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One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia
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14 minutes
Released:
Jan 6, 2021
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Description
By day, Jess Wade is an experimental physicist at Imperial College London. But at night, she's a contributor to Wikipedia — where she writes entries about women and POC scientists. She chats with Emily Kwong about how Wikipedia can influence the direction of scientific research and why it's important to have entries about scientists from under-represented communities. Here are the Wikipedia entries of the scientists mentioned in today's show: Sarah Gilbert, Kizzmekia Corbett, Gladys West, and of course, Jess Wade. Email us at ShortWave@npr.org.
Released:
Jan 6, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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