Document Type
Article
Abstract
Although many academics may openly discourage their students from consulting it, Wikipedia is the go-to first port-of-call for information for scholarly research, journalists, and even judges. Its info boxes are the source for Google and artificial intelligence in general. Wikipedia is the largest and most widely used encyclopedia in history. Just as feminist scholars have broken into mainstream journals and gained a toehold within university presses, these sources have become increasingly irrelevant and unavailable behind paywalls. Instead, Wikipedia has emerged as the standard research source, but it presents significant barriers to entry for feminist scholars and subjects of women, feminism, and gender. After explaining those barriers, this essay encourages scholars to embrace and learn to contribute to Wikipedia as an important way to amplify feminist voices and disseminate discoveries to prevent the erasure of women and feminism from history. It takes as its example, a project profiling women judges.
Recommended Citation
Sally Kenney, Women Judges and Wikipedia, 16 ConLawNOW 109 (2025)