Increasing Visibility and Accuracy: Project Vox & Wikipedia Editing

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This post is part of our Behind the Scenes blog series.  Two years ago, the Project Vox team began holding regular edit-a-thons to improve the Wikipedia entries for our philosophers. One purpose of the edit-a-thons was to remove sexist language that misrepresents the lives and contributions of these historical figures. For example, the lead paragraph […]

Creating Project Vox

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This post is part of our Behind the Scenes blog series.  Ten years ago, a group of scholars met at the University of Pennsylvania to plan future collaborations. The group comprised colleagues from several universities around the world, including Lisa Shapiro and Marguerite Deslauriers from Canada, Karen Detlefsen and Marcy Lascano from the US, and […]