WikiProject Women in Red
If the objective and scope of our project interest you, please join in the discussion on our talkpage or jump in and create articles. You might like to start by participating in the editathon on Wikipedia and United Nations Women Project until August 12 or those on Indigenous Women and Polar Women for the whole of August, in addition to the ongoing Women Scientists. From mid-August we are also co-hosting Women in Philosophy. We warmly welcome you.
Announcements []
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- globalcitizen.org published 12 Female Activists You Didn’t Know Are Changing the World features WiR tweet about our article about Esther_Ibanga Victuallers (talk) 11:34, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
- The Gender by language data from Wikidata Human Gender Indicators (WHGI) are now being updated once a week showing the latest progress on women's vs men's biographies for the major Wikipedia language versions. --Ipigott (talk) 07:36, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
- Congratulations to Rosiestep and Keilana who have been jointly named Wikipedians of the Year. Both have been major contributors to Women in Red.--Ipigott (talk) 15:47, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks to the assistance of Edgars2007, we now have an easy way to ensure our new articles are included in Wikidata. See Gadget for facilitating data entry to Wikidata for new Wikipedia articles--Ipigott (talk) 17:02, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
Meet our members!
Events
Happening now
- July 12 to August 12, 2016: Online editathon: Wikipedia and United Nations Women Project
- August 2016, for the whole month: Online editathon: Indigenous Women
- August 2016, for the whole month: Online editathon: Polar Women
- All year until 31 December: Online editathon: Women Scientists
Coming up
- August 3, 2016 Women Archivists Roundtable Edit-a-thon at the Society of American Archivists meeting in Atlanta, Georgia
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Tasks
Affiliates of WikiProject Women |
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Architects |
Artists |
Feminism |
Health |
History |
History Month |
Jewish women |
Psychology |
Scientists |
Sport |
Technology |
Warfare & military |
Writers |
Missing articles department: Women in Red |
Good articles department: Women in Green |
See also: Gender gap task force |
The top priorities for August 2016 are Indigenous women, Polar women, and Women scientists. See our crowd-sourced and Wikidata-sourced lists of red links for even more inspiration, such as Women artists, Women writers, Feminists, and so on! And feel free to add any missing names to the crowd-sourced list, preferably with sources.
Requests
Women scientists
Requests for Wikipedia:WikiProject Women scientists via Wikipedia Requests:
- Florence Bagley: Create new article (view request details)
- Hazel Branch: Create new article (view request details)
- Martha Bunting: Create new article (view request details)
- Nora Calderwood: Create new article (view request details)
- Margaret Boyle: Create new article (view request details)
- Christiane Bonnelle: Create new article (view request details)
- Esther Batchelder: Create new article (view request details)
- Doris Cannell: Create new article (view request details)
- Winifred Deans: Create new article (view request details)
- Milicent Hathaway: Create new article (view request details)
Women artists
From Wikidata
Women in architecture
Automatically generated list of missing articles
- Jadwiga Dobrzyńska
Polish architect
(More information on Wikidata) - Bertha Enwald
Architect
(More information on Wikidata) - Małgorzata Handzelewicz-Wacławek
Polish architect
(More information on Wikidata)
Women artists
Automatically generated list of missing articles
- Marta Ingarden
Polish architect
(More information on Wikidata) - Çağla Şikel
engilis
(More information on Wikidata) - No English title available
No English description available
(More information on Wikidata)
Women activists
Automatically generated list of missing articles
- Cristina Moreno Fernández
Spanish trade unionist and politician
(More information on Wikidata) - No English title available
No English description available
(More information on Wikidata) - No English title available
No English description available
(More information on Wikidata)
Women scientists
Automatically generated list of missing articles
- Leila Krogh
Danish art historian
(More information on Wikidata) - Ruth Kellermann
German anthropologist
(More information on Wikidata) - Lucy Katherine Armitage Chippindall
South African botanist
(More information on Wikidata)
Women in technology
Automatically generated list of missing articles
- Vedra Pieterse
Computer scientist
(More information on Wikidata) - Ursula Hill
German mathematician
(More information on Wikidata) - Kristin Falck
German author
(More information on Wikidata)
Women writers
Automatically generated list of missing articles
- Inger Littberger Caisou-Rousseau
Swedish writer
(More information on Wikidata) - Ulrike Trautwein
German theologian
(More information on Wikidata) - Silvia Reinhardt
No English description available
(More information on Wikidata)
Redlink lists
By focus area
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- Misc.
By geography, or historical ties to a region
- Asia/Pacific Islands
- Black history
- Indigenous Women
- Polar women
- Texas
- Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Missing articles about women, that are in German Wikipedia, but aren't in English Wikipedia, sorted by iws
By nationality
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- Misc
Other
Redlink rounds
- Choose a group to write about; add 10 redlinks; write; have fun; repeat!
- If Start class or better, mark the article in bold.
- Cross-post @ WP:Intertranswiki.
December
Metrics
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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 Archives box on 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.
- We also add articles from WiR edit-a-thons
- You might also be interested in: Did you know nomination page
Showcase
GA successes
- Add pertinent Good Articles here with date of upgrading, most recent on top
- Jean Bartik - July 3, 2016
- Ann T. Bowling - June 18, 2016
- Doris Stevens - 2 March 2016
- Fatima Massaquoi - 13 February 2016
- Doris Sands Johnson - 11 February 2016
- Malouma - 24 January 2016
- Eleanor Sophia Smith - 22 January 2016
- Elizabeth Rona - 7 January 2016
- Ida Silverman - 31 December 2015
- Violeta Chamorro - 30 October 2015
- Honora Sneyd - 13 September 2015
Featured pictures
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Sālote Tupou III of Tonga as a child. (21 August)
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Virginia Woolf (5 August)
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Ana Santos Aramburo (2 August)
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Katherine Johnson. Calculated the trajectory for Apollo 11, among other things. (31 July)
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Rory Kennedy, documentary filmmaker (30 July)
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Cynthia Woodhead, Olympic swimmer. (30 July)
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Gertrude Käsebier (29 July)
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Aminah Cendrakasih (27 July)
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Rosalind Venetia Pitt-Rivers (23 July)
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Brigid Balfour (20 July)
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Carol Greider (20 July)
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Alice C. Evans (16 July)
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Barbara McClintock (15 July)
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Farida Arriany (14 July)
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Mary Lou Williams (14 July)
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Alice Paul (12 July)
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Charles Follen McKim by Frances Benjamin Johnston (11 July)
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Loie Fuller (10 July)
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Ethel Reed by Frances Benjamin Johnston (10 July)
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Florence Earle Coates, poet (29 June)
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Chitra Dewi (27 June)
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Bessie Smith, blues singer (24 June)
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Emmeline Pankhurst - 23 June
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Adam Morka's photo of Canadian cross-country mountain biker Emily Batty edited by Keraunoscopia - displayed 16 June
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Anna Palm de Rosa's A Game of L'hombre at Brøndum's Hotel - 15 June
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Dorothea Lange's "Broke, baby sick, and car trouble!" - 11 June
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Chien-Shiung Wu - 7 June
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Emma Schenson's 1889 photograph of the remodelling of Uppsala Cathedral. - 7 June
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Mary Martin in the original production of The Sound of Music, photographed by Toni Frissell - 6 June
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DYKs
- Add new DYK articles here with date of publication, most recent on top
August 2016
- Claudia Corichi García - 24 August
- Anne-Marie (singer) - 24 August
- Joanne M. Maguire - 23 August
- Taylor Swift - 23 August
- Sandra Méndez Hernández - 22 August
- Evita (soundtrack) - 21 August
- Jaquinta of Bari - 21 August
- Nisha Rawal (taekwondo) - 20 August
- Katelynne Cox - 20 August
- Ashleigh Gentle - 20 August
- Amy Teo - 20 August
- Catherine Hilda Duleep Singh - 19 August
- Kate French (modern pentathlete) - 19 August
- Shriya Pilgaonkar - 19 August
- Nicole Moerig - 19 August
- Stay with Me till Dawn - 19 August
- Bryony Page - 19 August
- Emily C. Blackman - 18 August
- Raheleh Asemani - 18 August
- Freda Corbet - 18 August
- Reina Torres de Araúz - 18 August
- Aslaug Haviland - 17 August
- Margaret Ursula Jones - 17 August
- Alice Franklin - 16 August
- The Dowry of the Angyar - 16 August
- Susan Hanson (geographer) - 16 August
- Mary Polly Paaaina - 16 August
- Annie Poon - 15 August
- Jessica Hodgins - 15 August
- Alice of Champagne - 14 August
- Alma Lilia Luna Munguía - 14 August
- Noemí Guzmán Lagunes - 13 August
- Kaitlyn Vincie - 12 August
- Jess Andrews - 12 August
- María del Carmen Pinete Vargas - 12 August
- Sophie Ainsworth - 12 August
- Charlotte Dobson - 12 August
- Iris Wang - 11 August
- Lohaynny Vicente - 11 August
- Georgia Coates - 10 August
- İrem Karamete - 10 August
- Ana María Boone Godoy - 10 August
- Elizabeth Lachlan - 10 August
- Margaret Blackwood - 7 August
- Madeline Groves - 8 August
- Emma Robinson (New Zealand swimmer) - 7 August
- Helena Gasson - 7 August
- Anna Wolek - 7 August
- Manika Batra - 6 August
- Carmen Salinas - 6 August
- Lenchu Kunzang - 6 August
- Emily Morley - 6 August
- María Ávila Serna - 6 August
- Adriana Araújo - 5 August
- Alejandra Barrales - 5 August
- Daniela Campuzano - 5 August
- Inez Knight Allen - 5 August
- Emma Stone on screen and stage - 5 August
- Elsa Kelly - 3 August
- Yulma Rocha Aguilar - 3 August
- Coming of Age in Karhide - 2 August
- Miriam Auhea Kekāuluohi Crowningburg - 2 August
- Amanda Weltman - 2 August
- Yesharah Society - 1 August
July 2016
- María Elena Orantes López - 31 July
- Esthela Ponce Beltrán - 31 July
- Kate Claghorn - 30 July
- Adriana Terrazas Porras - 29 July
- Margaret Jarman Hagood - 29 July
- María Isabel Maya Pineda - 29 July
- Remi Sonaiya - 28 July
- Celestia Taylor - 26 July
- Aryness Joy Wickens - 26 July
- Josi S. Kilpack - 24 July
- Priscilla Nzimiro - 23 July
- Tiffany Trump - 22 July
- Jane Hamilton Hall - 22 July
- Adele C. Howells - 21 July
- Elsa Reger - 21 July
- Miku Sawai - 20 July
- Laura Fortman - 18 July
- Baby Huwae - 17 July
- Gale Sears - 17 July
- Roxana Cannon Arsht - 17 July
- Annie Rowan Forney Daugette - 16 July
- Karen Heck - 16 July
- Billie Nipper - 15 July
- Heather Blitz - 15 July
- Makila James - 15 July
- Ai Aoki (politician) - 14 July
- Linda Smith Dyer - 14 July
- Cynthia Cooke - 14 July
- Ingrid Christensen - 13 July
- Dyke Action Machine! - 12 July
- Elizabeth Dilling - 12 July
- Mari Kim - 12 July
- Rima Melati - 12 July
- Teresa Feoderovna Ries - 11 July
- Gender inequality in South Korea - 11 July
- Alka Sadat - 10 July
- Roya Sadat - 10 July
- Esna (singer) - 10 July
- Aminah Cendrakasih - 10 July
- Jane Little (musician) - 9 July
- Margaret Gowing - 9 July
- Farida Arriany - 8 July
- Ellen F. Golden - 5 July
- Elizabeth Truswell - 5 July
- Nora Grossman - 4 July
- Party (Girls' Generation song) - 4 July
- Hannah Beachler - 4 July
- Katrien Meire - 3 July
- Christy Jenkins - 3 July
- Constance of Antioch - 3 July
- Helen Fricker - 2 July
- Ruthie Tompson - 1 July
- Rebel Girl (song) - 1 July
June 2016
- Sabrina Sidney - 30 June
- Mary Farrar - 30 June
- Sharon Barker - 30 June
- Lucía Meza Guzmán - 30 June
- Felicity Okpete Ovai - 29 June
- In-Young Ahn - 29 June
- June Chan - 27 June
- Charlotte Hanmann - 27 June
- Inger Hanmann - 27 June
- Sticky Vicky - 27 June
- Lucille Dumont - 26 June
- Chitra Dewi - 26 June
- Andrea Jenkins - 26 June
- Ríe y Llora - 23 June
- Doris Yankelewitz Berger - 22 June
- Elizabeth W. Crandall - 22 June
- Mr. Darcy's Daughters - 21 June
- No Time for It - 21 June
- 2014–15 FA Women's Premier League Plate - 20 June
- Catch Me If You Can (Girls' Generation song) - 20 June
- Margarete Zuelzer - 18 June
- Mary Hale Woolsey - 17 June
- Hannah Chaplin - 17 June
- Utako Okamoto - 16 June
- Jung Mina - 15 June
- Hookers for Hillary - 15 June
- Bizounce - 14 June
- Ora Mendelsohn Rosen - 14 June
- Elizabeth Alkin - 13 June
- Louise Stevens Bryant - 13 June
- Ruth Lockhart - 12 June
- Laurie Wolf - 11 June
- Women's Torah Project - 11 June
- Pernille Blume - 11 June
- Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim - 11 June
- Mel Eslyn - 11 June
- Jacomijne Costers - 11 June
- May Booth Talmage - 11 June
- Mr.Mr. (song) - 10 June
- Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans - 10 June
- Dorothy Weir Young - 10 June
- Vaster than Empires and More Slow - 9 June
- Mary Alice Powell Lindsay - 8 June
- Amy Bess Miller - 8 June
- Elena Allen - 8 June
- Birgit Jürgenssen - 5 June
- Gussie Nell Davis - 5 June
- Nancy H. Hensel - 3 June
- Rosette Wolczak - 3 June
- Maria Antonia Merkelbach - 3 June
- Mary Mostert - 2 June
- Debra Marquart - 2 June
- Mary Cabot Wheelwright - 2 June
- Nina Alovert - 1 June
- Bai Yushuang - 1 June
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Press
Content gender gap mentioned in the press? Add it to the list.
- After years of exclusion, female Antarctic scientists are finally being spotlighted, article by Ariel Bogle, Mashable, 12 August 2016
- Profiles: Kudos for female Antarctic researchers, letter in Nature, 11 August 2016, from Jan Strugnell and six others
- Wikiproject Women in Red achieved "828 pages edited and 155 new pages created" during the Women in Espionage edit-a-thon University of Edinburg, April 28, 2016
- WISE women work to change Wikipedia, UIC News Center, 17 May 2016
- Meet the Women Bringing the Kitchen to Wikipedia, New Statesman, 17 April 2016, article about food and the women who make food, also a project called Wiki-Food.
- Women in science on Wikipedia: will we ever fill the information gap?, The Guardian, 19 March 2016, article on Emily Temple-Wood, information about Women in Red and interview with Rosiestep
- Female scientist fights harassment with Wikipedia, BBC, 14 March 2016, detailed article on Emily Temple-Wood, aka Keilana
- "Third Annual Edit-a-thon to Bring More Women Artists, and Editors, to Wikipedia", interesting article by Jade Angeles Fitton on Artsland, February 26, 2016
- Why Don’t More Latinos Contribute To Wikipedia? El Tecolote, December 3, 2015.
- Wikipedia boost for women architects ArchitectureAU, November 22, 2015
- AWA+D + Wiki, September 17, 2015, Women in Architecture edit-a-thon
- 2015 Women in Media Report, prepared by Women's Media Center.
- #wikiD: Help ArchiteXX Add Women Architects to Wikipedia, 25 February 2015, ArchDaily
- Harvard students edit Wikipedia in effort to ‘dismantle the patriarchy’, 9 September 2015, College Fix
- Iberocoop content on women biographies, 4 August 2015, Wikimedia blog
- "¿A qué llamamos brecha de género en Wikipedia?" (What do we call gender gap in Wikipedia?), 8 July 2015, by user:Jaluj
- Job vacant: Wikipedian-in-residence, 20 July 2015, The Australian
- Wiki Worker Wanted, 17 July 2015, Inside Higher Ed
- Few Women in Wiki Editing, 26 June 2015, Anupama Mili, The New Indian Express
- Wikipedia Forms Partnership with WVU to Lessen Gender Gap, 7 July 2015, WBOY.com
- Wikipedia has lots of weaknesses, the worst of which is lack of women editors, Jenny Kleeman, The Australian Financial Review
- Can Wikipedia Survive?, 20 June 2015, Andrew Lih, The New York Times
- The Wikipedia wars: does it matter if our biggest source of knowledge is written by men?, 26 May 2015, Jenny Kleeman, New Statesman
- Editors Are Trying To Fix Wikipedia's Gender And Racial Bias Problem, 15 April 2015, Sara Boboltz, Huffington Post
- Edit-a-thon aims to fix Wikipedia gender gap, 28 April 2015, Chris Oberholt, KCTV5 Kansas City
- Wikipedia’s Women Problem, 29 April 2015, James Gleick, The New York Review
- Computational Linguistics Reveals How Wikipedia Articles Are Biased Against Women, 2 February 2015, MIT Technology Review
Research
Academic research on Wikipedia's content gender gap? Add it to the list.
- Klein, Maximilian. "Wikipedia Gender Indicators (WIGI)". WMF labs. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- Klein, Maximilian; et al. "Monitoring the Gender Gap with Wikidata Human Gender Indicators" (PDF). Retrieved 18 June 2016.
- Graells-Garrido, Eduardo; Lalmas, Mounia; Menczer, Filippo (2015). "First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia". Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media. p. 165. arXiv:1502.02341. doi:10.1145/2700171.2791036. ISBN 978-1-4503-3395-5. (Important finding: an analysis of the DBPedia Wikipedia subset shows that 15% of biographies are of women.)
- Klein, Maximilian; Konieczny, Piotr (2015). "Gender Gap Through Time and Space: A Journey Through Wikipedia Biographies and the "WIGI" Index". arXiv:1502.03086 [cs.CY]. (Interesting study, currently under peer review)
- Wagner, Claudia; Garcia, David; Jadidi, Mohsen; Strohmaier, Markus (2015). "It's a Man's Wikipedia? Assessing Gender Inequality in an Online Encyclopedia". arXiv:1501.06307 [cs.CY].
Resources
Resources to help contributors write Wikipedia articles. Add to this list!
- Jewish Women's Archive
- She Source
- 100 Extraordinary Muslim Women Past & Present
- Kvinfo: Danish feminists
- The History of Nordic Women's Literature
- A Celebration of Women Writers
- Women and Social Movements, International - 1840 to Present
- Writing about women on Wikipedia
- Evaluating Information Sources
- Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
- Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women
- Swiss Women and the Feminist Movement (in French)
- Friedman, Ann. "Queens of Nonfiction: 56 Women Writers Everyone Should Read," The Cut - New York Magazine. April 2016. (As noted by author, list of in-depth articles reported by (mostly white, mostly American) journalists between 1960-2016.
External links
- Women in Red on Twitter
- Interest in women's history began much earlier than is assumed, Phys Org, August 25, 2015