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We helped 100 new contributors develop articles about women[edit]

Globally, males make up between 85 and 90 percent of Wikipedia editors. This disproportional percentage affects the content of the encyclopedia, resulting in few articles about women compared to articles about men. To bridge this gap, and in celebration of International Women's Day, Wikimedians of the Levant collaborated with a number of other institutions to organize a "WikiGap" workshop and develop articles about women and women's issues on Arabic Wikipedia (and, to a lesser extent, on English Wikipedia). This year's WikiGap workshop was the first time our group held the event simultaneously in both Jordan and Palestine, with a large contributor base, numbering over one hundred, who all received comprehensive training about the basics of editing Wikipedia under the supervision of established editors, resulting in adding over 160 women's articles to Wikipedia.