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Never again an internet without us: Wikipedia's editatona experience

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Wikipedia in its content, and as a community, remains highly masculine. Many women worldwide are working to reduce the gender gap. This article narrates one of the strategies that women of Latin America and Spain have been applying during the past five years to make this a reality.

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          XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students  Volume 26, Issue 4
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          Summer 2020
          55 pages
          ISSN:1528-4972
          EISSN:1528-4980
          DOI:10.1145/3410341
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