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Women in Red, initialism WiR, is a gender gap-bridging project on the volunteer-edited online encyclopedia Wikipedia. WikiProject Women in Red is a focused effort to create articles about notable women that are required, but that do not currently exist, on Wikipedia. The potential for such missing articles can be noted by looking for red hyperlinks in existing articles or templates.

History

Women in Red was conceived by volunteer Wikipedia editor Roger Bamkin in 2015, and volunteer editor Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight joined forces soon thereafter. Bamkin had initially coined a name for the project, "Project XX", but that was quickly scuttled in favor of WikiProject Women in Red.^[1] After the project was up and running, feminist scientist and volunteer editor Emily Temple-Wood, signed on. Her specialty is adding a new Wikipedia article about a female scientist every time somebody harasses her about her volunteer editing efforts.^[1]

Methods

Women in Red conducts Wikipedia edit-a-thons in cities around the world, and continuously hosts a virtual one.^[2] The all-day in-person edit-a-thons are focused events conducted to train new contributors so that the Wikipedia gender gap can become narrower and include more content on notable women.^[3] Another goal is to increase the number of female editors. Though Wikipedia is "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", as at 2015 only roughly 10 percent of editors were women.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[3] Female-focused biographies number about 17 percent versus other genders. Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site on the Internet, and the English language Wikipedia contains nearly 5.5 million articles, more than 40 million worldwide on 265 separate language sites, resulting in 16 billion page views per month.^[7]

The Women in Red participants help to collate 150 worklists of red linked articles to make it easier to find and create the missing articles.^[8] As of December 22, 2016^[update], the Women in Red cadre of volunteer editors has added over 45,000 articles, and increased the percentage of tallied articles to about 17 percent versus other genders.^[9]

At Wikimania 2016, in Esino Lario, in the Lecco, Lombardy region of Italy, Jimmy Wales, who co-founded Wikipedia in 2001, named Stephenson-Goodknight and Temple-Woods the Wikipedians of the Year, for the prior 12 months, for their joint effort to fill the gender chasm.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Redden, Molly (March 19, 2016). "Women in science on Wikipedia: will we ever fill the information gap?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on November 8, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ Chemistry, The Royal Society of (August 18, 2017). "Improving gender balance on Wikipedia". www.rsc.org. Archived from the original on October 12, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2017. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ ^a ^b "Wikipedia editing marathons add women's voices to online resource". Houston Chronicle. Archived from the original on November 9, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ Andrew Lih (June 20, 2015). "Can Wikipedia Survive?". www.nytimes.com. Washington. Archived from the original on June 21, 2015. Retrieved June 21, 2015. ...the considerable and often-noted gender gap among Wikipedia editors; in 2011, less than 15 percent were women. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ Statistics based on Wikimedia Foundation Wikipedia editor surveys 2011 (Nov. 2010-April 2011) and November 2011 Archived June 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine (April – October 2011)
^ Hill, Benjamin Mako; Shaw, Aaron; Sánchez, Angel (June 26, 2013). "The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: Characterizing Survey Response Bias with Propensity Score Estimation". PLoS ONE. 8 (6): e65782. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...865782H. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065782. PMC 3694126. PMID 23840366. Archived from the original on December 14, 2014. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
^ Gordon, Maggie (November 9, 2017). "Wikipedia editing marathons add women's voices to online resource". Houston Chronicle. Archived from the original on November 9, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ Stein, Lucia (December 9, 2016). "Wikipedia edit-a-thon tackles internet gender gap". ABC News. Archived from the original on March 7, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ Kessenides, Dimitra; Chafkin, Max (December 22, 2016). "Is Wikipedia Woke? The ubiquitous reference site tries to expand its editor ranks beyond the Comic Con set". Bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on September 23, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

External links

BBC – Viewpoint: How I tackle Wiki gender gap one article at a time

[The_Guardian_2016-1] Redden, Molly (March 19, 2016). "Women in science on Wikipedia: will we ever fill the information gap?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on November 8, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[2] Chemistry, The Royal Society of (August 18, 2017). "Improving gender balance on Wikipedia". www.rsc.org. Archived from the original on October 12, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2017. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[marathons-3] "Wikipedia editing marathons add women's voices to online resource". Houston Chronicle. Archived from the original on November 9, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[nytimes20jun2015-4] Andrew Lih (June 20, 2015). "Can Wikipedia Survive?". www.nytimes.com. Washington. Archived from the original on June 21, 2015. Retrieved June 21, 2015. ...the considerable and often-noted gender gap among Wikipedia editors; in 2011, less than 15 percent were women. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[EditorSurveys-5] Statistics based on Wikimedia Foundation Wikipedia editor surveys 2011 (Nov. 2010-April 2011) and November 2011 Archived June 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine (April – October 2011)

[PLOS-6] Hill, Benjamin Mako; Shaw, Aaron; Sánchez, Angel (June 26, 2013). "The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: Characterizing Survey Response Bias with Propensity Score Estimation". PLoS ONE. 8 (6): e65782. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...865782H. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065782. PMC 3694126. PMID 23840366. Archived from the original on December 14, 2014. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

[Houston_2017-7] Gordon, Maggie (November 9, 2017). "Wikipedia editing marathons add women's voices to online resource". Houston Chronicle. Archived from the original on November 9, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[ABC_News-8] Stein, Lucia (December 9, 2016). "Wikipedia edit-a-thon tackles internet gender gap". ABC News. Archived from the original on March 7, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[Bloomberg_2017-9] Kessenides, Dimitra; Chafkin, Max (December 22, 2016). "Is Wikipedia Woke? The ubiquitous reference site tries to expand its editor ranks beyond the Comic Con set". Bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on September 23, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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-'''Women in Red''', initialism '''WiR''', is a [[Gender bias on Wikipedia|gender gap]] bridging project on the volunteer edited online encyclopedia [[Wikipedia]]. [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red|WikiProject Women in Red]] is a focused effort to create articles about notable women that are desired, but that do not currently exist on Wikipedia. The potential for such missing articles can be noted by looking for red [[hyperlink]]s in existing articles or templates.
+'''Women in Red''', initialism '''WiR''', is a [[Gender bias on Wikipedia|gender gap]]-bridging project on the volunteer-edited online encyclopedia [[Wikipedia]]. [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red|WikiProject Women in Red]] is a focused effort to create articles about notable women that are required, but that do not currently exist, on Wikipedia. The potential for such missing articles can be noted by looking for red [[hyperlink]]s in existing articles or templates.
 == History ==
-Women in Red was conceived by volunteer Wikipedia editor Roger Bamkin in 2015 and volunteer editor [[Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight]] joined forces soon thereafter. Bamkin had initially coined a name for the project, "Project XX", <!--isn't that a sexist remark?-->but that was quickly scuttled in favor of ''WikiProject Women in Red''.<ref name="The Guardian 2016">{{cite news |last1 = Redden |first1 = Molly |title = Women in science on Wikipedia: will we ever fill the information gap? |url = https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/19/women-in-science-on-wikipedia-will-we-ever-fill-the-information-gap |accessdate = November 25, 2017 |work = The Guardian |date = March 19, 2016 |deadurl = no |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20171108145205/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/19/women-in-science-on-wikipedia-will-we-ever-fill-the-information-gap |archivedate = November 8, 2017 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> After the project was up and running, feminist scientist and volunteer editor [[Emily Temple-Wood]], signed on. Her specialty is adding a new Wikipedia article about a female scientist every time somebody harasses her about her volunteer editing efforts.<ref name="The Guardian 2016" />
+Women in Red was conceived by volunteer Wikipedia editor Roger Bamkin in 2015, and volunteer editor [[Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight]] joined forces soon thereafter. Bamkin had initially coined a name for the project, "Project XX", <!--isn't that a sexist remark?-->but that was quickly scuttled in favor of ''WikiProject Women in Red''.<ref name="The Guardian 2016">{{cite news |last1 = Redden |first1 = Molly |title = Women in science on Wikipedia: will we ever fill the information gap? |url = https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/19/women-in-science-on-wikipedia-will-we-ever-fill-the-information-gap |accessdate = November 25, 2017 |work = The Guardian |date = March 19, 2016 |deadurl = no |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20171108145205/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/19/women-in-science-on-wikipedia-will-we-ever-fill-the-information-gap |archivedate = November 8, 2017 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> After the project was up and running, feminist scientist and volunteer editor [[Emily Temple-Wood]], signed on. Her specialty is adding a new Wikipedia article about a female scientist every time somebody harasses her about her volunteer editing efforts.<ref name="The Guardian 2016" />
 == Methods ==
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 [[File:Women in Red badge.jpg|thumb|right|Button to showcase [[International Women's Day 2017]] WiR edit-a-thons]]
-Women in Red conducts Wikipedia [[edit-a-thon]]s in cities around the world, and continuously hosts a virtual one.<ref>{{Cite web |url = http://www.rsc.org/news-events/community/2017/aug/wikithon/ |title = Improving gender balance on Wikipedia |last = Chemistry |first = The Royal Society of |date = August 18, 2017 |website = www.rsc.org |language = en |access-date = November 25, 2017 |deadurl = no |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20171012125221/http://www.rsc.org/news-events/community/2017/aug/wikithon/ |archivedate = October 12, 2017 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> The all-day in-person edit-a-thons are focused events conducted to train new contributors so that the [[Gender bias on Wikipedia|Wikipedia gender gap]] can become narrower and include more content on [[notable]] women.<ref name="marathons">{{Cite news |url = http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/article/Adding-women-s-voices-to-Wikipedia-12344424.php |title = Wikipedia editing marathons add women's voices to online resource |work = Houston Chronicle |access-date = November 25, 2017 |deadurl = no |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20171109200641/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/article/Adding-women-s-voices-to-Wikipedia-12344424.php |archivedate = November 9, 2017 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> Another goal is to increase the number of women editors. Though Wikipedia is "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", only roughly 10 percent of editors are women.<ref name=nytimes20jun2015>{{cite web |author1 = Andrew Lih |title = Can Wikipedia Survive? |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/opinion/can-wikipedia-survive.html |website = www.nytimes.com |accessdate = June 21, 2015 |location = Washington |date = June 20, 2015 |quote = ...the considerable and often-noted gender gap among Wikipedia editors; in 2011, less than 15 percent were women. |deadurl = no |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150621032208/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/opinion/can-wikipedia-survive.html |archivedate = June 21, 2015 |df = mdy-all }}</ref><ref name=EditorSurveys>Statistics based on Wikimedia Foundation Wikipedia editor surveys [https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AEditor_Survey_Report_-_April_2011.pdf&page=1 2011] (Nov. 2010-April 2011) and [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Editors_Survey_November_2011 November 2011] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605124632/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Editors_Survey_November_2011 |date=June 5, 2016 }} (April – October 2011)</ref><ref name=PLOS>{{cite journal |last1 = Hill |first1 = Benjamin Mako |last2 = Shaw |first2 = Aaron |last3 = Sánchez |first3 = Angel |title = The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: Characterizing Survey Response Bias with Propensity Score Estimation |url = http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0065782 |journal = PLoS ONE |date = June 26, 2013 |volume = 8 |issue = 6 |pages = e65782 |doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0065782 |pmid = 23840366 |pmc = 3694126 |bibcode = 2013PLoSO...865782H |deadurl = no |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20141214132622/http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0065782 |archivedate = December 14, 2014 |df = mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="marathons" /> Female-focused [[Biography|biographies]] number about 17 percent versus other [[gender]]s. Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site on the Internet, and the English language Wikipedia boasts nearly 5.5{{nbsp}}million articles, more than 40{{nbsp}}million worldwide on 265 separate language sites, resulting in 16 billion page views per month.<ref name="Houston 2017">{{cite news |last1 = Gordon |first1 = Maggie |title = Wikipedia editing marathons add women's voices to online resource |url = http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/article/Adding-women-s-voices-to-Wikipedia-12344424.php |accessdate = November 25, 2017 |work = Houston Chronicle |date = November 9, 2017 |deadurl = no |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20171109200641/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/article/Adding-women-s-voices-to-Wikipedia-12344424.php |archivedate = November 9, 2017 |df = mdy-all }}</ref>
+Women in Red conducts Wikipedia [[edit-a-thon]]s in cities around the world, and continuously hosts a virtual one.<ref>{{Cite web |url = http://www.rsc.org/news-events/community/2017/aug/wikithon/ |title = Improving gender balance on Wikipedia |last = Chemistry |first = The Royal Society of |date = August 18, 2017 |website = www.rsc.org |language = en |access-date = November 25, 2017 |deadurl = no |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20171012125221/http://www.rsc.org/news-events/community/2017/aug/wikithon/ |archivedate = October 12, 2017 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> The all-day in-person edit-a-thons are focused events conducted to train new contributors so that the [[Gender bias on Wikipedia|Wikipedia gender gap]] can become narrower and include more content on [[notable]] women.<ref name="marathons">{{Cite news |url = http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/article/Adding-women-s-voices-to-Wikipedia-12344424.php |title = Wikipedia editing marathons add women's voices to online resource |work = Houston Chronicle |access-date = November 25, 2017 |deadurl = no |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20171109200641/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/article/Adding-women-s-voices-to-Wikipedia-12344424.php |archivedate = November 9, 2017 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> Another goal is to increase the number of female editors. Though Wikipedia is "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", as at 2015 only roughly 10 percent of editors were women.<ref name=nytimes20jun2015>{{cite web |author1 = Andrew Lih |title = Can Wikipedia Survive? |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/opinion/can-wikipedia-survive.html |website = www.nytimes.com |accessdate = June 21, 2015 |location = Washington |date = June 20, 2015 |quote = ...the considerable and often-noted gender gap among Wikipedia editors; in 2011, less than 15 percent were women. |deadurl = no |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150621032208/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/opinion/can-wikipedia-survive.html |archivedate = June 21, 2015 |df = mdy-all }}</ref><ref name=EditorSurveys>Statistics based on Wikimedia Foundation Wikipedia editor surveys [https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AEditor_Survey_Report_-_April_2011.pdf&page=1 2011] (Nov. 2010-April 2011) and [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Editors_Survey_November_2011 November 2011] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605124632/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Editors_Survey_November_2011 |date=June 5, 2016 }} (April – October 2011)</ref><ref name=PLOS>{{cite journal |last1 = Hill |first1 = Benjamin Mako |last2 = Shaw |first2 = Aaron |last3 = Sánchez |first3 = Angel |title = The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: Characterizing Survey Response Bias with Propensity Score Estimation |url = http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0065782 |journal = PLoS ONE |date = June 26, 2013 |volume = 8 |issue = 6 |pages = e65782 |doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0065782 |pmid = 23840366 |pmc = 3694126 |bibcode = 2013PLoSO...865782H |deadurl = no |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20141214132622/http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0065782 |archivedate = December 14, 2014 |df = mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="marathons" /> Female-focused [[Biography|biographies]] number about 17 percent versus other [[gender]]s. Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site on the Internet, and the English language Wikipedia contains nearly 5.5{{nbsp}}million articles, more than 40{{nbsp}}million worldwide on 265 separate language sites, resulting in 16 billion page views per month.<ref name="Houston 2017">{{cite news |last1 = Gordon |first1 = Maggie |title = Wikipedia editing marathons add women's voices to online resource |url = http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/article/Adding-women-s-voices-to-Wikipedia-12344424.php |accessdate = November 25, 2017 |work = Houston Chronicle |date = November 9, 2017 |deadurl = no |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20171109200641/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/article/Adding-women-s-voices-to-Wikipedia-12344424.php |archivedate = November 9, 2017 |df = mdy-all }}</ref>
 The Women in Red participants help to collate [[Wikipedia%3AWikiProject Women in Red#Worklists|150 worklists]] of red linked articles to make it easier to find and create the missing articles.<ref name="ABC News">{{cite news |last1 = Stein |first1 = Lucia |title = Wikipedia edit-a-thon tackles internet gender gap |url = http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-09/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-tackles-internet-gender-gap/8106784 |accessdate = November 25, 2017 |work = ABC News |date = December 9, 2016 |language = en-AU |deadurl = no |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20170307010106/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-09/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-tackles-internet-gender-gap/8106784 |archivedate = March 7, 2017 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> {{As of|2016|12|22|df=US}}, the Women in Red cadre of volunteer editors has added over 45,000 articles, and increased the percentage of tallied articles to about 17 percent versus other genders.<ref name="Bloomberg 2017">{{cite news |last1 = Kessenides |first1 = Dimitra |last2 = Chafkin |first2 = Max |title = Is Wikipedia Woke? The ubiquitous reference site tries to expand its editor ranks beyond the Comic Con set |url = https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-12-22/how-woke-is-wikipedia-s-editorial-pool |accessdate = November 25, 2017 |work = Bloomberg.com |date = December 22, 2016 |deadurl = no |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20170923001045/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-12-22/how-woke-is-wikipedia-s-editorial-pool |archivedate = September 23, 2017 |df = mdy-all }}</ref>