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Welcome to Women in Red (WiR), a [[WikiProject]] whose objective is to turn "[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Redlist index|redlinks]]" into [[Help:Link_color#blue_link|blue ones]] within the project scope: women's biographies and works by women. Click on our '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Redlist index|Redlinks index]]''' to see all our lists by focus area, occupation and nationality. |
Welcome to Women in Red (WiR), a [[WikiProject]] whose objective is to turn "[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Redlist index|redlinks]]" into [[Help:Link_color#blue_link|blue ones]] within the project scope: women's biographies and works by women. Click on our '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Redlist index waffa ali|Redlinks index]]''' to see all our lists by focus area, occupation and nationality. |
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We recognized a need for this work as, in November 2014, only about 15% of the English Wikipedia's biographies were about women. Founded in July 2015, WiR strives to improve the figure, which has reached '''17.67%''' as of 9 October 2018. But that means, according to [http://whgi.wmflabs.org/gender-by-language.html WHGI], only 275,921 of our 1,561,577 biographies are about women. Not impressed? "[[Gender bias in Wikipedia|Content gender gap]]" is a form of [[systemic bias]], and WiR addresses it in a positive way through [[:m:Values/2016 discussion/Synthesis|shared values]]. |
We recognized a need for this work as, in November 2014, only about 15% of the English Wikipedia's biographies were about women. Founded in July 2015, WiR strives to improve the figure, which has reached '''17.67%''' as of 9 October 2018. But that means, according to [http://whgi.wmflabs.org/gender-by-language.html WHGI], only 275,921 of our 1,561,577 biographies are about women. Not impressed? "[[Gender bias in Wikipedia|Content gender gap]]" is a form of [[systemic bias]], and WiR addresses it in a positive way through [[:m:Values/2016 discussion/Synthesis|shared values]]. |
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Revision as of 23:18, 5 November 2018
Meet the participants |
Welcome to Women in Red (WiR), a WikiProject whose objective is to turn "redlinks" into blue ones within the project scope: women's biographies and works by women. Click on our Redlinks index to see all our lists by focus area, occupation and nationality.
We recognized a need for this work as, in November 2014, only about 15% of the English Wikipedia's biographies were about women. Founded in July 2015, WiR strives to improve the figure, which has reached 17.67% as of 9 October 2018. But that means, according to WHGI, only 275,921 of our 1,561,577 biographies are about women. Not impressed? "Content gender gap" is a form of systemic bias, and WiR addresses it in a positive way through shared values.
If you participate in WiR, you can join up officially using the box in the top right-hand corner of this page. You are also welcome to add our userbox template {{User WikiProject Women in Red}} to your user page, to produce:
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Learn more about our work, including Press and Research »
The former Announcements page is being kept for editing history.
Events
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Welcome to Women in Red!
| Home | Article alerts | Essays | Events | Ideas & planning | Images | Join | Metrics | Outreach | Redlist index | Research | Resources | Showcase | Social media | Tools & tech |
Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR)! Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's representation on all language Wikipedias (biographies, women's works, women's issues, broadly construed). Did you know that, according to Humaniki, only 19.86% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed? Content gender gap is a form of systemic bias, and this is what WiR addresses. We invite you to participate, whenever you like, in whatever way suits you and your schedule. Editors of all genders are equally and warmly welcome at Women in Red! |
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Events
Unless otherwise stated, all of our events are "online".
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Lists of red links
WiR works by filling in missing articles based on extensive lists of needed topics. The index to our wide range of topics and nationalities can be found at the Redlist index. Please make these red links blue. Notable women without a wikipedia biography can be added to any crowd-sourced redlists they match; and added to wikidata such that they're included in wikidata-derived redlists.
Article alerts
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- Note: This report is based on the {{WIR}} banners of WikiProject Women in Red. If an article isn't listed here, first verify that it has one of those banners. If it has another women-related banner, like {{WikiProject Women}}, {{WikiProject Women's History}} or {{WikiProject Women scientists}}, look on those projects' article alert pages instead.
Today's featured articles
- 17 Jul 2024 – Cora Agnes Benneson (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb
Did you know
- 08 Jul 2024 – Verna Osborne (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by 4meter4 (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Jul 2024 – Aminata Barrow (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by BeanieFan11 (t · c); see discussion
- 07 Jul 2024 – Eilish Cleary (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by B3251 (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Jul 2024 – Grace Panvini (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by 4meter4 (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Jul 2024 – Liza 'N' Eliaz (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Lajmmoore (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Jul 2024 – Sizzle Ohtaka (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Miraclepine (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Jul 2024 – Lady Tacos de Canasta (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Jeschaton (t · c); see discussion
- 27 Jun 2024 – Emmanuella Atora (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by BeanieFan11 (t · c); see discussion
- 24 Jun 2024 – Wong Sau Ying (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Grnrchst (t · c); see discussion
- 21 Jun 2024 – Alyssa Mendoza (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by BeanieFan11 (t · c); see discussion
- (2 more...)
Articles for deletion
- 09 Jul 2024 – Sally Norton (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
- 09 Jul 2024 – Julie Marie (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Clarityfiend (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 08 Jul 2024 – Ginny Holder (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Davey2010 (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 08 Jul 2024 – Harlette (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Smartse (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
- 08 Jul 2024 – Thelma Rodgers (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
- 07 Jul 2024 – Heather Cooper (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
- 07 Jul 2024 – Yasmeen Tahir (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Jéské Couriano (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
- 07 Jul 2024 – Audrey A. McNiff (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by CGP05 (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 07 Jul 2024 – Jana Labáthová (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Clariniie (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 07 Jul 2024 – Princesa Lea (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mvcg66b3r (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- (40 more...)
Proposed deletions
- 04 Jul 2024 – Katlego Malebane (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Geschichte (t · c) was deproded by Seany91 (t · c) on 04 Jul 2024
- 02 Jul 2024 – Heather Cooper (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by LibStar (t · c) was deproded by DrPlantGenomics (t · c) on 07 Jul 2024
- 26 Jun 2024 – Laura Player (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by LibStar (t · c) was deleted
Featured list candidates
- 17 May 2024 – List of Women's Premier League (cricket) captains (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by Vestrian24Bio (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 20 Jun 2024 – Sophie Kropotkin (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Grnrchst (t · c); start discussion
- 16 Jun 2024 – Ludmila Gabel (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by GnocchiFan (t · c); start discussion
- 16 Jun 2024 – Augustina Gabel (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by GnocchiFan (t · c); start discussion
- 07 Jun 2024 – Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Riley1012 (t · c); see discussion
- 17 May 2024 – Hurra-yi Khuttali (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Amir Ghandi (t · c); start discussion
- 16 Nov 2023 – Women's International Democratic Federation (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by SusunW (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 04 Jul 2024 – Patrícia Carvalho (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Patrícia de Carvalho by Joao4669 (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Jun 2024 – Palopa (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to LGBT rights in Papua New Guinea by Rainsage (t · c); see discussion
- 26 Jun 2024 – Karoline Levitt (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Karoline Leavitt by JoeK2033 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Articles for creation
- 24 Jun 2024 – Draft:Elva Diaz (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Minuette Macon (t · c)
- 14 Jun 2024 – Draft:Tatyana G. Rautian (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by EarthquakeInterest (t · c)
- 09 Jun 2024 – Draft:Norsuriati Sharbini (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Pangalau (t · c)
- 22 Apr 2024 – Draft:Slata Roschal (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Takeru Watanabe (t · c)
- 22 Apr 2024 – Draft:Mara-Daria Cojocaru (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Takeru Watanabe (t · c)
- 12 Jun 2024 – Draft:Marilou Schultz (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Bklibcat67 (t · c) was moved to Marilou Schultz (talk · edit · hist) by Yuchitown (t · c) on 06 Jul 2024
- 20 May 2024 – Draft:Meekyoung Shin (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Dalmationrotary (t · c) was accepted to Meekyoung Shin (talk · edit · hist) by TheNuggeteer (t · c) on 04 Jul 2024
Declined drafts
Thanks to Ronhjones, we now have a bot showing declined drafts submitted to AfC. Weekly updates highlight those most recently listed under New Additions. With a little bit of attention, some of them could well be moved to mainspace, encouraging the editors who created them to progress on Wikipedia.--Ipigott (talk) 11:33, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
Resources and research
WiR maintains resources to help you contribute, including lists of topical books and external links, information on editing in general, and contacts you can reach out to for specific needs. They can be found at Resources.
Academic research on Wikipedia's content gender gap is also documented at Research.
Metrics
- This section is a transcluded subpage, containing more information than is shown here. To view detailed month-by-month results or to edit, go to Metrics.
About: additional details
The articles created for any month, including the current month, can be displayed by clicking on one of the months in the archive box.
We track the articles we create each month. Reports bot updates these lists automatically, but you can manually add and annotate entries. The bot will remove non-existent pages. More details about the bot. Our metrics talkpage is here: Metrics talkpage
The evolving list for this month (see Archives box) is created by the bot which lists new women's biographies on the basis of their female gender on Wikidata. At present, the bot does not list women's works, associations or related articles but you are encouraged to add these to the list manually. A WiR Wikidata page provides information on how you can help ensure WiR metrics are up-to-date.
The graph shows the number of articles created each month. The apparent decrease for the current month reflects the number of articles created up to today's date. Only data on completed months indicate overall progress.
For personal metrics on how many articles you've created about women, see this tool.
If you want to measure gender diversity in a given Wikipedia article, use this tool.
Totals at a glance
| Year | Portion if applicable |
Total | Daily average |
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| 2015 | 18 Jul - 31 Dec | 11,711 | 70 |
| 2016 | 28,399 | 77 | |
| 2017 | 28,271 | 77 | |
| 2018 | 27,323 | 75 | |
| 2019 | 27,207 | 75 | |
| 2020 | 30,119 | 82 | |
| 2021 | 26,780 | 73 | |
| 2022 | 18,893 | 52 | |
| 2023 | 17,925 | 49 | |
| 2024 | |||
| Grand total | 216,628 |
Updated: Rosiestep (talk) 17:31, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
Summary of Women in Red statistics from main page
| Date | Women | Bios | Percentage | Increase in % for year |
Increase in Women for year |
Increase in Bios for year |
Percentage for year |
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| 30-Sep-2015 | 205,814 | 1,299,047 | 15.84% | ||||
| 1-Jan-2017 | 240,445 | 1,432,907 | 16.78% | 0.94% | 34,631 | 133,860 | 25.87% |
| 1-Jan-2018 | 262,099 | 1,509,348 | 17.37% | 0.58% | 21,654 | 76,441 | 28.33% |
| 31-Dec-2018 | 279,959 | 1,573,341 | 17.79% | 0.43% | 17,860 | 63,993 | 27.91% |
| 30-Dec-2019 | 305,072 | 1,678,323 | 18.18% | 0.38% | 25,113 | 104,982 | 23.92% |
| 11-Jan-2021 | 332,622 | 1,778,126 | 18.71% | 0.53% | 27,550 | 99,803 | 27.60% |
| 3-Jan-2022 | 356,439 | 1,865,516 | 19.11% | 0.40% | 23,817 | 87,390 | 27.25% |
| 2-Jan-2023 | 373,263 | 1,921,359 | 19.43% | 0.32% | 16,824 | 55,843 | 30.13% |
| 1-Jan-2024 | 390,207 | 1,978,991 | 19.72% | 0.29% | 16,944 | 57,632 | 29.40% |
| Total | 184,393 | 679,944 | 27.12% |
Note: the September 2015 figure was reported here.
Updated by: TSventon (talk) 22:04, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
Further background on metrics
As a result of figures presented by Humaniki, we keep posting on the main Women in Red page the percentage of women's biographies on the English version of Wikipedia. Increases are steady but marginal: for example from July 2022 to July 2023, the percentage has risen from around 19.3% to around 19.6%.
Thanks to an analysis presented by Andrew Gray on the WIR talk page, it certainly looks as if the number of men and women involved in sports has a significant influence on the statistics for women. A detailed account of Gray's work is presented in "Gender and BLPs on Wikipedia, redux", which he published on 2 August 2023.
The two lists below show that biographies of living people (BLPs) born in recent years are approximately 50% female if data on all categories of athletes are excluded. By contrast, the equivalent overall figures (including athletes) are only around 25%. As a result, biographies of very large numbers of male sportspeople seem to be responsible for the huge difference. Andrew Gray's detailed lists below document how figures for BLPs by year of birth have evolved over the years:
Overall development of BLPs since the 1920s for all biographies
- Missing birth year BLPs - 150,574, of which 53,355 female - 35.4%
- 1920s birth BLPs - 5,096, of which 1,325 female - 26.0%
- 1930s birth BLPs - 39,055, of which 7,086 female - 18.1%
- 1940s birth BLPs - 95,602, of which 18,495 female - 19.3%
- 1950s birth BLPs - 128,518, of which 27,172 female - 21.1%
- 1960s birth BLPs - 145,300, of which 33,390 female - 23.0%
- 1970s birth BLPs - 150,539, of which 37,893 female - 25.2%
- 1980s birth BLPs - 171,072, of which 42,880 female - 25.1%
- 1990s birth BLPs - 150,880, of which 36,944 female - 24.5%
- 2000s birth BLPs - 30,042, of which 7,542 female - 25.1%
Development of BLPs since the 1920s for biographies excluding athletes
If we discount all athletes using the infobox method, the results are:
- Missing birth year BLPs - 140,177, of which 51,021 female - 36.4%
- 1920s birth BLPs - 4,321, of which 1,228 female - 28.4%
- 1930s birth BLPs - 28,978, of which 6,161 female - 21.2%
- 1940s birth BLPs - 73,095, of which 16,566 female - 22.7%
- 1950s birth BLPs - 95,893, of which 23,644 female - 24.7%
- 1960s birth BLPs - 96,175, of which 26,632 female - 27.8%
- 1970s birth BLPs - 81,682, of which 27,562 female - 33.7%
- 1980s birth BLPs - 58,078, of which 24,816 female - 42.7%
- 1990s birth BLPs - 23,281, of which 11,754 female - 50.5%
- 2000s birth BLPs - 2,850, of which 1,539 female - 54.0%
 | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
Showcase
WiR is amazing and has way too much to showcase here. Please see Showcase for our recent and past achievements.
Recent Did You Know? blurbs
These are the 20 most recent WP:DYK entries for WiR. Updated approximately weekly by User:JL-Bot.
- ... that Gladys Stone Wright got started with a year of free piano lessons and a $5 clarinet? (2024-07-05)
- ... that husband and wife Edward M. and Marie Zimmerman co-wrote the suffragist anthem "Votes for Women: Suffrage Rallying Song"? (2024-07-03)
- ... that Brittany Luse's podcast The Nod was praised for its exploration of "the diversity and richness of the Black experience"? (2024-06-30)
- ... that Sara Houcke began performing in circuses at the age of two as a child clown? (2024-06-28)
- ... that Native American studies professor Joely Proudfit has received tenure from three different universities? (2024-06-25)
- ... that Italian pianist and composer Maria Luigia Pizzoli posthumously received the title of Maestro di Contrappunto (master of counterpoint)? (2024-06-23)
- ... that playwright Vivian Cosby was hospitalized for three and a half years after lighting herself on fire because of a faulty gas heater? (2024-06-22)
- ... that Jaelyn Brown, who was born with two club feet, now plays in the WNBA? (2024-06-19)
- ... that Shirley Warde not only starred in theater and movie productions, but also wrote playscripts and short stories for magazines? (2024-06-14)
- ... that Rachel Brem discovered a tumor in her own breast while testing ultrasound equipment for her hospital? (2024-06-12)
- ... that Bianca Babb, a pioneer girl captured by Comanches, described her time among them as "every day seemed to be a holiday", despite the hardships of her initial capture? (2024-06-12)
- ... that in addition to her popular manga series Delicious in Dungeon, Ryoko Kui has drawn fan art of the games Baldur's Gate, Pathfinder and Planescape: Torment? (2024-06-11)
- ... that Carrie Swain was possibly the first woman entertainer to perform in blackface? (2024-06-09)
- ... that Syrian artist Kefah Ali Deeb painted an empty chair (pictured) as her vision of victims and refugees? (2024-06-07)
- ... that Elizabeth Yeampierre has called Puerto Rico the "poster child for climate injustice" due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria? (2024-06-03)
- ... that Olga Lander's camera required her to work close to the dangerous wartime subjects she photographed (example pictured)? (2024-05-29)
- ... that although Evgeniia Subbotina failed to escape her own exile in Siberia, she successfully aided the escapes of Catherine Breshkovsky, Yelizaveta Kovalskaya and Sofya Bogomolets? (2024-05-29)
- ... that Marie Catharine Neal, an expert on Hawaiian plants, authored the acclaimed book In Gardens of Hawaii in 1948, which described more than 2,000 species with detailed scientific information and illustrations? (2024-05-28)
- ... that Elizabeth Seifert, who was denied a medical degree due to her gender, went on to achieve success as a writer, penning more than 80 novels about the very field from which she had been excluded? (2024-05-28)
- ... that suffragette Ellen Oliver recognised "daughter of God" Mabel Barltrop as the spiritual child of prophet Joanna Southcott? (2024-05-27)
Transcluding 20 of 2723 total
Press
There has been considerable press coverage of WiR. You can find links to lots of relevant articles under Press.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to WikiProject Women in Red.
- Women in Red on Twitter
- Interest in women's history began much earlier than is assumed, Phys Org, August 25, 2015
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