Event: Wikiproject Women and Health
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Welcome to the Women and Health Project page on Wikipedia!
This initiative joins the WikiProject Women's Health with the purpose of identifying and reducing knowledge gaps about women's health on Wikipedia, mainly in Spanish, Catalan, Galician and Basque.
The Women and Health WikiProject is an initiative that aims to review and expand content related to women's health, incorporating a gender perspective. This approach helps to highlight and correct the gender biases present in many articles, contributing to a more equitable and accurate encyclopedia. Applying a gender perspective to health content means recognizing the inequalities that affect women—arising from both biological differences and social or cultural factors—and ensuring that the available information reflects this reality fairly and with good documentation.
For a long time, medical research and clinical practice have been based on male models, leading to biases in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases in women. For example, cardiovascular disease has traditionally been considered a male problem, resulting in late diagnoses and inadequate treatment in women. Furthermore, chronic pain in women has frequently been minimized or attributed to psychological causes, reflecting a gender bias in care.
Main objectives
Identify and map knowledge gaps
- Analyze existing content on Wikipedia related to women's health.
- Compare Wikipedia content with academic literature and glossaries to find missing topics.
Improve and expand women's health content
- Improve existing articles and create new ones based on identified gaps.
- Focus on high-priority issues such as menstruation, osteoporosis, menopause, etc.
- Identify and correct content bias.
Engaging the community through events
- OOrganize Wikipedia editing events, including in-person sessions.
- Train new editors in women's health.
- Promote continued collaboration to expand women's health coverage on Wikipedia.
Team
The team consists of health specialists, such as doctors, midwives, nurses, psychologists, and pharmacists, who will review and contribute relevant information to validate the content of each entry being worked on. The group will be coordinated by a women's health expert, project coordinator at RedCAPS, and a Wikipedia editing expert with experience in the gender gap.
Metrics
Goals
| Participants | Task | Feedback |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | |
| Number of editors | 25 | We'll strive to represent each of the languages outlined in the project: |
| Number of organisers | 2 |
| Wikimedia projects | Created or improved content count |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 150 |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | 100 |
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