Title: Fewer "Female Greats" Listed in Wikipedia
Subtitle: Fukuoka citizens researched and editedOn the 29th, an event was held at the Fukuoka Prefectural Library in Higashi Ward, Fukuoka City, where participants wrote entries in the free Internet encyclopedia "Wikipedia" to make the historical women active in Fukuoka widely known. About 20 participants researched the achievements of six women in the Edo and Meiji periods, including Osamu Takaba, a Confucian scholar and doctor, using materials in the library and other places, and wrote about them in Wikipedia.Wikipedia is characterized by the fact that anyone can write on it, and the biographies and achievements of many people are listed. However, only about 20% of women are listed compared to men.
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Also, a recent Diff blog of a different edit-a-thon by the same grant project.
 | Silvia Gutiérrez (she/her) Senior Program Officer, Libraries Wikimedia Foundation |