Raising women's profile, one Wiki page at atime

An academic who has completed a project creating a Wikipedia page for a woman in every country in the world is calling for more women to contribute to the world's largest encyclopedia.

- Robyn Vinter 

Lucy Moore, an archaeologist and curator who also works as an unpaid carer, began the mammoth project in 2021 from her sofa in Leeds and completing it last week.

She has written biographies of 532 women since 2019 - when she first became a Wikipedia editor - including scientists, monarchs, activists, writers and women whose faces are well known but their stories are not, such as Sharbat Gula, the refugee with striking green eyes pictured in the Afghan Girl portrait from 1984.

Less than 20% of the biographies on English language Wikipedia are about women, but this is an improvement on 16% in 2014, when "a range of different editors started to get together and say, 'Actually, we really need to change this'," said Moore.