"Out of the 1.7 million biographies on this massive encyclopedia, only 20% feature women."

"notability, as its own notion, is inherently subjective."

"Wikipedia tries to go around that by setting detailed guidelines for satisfying notability. In particular, the more reputable, secondary media coverage the biographical subject has, the more likely the biography will get approved."

"If the third-most followed creator on an app that had ~700 million global users at the time is not notable enough for Wikipedia, then who is?"

"What goes on in Twitch and creator circles is rarely covered by mainstream publications like The Wall Street Journal. Thus, the publications that reported on Kkatamina’s record-breaking achievement consisted of gaming or esports news publications that Wikipedia did not deem reputable enough."

"for Wikipedia, that would only count if she says it to a publication like The New York Times."

"content creators establish their own notability. Through their content, they grow their audience and impact, to the point that 92% of consumers trust an influencer’s product recommendation more than a celebrity endorsement."

"we have to question the system and contemplate how creators fit into the future of our documentation and history. A system where information sharing is gatekept by a small group of Wikipedia editors (fyi: 90% of the encyclopedia’s top editors are male)."

"As one editor, Natureium, wrote in 2019, “I guess that’s the problem with Wikipedia. We cover what reliable sources cover.”"

"Wikipedia influences the media just as much as the media influences Wikipedia."

"As the Creator Revolution continues to surge forward, this struggle to define a creator’s notability, especially on a large, free source of knowledge in Wikipedia, will also only continue to grow."

"In that process, I spent months at a time writing intense rebuttals and defenses for biographies of notable women I've written, when some were taken down almost instantly."

"With over 87 million followers today, Poarch is the third most-followed creator on TikTok, a title she has held and sustained for quite a while now."

"But Wikipedia refused to recognize that. Poarch’s Wikipedia page has had a long back-and-forth battle of existence:"

"In November of 2021, she broke the world record as the most subscribed female streamer on Twitch, when she accumulated 73,623 subscriptions (shattering the previous record of 52,992)."

"However, it is frustrating that the existence of creator biographies will require waiting for mainstream news (the sources that Wikipedia considers “reliable”) to discover, catch up, and then cover outstanding creator talents and voices, particularly for underestimated groups."

"This is a bigger problem when you realize that Wikipedia influences the media just as much as the media influences Wikipedia."

"I write this piece not because I know the solution to fix all these problems, but because I want to bring more awareness to this trend as a longtime Wikipedia writer and as a strong advocate and researcher in the creator economy."