Welcome to
WikiProject Women in Red (WiR)!
Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's representation on all language Wikipedias (biographies, women's works, women's issues, broadly construed). Did you know that, according to
Humaniki, only 19.83% 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. Editors of all genders are equally and warmly welcome at Women in Red!
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}}.
{{WikiProject Biography| }} or {{WikiProject Biography}}
{{WikiProject Women}} if born after 1950; or {{WikiProject Women's History}}:: if born before 1950.
Editathon banner: {{WIR-177}}
This month, for the first time, we are focusing on women in conflict zones around the world. The
List of ongoing armed conflicts provides a good overview of the countries and regions in question. There are opportunities for writing general articles on the world situation as well as country-based articles. See
Afghanistan conflict (1978–present),
Women in Afghanistan,
Women in Yemen,
Syrian civil war,
Women in Syria, and
Women in the Mexican Drug War as examples of pertinent coverage. Then of course we should be creating biographies of women who have played a significant role in zones of conflict as well as those who have been subject to aggression or violence. Please feel free to add redlinks to the Redlists section below.
We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating articles on women in zones of conflict.
The main goals of the event are:
to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of 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.
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!
Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)
Red-link lists on women from a wide variety of fields can be accessed from the
WiR Redlink index. A selection of those which might be most useful for this priority is listed below.
Wikidata (WD) red-link lists of women's biographies, by country, in other language versions of Wikipedia, as well as a few redlists that are crowd-sourced (CS):