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The Wikimedia Foundation just released survey results on “awareness, trust, and feelings of representation that people have in our work and projects, including Wikipedia.” Here are some topline findings about women on Wikipedia: Women, across communities, are far more skeptical of Wikipedia’s support of social/equity movements. Black women and Hispanic women have the lowest engagement […]

Meg Heckman at Northeastern University writes about how her class worked with Women Do News: “Helping to create these entries was a bright spot in an otherwise difficult semester, but my students’ struggle to find source material was also a reminder that, as Eckert and Steiner (2013) put it, ‘The internet is not free of […]

Board member Jareen Imam joined Hacks/Hackers London to talk about our work and how Wikipedia can affect the safety and credibility of women journalists. Journalism.co.uk reported on the event.

In September, 2021 we won our first grant of $2,000. It’s a rapid grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, given in part because of your endorsements! So we’re ready to get planning. Want to get involved in our 2022 schedule? Sign up for our emails to find our how to host and edit-a-thon or add us […]

Our board chair Angilee Shah joined Take The Lead to talk about different forms of leadership and the genesis of Women Do News on July 28, 2021. Watch the talk on YouTube.

A study led by Francesca Tripodi in the journal New Media & Society finds that 19% of Wikipedia’s 1.5 million biographies are about women. Edit-a-thons help address the problem but there are issues to explore about who should be considered notable for Wikipedia. For the shorter version, hear Tripodi on NPR.

Historical exclusion and systemic bias in media has erased and omitted female and nonbinary journalists from the digital record, particularly those who are also racial and ethnic minorities. This essential conversation for journalists, Wikipedia contributors, and allies to historically excluded journalists offered an opportunity to learn how to begin the work of attenuating “symbolic annihilation” […]

From the Wikimedia Foundation on May 5, 2021: The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and the Wikimedia Foundation co-hosted the virtual event, “Taking back the narrative: Changing how Asian Americans are represented in the news, on Wikipedia, and beyond”. This past year we saw a rise in acts of violence and xenophobia perpetrated against people […]

Board member Andrew Lih created a quick visualization of the women in Wikidata that are flagged as being part of WikiProject Women Do News, showing their occupation, schooling and employer to see if there were some patterns. Check it out!

We can do more to make sure women get their due. Angilee Shah and Jareen Imam, two of the founders of Women Do News, talked with host Michael O’Connell on the “It’s All Journalism” podcast.

Adora Sitvak writes about a new initiative at the Wikimedia Foundation to add women to our histories. “In particular,” she writes, “we are encouraging journalists, academics, thought leaders, and individuals and organizations in the information landscape to increase their coverage of women, particularly women who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) — building […]

Angilee Shah, one of the founders of Women Do News, wrote a column for “The Cohort,” Poynter’s newsletter for women in media about the systemic problems of equity in news. The news industry functions like an economy in many ways. Our currency — trust, reputation, belief in each others’ abilities — is based on faith […]

Volunteers with Women Do News collaborated on creating Wikipedia entries for women journalists during our first edit-a-thon in New York City at the Luminary.