Content gender gap (CGG) is a systemic bias issue affecting all language
Wikipedias. A group of editors have addressed CGG on the English
Wikipedia in a unique way, creating almost 9,000 new articles within the
first 5.5 months of the group's existence. The objective of WikiProject
Women in Red (WIR) is to turn "redlinks" into "blue links". Its scope
includes women's biographies and women's works, broadly construed. This
presentation provides a historical perspective of CGG, an overview of
WIR's history, strategy, processes, and then describes how to replicate
WIR's success in other language Wikipedias, creating an international
movement.
Wikimania is the annual conference
celebrating Wikipedia and its sister free knowledge projects with
conferences, discussions, meetups, training and a hackathon. Hundreds of
volunteer editors come together to learn about and discuss projects,
approaches and issues.
Wikimania was in Esino Lario, Province of Lecco, Lombardy Region, Italy, on June 22–23 (pre-conference), 24–26 (main conference) and 27–28 (post-conference), 2016.