical articles on the site, less than 20% are about women.” A new study of Wikipedia edit-a-thons found that they effectively created new articles about women and increased views of those articles, although they were less effective at improving findability.”

University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication, Feb. 17