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Editing Wikipedia with a gender perspective (2018/25)
Since 2018, I have been organizing and coordinating Wikipedia edit-a-thons with a gender perspective as part of the global Art+Feminism initiative. The goal is to help reduce the gender gap on the platform and to make cis and trans women, non-binary people, feminist movements, and artistic practices more visible.
Over the years, several editions have taken place: at Sala Apolo in Barcelona (2018 and 2019), focused on new technologies and urban music; an online gathering during the pandemic (2020), dedicated to contemporary art and urbanism; and most recently at Konvent (2021 and 2025), oriented towards performative arts —with a special emphasis on sound art in the latest edition.
These sessions have become collective spaces for creation and learning, combining hands-on Wikipedia editing with critical reflection on who writes history and how shared knowledge is built.
Impact and Ongoing Relevance
The cumulative impact includes over 64.5 million words added, around 200 new references, 183 edited articles, 43 new entries created, and 49 uploads to Wikimedia Commons, with more than 91 million views across the resulting pages.This work connects to a persistent issue: already in 2011, the Wikimedia Foundation warned that fewer than 10% of editors identified as women, and the 2024 Community Insights survey showed that, thirteen years later, women’s participation had increased only to 14%.
In this context, edit-a-thons become vital tools for addressing absences, building community, and bringing feminist and dissident narratives into one of the most-consulted knowledge archives in the world.