A slow and steady battle – #WikidGrrls featured in Think Progress feature

screen-shot-2016-12-19-at-4-30-15-pmWikid Grrls – Teaching Online Skills to Teenage Girls has been detailed in a feature story by Aysha Khan for Think Progress.

Her article “The slow and steady battle to close Wikipedia’s dangerous gender gap“ summarizes the many efforts undertaken mostly by women to close the contributor and content gender gaps on Wikipedia. Yet, despite a high number of interventions over the past five years only minimal gains have been made. The struggle continues.

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