Is Wikipedia ‘deeply biased’? Sandi Toksvig says it is – so she’s backing a rival

The Guardian Technology · Monday, 12 October 2026 at 14:53 (1h ago) · Original article ↗

Just 19% of the online encyclopedia’s biographies are of women. Is this because it’s edited by ‘mostly white, middle-aged, European men’, as the comedian claims?

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