UK academic’s Wikipedia project raises profile of women around the world

Lucy Moore has created a page for at least one woman from every country in the world for the online encyclopedia

A UK academic who has completed a project creating a Wikipedia page for a woman in every country in the world is calling for more women to contribute to the world's largest encyclopedia.

Lucy Moore, an archaeologist and curator who also works as an unpaid carer, began the mammoth project in 2021 from her sofa in Leeds, completing it last week - unsurprisingly, perhaps, I got really stuck on Vatican City".