Two decades since its founding changed information-sharing on the internet, Wikipedia is still perceived as the “closest thing to an online public square,” as Richard Cooke put it recently for Wired. That perception is frustrating for Wiki contributors who know how the site fails to represent the world it’s supposed to define. Researchers at the Wikimedia Foundation estimate that, globally, fewer than 16 percent of Wikipedia contributors identify as female. Only about 18.6 percent of Wikipedia biographies are about women, according to gender gap watchdog Denelezh.
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