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Physicist Jess Wade Pens 1,750 Wikipedia Pages for Women Scientists

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Upon discovering that renowned American climatologist Kim Cobb did not have a Wikipedia page, Jess Wade (British physicist and research fellow at Imperial College London) penned her entry—before continuing on a quest to document other women and minority scientists, as well as engineers. Wade has now written more than 1,750 Wikipedia pages for notable figures. “Wikipedia is a really powerful way to give credit to …

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Help Update Wikipedia with Art+Feminism

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With less than 13% of its contributors identifying as female, Wikipedia has had difficulty keeping its content equal between the genders and has been known to be missing articles on many notable women. To help bring balance to the online database, Art+Feminism is holding an international edit-a-thon to update Wikipedia with art- and feminism-related entries. The weekend-long event will begin on 7 March 2015 and …

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