Wikipedia is Earth's most widely read knowledge repository, with approximately two billion unique device visits per month. Despite this, less than 20% of Wikipedia biographies are about women. A search of 'Women in Biomechanics' on Wikipedia in 2023 by Emeritus Professor Julie Steele returned no results. We want to change this.

With the help of our biomechanics community, across 2024, we will undertake a Wikibomb to create and update Wikipedia biographies of notable women in biomechanics.

The Women in Biomechanics Wikibomb is supported by the International Society of Biomechanics and will ensure that women biomechanists are visible to younger female scientists on Wikipedia so they can imagine education and careers in biomechanics – just like us! 

To conduct the Women in Biomechanics Wikibomb we are calling on the biomechanics community to volunteer their time in one of two capacities. Please join us by:

1.  Volunteering to write or update a profile of a notable woman in biomechanics and/or 
2.  Joining the editorial team who will systematically review and upload the profiles