As it happened: Wikipedia edit-a-thon

Our colleagues in Washington DC are adding and updating a long list of Wikipedia profiles as we speak. Among those being worked on are American professional gambler Cat Hulbert, who's described how she got rich beating male opponents, controversial bullfighter Conchi Rios, and Heloise Letissier, aka Christine and the Queens. 

All three are on the BBC's list of inspirational and influential women for 2016.

Speaking to the BBC's Sarah Montague as part of the 100 Women season, Heloise Letissier talked about pansexuality and gender. And here's the interview:

Journalists in the BBC's Washington bureau just added Judi Aubel on Wikipedia. 

She is an American social entrepreneur and the executive director of The Grandmother Project, a non-profit that works to improve the lives of women and children by focusing on the power of grandmothers. 

She's one of BBC's 2016 100 women.

Here's her shiny new page. 

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The BBC's Nuala McGovern reports from the centre of London's New Broadcasting House on the edit-a-thon that's got people talking and typing. 

Actress, activist and girlfriend of Prince Harry Meghan Markle nominates Suhani Jalota, the founder of an organisation that employs young women in India. 

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Find out more about Myna Mahila's foundation here. 

Fatuma Ali Saman is a teacher and important figure in the fight for the rights of women and their representation in Kenya.   

She has been pushing for change to the Kenya police, which has been accused of human rights violation in the past.

Here's her page, created by the BBC Swahili team in Nairobi.

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BBC’s 100 Women edit-a-thon has broken records for the highest number of entries about women added to Wikipedia in a single event.

That's according to Wikimedia UK, the UK arm of the charity responsible for Wikipedia.

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As of 17:45 GMT, the event had garnered 4,000 tweets from 2,400 accounts.  

Email Message: Hello,

I created my first Wikipedia page! It's on designer Rebecca Strickson. It's still waiting to be approved.

I've made small edits before but have never created a Wikipedia article before, so thank you so much for encouraging me to give it a go. I always feel sad when I google people (often designers and artists) and find lots of men listed but few equivalent female peers. Hopefully I will continue to make time to add new women to Wikipedia in future.

Hello,

I created my first Wikipedia page! It's on designer Rebecca Strickson. It's still waiting to be approved.

I've made small edits before but have never created a Wikipedia article before, so thank you so much for encouraging me to give it a go. I always feel sad when I google people (often designers and artists) and find lots of men listed but few equivalent female peers. Hopefully I will continue to make time to add new women to Wikipedia in future.

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Regina Catrambone and her husband Chris set up a charity to rescue migrants and refugees from the Mediterranean Sea (Read more about it here), but until today only Chris had a Wikipedia page. 

Malicia Dabrowicz, who runs a small business in Worcester, nominated her.

Regina's page is now up. 

Laura Coryton, the woman who campaigned to get the tax on tampons overturned in the UK, has been added to Wikipedia as part of our edit-a-thon. She was nominated by Dr Radha Modgil, a GP and broadcaster.  

Laura also features in an article we published today on how women tend to have more success than men with online campaigns. 

She told BBC News how it felt to realise she'd just been added to the online encyclopaedia. 

Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh started blogging under the pen name ‘Mother mushroom’ in 2006 after a visit to a hospital where she witnessed many poor, desperate patients waiting to be seen but ignored. 

The Vietnamese dissident blogger was arrested in October while trying to visit an imprisoned political activist.  

Quỳnh says her motive for blogging is very simple: “I don’t want my children to struggle and have to do what I’m doing right now.”

Here's her page.

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Uruguayan Victoria Alonso Perez is an electronics and telecommunication engineer, entrepreneur and inventor. She was on the BBC 100 Women list last year. 

She’s the creator of the platform Chipsafer, which allows farmers to track animals and prevent epidemics.

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She applies space technology to many different problems, is chair of the Space Generation Advisory Council, and now also has a Wikipedia page (in Spanish).  

Staff at The Smithsonian Institution Archives in Washington DC have a nomination, and a helpful link to their Wikipedia 'To do' list .  

Daryll Neita, who won a bronze in the Rio Olympics this summer, has nominated up and coming athlete Imani Lansiquot to be added to Wikipedia. 

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Email Message: I edit Wikipedia (when I remember...) but the people I write about are of intrinsic merit, not selected because of their gender.

Take Admiral Grace Hopper for example: a pioneer of computer science, to call her a FEMALE pioneer of computer science is demeaning, as if she would not rate a place amongst computer pioneers if her gender was ignored.

The best way to combat sexism is not to keep on talking as if gender was significant.... this whole exercise perpetuates it.

I edit Wikipedia (when I remember...) but the people I write about are of intrinsic merit, not selected because of their gender.

Take Admiral Grace Hopper for example: a pioneer of computer science, to call her a FEMALE pioneer of computer science is demeaning, as if she would not rate a place amongst computer pioneers if her gender was ignored.

The best way to combat sexism is not to keep on talking as if gender was significant.... this whole exercise perpetuates it.

The BBC World Service programme Witness has added Rupan Deol Bajaj. 

In 1988 senior civil servant Rupan Deol Bajaj became the first woman in India ever to bring a case of sexual harassment to court. 

The man who touched her was KPS Gill, who was then chief of police in Punjab. He denied "outraging the modesty of a woman” but in 2005, after a 17-year court case, he was finally convicted. Rupan Deol Bajaj has been telling #100women about how it all began.

Helen Pankhurst, the great granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, who came into NBH earlier to nominate a forgotten woman for Wikipedia has now herself been added.  

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