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articles about women created or edited during #100womenwiki global edit-a-thon

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local Wikimedia chapters around the globe, with at least one on every inhabited continent

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Photo credits

Wikimania 2014 at the Barbican in London

Wikimania 2014 London

Sebastiaan ter Burg

CC BY 2.0

Lighting through the ages

Lighting through the ages

Maurice Dessertenne

Public domain