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Wikipedia Needs More Women

Only 19% of all biographies on Wikipedia are about women Only 13% of Wikipedia editors identify as women Only 21% of the content on Wikimedia Commons is related to women Only 20% of the content on Wikiquote is attributed to women Sources: Humaniki, February 2024; Community Insights Survey, 2023 Women of Wikimedia: Inspiring stories Wikimedia….

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Wikimania

WIKIMANIA The annual global conference of the Wikimedia movement Wikimania is the annual global conference that celebrates Wikimedia projects, like Wikipedia, and the volunteers who make them happen. Since 2005, Wikimedians and free knowledge enthusiasts from all over the world have come together to connect, learn, exchange ideas, and have all the fun. Wikimania 2023….

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Knowledge Equity Research – UK

Understanding Wikimedia audiences in the United Kingdom to achieve knowledge equity 200,000+ Editors contribute to Wikimedia projects every month 68+ million Media files on Wikimedia Commons 1+ billion Unique devices access Wikimedia projects every month

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Knowledge Equity Research – Japan

Understanding Wikimedia audiences in Japan to achieve knowledge equity 200,000+ Editors contribute to Wikimedia projects every month 68+ million Media files on Wikimedia Commons 1+ billion Unique devices access Wikimedia projects every month

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Pillar 4: How Volunteers With Passion Are Bettering Wikimedia’s Projects from Behind the Scenes

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Pillar 1: How We Are Working Toward Knowledge Equity

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Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards

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Change the Stats

Wikipedia is powered by humans, so it is vulnerable to human biases. It is also a reflection and manifestation of structural and historical inequalities in opportunity and representation. We believe one of the first steps in overcoming these challenges is through understanding the problems, which is why we are developing a Knowledge Gaps Index. We….

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Support current work

From content drives and grantmaking, to inclusive product design and research, there are several ways we are working to advance knowledge equity that you can help support and amplify.

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