> In the 90s, Wade would've started a website/wiki called "Female Scientists" and she would've ranked just fine on search engines.
Agreed - and it isn't helped by the schisms between the Mediawiki community and Wikimedia. The priorities Wikimedia have for the Mediawiki software are so focused on Wikipedia and Wikidata that any potential it had as a platform capable of forking subject areas into domain-specific sites and merging those updates back into Wikipedia has long since passed. You can see the possibility of that still floating around in old import/export features that haven't been deprecated or removed yet.
Agreed - and it isn't helped by the schisms between the Mediawiki community and Wikimedia. The priorities Wikimedia have for the Mediawiki software are so focused on Wikipedia and Wikidata that any potential it had as a platform capable of forking subject areas into domain-specific sites and merging those updates back into Wikipedia has long since passed. You can see the possibility of that still floating around in old import/export features that haven't been deprecated or removed yet.