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I found a very interesting article this week that I would like to share with you all. It's called ‘the nine reasons why women don’t edit Wikipedia’, published in 2010 by Sue Gardner, responding to a New York Times article that revealed, that 'less than 15% of Wikipedia's hundreds of thousands of contributors are women' (reduced to 9% in 2011). A startling statistic that immediately caught my attention and had already been a topic of conversation at NCVO HQ during earlier research before we launched iKnowHow. more >

Going live!

On Wednesday we officially launched iKnowHow. After a bit of exciteable panic and a few last minute technical bugs we pressed the button and opened our wiki doors to the sector.

In the two days it's been live, we've awarded 54 Blue Dots for contributions. Three new pages have been created and another 15 pages edited. Lots of people have been spreading the word on Twitter and in the press including our blog post on the Guardian Voluntary Sector Network about our online wiki. So, we're ending the week on a massive high and want to say thank you to everyone who has contributed so far. more >