Jess Wade has been a vocal activist for women in STEM. On Wikipedia, she’s put biographies where her mouth is — and contributed hundreds of them on female scientists.

WHEN Jess Wade isn’t working in the physics laboratories of Imperial College London, she is fighting to make science more accessible for all. Her flagship project is to create and edit articles on ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

According to one estimate, only 19% of the English-language biographies on the site are about women. Jess Wade got busy. In five years she made almost 2,000 entries for women and minority scientists.

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Physicist Jess Wade is filling a major gap in knowledge after finding that Wikipedia – known for its information on every topic imaginable – had few biographies ...

On a whim, Jess Wade typed out her first Wikipedia page five years ago. It was a biography of Kim Cobb, an American climatologist who — despite earning several scientific accolades — had never been ...