Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red
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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, according to Humaniki has reached 19.25% as of 9 May 2022. But that means that of 1,888,848 biographies, only 363,545 are about women.[2] 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.[3] You don't have to be a member in order to participate in the conversations; just please be civil.
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" (like this one) 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 it's unknown how they self-identified 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]
- Please post recent announcements directly on this page for improved page editing history, watcher alerts and greater visibility
Add new announcements to the top. Sign with ~~~~. Remove old ones after a month.
- New redlist: Hymnary.org -- Gamaliel (talk) 14:12, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
- New redlist: BBC 100 Women -- Gamaliel (talk) 16:19, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
- New redlist: Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography --Gamaliel (talk) 20:45, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- Women in Red's initiative for the whole of 2022 is Climate. Prepare to participate from the beginning of January.--Ipigott (talk) 14:22, 13 November 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 2022 version of our #1day1woman initiative.
Year-long initiative
- 2022 global initiative: Climate
Happening now
- May 2022: Translation Contest (second of three months)
- May 2022: Women in the Ancient World
- May 2022: British Overseas Territories
Coming up See Virtual Ideas Cafe
Recently completed
- April 2022: Gender studies
- April 2022: Translation Contest (first of three months)
- April 2022: French overseas territories
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, and to creating new 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}}, {{WikiProject Women's History}} or {{WikiProject Women scientists}}, look on those projects' article alert pages instead.
Did you know
- 14 May 2022 – Nathalie Viteri (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Victuallers (t · c); see discussion
- 14 May 2022 – Ay mamá (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Kingsif (t · c); see discussion
- 13 May 2022 – Sandhya Dhar (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Mujinga (t · c); see discussion
- 13 May 2022 – Androniqi Zengo Antoniu (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Lajmmoore (t · c); see discussion
- 13 May 2022 – Sofía Sanchez (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Victuallers (t · c); see discussion
- 11 May 2022 – Aguil Chut-Deng (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Joofjoof (t · c); see discussion
- 10 May 2022 – Sara al-Qutiyya (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Lajmmoore (t · c); see discussion
- 08 May 2022 – Paula Lizell (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Gerda Arendt (t · c); see discussion
- 06 May 2022 – Margaret Ramsay-Hale (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Sammielh (t · c); see discussion
- 05 May 2022 – Dorothy Van Engle (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Silver seren (t · c); see discussion
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Articles for deletion
- 14 May 2022 – Neza Patricia Masozera (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ari T. Benchaim (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 14 May 2022 – Sasha Soreff (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Star Mississippi (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 14 May 2022 – Eva O'Connor (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Twelve73 (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 14 May 2022 – Clara Löh (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by D.Lazard (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 14 May 2022 – Samanta Gorzelniak (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Erdpferd (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
- 14 May 2022 – Vanessa Davies (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by TenPoundHammer (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 13 May 2022 – Rhea Kewalramani (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Star Mississippi (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 13 May 2022 – Denise Siegel (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Star Mississippi (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 13 May 2022 – Ruth Bennett (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Sal2100 (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 13 May 2022 – Reeshma Nanaiah (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Hatchens (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- (65 more...)
Proposed deletions
- 12 May 2022 – 2013 NBT Cup (women) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Sportsfan 1234 (t · c) was deproded by 185.125.226.42 (t · c) on 12 May 2022
- 12 May 2022 – 2013 Tuvalu Independence Cup (women) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Sportsfan 1234 (t · c) was deproded by 185.125.226.42 (t · c) on 12 May 2022
- 11 May 2022 – Mel Young (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Ploni (t · c) was deproded by Ari T. Benchaim (t · c) on 12 May 2022
- 11 May 2022 – Mekhla Kumar (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Ploni (t · c) was deproded by Espresso Addict (t · c) on 12 May 2022
Good article nominees
- 10 May 2022 – Laurie E. Locascio (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TJMSmith (t · c); start discussion
- 09 May 2022 – Carolyn C. Perrucci (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TJMSmith (t · c); start discussion
- 03 May 2022 – Haley Cavinder (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Sportzeditz (t · c); start discussion
- 23 Apr 2022 – Angel Reese (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Sportzeditz (t · c); start discussion
- 16 Apr 2022 – Sara Evans (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by ChrisTofu11961 (t · c); start discussion
- 10 Mar 2022 – Yulimar Rojas (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Kingsif (t · c); start discussion
- 24 Feb 2022 – Timnit Gebru (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by SquareInARoundHole (t · c); start discussion
- 18 Feb 2022 – Cher Scarlett (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by SquareInARoundHole (t · c); start discussion
- 06 May 2022 – Claudia Riner (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by Theleekycauldron (t · c) was promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (t · c), see discussion
Requested moves
- 14 May 2022 – Helen Parr (The Incredibles) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Helen Parr by Iggy the Swan (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 03 Feb 2022 – Women in Shinto (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Nyonin Kinsei by MaitreyaVaruna (t · c); see discussion
- 24 Jan 2022 – Naila Isayeva (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Hamlet Isakhanli by Mako001 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 10 May 2022 – Draft:Jessica Corr (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by SleepyWhippet (t · c)
- 09 May 2022 – Draft:Faye Toogood (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by SleepyWhippet (t · c)
- undated – Draft:Asha Bowen (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC
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.
For personal metrics on how many articles you've created about women, see this tool.
If you want to measure gender diversity in a given Wikipedia article, use this tool.
Totals at a glance[edit]
| Year | Portion if applicable |
Total | Daily average |
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| 2015 | 18 Jul - end of year | 11,711 | 70 |
| 2016 | 28,399 | 77 | |
| 2017 | 28,271 | 77 | |
| 2018 | 27,323 | 75 | |
| 2019 | 27,207 | 75 | |
| 2020 | 30,119 | 82 | |
| 2021 | 26,780 | 73 | |
| Grand total | 177,984 | 76 |
(Updated: Rosiestep (talk) 20:55, 19 January 2022 (UTC))
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 as a young girl, Countess Ladislaja Harnoncourt was thought to be uneducatable and was nicknamed the "wild Laja"? (2022-05-13)
- ... that Mallory McMorrow won a public contest to design the Mazda3 while she was a college student? (2022-05-12)
- ... that Vanita Jagdeo Borade has been called the "Snake Woman" for having rescued more than 50,000 snakes? (2022-05-11)
- ... that disability-rights activist Edith Prentiss objected to the title of a documentary about her, Edith Prentiss: Hell on Wheels, for being too mild? (2022-05-08)
- ... that Mexican sinologist Flora Botton was rescued by an American soldier when being transported on a train from Bergen-Belsen in 1945? (2022-05-01)
- ... that Hungarian historian Andrea Pető believes that "right to be forgotten" policies should not be applied to the Holocaust? (2022-05-01)
- ... that the French mezzo-soprano Germaine Bailac (pictured) played the title role in Bizet's Carmen at least 3,000 times? (2022-04-30)
- ... that Mimi Reinhardt typed Schindler's list? (2022-04-24)
- ... that the final silent film directed by Giulia Cassini Rizzotto was partly funded by the Vatican and featured Italian aristocrats? (2022-04-24)
- ... that during a German charity concert for Ukraine, Slovakian singer Judita Nagyová performed a solo in the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony? (2022-04-23)
- ... that The West Wing's Amy Gardner is said to be the only character on the show with "a genuinely militant attitude towards equality of the genders"? (2022-04-23)
- ... that that American soprano Emily Pogorelc went from winning the 2018 "Most Promising Talent" prize at Glyndebourne to appearing as Mozart's Cherubino at the Munich Opera Festival? (2022-04-22)
- ... that Ukrainian artist Kateryna Antonovych worked at Prague's Museum of Ukraine's Struggle for Independence before the US aircraft bombed it? (2022-04-21)
- ... that Monika Buczkowska, who made her stage debut as a student in Poznań as Mozart's Susanna, was a soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at a charity concert for Ukraine at the Alte Oper? (2022-04-20)
- ... that the mezzo-soprano of Beth Taylor was the only lower voice when she appeared as Dardano in Handel's Amadigi, portraying her male character with fine vocal lines and "remarkable coloraturas"? (2022-04-19)
- ... that Katharina Konradi, a soprano born in Kyrgyzstan, made a recording of lieder with pianist Gerold Huber including settings by Lori Laitman of children's poems written in Terezin? (2022-04-18)
- ... that Chow Leung started a language school for children in Chicago before writing Chinese Fables and Folk Stories (illustration pictured) with Mary Hayes Davis? (2022-04-17)
- ... that Ukrainian actress Oksana Shvets, who was killed in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, starred in the 2013 joint Ukrainian–Russian television family saga House with Lilies alongside Russian actors? (2022-04-15)
- ... that Scottish nurse Euphemia Steele Innes (pictured) was decorated with the Royal Red Cross first class for services with the Territorial Force Nursing Service in World War I? (2022-04-15)
- ... that over the course of her career, vocal coach Barbara Maier Gustern taught Debbie Harry, Taylor Mac, Justin Vivian Bond, Diamanda Galás, and Kathleen Hanna? (2022-04-14)
Transcluding 20 of 2254 total
Press[edit]
There has been considerable press coverage of WiR. Below are some recent articles. To add articles to the list, visit Press.
- “You Have To See It To Be It”: Missing Female Role Models and What We Can Do About It by Amy Diehl, Ms. Magazine, 27 December 2021
- Time Magazine Named Steven Pruitt One of the Most Influential People on the Internet–Just For His Wikipedia Edits, by Jesse Rifkin, Northern Virginia Magazine, 24 November 2021
- Wikipedia editor 'warriors' fight lies, bigotry and even Nazis, RTL Today, attributed to AFP, 17 November 2021.--Ipigott (talk) 11:33, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
- Feminists fight ... 24 hour editathon Well researched piece covering Carol W, Mahwish, On This Day She and Roger. 15 October 2021
- Discussion of the issues and talk prior to AdaWiki24.org (WIR-211), comments by Roger Bamkin
- Big Tech's Big Tobacco moment. Despite the title, today's Axios podcast introduced by Niala Boodhoo includes comments by Roger Bamkin on today's 24-hour ADA marathon, 12 October 2021
- Global 24-hour Wikipedia "Edit-a-thon" Kicks Off In New Zealand, Scoop.co.nz, 29 September 2021
- "Member-Led Effort Will Bring Histories of Women, People of Color in Design to Wikipedia", by Lisa Boylan, Associations Now, 24 September 2021, on cooperation between AIGA and WikiEdu
- "Why we need more biographies of women journalists on Wikipedia" by Marcela Kunova, Jounalism.co.uk, 23 September 2021
- KCPL’s new Wikipedian in Residence gives us the tools to edit our own stories, by Lily Wulfemeyer in The Pitch, 13 September 2021
- 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]
In addition to our own listing under Research, 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).
References[edit]
- ^ Graells-Garrido, Eduardo; Lalmas, Mounia; Menczer, Filippo (2015). "First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia". Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media - HT '15: 165–174. doi:10.1145/2700171.2791036.
- ^ "Humaniki".
- ^ "Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red • en.wikipedia.org". XTools.
External links[edit]
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- Interest in women's history began much earlier than is assumed, Phys Org, August 25, 2015
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