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When you want to learn about an obscure topic, where do you turn? For many, it’s a free, online encyclopedia which now contains more than 55 million user-created articles.  This hour, we talk about 20 years of Wikipedia.

We get a behind the scenes look at the sites’ editing process, including the tools the Wikipedia community has developed to fight misinformation.

And we talk about how some users are working to address the site’s persistent gender, racial, and geographic disparities.

Are you a “Wikipedian”?

GUESTS:
Molly White - Longtime Wikipedia editor based in Boston, Massachusetts
Sherry Antoine - Executive director of AfroCROWD, a Wikimedia initiative to improve engagement of people of African descent in Wikipedia in both content and editorship.
Ariella Rotramel- Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies at Connecticut College

Cat Pastor contributed to this program.

When you want to learn about an obscure topic, where do you turn? For many, it&rsquo;s a free, online encyclopedia which now contains more than 55 million user-created articles.&nbsp; This hour, we talk about 20 years of Wikipedia.
We get a behind the scenes look at the sites&rsquo; editing process, including the tools the Wikipedia community has developed to fight misinformation.
And we talk about how some users are working to address the site&rsquo;s persistent gender, racial, and geographic disparities.
Are you a &ldquo;Wikipedian&rdquo;?
GUESTS:
<ul>
<li>Molly White -&nbsp;Longtime Wikipedia editor based in Boston, Massachusetts</li>
<li>Sherry Antoine -&nbsp;Executive director of&nbsp;<a href="https://afrocrowd.org/">AfroCROWD</a>, a Wikimedia initiative to improve engagement of people of African descent in Wikipedia in both content and editorship.</li>
<li>Ariella Rotramel- Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.conncoll.edu/">Connecticut College</a></li>
</ul>
Cat Pastor contributed to this program.

Produced by Connecticut Public, 'Where We Live' puts Connecticut in context. Host Catherine Shen brings us fascinating, informed, in-depth conversations and stories beyond news headlines.  We start local, but we take time to explore domestic and international issues and consider how they impact us personally and here at home.

Produced by Connecticut Public, '<a href="https://www.ctpublic.org/show/where-we-live/about">Where We Live'</a> puts Connecticut in context. Host Catherine Shen brings us fascinating, informed, in-depth conversations and stories beyond news headlines.  We start local, but we take time to explore domestic and international issues and consider how they impact us personally and here at home.

Where We Live is a call-in talk show about who we are in Connecticut and our place in the world.

Where We Live

Produced by Connecticut Public, '<a href="https://www.ctpublic.org/show/where-we-live/about">Where We Live'</a> puts Connecticut in context. Host Catherine Shen brings us fascinating, informed, in-depth conversations and stories beyond news headlines.  We start local, but we take time to explore domestic and international issues and consider how they impact us personally and here at home.

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