When last surveyed a decade ago, about 85% of English Wikipedia’s editors were men. Most lived in the U.S., the U.K. or India. And of the roughly 1.8 million biographies they jointly have produced, at least four out of every five is about a man.
The encyclopedia’s gender imbalance is hardly news; the Wikimedia Foundation has acknowledged a problem since that 2011 survey, and efforts to change things have received a great deal of media attention. Wikipedian Rosie Stephenson–Goodknight co-founded a project called Women in Red to write articles about women mentioned in encyclopedia articles on other topics; the project has created over 175,000 articles in five years.
Skirmishes over academic notability happen regularly, though they don’t usually involve outsiders. Wikipedians argued over astrophysicist Katie Bouman, who became famous when she was photographed reacting to the first-ever image of a black hole; although she became the media face of a 400-physicist team, Slate reported at the time that some editors argued that her scholarly impact did not warrant an article of her own and she should be folded into the article about the black hole itself. Bouman now has her own page.
Source: What’s with Wikipedia and women?