A women-in-STEM “edit-a-thon” organized by Wikipedia in Nova Scotia, Canada, 2018
In response to the persistent gender gap in authorship, Wikipedia began to organize edit-a-thons to expand coverage about specific issues, such as feminism and women's history.
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Wikipedia, free Internet-based encyclopedia, started in 2001, that operates under an open-source management style. It is overseen by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia uses collaborative software known as a wiki that facilitates the creation and development of articles. Although some highly publicized problems have called attention to Wikipedia’s editorial process, they have done little to dampen public use of the resource, which is one of the most visited sites on the Internet. In 1996 Jimmy...
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