Women on Wikipedia have been more popular than men historically

Annual 'Notability Scores' of men and women from 1600-2010

The score of notability used here is a logarithmic index across five disparate measures used by the authors of the study.
Chart: Shivangi BishnoiSource: Morgane Laouenan, Palaash Bhargava, Jean-Benoît Eyméoud, Olivier Gergaud, Guillaume Plique, Etienne Wasmer (2022) A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD, Scientific Data, June 2022Get the dataCreated with Datawrapper