She’s spent five years and more than 1000 hours writing about 427 women. Annie Reynolds says there’s nothing she would rather do with her time than build profiles about Australian women on Wikipedia.
“There is so much to do. There are so many deserving women who need profiles … there aren’t enough hours in the day to make as much difference as I’d like to make,” she told SBS News.
From women on the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, esteemed writers and accomplished scientists to Olympic athletes, Annie has had her hands full trying to give women their due online.
Asked why she spends her time writing articles for free, Annie’s response was frank: “Because I can. Would I be knitting? How would I fill my time?”
She’s since joined an initiative called Women in Red a global movement aimed at closing the gender gap on Wikipedia. Names written on the site with no articles attached are coloured red. Women in Red’s mission is to change as many red names to blue as possible.