Stop Female Scientists Being Written Out of Wikipedia History

from theguardian.com: Professor Dame Julia Slingo is not a shadowy figure. As chief scientist at the Met Office, she is an expert on a national obsession and has barely been out of the spotlight since Britain was taken by storm. But hunt for her on Wikipedia and just five short paragraphs pop up. “Many female scientists are either not there at all on Wikipedia or just [have] stubs,” said Dame Athene Donald, fellow of the Royal Society and professor of experimental physics at Cambridge University. “It’s not just the historical characters, it’s the current ones, and these very eminent women just somehow get overlooked.

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