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Gender balance, diversity and fairness are values that Wikipedia promotes in the interests of all editors and readers. Even though, the Gender bias on Wikipedia, also known as the Gendergap, is a persistent reality. It refers to criticism towards the nature and quantity of content biased on the online encyclopedia due to a dominant majority of male editors. In April 2011, the Wikimedia Foundation conducted its first survey, revealing that less than 13% of its contributors are female.[1] In the last years, efforts to increase female editorship are to be underlined such as dedicated edit-a-thons to increase the coverage of women's topics in Wikipedia and to encourage more women to edit Wikipedia.
To go further and approach the topic in a diverse way, this essay page points at the lack of images on Wikipedia when it comes to represent women. This absence of visual culture (portraits, self-portraits, drawings, etc.) reinforces the fact that female personalities are nor strongly present neither portrayed.
This page may help to consider the phenomenon and reflect on new type of events and contributions on Wikipedia, oriented in the production of a visual culture around female personalities, and more widely women on Wikipedia.
- ^ Glott, Ruediger; et al. (15 March 2010). "Wikipedia Survey – Overview of Results" (PDF). United Nations University.