Wikipedia is the world’s largest online and user-generated encyclopaedia. Knowledge is power, and Wikipedia has the potential to colour our view of the world. But there is great imbalance between men and women on the website, like in society at large.
Ninety per cent of those who add content to Wikipedia are men. There are four times as many articles about men as there are about women. The figures vary regionally, but no matter how you look at it, the picture is clear: the information about women is less extensive than that about men. Regardless of which language version of Wikipedia you read. We want to change this.
#WikiGap is an event that gathers people around the world to add more content to Wikipedia about women figures, experts and role models in various fields. Together, we want to bring about a more gender-equal internet – and a more gender-equal world.
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Not a part of an organisation, but still want to close the gender gap on Wikipedia?
Read more about how to become a Wikipedia editor here. If you want to edit the Swedish-language version of Wikipedia, watch this tutorial.
So far, more than 60 countries have taken part in #WikiGap. More than 2 500 participants have added or updated more than 35 000 Wikipedia articles on prominent women in more than 30 different languages.