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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Wikipedia’s Missing Women

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.8162 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Less than a fifth of the biographies on Wikipedia are those of women; Rebecca O'Neill is part of a movement to fix that. We talk to her about her quest to write famous Irish women into the Wikiverse, as well as how the site helps minority languages to stay alive. Also this week: Merkel rises above it, and theatre gets political in Albania. Find Rebecca's Wikipedia tutorials on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/smirkybec/videos And on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCME0KIqk13bdfdg_fqqYISA Thanks for listening! If you'd like to help us keep this podcast running, you can chip in a few dollars a month at https://patreon.com/europeanspodcast. Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | hello@europeanspodcast.com

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0:00.0

So have you recovered from the excitement that was our first quiz hosted together this week, Dominic.

0:21.0

No, not really. I've been lying down in a dark room ever since, which is maybe a bad sign.

0:27.1

But no, I actually had a really nice time and it was so nice seeing everyone.

0:30.7

Our listeners are real people with faces.

0:32.9

It was kind of moving. It was. I teared up a little bit.

0:35.9

Is that too cheesy to say?

0:38.4

Yeah, but no,

0:43.4

it was incredibly nice to see listeners from all over Europe and I think all over the world, in fact.

0:47.4

So thank you so much to everyone that took part. It was just a lovely thing to happen.

0:51.5

Yeah, we should do it again sometime, but maybe we'll take a little bit of a break.

0:55.1

Let's have at least a week off. How are you? Yeah, I'm fine.

0:59.8

I was slightly concerned for you because I saw all these headlines in the Dutch and Belgian news about whether or not to put down Katia Lee, which is basically Katie Lee, your name.

1:07.4

Did you see this?

1:08.8

Yes, your husband showed it to me.

1:10.6

So, well, Katia Lee is a little cat that people were debating whether to put down or not.

1:14.6

Yeah, it's a cat in Belgium that's been making headlines because it was brought back by its owner from Peru and didn't follow the strict quarantining rules against rabies.

1:25.6

This woman brought it back to Belgium and the authority said they were going to have to put it down.

1:31.6

And then animal rights activists were like, this is mad.

1:34.0

She probably doesn't even have rabies.

1:35.9

And it's been a big debate.

1:38.7

I mean, I have been described as rabid in the past, but I think putting me down is a bit much.

1:43.4

It looks like they might give her a reprieve and let her live, which is nice for the cat.

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