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 19.84% 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!
{{WikiProject Women}} if born after 1950; or {{WikiProject Women's History}} if born before 1950.
Editathon banner: either {{WIR-252}} or {{WIR-00-2023}} will work
Welcome!
Women in Red has an initiative (established in 2017) for all our participants who are interested in creating or improving articles on women and their works outside the specific focus of our monthly editathons. We have called it #1day1woman as the label can be used worldwide on the social media, creating new trends of interest. Perfectionists might like to create a new article each and every day but one new article on any one day will be the starting point. The approach provides an opportunity for our members and all other participants to create or improve articles on women who are notable in any field of endeavor.
This virtual edit-a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work.
What else?
The lists of redlinks should provide inspiration.
There is a section where you can list the articles you create this month, and another section where you can add the images you uploaded to Commons.
to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most prominent women
to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action 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
... that Gamze Durmuş and her husband were the first referees to officiate a
TFF First League match together? (2024-01-13)
... that Sophie von Maltzan led the making of a submarine that was walked through the streets of
Dublin? (2023-12-29)
... that Turkish international soccer player Rojin Polat was named member of the "2021 All Schools Merit Girls Team" in
New South Wales, Australia? (2023-12-09)
... that Mona Williams(pictured) said her degree from
Stanford University was called a "wanky Yankee" degree when she arrived in New Zealand? (2023-11-26)
... that Julia Marden was the first known person to create a Wampanoag twined turkey-feather mantle since European contact 400 years earlier? (2023-10-21)
... that the Amazonas de Yaxunah, a
Mayan softball team from
Yucatán, play barefoot while wearing the huipil, a traditional indigenous dress? (2023-10-20)
... that independent India's first female pilot, Usha Sundaram, holds the record for the fastest flight between England and India in a
piston-engine aircraft? (2023-07-31)
... that Israeli journalist Ayala Hasson is the first woman to head
Channel 1's news division? (2023-07-28)
... that curator Nina Tonga is the first
Pasifika person to be a contemporary art curator at
Te Papa, the national museum of New Zealand? (2023-07-18)
... that Ann Tahincioğlu was 49 years old when she competed in Turkey's first all-women car race, the "Volkswagen Polo Ladies Cup"? (2023-07-15)
... that Seda Kaçan became Turkey's first race-winning female driver? (2023-07-08)
... that after women's suffrage in Switzerland was approved in a referendum in 1971, the tabloid Blick sported a cover with a naked blonde and the headline "Thank you for the Roses"? (2023-06-18)
... that war correspondent Jurate Kazickas financed her plane ticket to Vietnam in 1967 with a US$500 win on the game show Password? (2023-06-16)
... that after becoming one of the
Mongolian Armed Forces' first female recruits, Bolor Ganbold is now its first female brigadier general? (2023-05-01)
... that a pregnant Sally Buchanan was said to have carried bullets in her apron and distributed whiskey while singing during the Battle of Buchanan's Station? (2023-04-16)
... that Armenian-Turkish soprano Sibil Pektorosoğlu released her first album after singing in a church choir for almost twenty years? (2023-04-15)
... that Shirley Kurata is said to have "subverted and reclaimed Asian-centric tropes" through her "outrageous" costume designs for movie villain Jobu Tupaki? (2023-03-10)
... that during the first tour to the Soviet Union by any American ballet company, Lupe Serrano(pictured) danced the first encore in the
American Ballet Theatre's history? (2023-03-04)
... that Gloria Orwoba raised awareness about period poverty by appearing in the Senate of Kenya in apparently blood-stained trousers? (2023-03-04)
... that conservator Carolyn Price Horton helped to direct a "Mud Angel army" that rescued books after the
Arno flooded museums and libraries in Florence, Italy, in 1966? (2023-02-13)
... that Gillian Hanson was a world expert on treating the condition that ultimately killed her? (2017-11-29)
... that after Rachel Henderlite's 1965 ordination as a minister, a retired pastor sent her a postcard every year quoting the biblical injunction, "Let the women keep silent in the churches"? (2016-01-03)
... that Mildred Constantine organized the 1968 exhibition Word and Image of 300 posters at the
Museum of Modern Art called "so handsome that for a minute you wonder why billboards are disfigurements"? (2008-12-23)
The Portuguese magazine Visão História recently published an issue entitled 55 Portuguese Women who made history. Articles and upgrades listed above mean that all 55 are now covered by Wikipedia.
Add here – most recent at the top - in subsections for "Color photographs of people", "Black and white photographs of people", "Works of art", and "Other images".