Wikipedia is currently the 7th-most-visited website in the world, and gets about 18bn page views every month. However, the site — an extensive encyclopaedia to which anyone can contribute — is seeing shrinking numbers of volunteer contributors and editors, especially women. The Wikimedia Foundation, which manages the site, found in 2011 that only 9pc of global contributors (and 15pc of US contributors) were women. After that survey, Wikipedia announced that it would try to boost women’s global participation to 25pc by last year, but it was unable to meet that goal.

(Harvard Business Review)

Published in Dawn, Business & Finance weekly, June 27th, 2016