#GAReads | Academic writes 270 Wikipedia pages in a year to get female scientists noticed
"Academic writes 270 Wikipedia pages in a year to get female scientists noticed":
Jess Wade is a scientist on a mission. She wants every woman who has achieved something impressive in science to get the prominence and recognition they deserve – starting with a Wikipedia entry.
“I’ve done about 270 in the past year,” says Wade, a postdoctoral researcher in the field of plastic electronics at Imperial College London’s Blackett Laboratory. “I had a target for doing one a day, but sometimes I get too excited and do three.”