Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Short URL: https://w.wiki/347
|
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 18.86% as of 19 April 2021. But that means, according to Humaniki, only 340,072 of our 1,803,111 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:
|
- 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]
- This section is a transcluded subpage. To view or edit, go to /Announcements (watch this section).
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]
- This section is a transcluded subpage, and may contain more information than is shown here. To view or edit, go to /Events (watch this section).
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
- May 2021: May Mays
- May 2021: Mental health
- May 2021: Women in Europe contest (second of three months)
Recently completed
- April 2021: Plants & gardens
- April 2021: Gender studies
- April 2021: Women in Europe contest (first of three months)
- March 2021: Art+Activism
- March 2021: VisibleWikiWomen
- March 2021: Women in Africa contest (third of three months)
Previous events
|
|---|
|
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
- 06 May 2021 – Margaret Saurin (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Joseph2302 (t · c); see discussion
- 06 May 2021 – Mary Speke (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Victuallers (t · c); see discussion
- 04 May 2021 – Marie-Adolphine (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Victuallers (t · c); see discussion
- 03 May 2021 – Marie-Jeanne (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Corachow (t · c); see discussion
- 03 May 2021 – Izkia Siches (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Mx. Granger (t · c); see discussion
- 01 May 2021 – Meredith Clark (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Valereee (t · c); see discussion
- 01 May 2021 – Cynthia Harvey (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Corachow (t · c); see discussion
- 30 Apr 2021 – Renée Erdős (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Victuallers (t · c); see discussion
- 30 Apr 2021 – Maija Rask (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by DanCherek (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Apr 2021 – Maija Perho (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by DanCherek (t · c); see discussion
- (21 more...)
Articles for deletion
- 08 May 2021 – Laura Vargas Villaveces (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by DoubleGrazing (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 07 May 2021 – Susan Ridgway Willing (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Animalparty (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 07 May 2021 – Betty Jane Belanus (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Rusf10 (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 07 May 2021 – Ash Sarkar (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by TomReagan90 (t · c); see discussion (11 participants)
- 07 May 2021 – Japan–United States women's soccer rivalry (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by SportingFlyer (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 07 May 2021 – Iyah may (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Chiro725 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 06 May 2021 – Maya Forstater (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mccapra (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 06 May 2021 – Ysabelle Cuevas (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by HueMan1 (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 06 May 2021 – Jacqueline Hennessy (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bearcat (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 05 May 2021 – Alissa Wykes (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by BeanieFan11 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- (113 more...)
Proposed deletions
- 05 May 2021 – Abhilasha Patil (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by SmartyPants22 (t · c) was deproded by SportsOlympic (t · c) (author) on 06 May 2021
- 01 May 2021 – Alissa Wykes (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by BeanieFan11 (t · c) was deproded by Pburka (t · c) on 03 May 2021
- 27 Apr 2021 – Canadian Unitarian Universalist Women's Association (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Extraordinary Writ (t · c) was deproded by 184.147.36.112 (t · c) on 04 May 2021
Redirects for discussion
- 05 May 2021 – Ann Brockman (Q19037277) (talk · edit · hist) →Ann Brockman (writer) was RfDed by Pppery (t · c); see discussion
- 05 May 2021 – Josephine Pullein-Thompson (Q17106618) (talk · edit · hist) →Josephine Pullein-Thompson was RfDed by Pppery (t · c); see discussion
- 05 May 2021 – Juliana Popjoy (Q18732841) (talk · edit · hist) →Juliana Popjoy was RfDed by Pppery (t · c); see discussion
- 05 May 2021 – Brooke Roberts (Q102049390) (talk · edit · hist) →Brooke Roberts (entrepreneur) was RfDed by Pppery (t · c); see discussion
- 05 May 2021 – Sarah Johnson (Q62026461) (talk · edit · hist) →Sarah Johnson (Mount Vernon) was RfDed by Pppery (t · c); see discussion
Featured article candidates
- 25 Apr 2021 – Arsenal Women 11–1 Bristol City Women (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Edwininlondon (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 23 Apr 2021 – Hilaria Baldwin (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Kbabej (t · c); start discussion
- 19 Apr 2021 – Mary Jane Richardson Jones (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Ganesha811 (t · c); see discussion
- 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); see discussion
- 21 Mar 2021 – Margery Wolf (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by CommanderWaterford (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 23 Apr 2021 – Inger Nielsen (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Inger Nielsen by Joseph2302 (t · c); 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
- 01 May 2021 – Draft:Lena Braun (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Tea0602 (t · c)
- 18 Apr 2021 – Draft:Riley Black (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Lettler (t · c)
- 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)
- 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)
- 19 Apr 2021 – Draft:Audrey Walker (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by ScotsMussels (t · c) was moved to Audrey Walker (talk · edit · hist) by StarryGrandma (t · c) on 03 May 2021
- 18 Dec 2020 – Draft:Kontji Anthony (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Ozonyiawiki (t · c) was declined by Clarityfiend (t · c) on 03 May 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Nicholas Chevalier designed a fern-inspired dress for Anne Maria Barkly, an expert on South African ferns? (2021-05-08)
- ... that although Surrey County Council created over 250 smallholdings for men after the First World War, it was the Women's Farm and Garden Society which created those for women? (2021-05-07)
- ... that Rosa Agthe (pictured) and her future husband performed the roles of Elsa and Telramund, respectively, in the world premiere of Wagner's Lohengrin, conducted by Franz Liszt in Weimar? (2021-05-06)
- ... that Grischa Huber played Grischa in Under the Pavement Lies the Strand, regarded as "a cult film in the feminist movement"? (2021-05-06)
- ... that Emma Mullin, who won four Gaelic football championships, was also the first player from her association football club to play for the Republic of Ireland? (2021-05-06)
- ... that Ecuadorian presidential candidate Ximena Peña previously represented the United States and Canada in the National Assembly? (2021-05-05)
- ... that Vieno Simonen was first elected to the Finnish parliament in 1948, ten years after she was widowed with seven children? (2021-05-05)
- ... that eight-year-old Róża Maria Goździewska (pictured) was "the youngest child nurse" in the Warsaw Uprising? (2021-05-05)
- ... that Julie Erichsen is the first female Norwegian gymnast to qualify for an Olympic Games since 1992? (2021-05-05)
- ... that Linn Sömskar (pictured) has won medals at World Cups in both cross-country skiing and roller skiing? (2021-05-04)
- ... that Finnish minister Kyllikki Pohjala learned English while working in New York hospitals to pay for her education at Columbia University? (2021-05-04)
- ... that soprano Florence Kirk's temperamental fit over her costume as Lady Macbeth led to the professional debut of opera star Regina Resnik who replaced her? (2021-05-04)
- ... that seeds from Asia allowed Dorothy Renton to create "the finest two acres of private garden" (detail pictured) in Scotland? (2021-05-04)
- ... that Canadian geneticist Phyllis McAlpine was among the first to promote a unified gene nomenclature system and helped found the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee? (2021-05-02)
- ... that in 1908, Louisa Wilkins went to Damascus without local language skills, wearing long skirts and riding side saddle? (2021-05-02)
- ... that actress Bertha Belmore starred in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1925 with W. C. Fields and Will Rogers? (2021-05-02)
- ... that Euphemia de Walliers made additions to the illuminated psalter (detail pictured) left by her predecessor as Wherwell Abbey's prioress, Matilda de Bailleul? (2021-05-01)
- ... that French rugby union referee Aurélie Groizeleau also breeds almost 7,000 pairs of pigeons? (2021-05-01)
- ... that Anna-Liisa Tiekso dropped out of university in 1951 to become the youngest member of the Finnish parliament? (2021-05-01)
- ... that after Rhoda, Lady Birley, made fish stew with cognac for her roses, her daughter said that they "almost cried out with pleasure"? (2021-04-30)
Transcluding 20 of 1823 total
Press[edit]
There has been considerable press coverage of WiR. Below are some recent articles. To add articles to the list, visit Press.
- 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]
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]
 |
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
 | This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate! |