Template:WikiProject Women in Red

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Usage

The {{WikiProject Women in Red}} template tracks pages for WikiProject Women in Red. It categorizes those pages in relevant tracking categories, which can then be used by bots to create the Article Alerts report and other similar reports like the recognized content report.

The project banner should be placed inside the banner shell with any other project banners.

Track a specific event

To keep track of articles associated with specific edit-a-thons or initiatives, add the meetup number as a parameter, e.g. {{WikiProject Women in Red|366}} or {{WIR|366}} directly on the talk page, within the WikiProject banner shell. This will produce a banner such as

The latest 10 events are shown in the table below:

Meetup	Name	Date	Template
357	Women who died: 2025	Dec 2025 – Jan 2026	{{WIR|357}}
358	#1day1woman: 2026	2026	{{WIR|358}}
359	Sports	2026	{{WIR|359}}
360	Alphabet run: Countries starting with A	Jan 2026	{{WIR|360}}
361	Alphabet run: Countries starting with B	Feb 2026	{{WIR|361}}
362	Black women	Feb 2026	{{WIR|362}}
363	Works by Women: Opera, Theatre and Music	Feb 2026	{{WIR|363}}
364	Alphabet run: Countries starting with C	Mar 2026	{{WIR|364}}
365	Artists+Activists	Mar 2026	{{WIR|365}}
366	Works by Women: Artworks	Mar 2026	{{WIR|366}}

For a full list, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red/events.

Add a specific year

If you don't remember during which meetup an article was created/improved, or if the article was not improved during a meetup then you can specify the year by using the |year= parameter. For example, to show that an article was created or improved in 2026 add {{WikiProject Women in Red|year=2026}} or {{WIR|year=2026}} to the talk page, which produces

There is no need to add the year, if it is already identified with a meetup in that same year.

If you don't remember the meetup or the year, {{WikiProject Women in Red}} without any parameters also works, but it is best to find out when the article was created/improved by browsing the article's edit history.

Multiple events

The template allows you to specify multiple events with a single banner. For example, an article created as part of events 144, 168 and 189 could be tagged as:

{{WikiProject Women in Red|144|168|189}}

In this case the events are presented as a list, i.e.

Add explanatory note

To add a short note to explain why an article is considered to be within the scope of WikiProject Women in Red, you can use the |explanation= parameter. This is particularly useful for male or trans-male subjects, whose gender may make their inclusion questionable.

For example,

{{WikiProject Women in Red|144|explanation=the article was created as part of a Women in Red editathon}}

produces

Track non-articles

To keep track of non-article pages, place {{WikiProject Women in Red}} without any parameter directly on the talk page, near the top. This will produce the following banner

Help, I'm stuck!

Post a message at Template talk:WikiProject Women in Red, explaining what exactly you are trying to do and someone will help.

Mistakes in tagging

Sometimes Women in Red banners are accidentally or mistakenly placed on the talk pages of articles that were not created or improved for a WiR event. When it looks like a banner is placed incorrectly, please verify it was a mistake by checking the article's history, and feel free to remove the banner. Banners are often added to talk pages based on the event's list of outcomes, so it's a good idea to follow the link in the banner before removing it, so that the article can also be removed from the event's list of outcomes.

If you have questions about this banner's use, reach out to the user who added it or leave a message at the Women in Red talk page.

Technical info

Details of all meetups are held in a JSON file at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/events. A human-readable list of the data can be viewed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red/events.

It is no longer necessary to create a new template for each new event.

Adding a new meetup

To add a new meetup, add code to this page, updating the example below with the details of the new event.

"n": {
	"name": "Find Her",
	"year": 2024,
	"month": 3,
	"icon": "WiR Find Her logo.png",
    "background": "ABCDEF"
}

Required fields are:

• n, the meetup number inside quotation marks. For example, 367 is the next available number.
• name, the name of the event, inside quotation marks. Either the name or series of the event must be specified; if both are used, then a colon is used to separate them, e.g. "Alphabet run: G & H".

The date of the event should be specified in one of the following ways:

• For a year-long event, use year with the year of the event, without quotation marks.
• For an event in a single month, use year and month. The month is specified numerically (in the range 1-12) without quotation marks.
• For an event with separate start and end dates, use start and end in the following way:

"start": {
	"month": 12,
	"year": 2023
}
"end": {
	"month": 1,
	"year": 2024

Other optional fields are:

• series, the series of the event, if applicable, e.g. "Geofocus" or "Alphabet run". This will categorise the articles under the relevant suvcategory of Category:WikiProject Women in Red articles by series.
• type, a specific type of event e.g. "initiative" or "contest". Leave this off if the event is a regular "edit-a-thon".
• icon, a specific icon image for the event if applicable, inside quotation marks and without the File: namespace.
• background, a specific background for the event, defined as a hex triplet inside quotation marks and without the # prefix.
• image, a picture (often of a woman) which represents the event in some way.
• caption, caption for the image above.

See this example. Bear in mind that the previous item will require a comma adding, but no comma should be added to the last item. If you miss a bracket, colon or quotation mark, then it will probably not let you save the page, so don't worry too much about messing it up!

Then, create a new category of the form Category:WikiProject Women in Red meetup 367 articles and add {{WIR category}} to the top.

Now you can tag your articles with {{WikiProject Women in Red|367}} or {{WIR|367}} for short.

Events without meetup number

There are two events without a meetup number. They are the #1day1woman initiative 2017 and the #1day1woman initiative 2018. These events are tagged using "2017" and "2018" respectively.

Tracking categories

• Category:Pages using WikiProject Women in Red with unknown parameters (0)
• Category:WikiProject Women in Red articles not associated with a meetup (5,658)
• Category:WikiProject Women in Red articles with unrecognised meetup (0)

Marks the attached article as being in scope of WikiProject Women in Red.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Listas	listas	Define a default sort key for categories	String	optional
Event	1	Meetup number Example 301	Number	suggested
Additional event	2	2nd meetup number	Number	optional
Additional event	3	3rd meetup number	Number	optional
Additional event	4	4th meetup number	Number	optional
year	year	no description	Unknown	optional
Suppress categories	category	Categories are suppressed if set to "no" Suggested values no	Unknown	optional
explanation	explanation	add an explanation on why this article is considered within the scope of WikiProject Women in Red	String	optional

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