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2024

• " Georgetown hosts Wikipedia edit-a-thon, harnessing anger into action", by Julia Vasilj, The Georgetown Voice, 14 April 2024
• "Wikipedia Needs More Women: Bridging The Gender Gap In Knowledge Representation", Africa.com, 5 April 2024
• "Wikimedia Foundation launches ‘Wikipedia Needs More Women’ campaign" by Josephine Agbonkhese, Vanguard, 8 March 2024
• "On International Women’s Day, Wikimedia Foundation celebrates efforts in Africa to improve gender equity on Wikipedia", The Sun, 8 March 2024
• "Int'l Women's Day: Wikimedia launches 'Wikipedia needs more women' campaign", Business Standard, 8 March 2024
• "Wikipedia needs more women. And India can help bridge this gender gap" by Anusha Alikhan, The Print, 8 March 2024
• "The Guardian view on Wikipedia’s female volunteers: a hive heroism that changes history", editorial, The Guardian, 8 March 2024, also in connection with Lucy Moore
• "UK academic’s Wikipedia project raises profile of women around the world", by Robyn Vinter on Wikipedian Lucy Moore, The Guardian, 5 March 2024
• "Review highlights gender gap on Wikipedia", by University of Barcelone, Phys.org, 5 March 2024

2023

• "What a Wikipedia page can do for women in STEM", by Olivia Clear, womensagenda.com.au, 11 October 2023
• "‘Why are they not on Wikipedia?’: Dr Jess Wade’s mission for recognition for unsung scientists", by Donna Ferguson, The Observer, 1 October 2023
• "Some Things I Like About the Expanding Wikipedia Universe", by Hilda Bastian, Absolutely Maybe (PLOS) blog, 2 August 2023
• "Bestselling author Kate Mosse urges budding historians and writers to add more biographies of women to Wikipedia", by Fiona Parker, Daily Mail, 3 July 2023
• "The British physicist making women scientists visible online", article about Jess Wade by Anna Cuenca, Phys Org, 20 April 2023
• "Social Scientists Can’t Ignore the Power of Wikipedia—or Its Systemic Biases", by Mariah John-Leighton and Hannah Jane Pearson, London School of Economics and Political Science, 6 April 2023
• "Wheres Russo?" Sky Sports profile Lewes FC including Women in Red Barnstar winner James Boyes 31 March 2023
• "Closing Wikipedia’s Gender Gap, One Edit at a Time", by Sara Norberg, Tufts Now, 27 March 2023
• Nature asks 6 to comment on their plans for International Women's Day including Jess Wade.
• "Majority of Wikipedia editors are still men - so how is the online encyclopaedia addressing the issue?", Evening Standard, 8 March 2023.
• "Lewes FC is delighted that our own volunteer club photographer James Boyes has received a ‘Barnstar’ award from Women in Red, and is indeed the only person to receive one in 2022."

2022

• This Australian has written 400 profiles of deserving women on Wikipedia. Here's why she's 'obsessed', by Rayane Tanner, SBSNews, 26 October 2022
• "Who Is Jessica Wade? Physicist On A Mission To Diversify Wikipedia Science Profiles", SheThePeople, 18 October 2022
• "She’s made 1,750 Wikipedia bios for female scientists who haven’t gotten their due", by Sydney Page, Washington Post, 17 October 2022
• "This 33-year-old made more than 1,000 Wikipedia bios for unknown female scientists" by Timothy Harper, NBC News, 16 October 2022
• I joined a Wikipedia Editathon to #ChangeTheStory and address the Wikipedia Gender Gap by Meg Kneafsey of CARE, 1 August 2022
• "The problem with Wikipedia? There aren’t enough women" by Helen Pankhurst, copied to Yahoo!news from the Independent, 5 July 2022
• "Jess Wade on Wikipedia and work-life balance" by Kerri Jensen, c&en, 21 June 2022
• "How academic institutions can help to close Wikipedia’s gender gap" by Farah Qaiser, Maryam Zaringhalam, Francesca Bernardi, Jess Wade & Emily Pinckney, Nature, 23 May 2022
• "What's with Wikipedia and women?" by Laurel Oldach, ASBMBTODAY, 8 March 2022
• "UMN Morris Intro Class Gets Wikified" by Sue Dieter, University of Minnesota Morris, 7 February 2022

2021

• “You Have To See It To Be It”: Missing Female Role Models and What We Can Do About It by Amy Diehl, Ms. Magazine, 27 December 2021
• Time Magazine Named Steven Pruitt One of the Most Influential People on the Internet–Just For His Wikipedia Edits, by Jesse Rifkin, Northern Virginia Magazine, 24 November 2021
• Wikipedia editor 'warriors' fight lies, bigotry and even Nazis, RTL Today, attributed to AFP, 17 November 2021.--Ipigott (talk) 11:33, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
• Feminists fight ... 24 hour editathon Well researched piece covering Carol W, Mahwish, On This Day She and Roger. 15 October 2021
• Discussion of the issues and talk prior to AdaWiki24.org (WIR-211), comments by Roger Bamkin
• Big Tech's Big Tobacco moment. Despite the title, today's Axios podcast introduced by Niala Boodhoo includes comments by Roger Bamkin on today's 24-hour ADA marathon, 12 October 2021
• Global 24-hour Wikipedia "Edit-a-thon" Kicks Off In New Zealand, Scoop.co.nz, 29 September 2021
• "Member-Led Effort Will Bring Histories of Women, People of Color in Design to Wikipedia", by Lisa Boylan, Associations Now, 24 September 2021, on cooperation between AIGA and WikiEdu
• "Why we need more biographies of women journalists on Wikipedia" by Marcela Kunova, Jounalism.co.uk, 23 September 2021
• KCPL’s new Wikipedian in Residence gives us the tools to edit our own stories, by Lily Wulfemeyer in The Pitch, 13 September 2021
• Wikipediaan halutaan lisää naisia – sisällöstä paistaa miehinen näkökulma: "Hänestä puhuttiin vain miehensä rouvana" by MTV uutiset in Finnish, 26 April 2021 (More women are wanted on Wikipedia - the content has a masculine perspective: "She was refered as Mrs John Smith")
• Tyttöjen ja poikien kasvatus näkyy jopa Wikipediassa, sanoo Jenni Janakka – ja kannustaa naisia hylkäämään täydellisyydentavoittelun by MeNaiset in Finnish, 26 April 2021 (The upbringing of girls and boys can even be seen on Wikipedia, says Jenni Janakka - and encourages women to abandon the pursuit of perfection)
• "Guinness and Wikipedia to tackle rugby gender disparity" by Sport Industry Group, 16 April 2021
• "Wikipedia gives a picture distorted by men" by Faye Welch, Commentary Box Sports, 12 April 2021
• "Challenging the massive gender imbalance on Wikipedia. Hundreds of dedicated volunteers are defying the sexists to write women back into history." by Joshua Zitser, The Insider, 11 April 2021
• "How Wikipedia is fighting the gender gap, one biography at a time" by Rahel Philipose, The Indian Express, 9 April 2021
• "Women Are Writing Themselves Back Into History on Wikipedia", by Meghan McDonough, NBC LX, 31 March 2021
• "Award-winning professor writes forgotten women into tech-history" by Pernille Bjørn and Michael Skov Jensen, EurekAlert, 11 March 2021
• "Wikipedia is a man – and he's a bit narrow-minded", by Sally Frydenlund, University of Copenhagen, 1 March 2021
• "Only 20% of Wikipedia’s Biographies Are About Women — #WikiGap Wants to Change That": Eric Luth {Eric Luth (WMSE) reports on progress since 2018 and calls on everyone to "tell the missing stories of women on Wikipedia". Reported by Leah Rodriguez, Global Citizen, 8 March 2021
• The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History, by Jenny Singer, Glamour, 26 January 2021
• Wikipedia at 20: Why it often overlooks stories of women in history, by Tamar Carroll and Lara Nicosia, The Conversation, originally published 16 March 2018, updated 14 January 2021
• One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia, interview by Emily Wong on NPR, 6 January 2021

2020

• Twitter Wants to Use Wikipedia to Help Determine Who Gets a Blue Checkmark by Stephen Harrison, Slate, 4 December 2020
• What We Know And Can Agree On: Wikipedia At 20 by Simon Garfield, Esquire, 20 October 2020
• Unraveling Wikipedia’s Mystery Over Women’s History by David B. Grinber, Good Men Project, 8 July 2020
• The people solving mysteries during lockdown by Frank Swain, BBC Future, 15 June 2020
• Wikipedia is a world built by and for men. Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight is changing that. by Rachael Allen The Lily 11 April 2020
• Filling in the gender gap on Wikipedia, by Kate Jacobson, Fortune, 11 March 2020
• International Women's Day: Closing the online gender gap, BBC News, 8 March 2020, emphasis on Wales.
• Cincinatti radio covers Women in Red work at Earlham College March 2?
• Everything’s on Wikipedia. Misinformation, too. But Wiki says its editing process quickly shuts that down., article by Molly Wood, Marketplace, 12 February 2020
• The Sum of What? On Gender, Visibility, and Wikipedia, by Kirsten Menger-Anderson, Undark, 2 February 2020
• Scott Polar Research Institute's exhib features the 100 Wikibomb women from Women in Antactica, 15 January 2020
• How Wikipedia’s volunteer army combats misinformation in the 'post-truth' era, article by Sarah Leeson in PRI, 16 January 2020
• The Sum of What? On Gender, Visibility, and Wikipedia, article by Kirsten Menger-Anderson, Undark, 1 January 2020

2019

• Physicist embroiled in sexism row with Wikipedia after female scientists she wrote profiles for 'not notable enough', article by Phoebe Southworth in The Telegraph, 7 December 2019
• "Most Wikipedia profiles are about men - these women in Australia are hoping to change that". SBS News. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
• “Inclusipedia” brings underrepresented people of Boulder to light, article by Isabella Fincher, CuiIndependent, 25 May 2019
• Seeking Equality—One Biography at a Time, Kochi Post, 8 May 2019, Ardra Manasi
• Male scientists are often cast as lone geniuses. Here’s what happened when a woman was., Vox article by Brian Resnick, 16 April 2019.
• Wikipedia Isn’t Officially a Social Network. But the Harassment Can Get Ugly, by Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 8 April 2019.
• Why we need to address the digital divide if we want to foster more democratic societies, OuiShare
• Why policymakers need to tackle the digital gender gap, Open Global Rights
• Students inspired by York University Libraries make impressive edits to Wikipedia, by Katrina Cohen-Palacios, yFile: York University News, 26 March 2019
• RIT Libraries hosts Women on Wikipedia Edit-a-thon March 22, by Susan Gawlowicz, Rochester Institute of Technology News, 21 March 2019
• Event at RIT aims to improve online gender equity, by Beth Adams, WXXI News, 19 March 2019
• Wiki women: Volunteers add female and non-binary artists to Wikipedia, CBC, 15 March 2019
• Boulder Group is Rewriting History One Wikipedia Article at a Time, by Daliah Singer, 5280, 15 March 2019
• Libraries’ day-long Wiki Edit-a-thon to help shrink gender gap, by Jill Shockey, Penn State News, 15 March 2019
• Cornell Celebrates International Women’s Day with Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, by Chantal Raguin, The Cornell Daily Sun, 10 March 2019
• Edit-a-thon aims to give recognition to more women, arts on Wikipedia, by Alexsandra Coltun Schneider, Daily Bruin, 11 March 2019
• ICA holds ‘Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon’ to increase female, gender non-binary representation online, by Jennifer Suryadjaja, The Daily Free Press, 7 March 2019 Wikipedia ‘Edit-a-Thon’ translates Spanish entries on Latin artists], by Jesenia De Moya Correa, The Inquirer, 6 March 2019
• Fine Arts Library to Host Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, University of Arkansas News, 4 March 2019
• Wikipedia ‘Edit-a-Thon’ translates Spanish entries on Latin artists, by Jesenia De Moya Correa, The Inquirer, 6 March 2019
• UNC libraries give feminism a voice with Wikipedia edit-a-thon, by Ava Eucker, The Daily Tar Heel, 3 May 2019
• UNLV hosts feminist 'edit-a-thon' on Wikipedia, by Jesse Stiller, CampusReform, 26 February 2019
• Women scientists being whitewashed from Wikipedia, by Ewan McAndrew, Siobhan O’Connor, Dr Sara Thomas and Dr Alice White in The Scotsman, 12 March 2019
• Volunteers work to bolster Canadian women's biographies on Wikipedia, by Paul Chiasson, the Canadian Press, 8 March 2019

• The Royal Society are shouting out diversity champions on National Science Day - and we feature - Victuallers (talk) 15:21, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
• Happy 18th birthday, Wikipedia. Let’s celebrate the Internet’s good grown-up., by Stephen Harrison, The Washington Post, 14 January 2019

• From Chinese spies to award-winning geologists, we’re making women visible on Wikipedia, by Ewan McAndrew, Sioban O'Connor, Sara Thomas and Alice White, New Statesman, 8 January 2019

2018

Mozilla Internet Health Report, Who's Online and Who Isn't

• I'm not quoting enough women, The New York Times
• Female scholars are marginalised on Wikipedia because it's written by men, by Victoria Leonard in The Guardian, 12 December 2018.--Ipigott (talk) 16:21, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
• Dr Sara Thomas gave this interview from one of the Edinburgh meet ups on Women in Red - She starts talking at 12 minutes. Listen here Victuallers (talk) 17:42, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
• If we claim to talk about scientists then we need a reliable source like "Nature". Oh here we go! Why we’re editing women scientists onto Wikipedia by Jess Wade & Maryam Zaringhalam, 14 August 2018 Victuallers (talk) 07:40, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
• Physicist highlighting female scientists, one Wikipedia entry at a time, by By Meera Jagannathan, Moneyish, New York Post, Describes Jesswade88's contribution with a namecheck for us and Keilana, 8 August 2018. Victuallers (talk) 08:20, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
• Academic writes 270 Wikipedia pages in a year to get female scientists noticed, by Hannah Devlin, The Guardian, 24 June 2018. Describes Jesswade88's contribution.--Ipigott (talk) 14:21, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
• Why we need to close Wikipedia's gender page gap, The Telegraph, 12 June 2018, by Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London --Rosiestep (talk) 20:34, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
• Kosovo Women Take Aim at Wikipedia Gender Imbalance, BalkanInsight, 30 May 2018.--Ipigott (talk) 16:42, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
• Putting women human rights activists on the world map, Amnesty International initiative reported in The Hindu, 19 May 2018.--Ipigott (talk) 09:07, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
• Women’s-Studies Students Across the Nation Are Editing Wikipedia, Emma Kerr, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 20 March 2018.--Ipigott (talk) 10:40, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
• Why Wikipedia often overlooks stories of women in history, by Tamar Carroll and Lara Nicosia, The Conversation, 16 March 2018
• Wikipedia's forgotten women: inside the editing marathon to fix imbalance, Nadja Sayej, The Guardian, 15 March 2018.--Ipigott (talk) 10:45, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
• Less than 1 in 5 Wikipedia biographies are about women—and this group wants that to change, The Daily Dot, 8 March 2018.--Ipigott (talk) 16:18, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
• Sweden tries to increase gender equality on the web, The Economist, 8 March 2018.--Ipigott (talk) 16:12, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
• UNESCO wants to bridge the gender gap in the digital space, UNESCO via IPS, 3 March 2018.--Ipigott (talk) 13:21, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
• UNESCO say they are inspired by WiR
• Wikipedia Needs Shaking, Derby Uni Blog by Caroline Ball 3 March 2018
• Aussies join push for more Wiki women, by Marnie Banger of news.com.au, published 3 January 2018.--Ipigott (talk) 11:10, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
• Femmes Rouge Wikipedia in the French Slate in January 2018 -- Victuallers (talk) 14:06, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

2017

• There’s a Gender Gap in Internet Usage. Closing It Would Open Up Opportunities for Everyone
• Wikipedia editing marathons add women's voices to online resource: article by Maggie Gordon, Houston Chronicle, 9 November 2017, with WiR details from Rosiestep--Ipigott (talk) 10:33, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
• We’re all connected now, so why is the internet so white and western?: article by Mark Graham of the Oxford Internet Institute and Anasuya Sengupta of Whose Knowledge?, The Guardian, 5 October 2017.--Ipigott (talk) 10:19, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
• How Wikipedia Changed The Exchange Of Knowledge (And Where It's Going Next): article by Wikipedia Executive Director Katherine Maher, Forbes, 4 October 2017--Ipigott (talk) 14:43, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
• Community digest: Odia Wikipedians document the Asian Athletics Championships, Women of India on Wikimedia blog
• The 25 Most Influential People on the Internet, by TIME Staff, Time, 26 June 2017, featuring Melissa Chan's coverage of user:Ser Amantio di Nicolao
• How we doubled the representation of female classical scholars on Wikipedia, by Victoria Leonard, Times Higher Education, 11 June 2017.
• How To Get More Women On Wikipedia, article by Lily Silverton, Refinery29, 18 May 2017
• Community digest: Women in Red’s impact on Wikipedia’s gender gap, article by Samir Elsharbaty, Wikimedia Blog, 2 May 2017
• Narrowing Gender Gap, Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Writes 6,500 More Women Into Art History, article by Sarah Cascone, Artnet Worldwide, 18 April 2017
• Is Wikipedia Woke?, BloombergApp, 22 December 2016
• Wikipedia Wunderkind: Barbara Page helps readers of the online encyclopedia understand women’s health, among other topics, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 15 December 2016.--Ipigott (talk) 13:22, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

2016

• The Wikipedia gap is the latest gender gap you need to be worried about, Metro UK, 12 December 2016.--Ipigott (talk) 12:41, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
• 100 Women History Hour, BBC, 11 December 2016: 50-minute sound broadcast on the gender gap with lengthy coverage of Wikipedia.--Ipigott (talk) 08:46, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
• Wikipedia edit-a-thon tackles internet gender gap, ABC Australia, 9 December 2016.--Ipigott (talk) 08:17, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
• Episode of Science in Action, Wikipedia and the gender gap, BBC, 8 December 2016.--Ipigott (talk) 08:17, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
• Viewpoint: How I tackle Wiki gender gap one article at a time, by Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, aka Rosiestep, BBC, 7 December 2016.--Ipigott (talk) 12:07, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
• BBC 100 Women 2016: Who are our forgotten women? Join our edit-a-thon, BBC, 7 December 2016.--Ipigott (talk) 09:17, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
• The Science Show: Women in Antarctica making up for lost time, interview with user:Janstrugnell on ABC Radio National, 12 August 2016
• After years of exclusion, female Antarctic scientists are finally being spotlighted, article by Ariel Bogle, Mashable, 12 August 2016
• Profiles: Kudos for female Antarctic researchers, letter in Nature, 11 August 2016, from user:Janstrugnell, user:Evolution and evolvability and five others
• Wikiproject Women in Red achieved "828 pages edited and 155 new pages created" during the Women in Espionage edit-a-thon University of Edinburg, 28 April 2016
• WISE women work to change Wikipedia, UIC News Center, 17 May 2016
• Meet the Women Bringing the Kitchen to Wikipedia, New Statesman, 17 April 2016, article about food and the women who make food, also a project called Wiki-Food.
• Women in science on Wikipedia: will we ever fill the information gap?, The Guardian, 19 March 2016, article on Emily Temple-Wood, information about Women in Red and interview with Rosiestep
• Female scientist fights harassment with Wikipedia, BBC, 14 March 2016, detailed article on Emily Temple-Wood, aka Keilana
• "Third Annual Edit-a-thon to Bring More Women Artists, and Editors, to Wikipedia", interesting article by Jade Angeles Fitton on Artsland, 26 February 2016
• Why Wikipedia Is in Trouble, Chris Wilson, Time magazine, 14 January 2016 – How Wikipedia is doing at age 15

2015

• Why Don’t More Latinos Contribute To Wikipedia? El Tecolote, 3 December 2015.
• Wikipedia boost for women architects ArchitectureAU, 22 November 2015
• Wikipedia's Hostility to Women by Emma Paling, The Atlantic, 21 October 2015
• AWA+D + Wiki, 17 September 2015, Women in Architecture edit-a-thon
• 2015 Women in Media Report, prepared by Women's Media Center.
• #wikiD: Help ArchiteXX Add Women Architects to Wikipedia, 25 February 2015, ArchDaily
• Harvard students edit Wikipedia in effort to ‘dismantle the patriarchy’, 9 September 2015, College Fix
• Iberocoop content on women biographies, 4 August 2015, Wikimedia blog
• [http://www.wikimedia.org.ar/2015/07/08/a-que-llamamos-brecha-de-genero-en-wp/ "¿A qué llamamos brecha de género en Wikipedia?" (What do we call gender gap in Wikipedia?), 8 July 2015, by user:Jaluj
• Job vacant: Wikipedian-in-residence, 20 July 2015, The Australian
• Wiki Worker Wanted, 17 July 2015, Inside Higher Ed
• Few Women in Wiki Editing, 26 June 2015, Anupama Mili, The New Indian Express
• Wikipedia Forms Partnership with WVU to Lessen Gender Gap, 7 July 2015, WBOY.com
• Wikipedia has lots of weaknesses, the worst of which is lack of women editors, Jenny Kleeman, The Australian Financial Review
• Can Wikipedia Survive?, 20 June 2015, Andrew Lih, The New York Times
• The Wikipedia wars: does it matter if our biggest source of knowledge is written by men?, 26 May 2015, Jenny Kleeman, New Statesman
• Editors Are Trying To Fix Wikipedia's Gender And Racial Bias Problem, 15 April 2015, Sara Boboltz, Huffington Post
• Edit-a-thon aims to fix Wikipedia gender gap, 28 April 2015, Chris Oberholt, KCTV5 Kansas City
• Wikipedia’s Women Problem, 29 April 2015, James Gleick, The New York Review
• Computational Linguistics Reveals How Wikipedia Articles Are Biased Against Women, 2 February 2015, MIT Technology Review