 Hello everybody and thank you for being here. I'm Laura Ferrandez and I'm going to introduce the research we are working on with Nuria Ferran Ferrer about the gender gap in Wikipedia and in particular how it affects the full inclusion of intersex, trans and non-binary gender identities. We are part of the Women and Wikipedia Research Group from the University of Barcelona. In this presentation I will first introduce the gender gap in Wikipedia. Later I will talk about the aims and methods we are going to use within our research. Then we will show some prospective results because this is an ongoing research so we don't have a lot to share for the moment. And to finish we will just mention some points regarding discussion and go-glasses. Okay so we know that the gender gap in Wikipedia is a widely documented problem. This is a problem recognized by the Wikipedia itself and also by the Wikipedia Foundation. We know that for instance in the case of women's biographies they are a minority and are commonly deleted immediately or through quick and poorly argue deliberation process. We know that in the Spanish Wikipedia for instance less than 25% of the content is women's biographies and even less than 1% refers to other gender biographies. In terms of editing we know that the percentage of female editors is between 10% and 15% or even lower in this Wikipedia. We don't really have data for the moment regarding other gender and non-binary gender. We think about the gender gap for us it's important to recognize and to argue along with Heather Ford and Judy Watman in this amazing paper that really inspired us that the gender gap has to do with an entire infrastructure with technical expertise that is gendered. That means that the culture of knowledge production is ascribed within masculine, western and conservative epistemologies. So the problem is deep and complex. But well we can say that all this scientific evidence pushes in the direction of incorporating gender in classic policies and perspectives in Wikipedia both in terms of the representation of its contents and in terms of the participation of its editors. We also know that the gender gap has been mostly analyzed in binary gender terms that is male and female assuming as gender neutrality that does not correspond to the lived experiences of or self-identification of part of the community. My colleague Nuria Ferran Ferrer conducted a systematic review of 98 academic papers about the gender gap in Wikipedia and she realized that only 16.7% of them utilized a non-binary approach. Another surprising finding was that using Wikidata sets brings more gender diversity in research as hidden compasses for example seven different identities in the sexual gender property and then thanks to our peer reviewer we know that in the documentation table of the property 21 the allowed gender values are around 50 and here you can see these values. Then we also know that the binary and cisgender approach results therefore in a limitation for a nuanced understanding of how the gender gap affects trans, non-binary and intersex people. We recognize that the range of gender identities within the non-binary spectrum is plural and broader and we would also like to acknowledge that trans binary people that means trans men and trans women are also part of the community of course and also face similar disadvantages in Wikipedia. Following Daniela Medilia and Kiera Paulini we agree with them when they argue that addressing the Wikipedia gender gap from the inclusion of the diverse gender identities is crucial particularly in the era of big data where the biases inherent to this data can result in unfairness and contribute to discriminatory applications that affect marginalized sections of society. We also agree with one of our peer reviewers when they mentioned that non cisgender people are often isolated and they don't know others like them in that sense that Wikipedia could play an important role in providing both access to information and also role models. Regarding our research aims we would summarize that our main aim is to understand how the gender gap affects people who are outside the gender binary and also to make constructive proposals for mechanisms that can be implemented in Wikipedia to reduce the gender gap and move towards full inclusion. This full inclusion is for us in terms of content and representation but also in terms of inclusion within the editing communities of the different Wikipedia's. For that goal we are going to research on three different Wikipedia's, the Wikipedia in English in Spanish and Catalan two of them are major, one of them is smaller and we are going to follow a qualitative approach we are going to do a scoping review that is a systematic literature review and we are going to focus particularly on the presence and representation of intersex and trans non-binary identities in the digital public sphere and specifically in digital platforms online user communities and Wikipedia of course. We are also planning to interview, do semi-structures in-depth personal interviews to members of Wiki projects that is part of the editing community in Wikipedia who identify themselves as non-binary, intersex or trans and we would like to learn about their gender specific experiences on the online edition and also well emphasizing on how this visibility and this fight against discrimination really improved. Then we are also interested in interviewing people responsible for the Wikimedia Foundation and its chapters in Spain and Catalonia to them we are going to ask them about the specific measures and actions that are being carried out by the foundation to reduce this gap we aligned ourselves with the feminist media studies perspective and also with intersectional feminist perspective we want to acknowledge that we considered the feedback that the community gave us and the ethical concerns that were raised during the presentation of the project WikiData to Gender Rescue and Wikipedia and well regarding results this is an ongoing research so we don't have concrete results to comment at this stage but the perspective results point to the fact that several and specifically affects identities that fall outside the gender binary and regarding discussion we think that this study aims to establish a conceptual framework for a research project that intends to utilize the comprehensive ontology of WikiData pertaining to gender identities to enrich the knowledge organization system of Wikipedia through a taxonomy. So this is part of our research and it would be a broader research and that would be all for today thank you very much for your attention and we hope you have found this research interesting thank you