Hello and welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR) whose objective is to turn redlinks into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's biographies and women's works. Did you know that according to WHGI only 16.97% 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. Women in Red warmly welcomes you!
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.
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Choose applicable Categories such as:
Category:Women and relative subcategories
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If applicable, add a stub template at the foot of an article:
Women Stubs, or {{Women-stub}}
{{WikiProject Biography| }} or {{WikiProject Biography}}
{{WikiProject Women}} if born after 1950; or {{WikiProject Women's History}}:: if born before 1950.
Editathon banner: {{WIR-43}}
Women in Red is hosting a virtual editathon from May 1 to 31, 2017, on Women in sports and athletics.
The virtual edit-a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work. The main goals of the event are:
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 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)
Focus and lists of red links
The objective is to create or improve articles on women in sports, whether as players, writers, organizations, trophies, or other areas relating to sports and athletics.
Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)
Also, what would it take to generate a list, such as the above, for women in horse racing -- jockeys and trainers. Trainers who should qualify as notable (need to have trained a Grade I winner, see NHORSERACING) but with no article include
Linda Rice (top 10 right now),
Patricia Farro (in top 50),
Kathleen O'Connell,
Michelle Nevin and
Carla GainesEquibase is a good database to find the top people in these fields, look for those listed as "Multiple Graded Stakes Winning Trainers" (or jockeys).
Montanabw(talk) 22:54, 28 April 2017 (UTC)reply
How about Equestrians or do we need to name the individual sport? Atsme📞📧 00:19, 29 April 2017 (UTC)reply