The Wikiesfera Women
“Just under a fifth of Wikipedia’s content, including biographies, is focused on women, while women account for just about 15% of the site’s volunteer editors. “The numbers are pretty terrifying,” said Patricia Horrillo, who for much of the past decade has spent her spare time working to tackle this gap, cultivating a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to publishing content focused on women.
“The result is Spain’s Wikiesfera, one of a handful of groups around the world – from Whose Knowledge? in the US to Italy’s WikiDonne and Switzerland’s Les Sans Pages – that have sprung up to address Wikipedia’s gender balance.”
‘We’re writing history’: Spanish women tackle Wikipedia’s gender gap
Wikiesfera is one of a handful of groups around world trying to ‘make women visible’ on user-edited site
Ashifa Kassam