Equalpedia is an encyclopedia project by Women Writing Wiki to close the digital knowledge gap about women, LGBTQIA+ people and other marginalized groups and their achievements (Digital Gender Knowledge Gap).
- Knowledge has an impact (or: knowledge is power): Knowledge empowers people to shape and participate, and it forms societies. How groups collect and disseminate knowledge, and what they consider worth knowing, defines their own self-understanding and determines how achievements are perceived in a society. That is why we collect knowledge with a specific focus.
- Our focus is on women and LGBTQIA+ people and other marginalized groups. We want to fill knowledge gaps and thereby help to overcome the Gender Knowledge Gap. Equalpedia is a platform committed to equal value, openness and inclusion.
- We collect our knowledge in times of digital transformation, in which algorithms and AI are becoming increasingly important. Here, too, we want to contribute to publishing our knowledge online in a methodologically up-to-date way: that is why we are working, for example, on gender-equitable algorithms.
- Just as we assume the power of knowledge, we also assume the power of language. That is why we use gender-equitable language: on Equalpedia, we use the gender asterisk.
- Communication standards: We maintain factual and open communication about the content, on equal terms.
- Together with the network of experts, we have developed contemporary relevance criteria for encyclopedic work. We are aware that knowledge changes – just like the assessment of what is worth knowing. That is why our relevance criteria are reviewed and further developed with our authors at regular intervals.
- We are open to those who wish to take part in our work while complying with the established Equalpedia rules and our communication standards, as authors or discussants of content that is important for collecting and processing knowledge. The prerequisite for this is being registered as an Equalpedia author (see also For authors, Rules for articles).
- The Equalpedia editorial team is made up of staff from different disciplines. Submitted texts are reviewed by the editorial team, revised in consultation with the authors and then published by the editorial team under the authors’ names.
- We are part of a network of institutions that are also committed to equality in our society and to women’s issues. From these institutions, we receive valuable professional and substantive suggestions and contributions for presenting the missing knowledge in encyclopedic form. Click here for our network partners.
- Equalpedia is financed through public funds and is supported by foundations. The funders have no editorial influence on the texts.
Machine translation: This article was translated automatically from the German original.