Gender bias on Wikipedia
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Gender bias on Wikipedia is the phenomenon of men being more likely than women to be volunteer contributors and the subject of Wikipedia articles. As of June 2024, the English Wikipedia had almost 400
Former Wikimedia Foundation executive director Sue Gardner reported nine reasons, offered by female Wikipedia editors, in an essay on the lack of female editors on Wikipedia.
Attendees at the 2013 Women in the Arts edit-a-thon in Washington, D.C.
Racial bias on Wikipedia
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The English Wikipedia has been criticized for having a systemic racial bias in its coverage. This bias partially stems from an under-representation of people of color within its volunteer editor base.
Gender bias on Wikipedia
…editors create many thousands of accurate, compelling biography entries for important people who are currently not on the site", including women. Racial bias on Wikipedia Geographical bias on Wikipedia…
Edit-a-thon for Black History Month at Howard University, a historically-Black university
Edit-a-thon for Visual Artists of the African Diaspora at the Joan Mitchell Center, hosted by Black Lunch Table in New Orleans
Sherry Antoine of AfroCROWD presents at WikiConference North America, August 2017.