Women have long been underrepresented in science – and on Wikipedia. But one corner of academia may have quietly reversed part of that trend. Alvarez-Ponce and his colleague embarked on the study after seeing the news 2 years ago that women had finally reached 20% of biography subjects on the English-language Wikipedia, a number editors and volunteers had spent years trying to raise. The scientists wondered whether the statistic held true for women in their field, too.

The team found that 9.4% of women in the data set had Wikipedia biographies, compared with 7.5% of men. These trends are recent, though. By analyzing when the Wikipedia pages were created, the team found that men biologists were more likely to have biographies until 2018. Between 2019 and 2021, women and men had similar chances. Then, in 2022 the pattern reversed and women were more likely to have a Wikipedia page than men.

The researchers suspect that organized editing campaigns likely helped drive the shift. Nearly half of the women’s biographies created since 2015 were written by editors affiliated with Women in Red, a volunteer effort aimed at addressing Wikipedia’s gender imbalance.

Source https://www.science.org/content/article/wikipedia-s-gender-gap-has-flipped-one-group-scientists

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