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Women's History Month - Wikipedia Wednesdays

England, 9 March 2022

9 March 2022

Date: 9 March 2022 is the day after International Women's Day and it's what we are calling our first Wikipedia Wednesday.

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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 19.85% 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!

Goal

• Increase biographies of women on Wikipedia to address the existing bias. We have identified a few English women, but we are happy with any contribution.

• We hope to recruit and teach new users how to create or improve a biography.

Articles to do

We have hundreds of lists of missing women in our "Redlists".

Not all of the women listed might be notable - a good thing to look for to establish their notability is whether they have received any awards.

The first step after you have identified a subject is to check that you can find three reliable sources to write your article. In this connection, see our Ten Simple Rules.

Trainers/hosts

Our trainers are accredited by Wikimedia UK to train people in how to edit Wikipedia.

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First Step

We have an automatic facility that will record the edits that you make on Wikipedia once you have an account. You need to click here to make this work. You can see the articles created by others at the same place.

Second Step

You need to register for the event.

Third Step

Have a look at our red list and decide who you would like to write an article about. You should have three independent sources for their biography. Wiki does not use trivial sources. "MyCelebityLife" and tabloids are not good sources. Journals, leading newspapers and citations for major awards are usually good.

Fourth step

If you have a new account then why not experiment? Try adding that missing comma or improving the phrasing of an article. Look out for those amazing, unique, first of their kind, globally famous, (ie peacock) phrases in articles and remove them. Could you phrase what I just wrote better? Fix it! Why not correct [or remove] this needless comment???

Fifth step

Your host will welcome you on March 9th at 7 pm and we plan to have a notable person to welcome you.

Sixth step

Afterwards, have a look again at the dashboard and see all the new and improved articles. Add {{WIR-226}} to the talkpage of your new article in double curly brackets so that Women in Red can keep an eye on it. Come and say "Hi" on our talk page and find some mates.

Seventh step

OK why not return for our next editathon in a week's time? Come and hear what everyone else has created. Have they added photos? Ask us about things you find difficult or offer to help a newbie with something you found quite easy. You are now a Wikipedian. Who are the people who make all the rules round here.... that can be you. There is no big boss here, you decide how to help. You will find lots of things that can be fixed.