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The articles created for any month, including the current month, can be displayed by clicking on one of the months in the archive box to the right.

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.

For personal metrics on how many articles you've created about women, see this tool.

Wikidata

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A WiR Wikidata page provides information on how you can help ensure WiR metrics are up-to-date.

Totals at a glance

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Year Portion if
applicable
Total Daily
average
2015 18 Jul – 31 Dec 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
2022 18,893 52
2023 17,925 49
2024 20,142 55
2025 18,854 52
Grand total 255,624

Updated: Rosiestep (talk) 23:49, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Summary of Women in Red statistics from main page

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Date Women Bios Percentage Increase in
 % for year
Increase
in women
for year
Increase
in bios
for year
Percentage
for year
30-Sep-2015 205,814 1,299,047 15.84%
1-Jan-2017 240,445 1,432,907 16.78% 0.94% 34,631 133,860 25.87%
1-Jan-2018 262,099 1,509,348 17.37% 0.58% 21,654 76,441 28.33%
31-Dec-2018 279,959 1,573,341 17.79% 0.43% 17,860 63,993 27.91%
30-Dec-2019 305,072 1,678,323 18.18% 0.38% 25,113 104,982 23.92%
11-Jan-2021 332,622 1,778,126 18.71% 0.53% 27,550 99,803 27.60%
3-Jan-2022 356,439 1,865,516 19.11% 0.40% 23,817 87,390 27.25%
2-Jan-2023 373,263 1,921,359 19.43% 0.32% 16,824 55,843 30.13%
1-Jan-2024 390,207 1,978,991 19.72% 0.29% 16,944 57,632 29.40%
30-Dec-2024 408,840 2,042,975 20.01% 0.29% 18,633 63,984 29.12%
31-Dec-2025 427,004 2,107,089 20.27% 0.26% 18,164 64,114 28.33%
Total 4.43% 221,190 808,042 27.37%

Notes:

In October 2014 English Wikipedia had 1,445,021 biographical articles, according to a paper referenced on the project's main page. The number of biographies reported by Humaniki only caught up with this figure in 2017, which suggests that Humaniki information was incomplete until at least then.

The September 2015 figure was reported here.

The figure of 20% (408,183 women out of 2,040,570 biographies) was achieved in the 16 December 2024 update. TSventon (talk) 21:42, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Further background on metrics

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As a result of figures presented by Humaniki, we keep posting on the main Women in Red page the percentage of women's biographies on the English version of Wikipedia. Increases are steady but marginal: for example from July 2022 to July 2023, the percentage has risen from around 19.3% to around 19.6%.

Thanks to an analysis presented by Andrew Gray on the WIR talk page, it certainly looks as if the number of men and women involved in sports has a significant influence on the statistics for women. A detailed account of Gray's work is presented in "Gender and BLPs on Wikipedia, redux", which he published on 2 August 2023.

The two lists below show that biographies of living people (BLPs) born in recent years are approximately 50% female if data on all categories of athletes are excluded. By contrast, the equivalent overall figures (including athletes) are only around 25%. As a result, biographies of very large numbers of male sportspeople seem to be responsible for the huge difference. Andrew Gray's detailed lists below document how figures for BLPs by year of birth have evolved over the years:

Overall development of BLPs since the 1920s for all biographies

  • Missing birth year BLPs – 150,574, of which 53,355 female – 35.4%
  • 1920s birth BLPs – 5,096, of which 1,325 female – 26.0%
  • 1930s birth BLPs – 39,055, of which 7,086 female – 18.1%
  • 1940s birth BLPs – 95,602, of which 18,495 female – 19.3%
  • 1950s birth BLPs – 128,518, of which 27,172 female – 21.1%
  • 1960s birth BLPs – 145,300, of which 33,390 female – 23.0%
  • 1970s birth BLPs – 150,539, of which 37,893 female – 25.2%
  • 1980s birth BLPs – 171,072, of which 42,880 female – 25.1%
  • 1990s birth BLPs – 150,880, of which 36,944 female – 24.5%
  • 2000s birth BLPs – 30,042, of which 7,542 female – 25.1%

Development of BLPs since the 1920s for biographies excluding athletes

If we discount all athletes using the infobox method, the results are:

  • Missing birth year BLPs – 140,177, of which 51,021 female – 36.4%
  • 1920s birth BLPs – 4,321, of which 1,228 female – 28.4%
  • 1930s birth BLPs – 28,978, of which 6,161 female – 21.2%
  • 1940s birth BLPs – 73,095, of which 16,566 female – 22.7%
  • 1950s birth BLPs – 95,893, of which 23,644 female – 24.7%
  • 1960s birth BLPs – 96,175, of which 26,632 female – 27.8%
  • 1970s birth BLPs – 81,682, of which 27,562 female – 33.7%
  • 1980s birth BLPs – 58,078, of which 24,816 female – 42.7%
  • 1990s birth BLPs – 23,281, of which 11,754 female – 50.5%
  • 2000s birth BLPs – 2,850, of which 1,539 female – 54.0%


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