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 17.67% as of 9 October 2018. But that means, according to WHGI, only 275,921 of our 1,561,577 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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- The AfroCine Contest which runs from 1 October to 30 November 2018 calls for contributions to diminish the gender gap.--Ipigott (talk) 09:45, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
- 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]
- This section is a transcluded subpage, and may contain more information than is shown here. To view or edit, go to /Events.
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.
Happening now
- October 2018: Clubwomen
- October 2018: Science Fiction & Fantasy
- October 2018: STEM
- October 2018: The Mediterranean
Coming up
- November 2018: Religion
- November 2018: Deceased politicians
- November 2018: Asia
Recently concluded
- September 2018: Women currently in academics
- September 2018: Women + Law
- September 2018: Geofocus: Hispanic countries
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
- 16 Oct 2018 – Nadra Panjwani (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Saqib (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
- 09 Oct 2018 – Amarachi Orjinma (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by BlameRuiner (t · c) was closed as delete by RoySmith (t · c) on 17 Oct 2018; see discussion (9 participants)
Good article nominees
- 26 Sep 2018 – Ángela Acuña Braun (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by SusunW (t · c); see discussion
- 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); see discussion
- 19 Apr 2018 – Oei Hui-lan (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by ClaraElisaOng (t · c); see discussion
Requests for comments
- 01 Oct 2018 – Christine Blasey Ford (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Casprings (t · c); see discussion
Declined drafts[edit]
Thanks to Ronhjones, we now 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.--Ipigott (talk) 11:33, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
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 American missionary Clarissa Chapman Armstrong led Bible study meetings for Queen Kalama in Hawaii while her husband served as Minister of Public Instruction under King Kamehameha III? (2018-10-12)
- ... that Türkan Rado was the first female professor of law in Turkey? (2018-10-11)
- ... that architect Rose Connor found in 1958 that only one percent of registered architects in the U.S. were female, and seven states had no female architects at all? (2018-10-09)
- ... that in 1833, Ursula Newell Emerson drew some of the earliest surviving manuscript maps of Hawaii for instructional use? (2018-10-07)
- ... that Almeda Eliza Hitchcock became the first female lawyer in the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1888? (2018-10-04)
- ... that Wilma Mankiller faced sexism during her campaign for Deputy Chief of the Cherokee Nation, despite Cherokee society being traditionally matrilineal? (2018-10-03)
- ... that Neeru Chadha is the first Indian woman to be elected as a judge to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea? (2018-10-01)
- ... that Afro-Cuban declamdora Eusebia Cosme performed only in Spanish, but packed American venues like Carnegie Hall? (2018-09-30)
- ... that Adrienne Maree Brown writes for Bitch? (2018-09-30)
- ... that Olivia Giacobetti (pictured) popularized the use of figs in perfumery? (2018-09-28)
- ... that sociologist Ashley Mears conducted an ethnography of the fashion industry while working as a model in New York and London? (2018-09-24)
- ... that singer Elise Barensfeld is a possible dedicatee of Ludwig van Beethoven's Für Elise? (2018-09-23)
- ... that in 1944, educator Bazoline Estelle Usher (pictured) became the first African American to have an office at Atlanta City Hall? (2018-09-23)
- ... 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)
Transcluding 20 of 912 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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- Interest in women's history began much earlier than is assumed, Phys Org, August 25, 2015
