Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Wikipedia's Gender Problem

Miriam Adelson is an accomplished physician who's published around a hundred research papers on the physiology and treatment of addiction, and runs a high-profile substance-abuse clinic in Las Vegas. Yet Wikipedia does not have an entry for her. Adelson was among thousands of names flagged by Quicksilver, a software tool by San Francisco startup Primer designed to help Wikipedia editors fill in blind spots in the crowdsourced encyclopedia. Its underrepresentation of women in science is a particular target. The world's fifth most-visited website has a long-running problem with gender bias: Only 18 percent of its biographies are of women.