Wikiproyecto Mujeres y Salud
¡Welcome to the Mujer y Salud Project page on Wikipedia!
This initiative joins the WikiProject Women's Health with the purpose of identifying and reducing the knowledge gaps related to women's health on Wikipedia, primarily in Spanish, Catalan, Galician, and Basque.
WikiProject Mujeres y Salud 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 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 — stemming from both biological differences and social or cultural factors — and ensuring that the information available reflects this reality in a fair and well-documented way.
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 diseases have traditionally been considered a male issue, resulting in delayed diagnoses and inadequate treatments for women. Additionally, chronic pain in women has often been minimized or attributed to psychological causes, reflecting a gender bias in medical care.
Main objectives
Identify and map knowledge gaps
- Analyze the existing content on Wikipedia related to women's health.
- Compare Wikipedia content with academic literature and glossaries to find missing topics.
Improve and expand content on women's health
- Improve existing articles and create new ones based on identified gaps.
- Focus on high-priority topics like menstruation, osteoporosis, menopause, etc.
- Identify and correct content bias.
Engage the community through events
- Organize Wikipedia editing events, including in-person sessions.
- Train new editors in women's health.
- Encourage ongoing collaboration to maintain and expand coverage on women's health 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.
Timeline
| ACTIVITY | DATE(S) | RESPONSIBLES | LOCATION | NOTES |
| Activity 1. In-person and online Edit-a-thon | ||||
| Edit-a-thon (3 hours) | March 29, 2025 | Helena, Tiputini and Alzinous | Barcelona | Childcare service available |
| Review/edit uploaded articles. | April 1–10, 2025 | Tiputini and Alzinous | ||
| Activity 2. Working meeting with medical professionals and expert editors | ||||
| Working meeting | April 25-27, 2025 | Helena, Tiputini and Alzinous | Tarragona | |
| Review/edit uploaded articles. | April 28-30, 2025 | Tiputini and Alzinous | ||
| Activity 3. In-person and online Edit-a-thon Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editatona Día Internacional de Acción para la Salud de las Mujeres | ||||
| Edit-a-thon | June 30, 2025 | Helena, Tiputini and Alzinous | Barcelona | |
| Review/edit uploaded articles. | July 01-15, 2025 | Tiputini and Alzinous | ||
| Activity 4. Working meeting with medical professionals and expert editors | ||||
| Working meeting | September 12-15, 2025 | Helena and Tiputini, Alzinous | Pending | |
| Review/edit uploaded articles. | September 19-24, 2025 | Tiputini and Alzinous | ||
| Activity 5. In-person and online Edit-a-thon World Menopause Day | ||||
| Edit-a-thon | October 24, 2025 | Helena, Tiputini and Alzinous | Pending | |
| Review/edit uploaded articles. | October 20-30, 2025 | Tiputini and Alzinous | ||
| Activity 6. Online meeting project evaluation | ||||
| Virtual meeting with group | November 2025 | All group members | on líne | |
| Evaluation survey | 1-15 December, 2025 | |||
| Final report | December 31, 2025 | Helena, Tiputini and Alzinous | ||
How to participate
Organized by
In collaboration with
Resources
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Metrics
Proposed articles
Articles to create and/or expand
Consult the list of vital articles relating to women's health. You can edit in any language.
Translation
More than 200 leads of English articles have been brought to high quality in collaboration with Wiki Project Med. A tool is available HERE to help coordinate translation work into other languages of Wikipedia.
Expected Results
| Participants | Goals | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | |
| Number of editors | 25 | We will strive for representation from each of the languages proposed in the project: |
| Organizers | 2 |
| Wikimedia projects | Number of created or improved contents |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 150 |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | 100 |