Emily Temple-Wood

Emily Temple-Wood is Vice President of Wikimedia District of Columbia, a regional Wikipedia outreach organization. She has been editing Wikipedia since the age of ten and is at the forefront of efforts to fight systemic bias and increase representation of women on the online encyclopedia that now is the fifth-most accessed website on Earth. She founded WikiProject:Women Scientists to document the achievements of women in science on Wikipedia. As documented in a paper presented at the 2017 International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, her work has increased the percentage of female biographies on Wikipedia from 14 to 17 percent. For her work on the encyclopedia and being an inspiration to women, scientists, and Wikipedia editors all over the world, she was named Wikipedian of the Year in 2016. Emily Temple-Wood is a graduate of Loyola University of Chicago and is currently a medical student at Midwestern University. She enjoys cats, knitting, and biology.

Press coverage:

Rewriting the History of Women in Science
Scientific American, September 2017

How a feminist stood up to trolls and measurably changed Wikipedia’s coverage of women scientists
Wikimedia Foundation, March 17, 2017

How one young female scientist decided to cope with online harassment
Washington Post, March 11, 2016

The new alchemy: turning online harassment into Wikipedia articles on women scientists
Wikimedia Foundation, March 8, 2016