Elizabeth De Wolfe publishes guest blog for Wiki Educational Foundation on women and gender studies student projects showing 'Wikipedia' articles to be male-centric

Photos from the Jane Mussey Sweat papers, a collection used by Briana Goud (Biochemistry major/Applied Mathematics minor, '18) f

Photos from the Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat papers, a collection used by Briana Goud (Biochemistry major/Applied Mathematics minor, '18) for her research project, which she conducted using UNE's Maine Women Writers Collection

Elizabeth De Wolfe, Ph.D., professor of history, has published a guest blog for the Wiki Education Foundation on the women and gender studies-centered Wikipedia projects undertaken by her students in the spring 2016 semester.

In her course Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, undergraduate students learned of the gender disparity in publicly available information, including information on sites, such as Wikipedia, whose editors (content providers), says De Wolfe, are overwhelmingly male and where women-centered content is lacking.

Working with staff at the Wiki Education Foundation, De Wolfe's students learned how to research, write, edit and upload Wikipedia articles. In addition to adding new content to existing articles, students added several new articles, increasing and enhancing the visibility of women's lives, accomplishments and history on Wikipedia.

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