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Welcome & How to Get Started[edit]

UPDATE: The scope of the project has broadened to add genderfluid, non-binary, and intersex people to the days of the year, with an interest in prioritizing people of color.

An informal list of people to add can be found here. This is not a definitive list, feel free to find and edit yourself.

Please note that any entries to Days of the Year will require inline citations as of January, 2018. Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 16:56, 3 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome! This is a project to add more women to Wikipedia's Days of the Year(DOY). Per the original Inspire Idea page,

Wikipedia's Days of the Year pages are used by many people to get a snapshot of history on a particular day. The events, births, and deaths listed are disproportionately about men. I propose a project that makes a concerted effort to add the accomplishments and achievements of women.

That's the main goal of this project: find women who are notable and add links to them on the DOY pages.

What role would you like to play?

Research, I don't want to edit. Here you go!
I'd like to just to straight edits, I don't want to have to look for things. Go here!
I'd like to do some analysis. Right over here!

Research[edit]

Wikipedia is a big place, and it's filled with all kinds of interesting women. A good place to start is with Women's History Categories:

To display all subcategories click on the "►":
Women in history‎ (22 C, 14 P)
Women by occupation‎ (124 C, 10 P)
Women's history‎ (14 C, 37 P)
Women by period‎ (12 C, 7 P)
Ancient women‎ (42 C, 4 P)
Women and the arts‎ (8 C, 27 P)
Women in the Bible‎ (3 C, 8 P)
Cultural depictions of women‎ (122 C, 25 P)
Women and education‎ (13 C, 52 P)
Feminism‎ (28 C, 57 P)
Magdalene asylums‎ (15 P)
Women in music‎ (18 C, 41 P)
Women Nobel laureates‎ (68 P)
Women's organizations‎ (33 C, 11 P)
Women in politics‎ (17 C, 16 P)
Women and psychology‎ (2 C, 32 P)
Women and religion‎ (21 C, 22 P)
Women in space‎ (1 C, 8 P)
Timelines of women‎ (1 C, 17 P)
Timelines of women in history‎ (31 P)
Women and trade unions‎ (2 C, 10 P)
Women in war‎ (16 C, 51 P)
Women's firsts‎ (10 C, 1 P)

(Find the rest here)

Doing the research and adding women to this list[edit]

If you'd like to add a woman to this list, you can start anywhere with any woman. You need to be sure that she:

  1. has a wikipedia page that is not a stub article,
  2. has a definite date of birth, death, and/or major accomplishment, and
  3. is not already listed on the date in question.

I find it best to have a tab open with the days of the year (link) to quickly check to see if the woman I'm looking at is already listed.

When editing the next section, it's simplest to format your entry this way:

# [<link to wikipedia page> <woman's name>]

For example:

# [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Yang_Yan Empress Yang Yan]
# [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Zhen Lady Zhen]

becomes this:

  1. Empress Yang Yan
  2. Lady Zhen

Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk)

Women to be added[edit]


If you add someone on this list to a DOY, please indicate that you have done so. Either add "done" at the end, use the <strike> tag, or move the entry to the section of edits already made

  1. Ruby Keeler, born August 25, 1910 (See also August 1910). Died Feb. 28, 1993. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk • contribs) 03:35, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Mae Jemison the first black woman in space Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 08:08, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Empress Dowager Bian
  4. Empress Yang Yan
  5. Lady Zhen
  6. Bridget Ogilvie
  7. Margie Profet
  8. Viola Liuzzo
  9. Joyce Cooper stub article
  10. Jean McDowell stub article
  11. Pearl Primus
  12. Pinkie Gordon Lane
  13. Ava DuVernay
  14. Safi Faye
  15. Kasi Lemmons
  16. Pauli Murray
  17. Ruby Bridges
  18. Marsha P Johnson
  19. Joyce Bryant
  20. Jennifer Holiday (softball) stub article
  21. C. Delores Tucker
  22. Pauline Cushman
  23. Belle Boyd
  24. Antonia Ford
  25. Jane Franklin — Preceding unsigned comment added by Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk • contribs) 18:49, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  26. Isabella Andreini
  27. Laura Bassi
  28. Nina Boyle
  29. Ruta Sepetys
  30. Sarah Stewart (cancer research)
  31. Anita Brenner
  32. Florence Hawley
  33. Maria Hinojosa
  34. Linda Christian
  35. Jean Batten

Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 20:33, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]


Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 06:58, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  1. Macrina the Younger There is only a date of death for her, but I found the page interesting

73.162.229.144 (talk)

  1. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.162.229.144 (talk) 18:34, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

She's already listed on that date as an observance of the Church. Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 18:52, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Editing the Days of the Year[edit]

Editing notes

  1. Please be sure to put births and deaths in their proper section. They should not be listed under "Events".
  2. To make finding edits easier, you can add "WDOY project addition" to your edit comments
  3. From User: Shir-El too, when adding information about someone, words like "reformer," "activist" aren't enough; added things like 'active in women's sufferage and Anti-Slavery movements.' If we want people to read about them, they need to know why. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk • contribs) 18:49, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Edits made so far

Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 19:00, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 02:29, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Days of the Year[edit]

Days of the Year - Style Guide

Calendar[edit]

If you want to edit right away, great! Please mark your edits with WDOY.

Evaluations[edit]

Evaluation/analysis has taken the form of a simple count by hand of men vs women. Most of the time male and female names are easily distinguishable. For a small percentage of links, you'll need to follow a link to see if the subject is male or female.

Below are the first analyses. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk • contribs) 01:57, 24 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

May[edit]

May 1[edit]

version accepted as of April 5, 2015

Births[edit]

Men: 225 Women: 60

Deaths[edit]

Men: 77 Women: 16

Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 03:50, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]


June[edit]

Analysis begun 4/2/2015

June 1[edit]

Version accepted as of March 23, 2015

Events[edit]

Men: 18 Women: 3

Births[edit]

Men: 178 Women: 54

Deaths[edit]

Men: 92 Women: 13

Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 18:59, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

This was a count of the men and women listed on the page. I'm less confident of the count on Events because it's not clear whether kings/leaders in battle should be counted, even if they are listed by name on the event itself. If so, the count (and disparity) will be higer, but it might be worth doing. Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 18:59, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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