Women get far less recognition on Wikipedia than men, and a group of artists is tired of it

Women get far less recognition on Wikipedia than men, and a group of artists is tired of it

A Vancouver art gallery is making sure women get their due on the world's largest online encyclopaedia. The Belkin Art Gallery is hosting a Wikipedia 'edit-a-thon'. The goal is to create more pages celebrating the accomplishments of women, particularly female artists - a demographic that the gallery's coordinator Alexandra Bischoff says is widely underrepresented.

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