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Wiki Women in Red - a proposed User Group

Having worked for 2 years editing articles for Women In Red, a group of organizers have concluded that sourcing is one of the biggest hurdles in creating articles on women and non-binary genders. Though it is true that a lot of sourcing simply doesn’t exist, it is also true that there are sources, but we have no access to them. As these groups did not typically become subjects for academic study until the 1970s, many of the sources are not on line or are behind paywalls. Failure to include women and non-binary people in the encyclopedia presents a one-dimensional view of society and history. To address those issues, we are forming a new User Group aimed at referencing and support for like-minded groups and would appreciate your input or input from your supporters in our organizational process. See link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Women_in_Red MauraWen (talk) 09:29 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Edit-a-thon for US National Girls and Women in Sports Day 2026

As I was digging around for sources for updating Sports in Pennsylvania, I noticed that a bunch of the Pittsburgh reporting happened around National Girls and Women in Sports Day. Is anybody interested in helping to organize an edit-a-thon during the first week in February 2026? I am very new to editing Wikipedia and am not sure what all is involved (reading through How to run an Edit-a-thon). Chromedial (talk) 16:03, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

That sounds like a cool idea! I also am not sure about what's all involved in doing that sort of thing, but I'd definitely participate! I think it would be neat to do since it's so close to the next Olympics also maryshelagh (talk) 16:01, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Women in Red | October 2025, Vol 11, Issue 10

Women in Red | October 2025, Vol 11, Issue 10, Nos. 326, 327, 350, 351, 352 Recognized as the most active topic-based WikiProject by human changes. Online events: New: Alphabet run S & T | Women in STEM | Halloween Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements: Sister wikiproject Women in Green October 2025 Good Article Edit-a-thon focuses on What Women Do Tip of the Month: Notable does not always mean admirable; you don't have to like an article's subject to make the article a useful contribution to Wikipedia. Progress ("moving the needle"): Statistics available via various tools: previously, Humaniki tool; currently, QLever. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 6,283 articles during this period: 19 May 2025: 20.114% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,066,280; 415,618 women) 24 September 2025: 20.20% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,088,533 biographies; 421,901 women) Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

--Rosiestep (talk) 18:28, 29 September 2025 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Sports category names: proposal to rename 4,256 categories

Category:Canadian female sprinters has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you.

To expand on that templated message: 4,256 categories have been proposed to be moved from titles using "female" to "women" (and in a few cases "male" to "men"), thus from Category:Canadian female sprinters to Category:Canadian women sprinters (the initial proposal was "women's", as in Category:Canadian women's sprinters, but the nominator has changed their suggestion.)

The discussion is at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 October 1#Category:Canadian female sprinters. PamD 20:27, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Representation in articles on sports

Hi, I was wondering whether it's within this project's scope to try to add more photos of women to the main article pages on sports. For example, Football, Association football, Rugby union, Rugby league, Cricket, and many more have pretty much exclusively photos of men, which presents a one-dimensional view of sports. This is my first time interacting with a WikiProject so please let me know if I'm doing anything wrong. lp0 on fire (talk) 09:46, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

I think as long as you are adding copyright free photos, this is a great addition to sports articles! maryshelagh (talk) 16:02, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

I don’t see why not. For me it’s always good when you have photos to illustrate an article and make it more accurate Haddad Maia fan (talk) 16:50, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Women in Red - November 2025

Women in Red | November 2025, Vol 11, Issue 11, Nos. 326, 327, 353, 354 Recognized as the most active topic-based WikiProject by human changes. Online events: New: Alphabet run: U, V, W | Asian women Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements: Women in Red's Asian women event is part of the global Wikipedia Asian Month 2025 campaign. You are welcome to add your contributions to both event pages. Tip of the Month: Verifiability is increasingly important as AI evolves. You should ensure that every statement made is adequately sourced. There should be no less than three independent reliable sources for each biography, including at least one source for each paragraph. Progress ("moving the needle"): Statistics available via various tools: previously, Humaniki tool; currently, QLever. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 20,473 articles created in the past year. 21 Oct 2024, 19.963% of biographies on EN-WP were about women (2,030,245 biographies; 405,305 women) 28 Oct 2025: 20.23% of biographies on EN-WP were about women (2,094,677 biographies; 423,778 women) Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help wanted! Want to apply your skills or learn new ones? Help us plan monthly events, design event logos, come up with a tip-of-the-month, and/or provide any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

--Rosiestep (talk) 17:04, 30 October 2025 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Good article reassessment for Petra Kvitová

Petra Kvitová has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 23:56, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:ICC Women's Champions Trophy#Requested move 25 November 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:ICC Women's Champions Trophy#Requested move 25 November 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vestrian24Bio 12:58, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Cri-Zelda Brits

Cri-Zelda Brits has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 04:14, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

Women in Red - December 2025

Women in Red | November 2025, Vol 11, Issue 12, Nos. 326, 327, 355, 356, 357 Recognized as the most active topic-based WikiProject by human changes. Online events: New: Alphabet run X, Y, Z | Food and drink | Women who died in 2025 Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements: Global Translat-a-thon 2025 06 December 2025 Tip of the Month: Lists of deaths by year is a good resource for the December / January meet-up Women who died in 2025 Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help wanted! Want to apply your skills or learn new ones? Help us plan monthly events, design event logos, come up with a tip-of-the-month, and/or provide any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

--Rosiestep (talk) 22:16, 28 November 2025 (UTC) via MassMessaging