#100WomenWiki - BBC News & Wikipedia 12-Hour Edit-A-Thon

Every year, over the course of 3 weeks in December, BBC names and celebrates 100 influential and inspirational women around the world. These names include those of celebrities and those that represent "every woman". As a wrap up for the 2016 season, BBC News asked the question "Is The Internet Sexist?" 
"Wikipedia is the seventh most popular site in the world but only 15% of Wikipedia editors are women and fewer than 15% of its notable profiles are of women." - BBC News
Today, BBC has teamed up with Wikipedia to address this question with action, encouraging more women to edit and write articles and profiles about other women. If you want to take part in the edit-a-thon BBC will tell you how.


8 DEC: Is the internet sexist? The BBC’s 100 Women season ends today, and to mark the occasion, we’re joining forces with Wikipedia for a global edit-a-thon to try to increase the numbers of women profiled on the site. We're calling it #100WomenWiki, and BBC journalists and audiences all over the world will be taking part. We've discovered that although Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world, only around 15% of its editors are women, and fewer than 17% of biographies are of women, according to the site. We hope that by mobilising the 100 Women audiences our edit-a-thon will make a visible impact, with new Wikipedia pages, better information, and crucially, more women editing in more languages. So please join us, and help make the internet less sexist! Find out more: bbc.in/wiki #100Women #BBC100Women #100WomenWiki #Wikipedia #Women #Internet #BBCNews @BBC100Women @BBCNews
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