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Filling the gender gap in Wikipedia:
- Viquidones / WikiMujeres UPF - Joint activities with Wikimujeres, Amical Wikimedia and UPF Igualtat, and the support of Dones en Xarxa, to contribute to fill the gender gap in Wikipedia. Video by Ester Bonet describing the space.
- Espacio Viquidones/Wikimujeres UPF: Eliminando la brecha de género en Wikipedia.
- Other emerging groups created in parallel with the support of the ViquidonesUPF group are the Art + Feminism group, including a regular group to edit Wikipedia hosted at Ca la Dona.
- Viquiprojecte:Viquidones/Espai Viquidones UPF (Selected events and articles in media)
- 16/10/2018: Wikithon Professional women in the arts scene
- 09/10/2018: Wikithon Inspiring Girls
- 23/01/2018: Viquipèdia, en masculí. El Punt Avui.
- 04/07/2017: Viquipèdia workshop for teenagers at Campus Junior UPF
- 19/02/2019: Las editoras que feminizan Wikipedia - Metrópoli abierta
- 24/06/2017: Mujeres al asalto de Wikipedia - La Vanguardia
- 28/05/2017: Wikimarathon Women, Science and Technology, Festa de la Ciència, Parc de la Ciutadella
- 12/03/2017: On són les dones a la Wikipedia? Diari Ara. Article linked to conference "La rebel·lió contra la invisibilització de les dones als mitjans". UPF, 10/03/2017.
- 22/10/2016 Wikimarathon: Viquimarató del Dia de les Escriptores a l'Ateneu Barcelonès
- 19/06/2016 at Novum, BCN Science Festival: Wikimarathon Women, Science and Technology (VIQUIMARATÓ Dones, Ciència i Tecnologia , outline at El Periódico here)
- Starting May 24th 2016 at 19h, including Patricia Horrillo, Wikiesfera - MediaLab Prado.
Scientific background:
There are several studies documenting this gender gap (in quantity and quality of the coverage, but also in the type of description of male / female profiles). You may want to take a look for instance at some work by E. Graells (DTIC-UPF PhD alumni)
- First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.
- Women through the glass ceiling: Gender Asymmetries in Wikipedia