Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red
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Welcome to Women in Red (WiR), a WikiProject whose objective is to turn "redlinks" into blue ones within the project scope: women's biographies and works by women. Click on our Redlinks index to see all our lists by focus area, occupation and nationality.
We recognized a need for this work as, in November 2014, only about 15% of the English Wikipedia's biographies were about women. Founded in July 2015, WiR strives to improve the figure, which has reached 17.80% as of 24 September 2018. But that means, according to WHGI, only 278,804 of our 1,565,975 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.
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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Learn more about our work, including Press and Research »
Announcements [edit]
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- In connection with Ada Lovelace Day on Tuesday, 9 October, the University of Edinburgh is arranging an event including an editathon on women in science, technology, engineering and maths. It is being coordinated by Wikipedian in Residence Ewan McAndrew.--Ipigott (talk) 17:14, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
- From 18 to 21 October, with the support of Wellcome Collection, Alice White (user name Zeromonk) is arranging a series of editathons at the Medicine Now gallery in London. More details here.--Ipigott (talk) 16:19, 22 September 2018 (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 our continuing #1day1woman initiative.
Revived for a second month
- WiR Monthly achievement initiative. Allows editors to keep track of their new biographies while earning virtual awards for progress.
Happening now
- September 2018: Women currently in academics
- September 2018: Women + Law
- September 2018: Geofocus: Hispanic countries
Recently concluded
- August 2018: Indigenous women
- August 2018: Women of marginalized populations
- August 2018: Women writers
- August 2018: Geofocus: Bottom 10
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.
Article alerts[edit]
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Articles for deletion
- 22 Sep 2018 – Isophene Goodin Bailhache (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Winged Blades of Godric (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 21 Sep 2018 – Arifa Sayeda Zehra (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Saqib (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 19 Sep 2018 – Eman Sharobeem (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by The Drover's Wife (t · c) was closed as keep by Gidonb (t · c) on 23 Sep 2018; see discussion (8 participants)
- 14 Sep 2018 – Bianca Reinert (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Elmidae (t · c) was closed as keep by Elmidae (t · c) on 20 Sep 2018; see discussion (9 participants)
- 13 Sep 2018 – Carmen María Montiel (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Yunshui (t · c) was closed as no consensus by Ritchie333 (t · c) on 21 Sep 2018; see discussion (19 participants; relisted)
- 11 Sep 2018 – April Wilkerson (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by DGG (t · c) was closed as keep by Gidonb (t · c) on 23 Sep 2018; see discussion (6 participants; relisted)
Proposed deletions
Good article nominees
- 23 Aug 2018 – Hannah Arendt (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Michael Goodyear (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Aug 2018 – Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Surtsicna (t · c); start discussion
- 02 Aug 2018 – Ruth A. M. Schmidt (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by AnaSoc (t · c); start discussion
- 21 Sep 2018 – Women in brewing (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by SusunW (t · c) was promoted by Ritchie333 (t · c), see discussion
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.
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.
- We also add articles from WiR edit-a-thons
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 a record reward was raised by the local Crime Stoppers in the month-long search for missing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, who was found dead in a cornfield? (2018-09-16)
- ... that in 2018, Diede de Groot became the first woman in wheelchair tennis to win both the women's singles and doubles events at Wimbledon? (2018-09-16)
- ... that in 2001, HIV/AIDS campaigner Minoo Mohraz defied a media ban by using the word "condom" on Iranian national television? (2018-09-12)
- ... that mezzo-soprano Sybille Specht appeared as La Belle in a chamber opera by Philip Glass at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz? (2018-09-10)
- ... that American missionary Mary Sophia Hyde Rice taught Sanford B. Dole, who later became Hawaii's only president? (2018-09-10)
- ... that the 19th-century writer Athalia Schwartz addressed the conditions and lives of prostitutes in England, the Netherlands, and Belgium? (2018-09-06)
- ... that Mary Blair Moody became the first woman to earn an MD from Buffalo Medical College? (2018-09-05)
- ... that Slovene-American Katka Zupančič wrote children's poetry about the austerity of immigrant life? (2018-09-05)
- ... that as a high school basketball player, Lometa Odom set the Texas single-game scoring record of 78 points in 1951? (2018-08-28)
- ... that Margot Fonteyn (pictured) was The Royal Ballet's prima ballerina for 45 years, before retiring to become a cattle rancher in Panama? (2018-08-26)
- ... that Ina Hartwig, formerly on the editorial staff of Frankfurter Rundschau, published a biography of Ingeborg Bachmann in 2017? (2018-08-26)
- ... that the writer İsmet Kür's father and sister were writers, and her daughter is also a writer? (2018-08-23)
- ... that a solar-powered device for extracting water from the air, co-designed by Evelyn Wang, has been compared to the moisture vaporators in Star Wars? (2018-08-23)
- ... that opera singer Catherine-Nicole Lemaure was imprisoned overnight for refusing to perform? (2018-08-20)
- ... that Jenny Sabin's installation Lumen is knitted from solar active yarns that absorb light energy during the day and release it at night? (2018-08-18)
- ... that Barbara Haviland Minor's air conditioning refrigerant HFO-1234yf is believed to be used in 50% of new vehicles produced by OEMs in 2018 to help counter global warming? (2018-08-16)
- ... that as CEO of Denver Health, Dr. Patricia A. Gabow streamlined operations, improved patient care, and cut excessive spending using a system based on the Toyota Production System? (2018-08-15)
- ... that Mary Fenton, the first Anglo-Indian actress of the Parsi, Gujarati, and Urdu theatre, was introduced to acting by her husband, Kavasji Palanji Khatau? (2018-08-14)
- ... that Marie Lehmann, one of the Rhinemaidens (pictured) at the first Bayreuth Festival in 1876, sang the soprano solo in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for the groundbreaking of the Bayreuth Festival Theatre? (2018-08-13)
- ... that Chinese spy Zheng Pingru (pictured), who was executed after an assassination attempt on a Japanese collaborator, is believed to have inspired the novella Lust, Caution, and its film adaptation? (2018-08-12)
Transcluding 20 of 896 total
Press[edit]
There has been considerable press coverage of WiR. You can find links to lots of relevant articles under Press.
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
