‘Who was his mother?’ This is a question that Wikipedians (male, most of them, according to statistics) rarely seem to ask themselves when writing a biography on Wikipedia. On the contrary, the question ‘who was her father?’ seems to preoccupy a lot of them, seeing how fast the answer comes in an article about a woman. This may come as a result of the low percentage of women contributors on Wikipedia (between 5.2 and 13.6% according to the Wikimedia Foundation last year). The