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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 improving content 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. Founded in July 2015, WiR strives to increase the percentage, which has reached 18.26% as of 17 February 2020. But that means, according to WHGI, only 308,131 of our 1,687,277 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.
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.
- In addition to creating new articles, we create and maintain hundreds of lists of "missing" notable women. Some who 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]
Add new announcements to the top. Sign with ~~~~. Remove old ones after a month.
- Just created Shahra Razavi, senior UN official recently appointed as Director of the Social Protection Department at the ILO....and nominated for deletion within 20 minutes of being created!--Goldsztajn (talk) 16:37, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
- Hey all, I created my first WiR article - Amy Hannah Adamson. I'm going through this list to see what I can do. - Chris.sherlock (talk) 23:55, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
- My most recent article written today, is already up for deletion despite having perfectly good referenced sources written around her for suitable notability. This is a reaction to a poorly referenced article deleted previously (not my work). Patricia was part of Netflix Sex Education (TV series) which is one of the most watched ever. I would be very grateful if you could assist preventing this deletion, especially considering Patricia is female and of mixed ethnicity, could be some element of discrimination.James Kevin McMahon (talk) 22:49, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
- Hello WIR! I have proposed a Rapid Grant through Wikimedia Foundation for a series of edit-a-thons focused on Women in the fields of Craft using Art + Feminism resources and the Redlink index list here. My proposal needs community endorsement and I am reaching out to WIR for support! You can find my proposal here and leave comments under "endorsement" or on the discussion page. Thanks! Terasaface (talk) 17:44, 15 January 2020 (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 2020 version of our #1day1woman initiative.
Special initiative for 2020
- Our year-long initiative for 2020 is devoted to Sports
Happening now
- February 2020: Explorers
- February 2020: Black women
- February 2020: Women in horror
Coming up
- March 2020: Art+Activism/Folklore
- March 2020: Aviation
- March 2020: Great Britain and Ireland
- March 2020: VisibleWikiWomen
Recently completed
- January 2020: Activists
- January 2020: Women entering the public domain
- January 2020: Geofocus: Central America
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.
- 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.
Today's featured articles
- 08 Mar 2020 – Inter-Allied Women's Conference (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb
Did you know
- 26 Feb 2020 – Caroline Dubois (boxer) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by BennyOnTheLoose (t · c); see discussion
- 24 Feb 2020 – Eva Lee Kuney (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Yoninah (t · c); see discussion
- 22 Feb 2020 – Midori Katō (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Miraclepine (t · c); see discussion
- 19 Feb 2020 – Judith Liberman (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by CeeGee (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Feb 2020 – Nettie Lee Benson (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Oldsanfelipe2 (t · c); see discussion
- 14 Feb 2020 – Magdalena K. P. Smith Meyer (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Gbawden (t · c); see discussion
- 07 Feb 2020 – Clarice Phelps (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Andrew Davidson (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Feb 2020 – Megan Rosenbloom (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Jessamyn (t · c); see discussion
- 30 Jan 2020 – Susan Folkman (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by HickoryOughtShirt?4 (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Jan 2020 – Bessie Van Vorst (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Less Unless (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 26 Feb 2020 – Megan Gogerty (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by AmericanAir88 (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
- 25 Feb 2020 – Ruby Yadav (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by S. M. Nazmus Shakib (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
- 25 Feb 2020 – Jenna Lewis (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Muboshgu (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 24 Feb 2020 – Preetha Jayaraman (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Abishe (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 24 Feb 2020 – Sanjana Sarathy (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Abishe (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 24 Feb 2020 – Chitra Sarwara (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by S. M. Nazmus Shakib (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 24 Feb 2020 – Nerella Sharada (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by S. M. Nazmus Shakib (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
- 24 Feb 2020 – Shweta Avasthi (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by S. M. Nazmus Shakib (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 24 Feb 2020 – Rupa Gurunath (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by The9Man (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 24 Feb 2020 – Edith Covensky (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mr. Vernon (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
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Files for discussion
- 20 Feb 2020 – File:Clarice Phelps – Distinguished Scientist.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on Clarice Phelps) was FfDed by GreenMeansGo (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Feb 2020 – File:Clarice Phelps ORNL headshot.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on Clarice Phelps) was FfDed by GreenMeansGo (t · c); see discussion
Featured article candidates
- 27 Dec 2019 – Margaret Macpherson Grant (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Girth Summit (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 24 Feb 2020 – Christel Boom (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Harrias (t · c); start discussion
- 22 Feb 2020 – Elisabeth Dieudonné Vincent (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by SusunW (t · c); start discussion
- 14 Feb 2020 – Elizabeth Willing Powel (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Coffeeandcrumbs (t · c); see discussion
- 12 Feb 2020 – Adriana Ocampo (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Flavinista (t · c); start discussion
- 07 Feb 2020 – Dorothy Thomas (entrepreneur) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by SusunW (t · c); see discussion
- 24 Jan 2020 – National Federation of Women Workers (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Franko2nd (t · c); see discussion
- 24 Jan 2020 – Semni Karouzou (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Eritha (t · c); start discussion
- 16 Jan 2020 – Being Impossible (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Kingsif (t · c); start discussion
- 03 Jan 2020 – Constance Kies (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TJMSmith (t · c); see discussion
- 31 Dec 2019 – María Antonieta Rodríguez Mata (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by MX (t · c); start discussion
- (12 more...)
Peer reviews
- 18 Oct 2019 – Clara Schumann (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Gerda Arendt (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 05 Sep 2019 – Ghazala Siyal (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Ghazalla Sial by BukhariSaeed (t · c); see discussion
- 12 Jul 2019 – The Blue Cloak (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Netherlandish Proverbs by MatthewHoobin (t · c); see discussion
- 24 Feb 2019 – Maggie Roche (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to The Roches by Arthur Rubin (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 05 Feb 2020 – Draft:Helen R. Tibbo (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Srcollier94 (t · c)
- 10 Oct 2019 – Draft:Diana Lachateñeré (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Srcollier94 (t · c)
- 26 Nov 2019 – Draft:Anna Laverty (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by AppleCorey (t · c) was accepted to Anna Laverty (talk · edit · hist) by Tagishsimon (t · c) on 23 Feb 2020
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. Annual totals at a glance are:
- 2015 (project was established in July): 11,599
- 2016: 27,951
- 2017: 27,777
- 2018: 26,550
- January to July 2019: 14,480
- Grand total: 108,357
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 Nino Tkeshelashvili and other early Georgian feminists campaigned to uphold women's "moral standards", labeling prostitution a "social evil"? (2020-02-22)
- ... that fashion historian Caroline Weber discovered two lost essays by Marcel Proust while researching one of her books? (2020-02-22)
- ... that it was reportedly Elizabeth Willing Powel (pictured) who asked Benjamin Franklin whether the United States was to be "a republic or a monarchy", to which he responded: "A republic ... if you can keep it"? (2020-02-21)
- ... that the coloratura soprano Julia Bauer played five roles in Der Ring in Minden, including her on-stage portrayal of the Forest Bird in Siegfried? (2020-02-19)
- ... that in the 1830s, a Mère in Lyon, France, became famous for her creation Tétons de Venus ('Venus's Breasts'), a dish of giant dumplings that was popular at bachelor parties? (2020-02-18)
- ... that Lisa Cristiani was the first European to hold public musical concerts in Siberia? (2020-02-18)
- ... that while other 1978 Chicago Marathon runners complained the late start meant finishing in 80 °F (27 °C) heat, winner Lynae Larson was concerned about its effect on her six-hour drive home? (2020-02-15)
- ... that Elke Heidenreich, two-time winner of the Grimme television award, wrote the book Nero Corleone featuring a tomcat as the bullying protagonist? (2020-02-15)
- ... that Carlos Vives once invited Paraguayan violinist Ana Lucrecia Taglioretti to play with him on stage after she tried to sneak into his concert without a ticket? (2020-02-15)
- ... that neuroscientist Kate Jeffery correctly predicted that her postdoctoral advisor John O'Keefe would win a Nobel Prize in 2014? (2020-02-14)
- ... that Elin C. Danien, an expert on ancient Maya ceramics, claimed that "archaeology is the most fun you can have with your pants on"? (2020-02-12)
- ... that gerontologist Elaine Brody used the term "women in the middle" to refer to women who care for their elderly parents while raising their children? (2020-02-11)
- ... that different versions of the song "Danzen! Futari wa Pretty Cure" by Mayumi Gojo were used in the first two seasons and the 25th movie of the Pretty Cure anime franchise? (2020-02-09)
- ... that Iranian women's rights activist Mastoureh Afshar organized the second Eastern Women's Congress, held in Tehran in 1932, which drew delegates from Afghanistan to Zanzibar? (2020-02-08)
- ... that Esther Lurie (pictured) used photographs of drawings to reconstruct most of her artwork that did not survive World War II? (2020-02-08)
- ... that at the time of her retirement in 2008, Florida State Seminoles coach JoAnne Graf held the record for most wins in the history of NCAA Division I softball? (2020-02-06)
- ... that archaeologist Winifred Lamb had previously worked in Room 40, the Royal Navy's cryptanalysis section, during World War I? (2020-02-04)
- ... that mathematician Pamela E. Harris co-founded the online platform Lathisms to promote Hispanic and Latino American participation in mathematics? (2020-02-02)
- ... that Gabriela Rodríguez de Bukele, the current first lady of El Salvador, is the first person in the country to hold a doctorate in prenatal psychology? (2020-01-26)
- ... that Yukari Miyake joined the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force to realize her dream of singing on stage? (2020-01-25)
Transcluding 20 of 1319 total
Press[edit]
There has been considerable press coverage of WiR. Below are some recent articles. To add articles to the list, visit Press.
- Physicist embroiled in sexism row with Wikipedia after female scientists she wrote profiles for 'not notable enough', article by Phoebe Southworth in The Telegraph, 7 December 2019
- "Most Wikipedia profiles are about men - these women in Australia are hoping to change that". SBS News. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
- “Inclusipedia” brings underrepresented people of Boulder to light, article by Isabella Fincher, CuiIndependent, 25 May 2019
- Seeking Equality—One Biography at a Time, Kochi Post, 8 May 2019, Ardra Manasi
- Male scientists are often cast as lone geniuses. Here’s what happened when a woman was., Vox article by Brian Resnick, 16 April 2019.
- Wikipedia Isn’t Officially a Social Network. But the Harassment Can Get Ugly, by Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 8 April 2019.
- Why we need to address the digital divide if we want to foster more democratic societies, OuiShare
- Why policymakers need to tackle the digital gender gap, Open Global Rights
- Students inspired by York University Libraries make impressive edits to Wikipedia, by Katrina Cohen-Palacios, yFile: York University News, 26 March 2019
- RIT Libraries hosts Women on Wikipedia Edit-a-thon March 22, by Susan Gawlowicz, Rochester Institute of Technology News, 21 March 2019
- Event at RIT aims to improve online gender equity, by Beth Adams, WXXI News, 19 March 2019
- Wiki women: Volunteers add female and non-binary artists to Wikipedia, CBC, 15 March 2019
- Boulder Group is Rewriting History One Wikipedia Article at a Time, by Daliah Singer, 5280, 15 March 2019
- Libraries’ day-long Wiki Edit-a-thon to help shrink gender gap, by Jill Shockey, Penn State News, 15 March 2019
- Cornell Celebrates International Women’s Day with Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, by Chantal Raguin, The Cornell Daily Sun, 10 March 2019
- Edit-a-thon aims to give recognition to more women, arts on Wikipedia, by Alexsandra Coltun Schneider, Daily Bruin, 11 March 2019
- ICA holds ‘Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon’ to increase female, gender non-binary representation online, by Jennifer Suryadjaja, The Daily Free Press, 7 March 2019 Wikipedia ‘Edit-a-Thon’ translates Spanish entries on Latin artists], by Jesenia De Moya Correa, The Inquirer, 6 March 2019
- Fine Arts Library to Host Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, University of Arkansas News, 4 March 2019
- Wikipedia ‘Edit-a-Thon’ translates Spanish entries on Latin artists, by Jesenia De Moya Correa, The Inquirer, 6 March 2019
- UNC libraries give feminism a voice with Wikipedia edit-a-thon, by Ava Eucker, The Daily Tar Heel, 3 May 2019
- UNLV hosts feminist 'edit-a-thon' on Wikipedia, by Jesse Stiller, CampusReform, 26 February 2019
- Women scientists being whitewashed from Wikipedia, by Ewan McAndrew, Siobhan O’Connor, Dr Sara Thomas and Dr Alice White in The Scotsman, 12 March 2019
- Volunteers work to bolster Canadian women's biographies on Wikipedia, by Paul Chiasson, the Canadian Press, 8 March 2019
- The Royal Society are shouting out diversity champions on National Science Day - and we feature - Victuallers (talk) 15:21, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
- Happy 18th birthday, Wikipedia. Let’s celebrate the Internet’s good grown-up., by Stephen Harrison, The Washington Post, 14 January 2019
- From Chinese spies to award-winning geologists, we’re making women visible on Wikipedia, by Ewan McAndrew, Sioban O'Connor, Sara Thomas and Alice White, New Statesman, 8 January 2019
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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- 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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