Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red
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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 19.10% as of 18 October 2021. But that means that of 1,851,775 biographies, only 353,734 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]
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Add new announcements to the top. Sign with ~~~~. Remove old ones after a month.
- Global Citizen published an article titled "7 Notable African Women Activists Who Deserve Wikipedia Pages" on 9 August. Its by Leah Rodriguez and its objective is great. I think they all have articles now thanks to @Abishe: and @Indy beetle:. The article is collecting the names of missing wikiwomen (but not sure if they are aware of wikidata) or us. Victuallers (talk) 09:02, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
- A new redlist for women in microbiology, inspired by the book of the same name, has been created. Feel free to add to it! - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 11:10, 19 July 2021 (UTC)
- Interesting new research report from A+F on Wikimedia sourcing: Berson, Amber; Sengul-Jones, Monika; Tamani, Melissa (June 2021). "Unreliable Guidelines: Reliable Sources and Marginalized Communities in French, English and Spanish Wikipedias" (PDF). Art+Feminism.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)--Ipigott (talk) 10:59, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
- As of 18 June, the last month of our Women in Europe contest has been extended to include centenarians on the basis of a well-developed redlist.--Ipigott (talk) 10:07, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
- Wikimedia Switzerland organises the international online camp Wikipedia for Peace: Women's Suffrage from 1-7 February 2021 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of women's suffrage in Switzerland. --Shikeishu (talk) 17:38, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
- Wiki Project 1000 Women in Religion announces an Edit-a-Thon sponsered by the American Academy of Religion Western Region March 20, 2021 focusing on religious scholars and activists of color --RosPost (talk) 22:30, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- On 10 March, the Auckland War Memorial Museum is hosting an in-person and online event, focusing on New Zealand-related women. --Prosperosity (talk) 00:42, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- The alpha version of the Humaniki gender gap statistics project was released on 15 March 2021. See Humaniki March Update: Public Launch of Alpha Release. From now on, it will be used in place of WHGI for providing statistics on Women in Red in regard to the percentage of women's biographies on the English version of Wikipedia.--Ipigott (talk) 09:42, 26 March 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
- October 2021: Women in STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
- October 2021: Women in Oceania contest (first of three months)
Coming up
- November 2021:Film + Stage
- November 2021:Endocrine Health - World Diabetes Day
Recently completed
- 12 October 2021: Ada Lovelace Day: 24-Hour Global Edit-a-thon
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
- 21 Oct 2021 – Matched Trilogy (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Salem(BYU) (t · c); see discussion
- 21 Oct 2021 – Milena Smit (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Thriley (t · c); see discussion
- 18 Oct 2021 – Unity Dow (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by SusunW (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Oct 2021 – Susan Bernal (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Victuallers (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Oct 2021 – Eva Olsson (scientist) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Victuallers (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Oct 2021 – Myrtle Edwards (politician) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by SounderBruce (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Oct 2021 – Lesley Akyaa Opoku Ware (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Victuallers (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Oct 2021 – Marguerite Dunlap (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Mike Peel (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Oct 2021 – Harriet Pattison (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Thriley (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Oct 2021 – Marie Surcouf (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Victuallers (t · c); see discussion
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Articles for deletion
- 23 Oct 2021 – Claire Guillard (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Paul Vaurie (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 22 Oct 2021 – Ruby Guest (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Abbyjjjj96 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 22 Oct 2021 – Siphokuhle Naartjies (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Spiderone (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
- 22 Oct 2021 – Fatma Ataş (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Spiderone (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
- 22 Oct 2021 – Aditi Gupta (author) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Advait.kansal (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 22 Oct 2021 – Laura Calvo (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bearcat (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 21 Oct 2021 – Jessica Middleton (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by HeinzMaster (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 21 Oct 2021 – Hripsime Yelinyan (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Taking Out The Trash (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
- 21 Oct 2021 – Nattanid Leewattanavaragul (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Nordschleife 00 (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
- 21 Oct 2021 – Ziba Karamali (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Star Mississippi (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
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Proposed deletions
- 10 Oct 2021 – Karitas Karisimbi (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by MrsSnoozyTurtle (t · c) was deproded by Liz (t · c) on 16 Oct 2021
Templates for discussion
- 14 Oct 2021 – Template:Women in Red 2021 Africa contest: February second place (talk · edit · hist) TfDed by WikiCleanerMan (t · c) was closed; see discussion
- 13 Oct 2021 – Template:Women in Red Women Writers header (talk · edit · hist) TfDed by WikiCleanerMan (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Redirects for discussion
- 21 Oct 2021 – Naya Rivera drowning (talk · edit · hist) →Death of Naya Rivera was RfDed by TJRC (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Oct 2021 – Let’s Go Brandon! (talk · edit · hist) →Kelli Stavast was RfDed by Thryduulf (t · c); see discussion
- 14 Oct 2021 – Let’s Go Brandon (talk · edit · hist) →Kelli Stavast was RfDed by Mrschimpf (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 22 Oct 2021 – Miriam Soljak (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by SusunW (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
- 18 Oct 2021 – Australian nationality law (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Horserice (t · c); start discussion
- 13 Oct 2021 – Vilma Núñez (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Innisfree987 (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Oct 2021 – Elena Arizmendi Mejía (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by SusunW (t · c); see 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
- 25 Jul 2021 – Cynthia Lummis (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Jon698 (t · c); see discussion
Requests for comments
- 13 Oct 2021 – Anne Wyllie (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Headbomb (t · c); see discussion
- 13 Oct 2021 – Tlalli (talk · edit · hist) RfC by Tbhotch (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Peer reviews
- 22 Jul 2021 – Beverly White (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Jon698 (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 17 Oct 2021 – Arsenal Women 11–1 Bristol City Women (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Arsenal W.F.C. 11–1 Bristol City W.F.C. by Iggy the Swan (t · c); see 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
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 Laura Jean McKay's 2020 novel about a fictional global pandemic was first written in 2013? (2021-10-16)
- ... that Anne Wyllie (pictured), also known as the "Spit Queen", now has a Wikipedia biography because a healthcare executive asked who she was? (2021-10-12)
- ... that a viral TikTok video posted by Erynn Chambers intended to satirize country music led to the creation of "Beer Beer, Truck Truck"? (2021-10-09)
- ... that in 1786, antiquarian Catherine Downes was one of the first women to excavate a Roman villa? (2021-10-06)
- ... that the 1918 book Iowa Authors and Their Works was an attempt to document all Iowa authors and their writing starting from 1880? (2021-10-04)
- ... that pacifist Theodora Wilson Wilson's science fiction book The Last Weapon was banned by the British Government in 1917? (2021-10-03)
- ... that Monika Salzer, a systematic psychotherapist and Protestant pastor, was a columnist for the Kronen Zeitung and appeared on television in Dancing Stars? (2021-09-27)
- ... that Lori Gramlich, a survivor of sexual abuse in her childhood, introduced legislation that made it easier for sexual abuse survivors in Maine to file civil lawsuits against their abusers? (2021-09-27)
- ... that Lydia Wevers was the first scholar to write about the history of short stories in New Zealand? (2021-09-26)
- ... that Tlalli will replace a monument to Christopher Columbus, not to "erase history", but to "deliver social justice"? (2021-09-25)
- ... that playwright Carol K. Mack wrote the thriller novel The Chameleon Variant in 1980 with Rutgers University biologist David Ehrenfeld? (2021-09-25)
- ... that the small island of Aruba was at the Paralympics because Shardea Arias de la Cru thought they should be? (2021-09-25)
- ... that Anna Apostolaki, the first Greek woman to work as a professional archaeologist, was also a feminist educator who promoted women's traditional crafts? (2021-09-25)
- ... that Lulwah Al-Qatami was the first woman from Kuwait to study at a university abroad? (2021-09-23)
- ... that Jacquelyn Reingold knew nothing about string theory until she wrote a play about it? (2021-09-23)
- ... that the Great Dover Street woman might be the skeleton of a female gladiator? (2021-09-22)
- ... that Noliwe Rooks coined the term "segrenomics" to describe a system of separate, segregated, and unequal education created by the privatization and deregulation of American public education? (2021-09-21)
- ... that despite not initially being selected for the 2020 Summer Paralympics, British equestrian Georgia Wilson won two bronze medals at the Games? (2021-09-21)
- ... that photographers in Saint Paul, Minnesota, sold thousands of cartes-de-visite of "Old Betz" (pictured), a Dakota woman who they said was 120 years old? (2021-09-21)
- ... that Dominican senator Anette Sanford donated half her salary to the Dominica Nurses Association during the COVID-19 pandemic? (2021-09-20)
Transcluding 20 of 2056 total
Press[edit]
There has been considerable press coverage of WiR. Below are some recent articles. To add articles to the list, visit Press.
- 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.
External links[edit]
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- Women in Red on Twitter
- Interest in women's history began much earlier than is assumed, Phys Org, August 25, 2015
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