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Welcome! This is where Women in Red plans future events and discusses ideas for more general improvements. Everyone is welcome to make suggestions or work on tasks. What we decide to do is based on consensus. No one is in charge. You don't have to be a member to participate. Like elsewhere on Wikipedia: be polite, be bold. Join the discussion here or on our project talkpage.

2024

Oct 2024

Firming up for October

Women in STEM logo

ONGOING -  
** Event #293: #1day1woman #1day1woman 
** Event #294:  Education Year long initiative Education Year long initiative 

NEW - Women in STEM  - 285 as go by 
* Women in STEM 
** Event #318: Women in STEM Y

NEW - Geofocus: Islands Islands I-P
* Geofocus: Islands I-P
** Event #319: Geofocus: Islands I-P Y

NEW - Women in archaeology 
* Women in archaeology
** Event #320: Women in archaeology Y

ANNOUNCEMENTS (EVENTS FACILITATED BY OTHERS) 
*  October is Women in Green's "Around the World in 31 Days" Good Article Edit-a-thon 

INVITATION: 
* Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2024#October 2024 -  Y
** logo  Y

COMING UP:
* Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Events  

TIP OF THE MONTH:
*  Unsure how to expand a stub article? Take a look at this guidance Y

Oronsay, Ipigott, Rosiestep, Lajmmoore, CT55555, Victuallers, Cielquiparle, SusunW, Chocmilk03, Penny Richards, Silver seren, PamD, Curbon7, MSGJ Joe Roe, Eritha and all WIR helpers: Here's a rough draft of the to-do list. A decision needs to be made about STEM, Engineering, and Archeology. Unclear if these are suggestions for discreet events or focus of STEM. If you want to take a page (please!) ping here. Thanks. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 19:50, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Regarding the TIP OF THE MONTH, maybe one of our Women in Green friends could suggest something that they think is overlooked but important? --Rosiestep (talk) 22:20, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

RE: Archaeologists | Engineers - there was a suggestion on the WiR talk page, low down in the section, that Engineers could be a good theme for November (& there seems to be space). We could have STEM and archaeology pages perhaps? The Archaeology Women's Taskforce has quite a specific list of c.25 new article and c.125 stubs to expand - which could be really satisfying to solve. Articles not on the list also welcome! Please do say if people disagree though!

• I'd be happy to make an Archaeology page and/or Islands (though @Grnrchst might like to as they've made loads of nice new redlists for this month)

Lajmmoore (talk) 22:19, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Oronsay, Ipigott, Rosiestep, Lajmmoore, CT55555, Victuallers, Cielquiparle, SusunW, Chocmilk03, Penny Richards, Silver seren, PamD, Curbon7, MSGJ Joe Roe, Eritha, Grnrchst and all WIR helpers: The skeletons are created/posted. Engineers moved to November. I have re-used our "classical women" logo for Women in archaeology. Comments welcome. Please take a page and add meet-up specific text and redlinks. Thanks! --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 20:57, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for getting us started. I'll work on #320 Archaeology today. Oronsay (talk) 21:14, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

I'll take 318 Women in STEM. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 22:41, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

I can do Islands but not til Sunday Lajmmoore (talk) 05:10, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

• I support Lajmmoore's suggestion that we focus on engineers in November and concentrate on archeology in October. I think this will be acceptable to TheResilientEngineer and will certainly be better than waiting until next year for engineers.--Ipigott (talk) 07:55, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

  Fully support this! Looking forward to seeing all the awesome Archaeologist bios! TheResilientEngineer (talk) 17:10, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

  Hello all, I've proofread & OK'd what I can and added a suggested tip. If someone could take a look at the rest that would be great! Thanks to @Oronsay & @WomenArtistUpdates & everyone else! Lajmmoore (talk) 18:01, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Good tip of the month Lajmmoore. I OKed it and added it to the invite. I can't proof Women in archaeology 'cause I create the boilerplate, but it looks fine to me. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:13, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, @Lajmmoore for your work developing Women in archaeology. I can't OK it either as was major contributor to it, but have OKed the invitation. Oronsay (talk) 18:39, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

We've just got archaeology to tick off and then we I can send the invitation could someone like @Ipigott, @Rosiestep, @CT55555, @Silver seren, @Cielquiparle take a look? Lajmmoore (talk) 21:20, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

Lajmmoore, Women in archaeology (#320) is fine (and checked off). --Rosiestep (talk) 00:38, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Everything looks fine without much help form me. Well done, all.--Ipigott (talk) 09:15, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

All sent! Lajmmoore (talk) 08:06, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Annual

• STEM (Ada Lovelace Day, 2nd Tue of Oct)

Announcement

• Women in Green's "Around the World in 31 Days" Good Article Edit-a-thon

Suggestion - Archaeologists (and perhaps Engineers)

Tentatively suggesting an archaeology focus for October? Archaeology because we were recently reminded by @Joe Roe: that Wikiproject Archaeology/Women in Archaeology Taskforce is very close to completing some of its goals & we (I) wondered whether we might use October to run an event to support the taskforce's objective. October is relevant as 17 October is International Archaeology Day. The tasks left are discussed here, and include

• 20+ articles from the target redlist (see here)
• De-stubbing 157 articles (see here)

What do other people think? Of course, articles on women in archaeology outside these lists are incredibly welcome too! Lajmmoore (talk) 19:35, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this here Lucy. It would be great to have a follow up to the last archaeology events in 2016 and 2018. Honestly, I'm not sure how much potential there is left in the crowd-sourced redlist, but there are 5000+ on the wikidata list. Or I don't know if WiR has ever loosened its scope enough to do a destubathon? That'd be cool too. – Joe (talk) 19:44, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Commonly, in October, Women in Red facilitates its annual STEM Women event in association with Ada Lovelace Day (second Tuesday of October). So Archaeologists would certainly be part of that... but perhaps this year, it could be a special focus? --Rosiestep (talk) 21:41, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. Are the WP:WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome folks in the loop on this? And WP:WikiProject Women's Classical Committee? The latter has always been supportive when I posted about new archaeologist/classics scholar biographies in the past. Penny Richards (talk) 00:29, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Hello from the WP:WikiProject Women's Classical Committee (which Lajmmoore is also part of!) - this sounds great and we've agreed to give our October editing session (date TBC but usually around the 20th-25th of the month) an archaeology redlist/stub focus to tie in with this! Eritha (talk) 13:30, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

• I agree archaeologists deserve to be covered but as a result of increased interest in engineers (see WiR's talk page), I suggest we give separate focus to them too. Both could be introduced as specific items of interest in connection with our traditional October coverage of women in STEM. Personally, to avoid confusion and emphasize focus, I would prefer them to be listed as separate events.--Ipigott (talk) 15:26, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

• If all the engineers will be listed in duplicate (under STEM and Engineers), that seems like a lot of redundancy to me. But maybe, as they are engineers, redundancy is appropriate, a design decision, for maximum safety. :) Penny Richards (talk) 22:26, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

  I enjoy the joke here @Penny Richards but maybe it's useful for you to know context. There was a conversation on the project talk page Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red#Women economists less likely to be covered than men about how there is a specific need to focus on Engineering as there is a much starker disparity in the gender split for the E in STEM. So while there will be some folks doing Engineers for STEM in Oct there is sufficient reason to dedicate a month for just Engineers as it is a particular problem area. Hope this helps clarify the thinking here TheResilientEngineer (talk) 17:08, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

• Thanks, I did understand that. I was mostly joking. My only very selfish concern (as the Pinterest board keeper) is that we will likely have three groups of articles (picture the Venn diagram I'm not going to draw here): Articles about engineers listed under the STEM editathon, articles about engineers listed under the Engineering editathon, and articles that are listed on both pages. If all the engineers are also listed under STEM, that's fine, I can skip checking the Engineering list for new faces; if none of them are also listed under STEM, I can check both lists for new faces, but not worry about duplicates, so that's also fine. But, editors being human, it's likely to be a mix of situations, and it's just always a little more work for me when some-but-not-all articles are listed under multiple editathons. But this happens other months, not just with the STEM/Engineers combination. I will survive. There might be slightly more risk of duplicate pins. It's fine. Penny Richards (talk) 20:13, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

  To add to your workload, there will probably also be engineers who work as academics and may be added to that year-long initiative. Oronsay (talk) 00:34, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

• Yes, the Education list is always pretty redundant for pinning purposes. (And I certainly contribute to that redundancy myself.) Penny Richards (talk) 00:08, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

This is all very reasonable. I'm still getting up to speed with how this (wiki + WiR) works. This is complex though but I'm sure there are others here who may be able to suggest solutions/advise editors. I think that for the Nov Eng event we can focus on page creation. Consequently this could be managed through the date of article acceptance for example. I don't know if this would work. TheResilientEngineer (talk) 14:20, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Geofocus: Islands I-P

Alphabet by month

Month	Letters
Sept	A-H
Oct	I-P
Nov	Q-Z

Alphabet by month

Letters	Month	Islands
A - H	Sept	American Samoa, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cape Verde, Cook Islands, Cuba and Cyprus, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Faroe Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Greenland, Grenada, Guam, Haiti, Hong Kong
I - P	Oct	Iceland, Jamaica, Japan, Kiribati, Madagascar, Maldives, Malta, Isle of Man, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mayotte, Federated States of Micronesia, Montserrat, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Northern Cyprus, Northern Mariana Islands., Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Puerto Rico
Q-Z	Nov	Réunion, Rodrigues, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu

Nov 2024

Annual

• Wiki Asia Month

Nobility

Following publication of ODNB's August update and WiR talk page discussion.--Ipigott (talk) 09:20, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Engineering

As per Archaeology dicsussion above? Lajmmoore (talk) 22:20, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

There's a list that seems very out of date. I can have a go at updating it. But will need help in all likelihood. There is time though! Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Engineering TheResilientEngineer (talk) 17:29, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

#PendingDrafts

As per Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red#Women-related articles at AfC, suggesting that we begin a never-ending event (along the lines of #1day1woman) focused on women-related AfC articles. This will take some set-up work, but the idea is that methodical awareness of these articles and collaborative assistance with improving them will increase the possibility that the draft will make it to mainpage, and that the newbie editor will come to know they aren't alone. --Rosiestep (talk) 08:34, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Geofocus: Islands Q-Z

Alphabet by month

Month	Letters
Sept	A-H
Oct	I-P
Nov	Q-Z

Dec 2024

Annual

• Religion
• Winter sports
• Women who died in 202x

Get to 20

According to my projections of the increasing numbers of women's biographies, the number of women's biographies should be hitting 20% of all biographies by the end of the year. I wondered if it would perhaps be worth doing an end-of-year edit-a-thon to help us nudge it over the line. Unlike the usual themed characters of our monthly edit-a-thons, this one could be more of a free-for-all to encourage as much creation as possible. Just an idea. --Grnrchst (talk) 08:14, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

De-orphan December

Adding a suggestion here for a deorphaning theme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Women_in_Red#de-orphaning_as_monthly_initiative? However, looking I wonder if December might be a bit full with other themes? Lajmmoore (talk) 06:23, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

• "De-orphan December" has a nice ring to it. Also, I think some editors will be grateful for this option in this month. --Rosiestep (talk) 07:08, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

2025

Jan 2025

Annual

• Women whose works have entered the public domain

Alphabet run A and B

Alphabet by month

Month	Letters
January	A & B
February	C & D
March	E & F
April	G & H
May	I & J
June	K & L
July	M & N
August	O & P
September	Q & R
October	S & T
November	U, V, W
December	X, Y & Z

Women with highest links to other Wikipedias, but not EN

• As per this discussion, perhaps a focus on women who are well represented in languages that aren't English, using this list. Might need a catchier title though? Lajmmoore (talk) 17:26, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

  @Lajmmoore: I actually already proposed an "Interwiki edit-a-thon" along these lines (see below). --Grnrchst (talk) 10:26, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Tip of the Month

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Tip of the Month

Table of annual events/collaborations

See also: category:United Nations days

Month	Annual event considerations
January	Public Domain (Public Domain Day, 1 Jan) Women who died in 202x Education (International Day of Education, 24 January[1])
February	Black History Month (with AfroCrowd) (see also WP:BLM) Justice
March	Artists+Activists (with Art+Feminism) Folklore #VisibleWikiWomen (photos/Wikimedia Commons; with Whose Knowledge?)
April	Gender studies Health (World Health Day, 7 Apr) Earth Day (22 Apr) Dance (International Dance Day, 29 Apr)
May	CEE women (with CEE User Group)
June	Pride (with LGBT+ User Group) Music (World Music Day is 21 Jun)
July	Sports
August	Indigenous women (International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, 9 Aug) (see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red/Archive 117#Please_vet_Native_claims) Stage+Screen m:Interwiki Women Collaboration
September	Writers (with WP:WPWW est. 30 Aug 2014)
October	STEM (Ada Lovelace Day, 2nd Tue of Oct) Women in Green Good Article Editathon
November	Politics Wiki Asia Month
December	Religion Women who died in 202x

Potential/Suggestions

Starting over as of Dec 2023 see Potential/Suggestions Archive. Bring back any ideas for reconsideration. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:46, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Non-geofocus ideas

Revolutionary women

Hey all. For quite a while now I've been working on articles about revolutionary women (i.e. women who either participated in revolutions or were involved in revolutionary movements/organisations). Most of my submissions have been to other themed events, but I was thinking it might be fun to do a specific edit-a-thon focused on revolutionary women. I can try putting together a red list for it, perhaps we could do it some time next year? --Grnrchst (talk) 14:39, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Interwiki edit-a-thon

I was just fiddling around with the number of links redlist, as I noticed it hadn't updated in over a year, and managed to get it back to working order. It got me thinking whether we should have an edit-a-thon focused specifically on creating articles with a high number of interwiki links; the redlist includes articles with 7 or more interwiki links. This could be a nice way to focus on the higher importance (for lack of a better term) articles that other language wikis have recognised as worthy of articles. --Grnrchst (talk) 09:46, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Support! as I think it's an interesting perspective. --Rosiestep (talk) 19:10, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Ideas page administration

Common tasks for each event. This list is incomplete. Please add to it

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identify sponsors and/or WikiProject hosts create list of potential participants, including active editors from the area(s) to be covered create editathon banner create/find editathon icon develop the WiR redlist, find related redlink lists create meetup page, completing sections on "Add these to articles" (stub templates, applicable categories, useful lists) "Add these to article talkpages" (WikiProject banners, editathon banner for the event) create the invite distribute the invite develop social media campaign (FB, Twitter) We haven't been doing this but it would be great if we had a social media volunteer add Authority Control if missing to all the articles created during the event double-check each article for categories double-check each article for talkpage banners create the thank you and/or barnstar develop a list of contributors (overlaps to some degree with registered participants) distribute the thank you and/or barnstar after the event to the contributors create Wikidata entry if none exists

Checklist for updates of virtual meetups

This section is purely administrative. It is not about the ongoing discussions of topics.

WiR generally has a variety of monthly, quarterly and annual events. WiR also sends out an “invitation” to its registered participants notifying them of those events. This is an effort to list tasks associated with the administrative tasks of updating and adding pages. We will be maintaining this list to assist with Quality Assurance. This is a working document and should be maintained to reflect current bast practices. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 16:52, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

As of March 2024 we are working with a new set of cascading templates. Because the template speak to each other the preview of the template might not be as expected. For example 302 might look like 304. Additionally some pages won't preview correctly unless the editor purges the page to update the cache.

The interrelated templates allow us to make changes and pages once, without updating new and past events throughout the WiR ecosystem. This will ultimately reduce mistakes, bad directs, and misinformation. The coders involved are watching these pages to ensure they work correctly. March 2024 is the first iteration. If direction are not clear it is the drafter's fault - not the coders, so please be gentle.

This is a working document and should be maintained to reflect current bast practices. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 21:43, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Basic overview of tasks using March 2024 as a guide

Each month there will be new events and ongoing events

YEAR-LONG INITIATIVES
#1day1woman 2024 
** Event #293: #1day1woman #1day1woman 
Education  - Year long initiative 
** Event #294:  Education Year long initiative Education Year long initiative 

NEW - Alphabet run Q & R 
* Alphabet run Q & R
** Event #299: Alphabet run Q & R

NEW -  Women's History Month | Art+Feminism  - 260 as go by
* Art+Activism
** Event #300: Art+Feminism Y

NEW -   Find Her  
*  Find Her  
** Event #301: Find Her Y

ANNOUNCEMENTS (EVENTS FACILITATED BY OTHERS) 
* All content gender gap events, in every language Wikipedia, in March 2024
* Francophone Women★ Writers Fortnight 2024
* Feminism and Folklore 2024

INVITATION: 
* Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2024#March 2024 Y
** logo 

COMING UP:
* Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Events 
TIP OF THE MONTH:
* When creating a new article be sure to check various spellings, including birth name, married names and pseudonyms, to be sure an article doesn't already exist. Y

• Step 1 - Add details of the event to Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/events (see instructions at Template:WikiProject Women in Red/doc#Technical info). This will automatically update the various lists of events, and also allows editors to tag the article talk pages with {{WikiProject Women in Red}} or its shortcut {{WIR}}.
• Step 2
• Create the event page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/n where n is the number of the new event. You can use the {{WIR meetup header}} template to help you. {{WIR meetup header}} will populate the event header and right side infoboxes. * Then copy and sections from previous month to add boilerplate language. For example, start at Participants copy through the bottom of the page (XYZ as an example). update month and event number in the pasted sections.
• Then add the "body" of the page (welcome, redlists, purpose) using a similar editathon as a starting point.
• Step 3 Create a new category for meetup articles (e.g. at Category:WikiProject Women in Red meetup 320 articles). Add the template {{WIR category}} to the new category.
• Step 4 Create the invite (e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2024#March 2024) using the previous month's invite as a go-by.
• Step 5 Invite and receive feedback from a sufficient number of WiR enthusiasts that the event page and invite are okay. Mark reviewed items with {{ok}}
• Step 6 Send out MassMessage notification.

(For ongoing re-write of instruction Archived: Basic overview of tasks using March 2021 as a guide)

NEW
* Art+Activism
** Event page: Art+Activism 
** Talkpage template: Template:WIR-192
* VisibleWikiWomen
** Event page: VisibleWikiWomen
** Talkpage template: Template:WIR-193 
CONTEST (Jan/Feb/Mar)
* Africa
** Event page: Africa
** Talkpage template: Template:WIR-186
CONTINUING
** Women's rights
**Template:WIR-188
** #1day1woman2021
** Template:WIR-184 & Template:WIR-00-2021 
INVITATION: 
* Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2021#March 2021