Alemany, Dolores2025-09-242025-09-242017Bellomi, F., & Bonato, R. (2005, August). Network analysis for Wikipedia. In proceedings of Wikimania. Available at https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c982/d2ca924aab410cc0e74fb48b97f1e6927b5d.pdf Collier, B. & Bear, J. (2012). Conflict, criticism, or confidence: an empirical examination of the gender gap in Wikipedia contributions. Proceedings of the ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Word, New York: ACM Preses, pp. 383-392 Gardner, S. (2011). Nine reasons women don’t edit Wikipedia. Available at https://suegardner.org/2011/02/19/nine-reasons-why-women-dont-edit-wikipedia-in-their-own-words/ Graells-Garrido, E., Lalmas, M., & Menczer, F. (2015). First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia. Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media. Available at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.02341.pdf Glott, R., Schmidt, P. & Ghosh, R. (2010). Wikipedia Survey: Overview Results. United Nations University UNU-Merit, available at "Wikipedia Survey: Overview Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 April 2010. Retrieved 11 August 2014. Head, A. J. & Eisenberg, M. B. (2010). How today’s college students use Wikipedia for course–related research. First Monday, 15 (3). Available at http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2830/2476 Jemielniak, D. (2016). Breaking the glass ceiling on Wikipedia. Feminist Review, 113(1), 103-108. DOI: 10.1057/fr.2016.9 Morell, M. F. (2010). Participation in online creation communities: ecosystemic participation? Conference paper presented at JITP 2010: The politics of open source, 6-7 May. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Nicolaes, F., (2016). Gender Bias on Wikipedia: An analysis of the affiliation network. Bachelor thesis. University of Amsterdam (supervisor Dr. M. J. Marx). Available at: https://esc.fnwi.uva.nl/thesis/centraal/files/f1270649307.pdf Quilter, L. (2012). Systemic Bias in Wikipedia: What It Looks Like, and How to Deal with It. Open Access Week 2012, University of Massachusetts Amherst Available at: http://works.bepress.com/laura_quilter/20/ Reagle, J. and Rhue, L. (2011). Gender bias in Wikipedia and Britannica. International Journal of Communication 5, pp. 1138-1158. Available at: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/777/631 Smith, C. (2017). By the Numbers: 27 Amazing Wikipedia Statistics (January 2017) DMR Stats/ Gadgets. Available at http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/wikipedia-statistics/https://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/6099Wikipedia, “this very peculiar artefact of human knowledge” (Bellomi & Bonato, 2005: 2), has come to stay. Yet the powerful access it provides to worldwide data that started with the XXI century –although a successful example of participatory culture– seems to be rather gender biased. A close examination of statistics as regards to the presence of biographies of women will show up to what point females are under-represented. The fact that Wikipedia biographies can help add visibility to women of all times should make us conscious about the presence (or else, absence) of notable women in Wikipedia. In this research, the focus will be on Spanish social reformers and civil rights women activists, analysing specifically the period covering the 1930s and the Spanish civil war. Besides, the case of women editing about women will be explored to illustrate the current state of the visibility of women in and through Wikipedia. Women’s equality, unfortunately, does not follow automatically from social revolutions. Raising awareness about the situation of women locally and internationally and creating networks of activists is the only guarantee of women being the protagonists of their own history. It is important to get more women involved in Wikipedia volunteer edit-a-thon events to write updated profiles of brilliant women that may still be out of history.enAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Articlehttps://www.ifla.org/node/11319open accessWomen’s presencesocial changesWikipediaSpanish second RepublicSpanish civil war