Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red
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Meet the participants |
Welcome to Women in Red (WiR)! We are a group of editors of all genders living around the world focused on reducing systemic bias in the wiki movement. We recognized a need for this work as, in October 2014, only 15.53% of English Wikipedia's biographies were about women.[1] Founded in July 2015, WiR strives to increase the percentage, which, according to Humaniki has reached 19.08% as of 29 November 2021. But that means that of 1,858,105 biographies, only 354,437 are about women.[2] Not impressed? "Content gender gap" is a form of systemic bias, and WiR addresses it in a positive way through shared values.
There are more than 18,000 general forum comments on our talkpage.[3] You don't have to be a member in order to participate in the conversations; just please be civil.
Wikipedia
Our Wikipedia WikiProject focuses on creating content regarding women's biographies, women's works, and women's issues. Our editors create articles in many different language Wikipedias. The objective is to turn "redlinks" into blue ones. That's why we are called "Women in Red".
We take an inclusive view towards subject matter, editors, and language communities:
- Editors: We do not focus on the gender of the editor. Anyone/everyone is welcome to be a member, participant, enthusiast of Women in Red. 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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- Language communities: While Women in Red began on English Wikipedia, it is an international commitment with dozens of other language communities. Please add a link to your language's coordination page here.
- Subject matter:
- If the subject of the article self-identifies as a woman—binary and/or non-binary and/or other, that person is included within the scope of Women in Red. Historic cases where what they self-identified as is unknown also count. The goal of the project is to increase inclusion, and we'd rather not block article subjects from being included in an article creation drive.
- In addition to creating new articles, we create and maintain hundreds of lists of "missing" notable women. Some of these women have an article on some language Wikipedia, while others have no article in any Wikipedia. We call these lists, "redlists".
- Click on our Redlinks index to see our lists of missing articles by focus area, occupation and nationality. Like everything else on Wikipedia, this is incomplete, so feel free to add pertinent items to our crowd-sourced lists.
- While all redlists have redlinks, our redlists are generated in numerous ways:
- crowd-sourced (example, Crafts)
- Wikidata-generated (example, Herpetologists)
- based on a dictionary or other reference book (example, Encyclopédie Larousse)
- based on a website (example, BBC 100 Women)
- based on an international Authority Control (example, VIAF)
WikiCommons
In support of #VisibleWikiWomen, our members add and improve images of women, women's works, and women's issues to WikiCommons.
Wikidata
We create and improve Wikidata items related to women, women's works, and women's issues.
See also
Learn more about our work, including Press and Research.
Announcements[edit]
- Please post recent announcements directly on this page for improved page editing history, watcher alerts and greater visibility
Add new announcements to the top. Sign with ~~~~. Remove old ones after a month.
- Women in Red's initiative for the whole of 2022 is Climate. Prepare to participate from the beginning of January.--Ipigott (talk) 14:22, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
- Women in Climate Change, a two-month international event will begin on 1 December 2021.--Ipigott (talk) 14:22, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
Events[edit]
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Continuing global coverage
- In addition to our monthly editathons, you can cover women in any sphere of interest by taking part in the 2021 version of our #1day1woman initiative.
Year-long initiative
- Jan-Dec 2021: Women's rights
Happening now
- December 2021: "Double the lede!"
- December 2021: Women who died in 2021 (first of two months)
- December 2021: Women in Oceania contest (third of three months)
Recently completed
- November 2021: Film + Stage
- November 2021: Endocrine Health - World Diabetes Day
Lists of red links[edit]
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. We also have a guide to adding names to redlists, and to creating new redlists.
Article alerts[edit]
- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Women for articles about women that are nominated for deletion.
- This section is a transcluded subpage, and may contain more information than is shown here. To view or edit, go to /Article alerts (watch this section).
- 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}} or {{WikiProject Women scientists}}, look on those projects' article alert pages instead.
Did you know
- 01 Dec 2021 – Frances Brett Hodgkinson (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Darwin Naz (t · c); see discussion
- 30 Nov 2021 – Mary Earle (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Victuallers (t · c); see discussion
- 30 Nov 2021 – Boycott (2021 film) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Ezlev (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Nov 2021 – Mauatua (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Victuallers (t · c); see discussion
- 20 Nov 2021 – Sharon Shea (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Schwede66 (t · c); see discussion
- 19 Nov 2021 – Ruth Crosby Noble (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by AFreshStart (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Nov 2021 – Kate DiCamillo (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Eddie891 (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Nov 2021 – Tina Stege (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Victuallers (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 01 Dec 2021 – Milana Keller (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Modussiccandi (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
- 01 Dec 2021 – Margarida de Ávila (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by WomenArtistUpdates (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
- 01 Dec 2021 – Erica Arana (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Spicy (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 30 Nov 2021 – Michaela Hasanová (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Jevansen (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 30 Nov 2021 – Ayşe Şevval Ay (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Spiderone (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 30 Nov 2021 – Ümran Özev (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Spiderone (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 30 Nov 2021 – Sümeyra Kıvanç (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Spiderone (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 30 Nov 2021 – Rabia Civan (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Spiderone (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 30 Nov 2021 – Mary Hope Whitehead Lee (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bearcat (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 30 Nov 2021 – Devika Mathur (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bearcat (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
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Files for discussion
- 27 Oct 2021 – File:Agnes Husband's Burgess Ticket.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on Agnes Husband) was FfDed by Stefan2 (t · c); see discussion
- 22 Oct 2021 – File:Halyna Hutchins (cinematographer, journalist, born 1979).jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on Halyna Hutchins) was FfDed by Joseph2302 (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 19 Nov 2021 – Ruth Crosby Noble (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by AFreshStart (t · c); start discussion
- 10 Nov 2021 – Kate DiCamillo (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Eddie891 (t · c); start discussion
- 06 Nov 2021 – Kumeko Urabe (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Simongraham (t · c); start discussion
- 20 Oct 2021 – Gigi Ibrahim (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Ezlev (t · c); start discussion
- 19 Oct 2021 – Róża Maria Goździewska (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Piotrus (t · c); start discussion
- 06 Sep 2021 – Suzanne Ferrière (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by RomanDeckert (t · c); start discussion
- 06 Sep 2021 – Marguerite Frick-Cramer (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by RomanDeckert (t · c); start discussion
Articles to be merged
- 11 Oct 2021 – Renu Kushawaha (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Renu Kumari Singh by MPGuy2824 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 23 Nov 2021 – Draft:Frances Eldridge (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by EEHalli (t · c) was accepted to Frances Eldridge (talk · edit · hist) by Sahaib3005 (t · c) on 27 Nov 2021
Declined drafts[edit]
Thanks firstly to Ronhjones, and now to Galobtter, we 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.
Resources and research[edit]
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[edit]
- 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.
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.
Totals at a glance[edit]
| Year | Portion if applicable |
Total | Daily average |
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| 2015 | 18 Jul - 31 Dec | 11,686 | 70 |
| 2016 | 28,290 | 77 | |
| 2017 | 28,179 | 77 | |
| 2018 | 27,242 | 75 | |
| 2019 | 27,185 | 74 | |
| 2020 | 30,621 | 83 | |
| 2021 | 1 Jan - 30 Jun | 14,220 | 78 |
| GRAND TOTAL | 167,423 |
Showcase[edit]
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[edit]
These are the 20 most recent WP:DYK entries for WiR. Updated approximately weekly by User:JL-Bot.
- ... that in 2009, Doreen Nabwire (pictured) became the first Kenyan woman to play professional football in Europe? (2021-11-26)
- ... that Meadow Walker was walked down the aisle by Vin Diesel? (2021-11-25)
- ... that Valerie Broussard's video for "Iris" pays homage to the Goo Goo Dolls' original? (2021-11-24)
- ... that Aline Rocha, the first Brazilian woman to compete at the Winter Paralympic Games, also came third in the women's wheelchair race at the 2021 Berlin Marathon? (2021-11-24)
- ... that fashion model Rebecca Leigh Longendyke was inspired by Grey's Anatomy to get a degree in biomedical engineering? (2021-11-21)
- ... that Miriam Soljak, after fighting to recover her New Zealand nationality for nearly three decades, was told that the government considered she had never lost it? (2021-11-21)
- ... that Nancy Cappello was described as the "founder of the breast density education movement" for her campaign to inform women about the issue of mammograms failing to detect breast cancer? (2021-11-20)
- ... that Russel and Mary Wright's American design "manifesto" Guide to Easier Living proposed that life was "engineering problems with scientific solutions"? (2021-11-20)
- ... that Brazilian wheelchair racer Vanessa Cristina de Souza won a race despite completing the last two kilometres (1.2 mi) with a flat tyre? (2021-11-19)
- ... that about 700 airmen – and Ida Veldhuyzen van Zanten (pictured) – received the Dutch Airman's Cross? (2021-11-19)
- ... that Rose Lee Maphis and her husband Joe Maphis, known as Mr. and Mrs. Country Music, helped develop the Bakersfield sound? (2021-11-18)
- ... that Miray Cin played for the Germany women's national U15, U16 and U17 football teams before she became a member of the Turkey women's national football team? (2021-11-18)
- ... that the "Angel of the dump", Jane Walker, helps people in Manila create handbags (pictured) from reused ring-pulls? (2021-11-18)
- ... that Elizabeth Reiter portrayed the double role of Renee, an "icy wife"; and Alice, an "insatiable lover"; in the German premiere of Olga Neuwirth's opera Lost Highway? (2021-11-18)
- ... that upon hearing about a 600-worker walkout reportedly prompted by difficulties she caused, Dee Duponte responded "fiddlesticks"? (2021-11-18)
- ... that Ally Condie's dystopian Matched trilogy was inspired by a high school prom? (2021-11-17)
- ... that Scottish novelist Isla Dewar said "if ... a thing is not worth doing then it's worth doing fabulously, amazingly, with grace, style and panache"? (2021-11-17)
- ... that in Botswana, writer Unity Dow (pictured) took legal actions as a plaintiff, legal counsellor, and judge to challenge gender discrimination and protect indigenous rights, before becoming a legislator? (2021-11-15)
- ... that Myrtle Edwards's family objected to Seattle's Gas Works Park being named after her? (2021-11-15)
- ... that Sherita Hill Golden demonstrated that diabetics were more likely to develop depression and that those with depression were more likely to become diabetic? (2021-11-14)
Transcluding 20 of 2097 total
Press[edit]
There has been considerable press coverage of WiR. Below are some recent articles. To add articles to the list, visit Press.
- Time Magazine Named Steven Pruitt One of the Most Influential People on the Internet–Just For His Wikipedia Edits, by Jesse Rifkin, Northern Virginia Magazine, 24 November 2021
- Wikipedia editor 'warriors' fight lies, bigotry and even Nazis, RTL Today, attributed to AFP, 17 November 2021.--Ipigott (talk) 11:33, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
- Feminists fight ... 24 hour editathon Well researched piece covering Carol W, Mahwish, On This Day She and Roger. 15 October 2021
- Discussion of the issues and talk prior to AdaWiki24.org (WIR-211), comments by Roger Bamkin
- Big Tech's Big Tobacco moment. Despite the title, today's Axios podcast introduced by Niala Boodhoo includes comments by Roger Bamkin on today's 24-hour ADA marathon, 12 October 2021
- Global 24-hour Wikipedia "Edit-a-thon" Kicks Off In New Zealand, Scoop.co.nz, 29 September 2021
- "Member-Led Effort Will Bring Histories of Women, People of Color in Design to Wikipedia", by Lisa Boylan, Associations Now, 24 September 2021, on cooperation between AIGA and WikiEdu
- "Why we need more biographies of women journalists on Wikipedia" by Marcela Kunova, Jounalism.co.uk, 23 September 2021
- KCPL’s new Wikipedian in Residence gives us the tools to edit our own stories, by Lily Wulfemeyer in The Pitch, 13 September 2021
- Wikipediaan halutaan lisää naisia – sisällöstä paistaa miehinen näkökulma: "Hänestä puhuttiin vain miehensä rouvana" by MTV uutiset in Finnish, 26 April 2021 (More women are wanted on Wikipedia - the content has a masculine perspective: "She was refered as Mrs John Smith")
- Tyttöjen ja poikien kasvatus näkyy jopa Wikipediassa, sanoo Jenni Janakka – ja kannustaa naisia hylkäämään täydellisyydentavoittelun by MeNaiset in Finnish, 26 April 2021 (The upbringing of girls and boys can even be seen on Wikipedia, says Jenni Janakka - and encourages women to abandon the pursuit of perfection)
- "Guinness and Wikipedia to tackle rugby gender disparity" by Sport Industry Group, 16 April 2021
- "Wikipedia gives a picture distorted by men" by Faye Welch, Commentary Box Sports, 12 April 2021
- "Challenging the massive gender imbalance on Wikipedia. Hundreds of dedicated volunteers are defying the sexists to write women back into history." by Joshua Zitser, The Insider, 11 April 2021
- "How Wikipedia is fighting the gender gap, one biography at a time" by Rahel Philipose, The Indian Express, 9 April 2021
- "Women Are Writing Themselves Back Into History on Wikipedia", by Meghan McDonough, NBC LX, 31 March 2021
- "Award-winning professor writes forgotten women into tech-history" by Pernille Bjørn and Michael Skov Jensen, EurekAlert, 11 March 2021
- "Wikipedia is a man – and he's a bit narrow-minded", by Sally Frydenlund, University of Copenhagen, 1 March 2021
- "Only 20% of Wikipedia’s Biographies Are About Women — #WikiGap Wants to Change That": Eric Luth {Eric Luth (WMSE) reports on progress since 2018 and calls on everyone to "tell the missing stories of women on Wikipedia". Reported by Leah Rodriguez, Global Citizen, 8 March 2021
- The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History, by Jenny Singer, Glamour, 26 January 2021
- Wikipedia at 20: Why it often overlooks stories of women in history, by Tamar Carroll and Lara Nicosia, The Conversation, originally published 16 March 2018, updated 14 January 2021
- One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia, interview by Emily Wong on NPR, 6 January 2021
Academia[edit]
In addition to our own listing under Research, academic papers on gender bias in Wikipedia (as recorded in Wikidata) are listed in Scholia.
To include a paper, create an item about it on Wikidata (check first to avoid duplicates) and give it main subject (P921) = gender bias on Wikipedia (Q17002416).
References[edit]
- ^ Graells-Garrido, Eduardo; Lalmas, Mounia; Menczer, Filippo (2015). "First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia". Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media - HT '15: 165–174. doi:10.1145/2700171.2791036.
- ^ "Humaniki".
- ^ "Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red • en.wikipedia.org". XTools.
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