{"id":5126,"date":"2024-03-27T16:43:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T16:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wikiesfera.org\/?p=5126"},"modified":"2025-07-13T10:34:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T10:34:37","slug":"por-que-no-vemos-a-las-mujeres-que-estan-en-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wikiesfera.org\/en\/2024\/03\/27\/por-que-no-vemos-a-las-mujeres-que-estan-en-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Why don't we see the women who are on Wikipedia?"},"content":{"rendered":"

An analysis of the 25 most visited articles on Spanish Wikipedia during 2023 suggests that the gender gap in the free encyclopedia does not only affect content, but also results in lower visibility of articles related to women.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, is one of the most consulted pages in the world<\/strong>. Every month, more than 1.5 billion unique devices access it. Among the language versions, Wikipedia in English<\/strong>, an encyclopedia created and consulted, not only from Spain but by the entire Spanish-speaking community, about 600 million people worldwide are positioned as the 4th most visited wiki<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Wikiesfera we have been since 2015<\/strong> working to make the representation of information in this encyclopedia as equitable as possible. And following in the wake of the article published by the Wikimedia Foundation about the 25 most visited articles on Wikipedia in English<\/a><\/strong>, we wanted to know which contents are the most visited in Wikipedia in Spanish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In particular, we wanted to check if, as with the content available on Wikipedia (with only one 22% of women's biographies<\/strong>) there is some gender bias in consultations <\/strong>that this encyclopedia is made and what are the reasons for this to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To do this, we have made a review of the most visited articles on Spanish Wikipedia in 2023<\/strong>, and the list is the most revealing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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> Cleopatra<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Although it may seem surprising, Cleopatra<\/a> y Cleopatra I of Egypt<\/a> are the most visited pages of the wiki in Spanish <\/a>because a virtual assistant that, in order to be configured, asks users to say \"Show Cleopatra on Wikipedia\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

> Social networks<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After Cleopatra, the most visited article on Wikipedia in Spanish is that of YouTube<\/a>, which received more than 8 million visits in 2023. But did the people who came to that page really seek to know the encyclopedic information around this video platform or, on the contrary, did they intend to reach YouTube itself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same goes for other similar pages, such as Instagram<\/a>, Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a> o WhatsApp<\/a>, which are positioned as some of the most visited pages on Wikipedia in Spanish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

> Top 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If we remove from the list the aforementioned results that seem not to come from organic searches (that is, those related to social networks or Cleopatra), we find that the most searched articles in 2023 on Spanish Wikipedia<\/strong> were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Periodic table of elements<\/a>, with almost 6 million views. This result is quite striking, and possibly because this article is used as an educational resource.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. ChatGPT<\/a>. It was also the most visited article on Wikipedia in English. It seems that artificial intelligence has aroused the curiosity of reading people.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Lionel Messi<\/a>. A footballer could not miss in the list of the most read articles.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    > Biographies of women?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    If we delve a little deeper into the list, we find more biographies among the most consulted articles on the Spanish Wikipedia, although only one of them belongs to a woman:<\/p>\n\n\n\n