Wikipedia:WikiProject Women
Welcome!
Welcome to WikiProject Women! We're a group of editors who aim to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women's topics. WikiProject Women brings Wikipedia users of all genders, sexual orientations, geographic locations, and personal backgrounds together to discuss and collaborate on coverage of women's content across Wikipedia. Know that we warmly welcome you to participate in the project's scope, whether or not you are a project member.
Affiliates of WikiProject Women |
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African women |
Architecture & design |
Art |
Business |
Feminism |
Health |
Hip hop music |
History |
History Month (March) |
Jewish women |
Journalism |
Music |
Religion |
Scientists |
Sport |
Warfare & military |
Writers |
Missing articles department: Women in Red |
Article improvement department: Women in Green |
See also: Gender gap task force |
Contents |
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Introduction
This project addresses the under-representation of content on Wikipedia about women (both real and fictional) and covering women's perspectives. It also addresses women's works, such as the paintings they created, books they wrote, scientific discoveries they made or the organizations they created. Think of this as an umbrella group which unites more specific women's projects, one which attempts to look broadly at coverage of women on Wikipedia as part of the bigger picture and how we can improve it. Readers and editors may not know that there's a project for women artists, scientists or writers, but if they reach this page, they can fork away to more specific areas if they wish.
First and foremost, this project is about "content", including creating new articles and adding or improving content in existing articles! Our Featured Articles and Good Articles are the best examples of our work. To counter Wikipedia's systemic bias against covering women's biographies, women's work and women's perspectives, which occurs because the vast majority of editors are male (see the article on Gender bias in Wikipedia for more details), we have a department, Women in Red, that works on missing articles about notable women.
We track lots of areas connected with Women+Wikipedia. Some of these include new articles, articles posted in the Did you know? section of Wikipedia's main page, events, meetups, edit-a-thons, scholarly articles, and newspaper articles.
Get involved!
What can you do?
Writing
For those who like to write, you can create, expand or improve articles. For general guidelines for writing biographies, there are several resources, such as the Manual of style for biographies, writing about women (a helpful essay), the biographies of living persons policy, and the notability guideline for biographies.
Creating articles that will survive an Article for Deletion review requires that, at minimum, the new article cite several reliable sources such as published books and major newspapers and magazines, and that the text not be copied directly from another website or another source. If there is already an article about a woman or a woman's work, you can expand the article by adding information. To avoid having your added sentences "reverted" (removed), you should provide a reliable source for any information or claim that is likely to be challenged. You do not have to provide a source for "The capital of France is Paris", but a statement about an award that a woman won or a scientific achievement she made should usually be sourced.
Another task for editors who want to reduce gender bias on Wikipedia is to review articles about women to look for biased writing, such as text that defines women primarily in terms of their relationship to other people. An article about a woman scientist should begin more like this:
Susan Trang (1900–1980) was a Canadian astronomer. She is known for her series of comet discoveries in the 1930s, her books on astrophysics and for winning the Nebula Award in 1975.
Instead of:
Susan Trang (1900–1980) was a Canadian astronomer. She was the daughter of scientist [name of father], the wife of [name of husband], the noted [name of profession] and the mother of [name of adult child], the well-known [child's profession].
The essay "Writing About Women" covers these matters in more detail.
Non-writing tasks
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
There are a lot of non-writing tasks which need attention too, such as tagging the talk pages of relevant articles with project banners associated with sister and daughter projects, assessing article quality on talk pages, improving biography categorization at Category:Women by occupation, and adding reliable sources to existing articles, particularly for articles about women or their work that are proposed for deletion. (In some cases, a handful of reliable, high-quality sources can save an article from being deleted.) Other non-writing tasks include adding categories to articles (an article about a woman engineer may be categorized under Canadian engineers, but there may be other categories that she could fit into, such as Canadian professors, Canadian authors or Canadian inventors); adding images of women or their works or creations to articles (see adding images essay); and wiki-linking terms and names within the article. (If you link men in a woman's article, it is good practice to go to the men's articles and ensure that the woman is linked in those articles as well.)
Questions?
If you have questions about these tasks or editing in general, leave a note on our talk page or stop by the Teahouse where there are hosts standing by to answer questions from newer editors.
How are we organized?
WikiProject Women has a loose affiliation with many other WikiProjects, Task Forces, and a User Group; check out our Affiliates navigation box for a list of them. WikiProject Women has several departments, including article creation, article improvement, DYK? articles, and events. They are described in more detail on this page and if you follow their links.
Members
If you would like to help, please add your user name to the members' list! Anyone with a Wikipedia user account—regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity—is free to join. If you do not already have a free Wikipedia user account, click here to read some reasons to create one. Joining the project is easy! Add your name here in alphabetical order:
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Departments
- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Featured Articles for a complete list of articles on women which have reached Featured Article status.
Good articles
- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Good Articles for a list of over 500 articles on women which have reached Good Article status.
Good article of the week
Fatima Massaquoi-Fahnbulleh (1904–1978) was a pioneering educator in Liberia. After completing her education in the United States, she returned to Liberia in 1946, where she contributed much to the cultural and social life of the country.
Born into a family of African royalty, Massaquoi grew up in the care of an aunt in Njagbacca, in the Garwula District of Grand Cape Mount County of southern Liberia. After seven years, she returned to the northwestern part of the country in Montserrado County, where she began her schooling. In 1922 she accompanied her father, a diplomat, to Hamburg, Germany, where she completed her studies in medicine at the University of Hamburg in 1937. She moved to the United States for further education, studying sociology and anthropology at Lane College, Fisk University and Boston University. While in the US, she collaborated on a dictionary of the Vai language and wrote her autobiography, though a legal battle ensued over the rights to her story. She won an injunction barring others from publishing and returned to Liberia in 1946, immediately beginning collaboration to establish a university there, which would become the University of Liberia.
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GA focus of the month
- January 2016: Women in Music. See Category:Lists of women in music for pertinent lists.
- List candidates of interest here
- Mami Kawada - recently promoted to GA
Did You Know?
New article creation
Current article statistics
WikiProject Women pages by quality | |||||||
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Quality | |||||||
Total | |||||||
FA | 130 | ||||||
FL | 124 | ||||||
FM | 63 | ||||||
A | 1 | ||||||
GA | 1,099 | ||||||
B | 3,368 | ||||||
C | 14,851 | ||||||
Start | 42,335 | ||||||
Stub | 37,350 | ||||||
List | 1,086 | ||||||
Category | 12,155 | ||||||
Disambig | 114 | ||||||
File | 179 | ||||||
Portal | 1 | ||||||
Project | 101 | ||||||
Redirect | 1,590 | ||||||
Template | 185 | ||||||
NA | 23 | ||||||
Assessed | 114,755 | ||||||
Unassessed | 34 | ||||||
Total | 114,789 | ||||||
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 507,479 | Ω = 5.12 |
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Alerts
Did you know
- 20 Jul 2024 – Logan Edra (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by BeanieFan11 (t · c); see discussion
- 19 Jul 2024 – Carey Wright (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Y2hyaXM (t · c); see discussion
- 19 Jul 2024 – Erika Podest (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Silver seren (t · c); see discussion
- 18 Jul 2024 – Marina Kondratyeva (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Gerda Arendt (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Jul 2024 – Apsara Sakbun (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by BeanieFan11 (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Jul 2024 – María Sara Grippoli (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by BeanieFan11 (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Jul 2024 – Titiou Lecoq (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Munfarid1 (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Jul 2024 – Lisa M. Corrigan (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Silver seren (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Jul 2024 – Margaret Eliza Maltby (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Physhist (t · c); see discussion
- 12 Jul 2024 – Emily Ausmus (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by BeanieFan11 (t · c); see discussion
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Articles for deletion
- 19 Jul 2024 – Christine Axsmith (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Longhornsg (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 19 Jul 2024 – Antonina Liedtke (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 19 Jul 2024 – Hiba Farès (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Polygnotus (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 19 Jul 2024 – Lisa-Anne Smith (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 18 Jul 2024 – Kai Trump (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (16 participants)
- 17 Jul 2024 – Fiona Krautil (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 16 Jul 2024 – Ditty (musician) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bulklana (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 16 Jul 2024 – Julian Adyeri Omalla (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Old-AgedKid (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 15 Jul 2024 – Paulette Flint (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 15 Jul 2024 – Girl Geeks Scotland (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
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Proposed deletions
- 19 Jul 2024 – Denise White (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Sciencefish (t · c): concern
- 16 Jul 2024 – Miss Krystle (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 2603:8000:E243:58B7:44A3:5F6E:973B:F7E5 (t · c): concern
- 16 Jul 2024 – Darcie Edgemon (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Walsh90210 (t · c): concern
- 17 Jul 2024 – Li Xueyao (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Cloudz679 (t · c) was deproded by Mx. Granger (t · c) on 18 Jul 2024
- 17 Jul 2024 – Elise Finch (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by 2603:7000:26F0:4310:9CCC:2604:B125:D2A7 (t · c) was deproded by Explicit (t · c) on 18 Jul 2024
- 11 Jul 2024 – Ruth Strauss (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Joseph2302 (t · c) was deleted
- 11 Jul 2024 – Natalie Lander (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Homechallenge55 (t · c) was deleted
Categories for discussion
- 17 Jul 2024 – Category:American women artists of Indian descent (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Smasongarrison (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Jul 2024 – Category:Indonesian women religious leaders (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Smasongarrison (t · c); see discussion
Redirects for discussion
- 19 Jul 2024 – Misty Williams (talk · edit · hist) →Misty (Pokémon) was RfDed by Cogsan (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Jul 2024 – Julie dreyfuss (talk · edit · hist) →Julie Dreyfus was RfDed by LucasMRB (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Jul 2024 – Saint John Rivers (talk · edit · hist) →Jane Eyre was RfDed by Enyavar (t · c); see discussion
- 07 Jul 2024 – 2025 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League (talk · edit · hist) →FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League was RfDed by 98Tigerius (t · c); see discussion
Files for discussion
- 17 Jul 2024 – File:EHF European Cup 2024.png (talk · edit · hist) (on 2024–25 Women's EHF European Cup) was FfDed by Jonteemil (t · c); see discussion
- 14 Jul 2024 – File:VivziePop YouTube profile picture.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on Vivienne Medrano) was FfDed by The Squirrel Conspiracy (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Jul 2024 – File:Flor Contemplacion after arrest.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on Flor Contemplacion) was FfDed by Marchjuly (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Jul 2024 – File:Flor Contemplacion.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on Flor Contemplacion) was FfDed by Marchjuly (t · c); see discussion
Featured article candidates
- 01 Jul 2024 – 2022 Tour de France Femmes (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Turini2 (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Jun 2024 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by SafariScribe (t · c); see discussion
- 07 May 2024 – Susanna Hoffs (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by BennyOnTheLoose (t · c); see discussion
Featured list candidates
- 20 Jul 2024 – List of Women's Basketball Academic All-America Team Members of the Year (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by TonyTheTiger (t · c); see discussion
- 26 Jun 2024 – List of Seattle Reign FC seasons (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by SounderBruce (t · c); see discussion
A-Class review
Good article nominees
- 14 Jul 2024 – Molly Dawes (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by FishLoveHam (t · c); start discussion
- 04 Jul 2024 – Jennifer Jones (curler) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Allthegoldmedals (t · c); start discussion
- 30 Jun 2024 – Tina Armstrong (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Kung Fu Man (t · c); start discussion
- 25 Jun 2024 – Leifang (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Kung Fu Man (t · c); start discussion
- 23 Jun 2024 – Jex Blackmore (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by ProfGray (t · c); start discussion
- 14 Jun 2024 – Patricia Bullrich (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Cambalachero (t · c); start discussion
- 07 Jun 2024 – Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Riley1012 (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Jun 2024 – Sorceress (Dragon's Crown) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Kung Fu Man (t · c); start discussion
- 25 May 2024 – Barbara Zangerl (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Aszx5000 (t · c); start discussion
- 23 May 2024 – Laura Matsuda (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Kung Fu Man (t · c); see discussion
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Featured article reviews
- 01 Jul 2024 – Pauline Fowler (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Boneless Pizza! (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Feb 2024 – Mariah Carey (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by ScarletViolet (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Jan 2024 – Emmy Noether (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
Requests for comments
- 19 Jul 2024 – Kylie Minogue (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by PHShanghai (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Jul 2024 – Taylor Swift (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by PHShanghai (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Jul 2024 – Coco Lee (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Vacosea (t · c); see discussion
- 28 Jun 2024 – Nina Dobrev (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Anthony Whitaker (t · c); see discussion
Peer reviews
- 12 Jul 2024 – Catherine, Princess of Wales (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by MSincccc (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Jun 2024 – Jenna Ortega (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Pamzeis (t · c); see discussion
- 03 May 2024 – Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Keivan.f (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 19 Jul 2024 – Natalia Morar (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Natalia Morari by Super Dromaeosaurus (t · c); see discussion
- 19 Jul 2024 – Wedding of Prince Edward and Wallis Warfield (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Wedding of Prince Edward and Wallis Simpson by 2601:346:8080:1E20:1DAE:68E4:EB1D:A007 (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Jul 2024 – Fatal stabbing of Alexandra Mezher (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Killing of Alexandra Mezher by Hemant Dabral (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Jul 2024 – Rose Hanbury (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Rose Cholmondeley, Marchioness of Cholmondeley by Omnis Scientia (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Jul 2024 – María José Rienda Contreras (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to María José Rienda by Ortizesp (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Jul 2024 – Black Widow (Yelena Belova) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Yelena Belova by Trailblazer101 (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Jun 2024 – UST Lady Booters football (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to UST Tigresses football by Bagoto (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Jun 2024 – De La Salle Lady Booters football (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to De La Salle Lady Archers football by Bagoto (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Jun 2024 – UST Golden Tigresses volleyball (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to UST Tigresses volleyball by Bagoto (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Jul 2024 – Moon Ga-young (talk · edit · hist) move request to Mun Ka-young by 27.125.249.251 (t · c) was not moved; 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
- 03 Jul 2024 – Diana Prince (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Wonder Woman by Trailblazer101 (t · c); see discussion
- 28 Jun 2024 – The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to The Song of the Lioness by Boleyn (t · c); see discussion
- 26 Jun 2024 – Lauren Hill (basketball) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to 2014 Hiram vs. Mount St. Joseph women's basketball game by Qalb alasid (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Jun 2024 – AFFA Top Girls League (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to AFFA Top Girls League by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Jun 2024 – Chetti Thanuja Rani (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Gumma Thanuja Rani by Gnoeee (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Jun 2024 – The Steerswoman (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Draft:The Outskirter's Secret by LEvalyn (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Jun 2024 – Rosemary Kirstein (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Draft:The Outskirter's Secret by LEvalyn (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Jun 2024 – There was no such thing as Palestinians (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Golda Meir by TarnishedPath (t · c); see discussion
- 29 May 2024 – Azerbaijani women's football championship (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to AFFA Top Girls League by Caspianpunk (t · c); see discussion
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Articles to be split
- 20 Jul 2024 – Michelle Obama (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Vinnylospo (t · c); see discussion
- 28 Jun 2024 – Murders of Kate Bushell and Lyn Bryant (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Icaldonta (t · c); see discussion
- 27 Jun 2024 – NWSL awards (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Hameltion (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Apr 2024 – Political views of J. K. Rowling (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Skyshifter (t · c); see discussion
- 18 Nov 2023 – Ida B. Wells (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Jul 2023 – Bhadrakali (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Skyerise (t · c); see discussion
- 27 Mar 2023 – Amy Zerner and Monte Farber (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by YourLeastFavorite (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Feb 2023 – National Ringette League (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by CheckersBoard (t · c); see discussion
- 14 Dec 2022 – Lady of the Lake (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 94.254.176.212 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 20 Jul 2024 – Draft:Kazuha (singer) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by F.xount (t · c)
- 17 Jul 2024 – Draft:Mihriban Ersin (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Venusedit (t · c)
- 15 Jul 2024 – Draft:Margaret Woodbridge (social worker) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Klighed (t · c)
- 14 Jul 2024 – Draft:Sammi Cannold (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Sr1273 (t · c)
- 11 Jul 2024 – Draft:Purdue Golden Girl (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
- 10 Jul 2024 – Draft:Self-Portrait (2022 film) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 2A01:11:9210:9D0:60A8:349A:9546:EC53 (t · c)
- 10 Jul 2024 – Draft:Cincinnati Cougars (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Greenonion10 (t · c)
- 09 Jul 2024 – Draft:Lynn Montgomery (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Instyletech (t · c)
- 08 Jul 2024 – Draft:Salma Niazi (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 95.83.234.81 (t · c)
- 04 Jul 2024 – Draft:Camilla Mørk Røstvik (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Cappuccini Fiorentini (t · c)
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Templates
- Template:WikiProject Women
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- Create an invitation template
- Create a barnstar template
References
See also
- Gender bias in Wikipedia
- Biases in Wikipedia essay
- Writing about women (essay)
- WP:HER, an essay encouraging the use of female pronouns (she, her)