As part of Sadiq Khan’s #BehindEveryGreatCity campaign, today “Schoolgirls from across the city will be joining forces with Wikipedia’s experts and women in the tech industry to create a surge in new pages about women, and to add more detail to existing ones.”
According to Sadiq, writing in The Telegraph, the facts that 83% of Wikipedia biographies are about men and that 87% of editors are men is a “woefully inaccurate reflection of women’s achievements” that “has to change” in order to “level the playing field”…
As Sadiq acknowledges, there are no barriers to women editing Wikipedia pages – it would simply appear that more men are more interested in contributing.
I look forward to Sadiq’s battle against Instagram’s 58% female user skew and Pinterest’s 71% female user skew.
Our thanks to Ray for the link to the Tweet and the Telegraph article.
