Wikimedia Toolkit

Wikipedia has been criticized in the past for racial biases on their platform. Learn more about these biases and how Wikipedia has been addressing the issue.

Research reveals gender gaps in editing Wikipedia. A 2011 survey found that roughly 9% of women globally contribute to Wikipedia and 15% in the United States. Learn the reasons why.

Ever wondered who gets represented in Wikipedia? Research has shown that male dominated and western views tend to have most representation on the platform.

Samuel Baltz a PhD candidate in political science and scientific computing and an MS student in applied mathematics at the University of Michigan, speaks out about the growing number of political science articles in Wikipedia on American scientists and his contributions to fix it.

Art+Feminism builds a community of activists that is committed to closing information gaps related to gender, feminism, and the arts, beginning with Wikipedia.

AfroCrowd seeks to increase awareness and the number of people of African descent who actively partake in the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements.

500 Women Scientists has designed programming to ensure the contributions of women leading in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine are reflected in the world’s largest free encyclopedia for all to discover. Learn about their impact and upcoming edit-a-thons.

The Black Lunch Table Wikimedians mobilize the creation and improvement of a specific set of Wikipedia articles that pertain to the lives and works of Black artists. At the bottom of this page you will find upcoming edit-a-thon events.

A guide provided by Wikipedia on reasons to run an edit-a-thon and how to create your own.

Wikimedia Outreach provides a three module training resource aimed at focusing on the development and planning of edit-a-thons.

This document lays out a checklist and resources for planning a Wiki Edit-a-thon at NYU in collaboration with NYU Libraries. We recommend setting up regular check-ins with your event team.

The GLAM-WIKI project supports galleries, libraries, archives, museums and other institutions who want to work with Wikimedia to produce open-access, freely-reusable content for the public.

The Wikipedia+LGBTQ Studies aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and queer studies topics.

The Women in Red project aims to reduce systemic gender biases in the Wiki movement.

This project is currently active with the goal of improving Wikipedia's coverage of the Civil Rights Movement and the organization of information and articles on this topic.

WikiProject LGBT is the community project for improving LGBT-related content on Wikidata. The community here develops recommendations for modeling LGBT+ content, presents queries for showcasing LGBT content, and is the center for discussion of challenging issues in LGBT+ data curation.

The University of Maryland Libraries works to create and enhance Wikidata items with information from the UMD Special Collections and Archives and Special Collections in Performing Arts. This project begun in 2020 and is ongoing, the university has edited more than 1,000 items thus far.