Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/98

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Online event; 1–30 November 2018
	Women in Church Vocations conference 1959

	Women in Red
	Hello! and welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR), whose objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's biographies and women's works, broadly construed. Did you know that, according to Humaniki, only 19.65% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed? Content gender gap is a form of systemic bias, and this is what WiR addresses. We invite you to participate, whenever you like, in whatever way suits you and your schedule.; Women in Red warmly welcomes you!

November 2018

Women in Religion

Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative

Happening now: Religion Deceased politicians Geofocus: Asia

Coming up: Photography Laureates Countries beginning with 'I'

See also: Future events

Welcome!

Add to articles
.	Authority control should be included at the foot of every biography: `{{Authority control}}`. It will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata. Choose applicable Categories including relevant subcategories of Category:Women. If applicable, add a stub template at the foot of an article:`{{stub}}`.

Add to article talk pages
.	`{{WikiProject Biography\| }}` or `{{WikiProject Biography}}` `{{WikiProject Women}}` if born after 1950; or `{{WikiProject Women's History}}::` if born before 1950. Editathon banner: `{{WIR-98}}`

In November 2018, in collaboration with the 1000 Women in Religion initiative at the Parliament of the World's Religions conference in Toronto, Canada, Women in Red is focusing on religion. This will provide an opportunity for you to write biographies relating to women's leadership in religious and spiritual traditions around the world. In connection with the Parliament of World Religions meeting, there is a special Wikipedia session on Saturday, 3 November.

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about women in religion, as well as their achievements, writings, organizations, and awards. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in our initiative. You are of course also welcome to add articles on any other notable women who deserve to be covered.

The main goals of the event are:

to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most prominent women
to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter)

What else?

Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create this month, and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.
If you tweet about any of the articles, or upload any of the images to Pinterest, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

Thank you!