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Wikipedia is a website where users can add to or edit the content of posted articles. It has been around for over 15 years and it’s one of the most visited websites on the internet. Wikipedia is an important platform that promotes free knowledge, but there are still some inherent biases in its coverage. We’ve seen this with how Wikipedia covers topics like women, African Americans, people from other cultures and LGBT communities. One way to address these problems is by __ing: Edit-a-thons are events where volunteers work together to contribute content about underrepresented groups to Wikipedia pages during a set time period., A “wiki” (quick wiki) page is a type of website that allows anyone who visits it to edit its content. Wikipedia is a website where users can add to or edit the content of posted articles. It has been around for over 15 years and it’s one of the most visited websites on the internet. Wikipedia is an important platform that promotes free knowledge, but there are still some inherent biases in its coverage. We’ve seen this with how Wikipedia covers topics like women, African Americans, people from other cultures and LGBT communities. One way to address these problems is by organising “edit-a-thons”: events where volunteers work together to contribute content about underrepresented groups to Wikipedia pages during a set time period.” One __ing event took place at Rutgers University New Brunswick on March 11th 2017 as an International Women’s Day celebration: An edit-a-thon is an event where volunteers come together to work on content about underrepresented groups in Wikipedia pages during a set period of time. For example, one took place at Rutgers University New Brunswick as an International Women’s Day celebration and the outcome was the addition of over 100 new articles to Wikipedia! The average person spends only 15 minutes looking up information online, so we have found that by focusing our efforts for even just two hours towards editing parts of Wikipedia this can produce significant results. That level of engagement with history and knowledge grows exponentially when it happens collectively. A “wiki” page (quick wiki) is a type of website that allows anyone who visits it to edit its content. It has been around
