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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 has reached 18.85% as of 12 April 2021. But that means, according to Humaniki, only 339,545 of our 1,801,513 biographies are about women. 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. You don't have to be a member in order to participate in the conversations, just please be civil.
- ^ Eduardo Graells-Garrido, Mounia Lalmas, Filippo Menczer, "First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia", arXiv, 9 February 2015, p. 3.
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.
- 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.
New year-long initiative
- Jan-Dec 2021: Women's rights
Happening now
- April 2021: Plants & gardens
- April 2021: Gender studies
- April 2021: Women in Europe contest (first of three months)
Coming up
- May 2021: CEE women
- May 2021: Women in Europe contest (second of three months)
Recently completed
- March 2021: Art+Activism
- March 2021: VisibleWikiWomen
- March 2021: Women in Africa contest (third of three months)
- February 2021: Black women
- February 2021: Folklore
- February 2021: Classicists
- January 2021: Climate and environment
- January 2021: Public domain
- January 2021: Women who died in 2020
- December 2020: Philanthropists
- December 2020: Asia contest (3rd and last month)
Previous events
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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.
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
- 18 Apr 2021 – Edith Warner (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Silver seren (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Apr 2021 – Bertha Belmore (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by 4meter4 (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Apr 2021 – Mary Ellen Moylan (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Corachow (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Apr 2021 – Catherine Maxwell Stuart, 21st Lady of Traquair (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Victuallers (t · c); see discussion
- 14 Apr 2021 – Linn Sömskar (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Joseph2302 (t · c); see discussion
- 14 Apr 2021 – Anne Maria Barkly (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Victuallers (t · c); see discussion
- 14 Apr 2021 – Róża Maria Goździewska (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion
- 14 Apr 2021 – Nathalie Lieven (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Moonraker (t · c); see discussion
- 14 Apr 2021 – Annamary Dickey (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by 4meter4 (t · c); see discussion
- 13 Apr 2021 – Ximena Peña (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Joofjoof (t · c); see discussion
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Articles for deletion
- 18 Apr 2021 – Haley Mellin (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Possibly (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 17 Apr 2021 – Katie Roe Carr (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Sionk (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 17 Apr 2021 – Gabriele Buschmeier (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Sonofstar (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 17 Apr 2021 – Catherine Valogne (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Onel5969 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 17 Apr 2021 – Klavdiya Kalugina (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by PlanespotterA320 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 17 Apr 2021 – Majiziya Bhanu (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bilal.Choudary2 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 17 Apr 2021 – Harron Walker (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Dixiku (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 17 Apr 2021 – Reylynn Caster (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Dixiku (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 16 Apr 2021 – Regine De Clercq (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by CommanderWaterford (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 16 Apr 2021 – Marie-Louise Vanherk (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by CommanderWaterford (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
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Proposed deletions
- 14 Apr 2021 – Pixy (group) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Explicit (t · c) was deproded by 2A01:E0A:5FF:FBC0:D936:7633:2439:A4BC (t · c) on 16 Apr 2021
- 14 Apr 2021 – Miranda Veljačić (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Onel5969 (t · c) was deproded by Zblace (t · c) on 14 Apr 2021
- 13 Apr 2021 – Regine De Clercq (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by CommanderWaterford (t · c) was deproded by ThurstonMitchell (t · c) on 16 Apr 2021
- 13 Apr 2021 – Marie-Louise Vanherk (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Novem Linguae (t · c) was deproded by ThurstonMitchell (t · c) on 16 Apr 2021
- 13 Apr 2021 – Janvi Byju (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Discospinster (t · c) was deproded by Theater9 (t · c) (author) on 14 Apr 2021
Good article nominees
- 10 Apr 2021 – Margaret McFarland (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Larry Hockett (t · c); start discussion
- 31 Mar 2021 – Ana Lucrecia Taglioretti (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by NoonIcarus (t · c); start discussion
- 21 Mar 2021 – Margery Wolf (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by CommanderWaterford (t · c); start discussion
- 22 Jan 2021 – Emily Penrose (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by KateCook (t · c); see discussion
Peer reviews
- 15 Apr 2021 – Sophie Zhang (whistleblower) (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Yug (t · c); see discussion
- 30 Mar 2021 – Arsenal Women 11–1 Bristol City Women (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Edwininlondon (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 07 Apr 2021 – Sabrina satana musician (talk · edit · hist) move request to Sabrina Satana by Garthchesney (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 19 Feb 2021 – Chékéba Hachemi (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Shakiba Hashemi by Reza Amper (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 24 Mar 2021 – Draft:Alice G. McGee (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Halevin (t · c)
- 17 Mar 2021 – Draft:Elżbieta Towarnicka (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by CommanderWaterford (t · c)
- 15 Mar 2021 – Draft:Carlotta Guiducci (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Quaenuncabibis (t · c)
- 09 Mar 2021 – Draft:Puja Bahri (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Cyphoidbomb (t · c)
- 21 Feb 2021 – Draft:Karolina Czeczek (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Archbioeditor (t · c)
- 28 Jan 2021 – Draft:Julia Schmale (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Quaenuncabibis (t · c)
- 29 Dec 2020 – Draft:Asuka Sezaki (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Onel5969 (t · c)
- 18 Dec 2020 – Draft:Kontji Anthony (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ozonyiawiki (t · c)
- undated – Draft:Margaret G. Hays (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC
- undated – Draft:Audrey Walker (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC was declined by -noah- (t · c) on 13 Apr 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.
Totals at a glance[edit]
| Year | Portion if applicable |
Total | Daily average |
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| 2015 | 18 Jul - 31 Dec | 11,680 | 70 |
| 2016 | 28,263 | 77 | |
| 2017 | 28,140 | 77 | |
| 2018 | 27,211 | 75 | |
| 2019 | 27,128 | 74 | |
| 2020 | 30,468 | 83 | |
| 2021 | 1 Jan - 31 Mar | 7,036 | 76 |
| GRAND TOTAL | 159,926 |
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 after Maria Camilleri co-founded a school for Muslim children in Malta, she became the only Christian headmistress of a Muslim school in the world? (2021-04-16)
- ... that as part of her influential research on the garden strawberry, Vivian Lee Bowden discovered the unpublished drawings of early French botanist Antoine Nicolas Duchesne? (2021-04-15)
- ... that Addison Rae's debut single "Obsessed" is about self-love? (2021-04-15)
- ... that Anja Petersen performed the role of the leading woman in the world premiere of Arnulf Herrmann's Der Mieter at the Oper Frankfurt? (2021-04-15)
- ... that Marita Napier is the first South African opera singer to have performed lead roles in each of the four "Grand Slam" opera houses? (2021-04-14)
- ... that after the start of Afghan peace talks in 2019, journalist Farahnaz Forotan travelled the country to collect testimonies from women and prevent the rollback of their freedoms? (2021-04-13)
- ... that ballerina Elena Lobsanova broke the "curse of Marie" at the National Ballet of Canada? (2021-04-13)
- ... that Zahra Mohamed Ahmad (pictured), who gives legal advice at the Somali Women Development Centre, is said to be a Woman of Courage? (2021-04-12)
- ... that ballerina Unity Phelan danced in the films John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and I'm Thinking of Ending Things? (2021-04-12)
- ... that Kathy Hudson, an expert in science policy and genetic discrimination, helped assemble a team that led to the passage of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act? (2021-04-11)
- ... that Marion Macfarlane, the first deaconess in the Anglican Church of Australia, later converted to Catholicism and joined the Sisters of the Good Shepherd? (2021-04-10)
- ... that Diane Damiano (pictured), a biomedical scientist and physical therapist, helped create a robotic exoskeleton designed to aid children with cerebral palsy to learn how to walk? (2021-04-10)
- ... that after Erna Schlüter had appeared as Elektra at the Royal Opera House, the composer, who was in the audience, told her that she was the fulfilment of the character? (2021-04-09)
- ... that ballerina Miranda Weese performed the lead role in a televised performance of Swan Lake under an hour's notice, with a partner she had never rehearsed with? (2021-04-08)
- ... that the pioneering Turkish soprano Mesude Çağlayan was presented a tiny doll of "Madama Butterfly" by the government of Japan for performing the Japanese title role in Puccini's opera? (2021-04-08)
- ... that the French football club GPSO 92 Issy was founded by three Peruvian sisters in 1997? (2021-04-08)
- ... that the Nazis at Ravensbrück killed French Resistance fighter Émilie Tillion by gas chamber for having white hair? (2021-04-07)
- ... that on the first day of the East L.A. walkouts, Vickie Castro's car was used to take down a fence at Roosevelt High School? (2021-04-07)
- ... that irked by the immense gap in gender-focused digital storytelling from both Sudan and South Sudan, Omnia Shawkat co-founded Andariya magazine? (2021-04-06)
- ... that as a fifteen-year-old student, ballerina Angelica Generosa replaced an injured schoolmate to perform a lead role in Balanchine's Stars and Stripes after two weeks of rehearsals? (2021-04-05)
Transcluding 20 of 1766 total
Press[edit]
There has been considerable press coverage of WiR. Below are some recent articles. To add articles to the list, visit Press.
- "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]
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).
External links[edit]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Women in Red. |
- 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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