Women in Red

Women in Red is a project that seek to address the gender imbalance on Wikipedia. It was founded in 2015 and every year works to increase the representation of women. 

Red links on Wikipedia mark articles that haven't been written yet. The goal of the project is to write well-researched articles about women to turn red links into blue.

To do this, they host edit-a-thons around the world both virtually and in person. 

Check out Women in Red

Add names to the list of missing articles

Closing the Gender Gap | Wikimedia UK 

Wikimedia UK is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia movement which supports Wikipedia and its sister sites. 

Over the last few years, many articles have been written about the #GenderGap on Wikipedia, with only a small proportion of Wikipedia editors being female, and less than 1/5th of biographical articles on the English Wikipedia being about women. Wikimedia UK aims to tackle this issue and to encourage more people to get involved in reducing inequality and bias on Wikipedia and the broader internet.

© Ewan McAndrew and Hannah Rothmann, University of Edinburgh, 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, unless otherwise indicated.