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1000 Women in Religion Usergroup

Mission Statement

1000 Women in Religion, originally a project of the Women's Caucus of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and the Society of Biblical Literature, seeks to create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives of cis and transgender women scholars, activists, and practitioners in the world's religious, spiritual and wisdom traditions. We seek to write women back into history, especially those who have made an impact in their faith and religious communities.

Our name: We know that eventually we will add much more than 1000 biographies of women religious on Wikipedia. At least that's our hope and prayer, anyway. The number "1000" is hyperbole, like when Christ tells Saint Peter in Matthew 18 in the New Testament that he must forgive others not just 70 times, but 70 times seven times.

Vision

We are a diverse group of people of faith, agnostics, and atheists, from a variety of traditions and belief systems who are committed to closing information gaps that have affected cis and transgender women scholars, activists, and practitioners in the world's religious, spiritual, and wisdom traditions, especially in Wikipedia.

Values

• We believe in the power of faith and religious traditions to heal, empower, and unite.

• We are a community of feminists and activists who believe that faith and religious traditions should elevate women and challenge oppressive systems.

• We believe in creating caring, equitable, transformative, and safe spaces open and welcome to all faiths and traditions.

• We are committed to drawing attention to the great women who have led us all, throughout history, in providing examples and models what it means to be people of faith and insisting upon having agency and control of their own bodies despite great challenges and obstacles, and often at the expense of their own lives.

Goals

• We seek to leverage the Wikipedia guidelines such as those about notability and reliable sources that seem to discourage the creation of high-quality articles about women religious.

• We seek to mitigate the gender gap and the systemic bias on Wikipedia, especially as it pertains to women religious.

• We will create lists of red links, like those created by our member librarians, of women religious who are underrepresented on Wikipedia.

• We will meet regularly to strategize about writing women religious back into history, both on Wikipedia and in other secondary and tertiary sources. We will conduct regular meetups and edit-athons to help each other develop and grow as activists, writers, and Wikipedia editors.

• We will work with other Wikimedia projects and Wikiprojects to collaborate and make the wider world a better, equitable, and more accepting place.