Event held in Japan to increase Wikipedia articles on women

The Swedish Embassy in Japan hosted an event Sunday to increase articles on women in the online collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia with the aim of narrowing the gender gap on the internet.According to the embassy, only 17 percent of individuals given Wikipedia entries were women across all its sites in some 300 languages. The ratio was 22 percent for the Japanese version.Many women who merit entries for their achievements in their fields are not featured, the embassy said, noting that 90 percent of the content is created by men.The event, called "WikiGap," was organized under the gender e…READ FULL ARTICLE