For International Women’s Day, The Guardian’s editorial board made a salute to the volunteers who are helping close the gender gap on Wikipedia. We co-sign! Our collaborators in Women in Red and volunteers for Women Do News are heroes indeed! Here’s more:
The dictionary definition of heroism does not usually extend to people who work away anonymously, and for no money, for the reputational benefit of others. But this is what growing numbers of largely female researchers have been doing, in an attempt to rebalance the historical record on Wikipedia in favour of women.