Reducing Bias in Wikipedia’s Coverage of Political Scientists

One in five political scientists with biographies on Wikipedia are women and almost half are American. Biases on Wikipedia can cause real harm, so I created or expanded a political science–related Wikipedia article every day for a year, focusing on writing new pages about political scientists from underrepresented groups. This article shows that Wikipedia’s coverage of political scientists remains skewed by gender and nationality, and I suggest ways for political scientists to improve Wikipedia’s representation of the discipline.

This resource is part of a larger set of supplemental resources associated with the April 2022 PS: Politics & Political Science Teaching Symposia, “Wikipedia & Political Science: Addressing Systemic Biases in the Classroom.” APSA Educate thanks Cambridge University Press and the PS Editors  for their help organizing this collaboration and for making these articles freely available through August 2022.