wikipedia Archives - Permanent.org https://www.permanent.org/blog/tag/wikipedia/ Nonprofit. Secure. Digital Archives. Wed, 06 Mar 2024 17:01:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.permanent.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-Permanent-Icon-512-32x32.png wikipedia Archives - Permanent.org https://www.permanent.org/blog/tag/wikipedia/ 32 32 Public Archive Spotlight: The Art+Feminism Archive https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-artfeminism-archive/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-artfeminism-archive/#respond Wed, 06 Mar 2024 14:11:02 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=6077 When it comes to whose and which stories have been captured by the historical narrative, women have been disproportionately left out. A 2018 survey from Wikipedia across 12 different language versions found that 90% of the respondents reported their gender as male with just 8.8% identifying as female and 1% as other. In addition, a 2021 study found that although biographies of women only make up 17% of those on Wikipedia, 41% of the biographies nominated for deletion were about women. This gender bias affects the creation and content of the pages on Wikipedia, with some non-male participants feeling like there is a barrier to participating due to factors such as gatekeeping, harassment, and frequent ...

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