 Hello everyone! Today we present to you Gender Inequalities in the Catalan Wikipedia categories. Don't you find this quotation shocking? It is the opinion of some Catalan Wikipedians. According to them, categorizing men and women together is a sign of equality. Let's get started. When several Wikipedia readers claim that the Catalan Wikipedia should index women scientists in female-specific categories, some Wikipedians join them. They wrote an open letter addressed to the Catalan Wikipedia community, asking to allow for women categories. They spread the letter on social networks so that other people and entities adhered to their demand. Aware that Wikipedia readers cannot participate in Wikipedia's internal discussion forums and that it has not been possible to change the rules that ban female-specific categories, we appealed to the fifth pillar of Wikipedia, which says, Wikipedia has no firm rules, and we asked the Catalan Wikipedia community to listen to and accept our claim to make it possible to create those categories. And the campaign started. Whether women can be indexed in feminine-specific categories is a recurring debate in the Catalan Wikipedia. Surely not all readers might know that in the Catalan Wikipedia, most women are indexed in masculine plural categories. So we decided to start a campaign to make this anomalous situation be publicly known. The campaign has been carried out mostly in Twitter. In February, we created a profile that we called Donas Am Catagoria, Women with Category. Soon after, we also created a profile in Facebook. Sometimes, we include memes in the tweets and Facebook posts. Various media, both written on radio and TV, have spread this campaign. Through these dissemination spaces, we tried to make people understand, in a didactic way, what we were talking about. The proposal of creating female-specific categories in the Catalan Wikipedia has been brought to a vote on several occasions, the latest in 2018. The result has always been no. But first, before going on, let's see how categories work in the Catalan Wikipedia. Whenever a female-specific category is created, some Wikipedia administrator deletes it. The question is, who makes that decision? Who has the power to decide on such fundamental issues which affect the rights and equality of people? Women must be always indexed in the generic masculine, but for some exceptions. Only a few professions or conditions of women can be indexed in female-specific categories. For the rest, the generic masculine is compulsory. A linguistic criterion is imposed for the classification of reality. Other Wikipedias have female-specific categories. These are the so-called non-diffusing subcategories, which means that they are found both in the generic parent category and in other complementary subcategories of the generic one. The Catalan Wikipedia is one of the last European Wikipedias that does not allow the creation of these female-specific categories. It does not support equality between men and women and continues to argue that the generic masculine encompasses all human beings. Let's see the article on Hasinda Erdern. In the Catalan Wikipedia, she is indexed in categories in the masculine gender, which do not reveal that this person is a woman, compared with the categories of the English Wikipedia, which include female-specific categories. I'm from Pueblenau, a neighborhood in Barcelona. I'm a group of large-scale readers, and lately I've read some books of young people, very interesting, like Blanca Busquets, Tania Juné, Alana Montreal. And I consider that all writers should be catalogued with female-specific categories in the Catalan Wikipedia. In the Catalan Wikipedia, there have been many discussions about creating female-specific categories. One suggests the already existing in English and French Wikipedia, which include the terms women, female or femme, for example. Not more than 15 to 20 Catalan Wikipedians, out of the more than 1,000 active ones, were usually involved in those debates, and they always decided not to categorize by gender. In 2018, they approved a technical computer solution. A search engine would be implemented, which would allow to discriminate men, women and non-binary people from the generic masculine categories. However, such a search engine was not implemented until 2021, once our campaign had already started. A technical tool that does not solve the real problem, the visibilization of women. Women scientists, women philosophers, women composers are some of the categories deleted by the administrators. Categories such as synchronized swimmers, belly dancers and presidents of the Catalan Women's Institute include only women, but according to the consensus, only categories in the generic masculine are accepted. So, categories such as female comic artists, women aviators and women inventors have been deleted and the women are only in the current generic category, comic artists, aviators, inventors, and this makes women and their activities invisible. However, some articles are indexed in female-specific categories. They include articles on first ladies, nuns, and Christian abbesses, midwives, concubines and female football players. My name is Karma Puce. I am a woman film director, but I cannot be indexed as such in a women's category in the Catalan Wikipedia. However, it has women's categories for female footballers, queens, princesses, and several other professions or conditions. Why can female footballers, queens, and princesses be indexed in a women's category but a woman film director cannot? Library and information sciences developed a control vocabulary of subject headings for the catalogs to facilitate a user's access to the items in the catalog. The catalogs of major libraries such as the National Library of France, the Library of Congress of the US, and the Spanish National Library have adopted female-specific headings to designate the activities carried out by women. Lemak is the list of subject headings created and maintained by the National Library of Catalonia. It is based in the Library of Congress subject headings as other major libraries. When we addressed people responsible for the lemak, they stated that, from a librarian's point of view, Wikipedia's non-use of female-specific categories makes no sense. I am interested in compiling the bibliotechal donations to Catalan Wikipedia. It will create a category that will be eliminated and replaced by the masculine version, including other biographies that come out of the limit that I want to maintain. Even though I am in my own terms and it is easy to do what is necessary, I am saying that for an internal policy, I cannot do it. Is there a free encyclopedia? Donasm Categoria has the support of several institutions and entities of the civil society, including those defending women's rights. Some said that the criteria for classification are not linguistic and that the lack of female-specific categories might violate the law. And beyond Catalan and Spanish laws, banning female-specific categories also violates the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. For all these reasons, Donasm Categoria, a group made up of women and men Wikipedia readers and editors, demands that the Catalan Wikipedia accepts specific female categories for all professions and conditions without going through a process of internal discussion and voting, in the 21st century, should not be necessary. We believe that female-specific categories should coexist naturally as non-diffusing categories with foreign categories. Looking to the future, we imagine ourselves building an inclusive Wikipedia of high quality, which does not spare women's visibility, nor their work and activities, and which is a model of equality for all its readers and for younger generations. In fact, as many voices have already said, we all win when women win, and women-winning is everyone's business. We started this presentation with a quote and are ending it with another that illustrates very well the reality of the categorization of women in the Catalan Wikipedia. Our history is the history of the majority of the species, yet the struggles of women for a human status have been relegated to food notes, to the site lines. Thanks!