Archive 14: June 2016 to December 2016
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Thanks for making the corrections. I based the two articles entirely on google translation tool, hence the errors. Shall I post them as a double article DYK? I am not sure of the img.-- Nvvchar. 01:47, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
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On the WomeninRed project there are lots of things that seem to magically happen. I wonder if you know who is seeing to all these things? Could you pass this on to him or her? In the interim this is for you. Thanks Ian (I see the photography project has gone well as well). I made this picture sometime ago but it seems apt that all those barnstars should come from a Star Barn. Best. Victuallers ( talk) 12:55, 2 June 2016 (UTC) |
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Hi don't know if you have a list somewhere to add these to, perhaps a Women in Wine in the USA section of Business or something.
♦ Dr. Blofeld 05:24, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi. I just noticed that you had tagged this article as having been "submitted as part of the Women in Music virtual edit-a-thon hosted by WikiProject Women in Red, 10-31 January 2016." Was this a mistake? If I am not wrong this seems to have been created independently of the event by a COI editor. -- Lemongirl942 ( talk) 10:47, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
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So, here it is, three fascinating topics to choose from, and what image do I restore? Emmeline Pankhurst. I'm not always good at sticking to a topic. Still counting it as a WIR FP if it passes, though. =P Adam Cuerden ( talk) 01:25, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
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Charlotte Hanmann, "mostly capturing the urban environment with processed photographs", can you please tell me were "urban environment" appears in Danish, where "processed photographs", and how that "mostly" is sourced. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:24, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
Update: fixed for DYK by Montanabw, - just teach me a bit Danish if you have the time, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:13, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
On 27 June 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Inger Hanmann, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that while Inger Hanmann created enamels for the Copenhagen Airport, her daughter Charlotte made processed photographs of the urban environment? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Inger Hanmann), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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On 27 June 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Charlotte Hanmann, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that while Inger Hanmann created enamels for the Copenhagen Airport, her daughter Charlotte made processed photographs of the urban environment? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Charlotte Hanmann), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 04:50, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
You didn't start the page in your sub directory, but in article space. I've moved it to Draft:Swiss women red links. Bgwhite ( talk) 05:41, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Ipigott. Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, an article you either created or to which you significantly contributed,has been nominated to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you know . You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. APersonBot ( talk!) 12:01, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
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Please read User_talk:Tim_riley#Sibelius. You can reply here or in my discussion (let's not bother Tim again ;) ). Triplecaña ( talk) 14:10, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
Little project I got into, inspired by Vassia's 100wikidays. A bit shorter, but I don't think I could have gone much longer, honestly. There'll be another. All of them are WIR-appropriate. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 13:53, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
I found it, but cannot read it except for the few bits of French I can pick up from Latin. I think it says name of Pooja Dhingra's Swiss School was Cesar Ritz Colleges and also that she published a book. [www.culinaryartsswitzerland.com/media/swiss_education_group/document/0/cesar-ritz-alumni-international-recruitment-forum.pdf] Can you help? SusunW ( talk) 16:17, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Could you let me know if you find anything likely while working on articles? I have a list, but I always welcome more suggestions.
Besides the current topics, I suspect Polar Women will be hard for me to contribute to, since the collections that have pictures of them aren't likely to be any of my standard ones; any hints towards image sources you have for me on those I'd especially appreciate. Mind you, I thought Halls of Fame was one I'd not be able to get into at all; you've probably noticed I was very wrong there. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 15:47, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hello Ipigott, My name is Stephanie Barker and I am a student at the University of Colorado Boulder. I am currently enrolled in a Digital Anthropology class, which attempts to answer how the digital world affects culture and how culture affects the digital world. For my final project I am doing an ethnography on women Wikipedia users and as a member of the WikiProject Women page I was hoping I could ask you some questions about your experiences editing Wikipedia pages. 1. Have you ever been locked into an intense editing war? If yes, please explain the situation to me. 2. How did you become interested in editing Wikipedia pages and did you have any initial fears/hesitations when you started editing pages? 3. Have you ever been a victim of a mass deletion or other vandalism on Wikipedia? If yes, please explain the situation to me. 4. How would you describe your gender? 5. Is there anything else you would like to share with me about your experiences as a Wikipedia editor? I would like you to know that I am only sharing my research with my professor and the other students in my class. If you would like me to send you a copy of my final project, I would be more than happy to! Sincerely, Stelba90 ( talk) 01:10, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
Haven't been following WIR recently. Did you create a list for deleted articles afterwards? An increasingly amount of content seems to be deleted without properly checking to see if they're actually notable or not.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:08, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
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The first leg is Bristol. Names are to be added at the bottom of the Bristol page and articles listed. Please also make sure that you add entries you improve/start to the main list on the main page. There will be £10 to win each day for the most points accumulated and then the winner of the county crowned after three days. The overall winner will be decided from the points accumulated from each county round. If you're not interested in winning anything and want to contribute anything you want from the West Country this is fine too though. Best of luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:06, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
Ian, #wikiwomeninred twitter page gets a new banner every day. I could add it to project pages and it should also change to a different women (usually one born on that day) every. Refusal will not offend but I thought I Id make the offer. One niggle is that when I look at the project pages I cannot tell if Ive got the right one till I scroll down. Can I unreserved thank you on behalf of the project for the co-ordination you do. Roger
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I am completely confused how I create a Wikidata entry for 1917 Bath Riots and mark it as a women's event. Can you help? SusunW ( talk) 23:51, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
Bonsoir Ian. J'avoue ne pas avoir tout à fait compris le problème avec James (Blofeld) et ne pas trop savoir quoi faire en ce moment. Ce qui est certain est que cela fait plusieurs années (je pèse mes mots) qu'un wikipédien ne m'avait pas autant gonflé. Quand à Shola, il a décidé de l'ignorer. Et je ne peux guère lui reprocher à la vue de l'historique des conversations publiques et privées des deux dernières semaines. Bon enfin bref. Et quand je pense que je suis surtout sensée m'occuper de la partie francophone :)
La partie Côte d'Ivoire et Cameroun est faite en français. Voici la page d'accueil en français:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Wiki_Loves_Women. Les équipes de ces deux pays parlent franchement un anglais médiocre et les équipes anglophones du Ghana et du Nigéria ne parlent pas du tout français donc il est difficile d'avoir beaucoup d'interactions. C'est dommage.
Du côte français, on a un projet naissant inspiré de WiR, les Sans Pages.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs. L'approche est, je crois, beaucoup plus féministe que sur la version anglophone.
De mon côté, actuellement je m'occupe surtout de faire du nettoyage de catégories sur la thématique "Afrique/Femmes". Par exemple, j'ai remis d'aplomb et essayé de compléter la catégorie
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catégorie:Condition_féminine_par_pays cette semaine. C'est pas mal le bazar et disons qu'il y a beaucoup d'éléments manquants. Je ne suis pas très bonne rédactrice, mais j'aime bien que les choses soient bien rangées, bien ordonnées :)
Nous avons aussi quelques participants des 100wikidays, qui consacrent régulièrement des articles aux femmes africaines dans le cadre de WLW.
En fait, j'aimerais beaucoup qu'il y ait un "push" de traduction d'articles EN vers FR ou FR vers EN, ou tout autre language. Mais qui concentrerait l'effort vers la traduction d'articles de fond ou de bio de qualité (alors qu'en général, les traductions se font souvent sur de petits articles) et qui viserait à traduire un article donné dans le plus grand nombre de langue possible. Par exemple, (un peu pris au hasard...), regarde l'article
Malicounda Bambara. Ou
These Girls Are Missing. Ce ne sont pas de très bons articles, mais peut-être peuvent ils être améliorés ? Ensuite, par exemple pour le premier, il n'existe qu'un seul article dans une autre langue (français) mais nettement plus médiocre. Et il n'existe dans aucune autre langue.
Et si... on identifiait collectivement cet automne... disons 16 articles vraiment intéressants et relativement bien traités (mais n'existant pas dans d'autres langues, ou stubs). On les peaufine pendant quelques temps. Et puis... par exemple pour célébrer Wikipedia16 (mi janvier prochain), on lance un petit concours, proposant de traduire ces 16 articles dans le plus grand nombre de langues possibles. Concours symbolique dont les gagnants sont des articles ! Bon, à titre personnel, j'aimerais bien que ces 16 articles soient en rapport avec les femmes et l'Afrique. Mais l'idée est là. Si ça t'intéresse... n'hésite pas !
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If you are interested and have time, could you look over Ellen Johanne Broe to make sure I didn't make too many mistakes with the Danish? I am also quite puzzled that I cannot find a VIAF or ISNI number for her? She has a worldcat presence [1], is listed in Sudoc [2] and has a Library of Congress number [3] but authority control won't take any of that? I hate technical stuff that doesn't work. Hope all is well. SusunW ( talk) 22:13, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
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Thanks again for your efforts! Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 17:57, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
I have to say, I rather like the WiR invitations on white background. Plain, simple, and the photos stand out. Shall we stick with that for awhile or do you prefer alternating with colors? -- Rosiestep ( talk) 17:58, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi. I was wondering if you would be interested in contributing articles to Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic)? It needs contributors to increase diversity of content from different countries and bring about large scale improvements. The idea at some point will be to host a National Contest related to your country of interest. Thanks. -- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 13:15, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi Ian; per the non-free content criteria, you cannot use non-free images outside of the mainspace. I'm sure you already knew this and this one just slipped through the cracks, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. Josh Milburn ( talk) 15:33, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
I have made a draft for a Public art in Copenhagen template in this sandbox with inspiration from Template:Public art in London. I am, however, a little puzzled by the London templat's destinction between 'statues' and 'other works' since many of the entries under 'other works' to me does seem in fact to be statues. 'Statues' seems to be reserved for statues of historic people. So do you think the current structure of my draft works or do you have any proposals for improvements?
On women: With all your work on pioneering Women and women history in general, you are probably already aware of it but otherwise the Women's Exhibition of 1895 may interest you. Here is an article from Illustreret Tidende. There is an article on Danish wikiepdia here: . Ramblersen ( talk) 19:08, 24 September 2016 (UTC) @ User:Ipigott: Did you perhaps overlook this question due to the high activity on your talk page? Ramblersen ( talk) 15:51, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
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Your User:Ipigott/Architects page is currently showing archaeologists. (Excellent use of wikidata, btw; kudos.) -- Tagishsimon (talk) 20:45, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
All that talk of fish and French led me to this jewel. Can you please look it over and make sure that there are no blatant errors with the French translation. As you know, it is probably my very worst language to work with. I am quite puzzled as to why her name is given as de Bourgoing. Perhaps because she was nobility? Had not all the authority control docs and her French article been in that name, I would have done it under her married name, as she was clearly known more as the Marschallin Lyautey. I did redirects under both Fortoul and Lyautey, as there are sources under both of her married names, but I was loath to change the surname given the library and data reference links. SusunW ( talk) 21:02, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
I nominated her for DYK if you want to add anything Template:Did you know nominations/Inès de Bourgoing. Now that we are done with that one, what about the countess, Maria de Villegas de Saint-Pierre? I don't know if you have time, but she is really interesting. I also have an English Baroness (what is up with all this royalty for a poor titless American?) that I'm looking for someone to help with. If you're too busy, no worries. SusunW ( talk) 20:07, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
I noticed that the template for WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/24 was missing so I made one based on the WIR-N 2016 template. If I have stepped on anyone's toes, then please tell me and I will know better next time. Thanks. -- Big_iron ( talk) 12:59, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
I noticed you were able to pull the details for redlinks for women from China. There are none listed for Ireland. I have some on my to do pages but I was wondering if there were more for Ireland that you could pull out? It would make it so much easier for me if I could find some more redlinks. There is limited detail on the people I know are missing and it would give me more people to work on... If this isn't a simple task for you then leave it - I was just hoping you have a program written which would do this? ☕ Antiqueight haver 12:35, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
As seen here (added back in May), you should not be sending me messages from the Women in Red project. Please stop spamming me. ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 15:34, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
Nihonjoe, well you're warmly welcome at Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge. In fact sometime I might do a national contest/.editathon for Japan if yo're interested. My sister met her husband in Japan!♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:22, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, can you, Megalibrarygirl or Tagishsimon create a list of African women bios which are ranked Top, High and Mid importance by the African projects currently? I'm adding a triple GA score for anybody who gets one of them to Good Article status, so one woman bio promoted will be worth 3 normal articles. Don't want to pester Tagish again though if I can help it, sorry ;-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:12, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
I greatly appreciate it Tagishsimon and I promise you that'll be the last one! You've been enormously helpful to me!♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:51, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
I see Karen Blixen is on the list. Now a GA on her would well be worth it Susun and MLG.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:51, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
Feel free to add it to the WIR list.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:31, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
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Any idea roughly how many bios we'll need to reach 20% women bios accounting for the average monthly increase in articles on men?♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:43, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Just looked how many bios and current, I reckon around 50,000 articles, might be a bit more but roughly that I think.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:05, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Ipigott, "not" isn't a word in my vocabulary. Just tell me how many articles roughly we'd need to get 20%. According to the WIR page we have 1,407,950 bio articles. Even allowing 100,000 or 200,000 extra male bios it would be what, somewhere between 50-70,000 bios needed? Achievable. Believe me. Just try to get me the best estimate based on current expansion trends for male bios and I will start to devise something.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:07, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
You said "We're simply not going to make 20% " haha. I am something in mind, and yup, you're right in thinking that it's a challenge and a percentage bar :-) You'd need an average of 95 articles a day to pull it off in two years. But consider that the Africa Destubathon produced 500 articles in one week, so it wouldn't be much more than that... ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:09, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Divide 100,000 or even 70,000 by 195 (number of countries in the world). Reckon the figure is manageable/low? I could devise something which gets people producing lots of bios for every country all at the same time given the chance, even with 100,000 bios, only like what 512 articles on average needed per country to pull it off... Can be done, believe. Though some countries might not have that many bios for women, roughly something could be worked out to evenly create articles for women for every country in the world. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:45, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
At present WIR interest in challenges and contests is extremely low I think. It would be difficult to convince everybody at the project to contribute to a challenge. At present getting that many articles does seem impossible in maybe two years. To pull it off you'd have to do something big to mobilise hundreds of editors too who might not normally contribute heavily to women or be involved in WIR and start to turn the tide. I think though that once WIR members start to see the results, then that may be enough to convince people to contribute all articles to a big challenge on the quest for 20% women bios. I'm going to start drafting for this if I have time later in the week in my sandbox, as it will need a lot more thought and planning, and don't want to jump the gun. I'll just start to devise a mechanism which could be used to pull off what we'd need to get WIR to 20% and people can start to see that actually it is achievable in two years perhaps rather than eight or nine years or whatever you reckon otherwise..♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:17, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Sander.v.Ginkel I gave you a hard time over the British sports stubs, sorry haha. We welcome meatier stubs for UK and any of the other continent challenges. Asia and Latin America ones could use a boost with good creations. If you can make them a little meatier than Sheila Ramos, perhaps another paragraph that would be fine I think. Feel free to add them to the challenges.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:18, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
A bit of a generalization, there'll be a lot of women who couldn't care less about women bios on wikipedia and writing articles on women. And there's alrady a lot of male editors writing articles about women and think nothing of it, we're all humans/people! :-) I know that when I've written articles about women I think of them in exactly the same way as I would a male bio, they're biographies, the same category. I don't think too much about gender as I write an article, except where I've been doing it specifically for WIR or is about a feminist or women's rights activist. But when you really look into it there's an enormous bias in terms of percentage of biographies, and it's not good enough in 2016. So we need to max out production and aim at getting that percentage up to beyond 20 and improving existing articles at the same time which you can only really do through a well funded contest/a perma contest within a shorter time frame. The prize system would get us the editors, male or female, doesn't matter really in terms of quality, but we could certainly do with far more women editors because of a broader focus. Where we could attract more editors is offering people books they want so there is an incentive there to write. Time permitting I'll start drawing up what I have in mind by Friday.♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:46, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
I've got an idea but I won't draw anything up yet, all in good time.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:06, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
Greetings - I have an article nominated for deletion. I will admit what I was able to find about the person was thin but she seemed to be the second woman to become a snooker referee which seemed notable to me. But personal articles about her are few and far between. So it's up for deletion. I'm not sure if there is a place I can note it so people can take a look and potentially improve it for saving or tell me that yes - it's too thin to keep and I should not argue it.. Patricia Murphy (referee) .. I thought perhaps you or a talk page watcher could comment? ☕ Antiqueight haver 20:25, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
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I am not sure wether you may have missed my 'ping' (you probably get a lot of those) so just in case: The list of streets named after women you requested a few days ago on some women in red-page can be found at User:Ramblersen/Sandbox4. I am not sure what the plans for the list are, so just tell me if it needs to ne edited in any specific way (put in a form with further information or so) or yplaod it yourself with the needed changes. Ramblersen ( talk) 18:02, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
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If you're working on Asian women Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge still welcomes you!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:36, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
Yes, creeping more towards 17% now!♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:09, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
Yeah, if I'd known earlier I could have staged something to benefit Asia at the same time! The Asia Challenge Rosie though isn't a Destubathon it's an ongoing editathon/challenge, so that is designed to encourage more output for Asia Month and beyond!! Ipigott, do you know what they call Germany, Austria and Switzerland together? There must be a name for that like Benelux for some of the others. I think a sub challenge to cover those three would work best.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:03, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Ipigott - I recently volunteered to participate in the Wikipedia Asian Month and I am focussing on Indian Women in Red. The list made on the event page Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_nationality/India is managed by a bot and I cannot see if the red links are turning to blue links. As a volunteer, I need to see the progress made when I see the page turned to blue links instead of staying red. Is this something you can help? Thanks in advance and thank you for creating the event page. -- Parul Thakur ( talk) 09:27, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Ian, I see that WMUK have created a page for BBC as we have too. I'm aware that we had that silly mix up with WikimediaNG that didnt help anyone. If you are OK then I intend to create a merged page and then put in a REDIRECT to make it appear to be in two places. I have been talking to WMUK but I think this comes under the "Bold" banner. Are you OK with this? Does it matter where it is for your stuff to work etc? Oh and while I'm here. Have another virtual barnstar for not only doing lots of useful stuff but giving advice (see above) and knocking out new articles. Say, I couldnt tempt you to a BBC editathon in London? I'd buy the beer! Cheers Victuallers ( talk) 13:15, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
@ Ipigott and Rosiestep: Hi Rosie, yes they want me to lead, but WMUK have been quiet. I'm hoping to talk to them tomorrow. They seem to think that they need to speak to you, which sends poor messages. Ian, ....'m not saying we could have avoided all of this but I volunteered to go and talk to them 3 weeks ago and it was thought unnecessary. WiR could have made a better contribution - good to see that good stuff is happening anyway. R
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Some questions.....1- I think the talk page tag is labeled wrongly -says writers not BBC 100 but I'm not at all certain. 2- can a page have more than 1 tag? June Eric-Udorie was written because she was on the BBC 100 but tagged with the writers editathon because she is a writer and that was the editathon that was ongoing. ☕ Antiqueight haver 00:27, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
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Thankyou! Yes, 2041 articles and 676 women bios is certainly noteworthy!♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:34, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi, can you and page stalkers add entries done like Rasha Sharbaji to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge as well, which is supporting Asian Month?♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:43, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
The Challenges are permanent now. And when we reach 10,000 we'll up it ;-). Contests are only intended to fuel the challenges and make reaching targets easier!♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:26, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
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Re December 8th. If you want to attend or you know of other volunteers who are shut out then do say. WiR is well aware of your work and the contributions you make. I have raised your justified concerns and I know that WMUK are trying to address them. You can always just change the page! although I know that is not the point. Thx again Victuallers ( talk) 09:40, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
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Yes, made a decent start on this! Can you give me a list of the different main fields of occupation we're dealing with with women? Is there a way we could narrow it down to 10 primary fields of occupation for women or is that not enough? I was thinking something like $5000 divided by 10 to cover the occupation aspect.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:22, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
So far I think
How about the above? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:59, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
Manufacturing I don't think is as viable as one for Leadership and business, how about the above now?♦
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I'm convinced feminism (meaning women's rights, fighting for status, pioneering women's activities) deserves a slot of its own. I don't really think food and drink is so important; it falls within the other activities. You might consider a slot for other occupations: military, aviation, exploring, etc. The one we haven't mentioned and in which there is superlative interest is sports. So how about:
You might be able to find better headings but I think these represent the ten main slots. There will be grey areas between art and entertainment and between science and education. But all this could be explained. I think you're on the right track. We could also use these headings for editathons or whatever. What's missing is geographical/religious origins and ethnicity. Nothing for the Jews, eskimos, or aboriginees -- but these could no doubt be accommodated under the other headings?-- Ipigott ( talk) 18:56, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
Yes, those are good, we can include Food and Drink in Art I think.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:43, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
No rush, but feel free sometime this week to further outline sub fields which would be included under each here.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:48, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
Food and Drink could also be an aspect of leadership. Maybe there should be an 11th category: "Other", to cater for anything unexpected. Many of the women in the BBC 100 Women would fall into this slot. Also many women who become famous because of news coverage on murders, rape and other crimes, spying, accidents, or because of their notability in travel, gardening, demonstrations, etc. There could be a way of combining participation in Other with that in the 10 main slots. I'll also try to participate in the discussions on the other pages addressing contests on Women.-- Ipigott ( talk) 08:37, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
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Merry Christmas from me! Thanks for your company during 2016. We have seen the percentage of articles on women rise from 15% to 16.77%. 20% is within our grasp and that's an increase of a third over what we first found. Victuallers ( talk) 13:55, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
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My Christmas gift to you--Blixen. I have now finally reviewed the entirety of what was there, sourced what I could, removed what could not be sourced and added information where I could. I would remove that whole "Quotes" section, were it up to me, but maybe you would like to use one or two of them in a quotebox? I also did not rework the "Works" section, as I thought you said you wanted to do that. The entire lede/lead needs to be rewritten, but I always find that easiest to do after the body is written. Would that we had some more/better photographs. *sigh* At least now, we have totally sourced bones which you can build upon. Please let me know if I can help in any way to move it along to GA. SusunW ( talk) 04:56, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
Merry Christmas all! The lede needs work before GA but the expansion work looks very good!♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:47, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
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On the WomeninRed project there are lots of things that seem to magically happen. I wonder if you know who is seeing to all these things? Could you pass this on to him or her? In the interim this is for you. Thanks Ian (I see the photography project has gone well as well). I made this picture sometime ago but it seems apt that all those barnstars should come from a Star Barn. Best. Victuallers ( talk) 12:55, 2 June 2016 (UTC) |
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Hi don't know if you have a list somewhere to add these to, perhaps a Women in Wine in the USA section of Business or something.
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Hi. I just noticed that you had tagged this article as having been "submitted as part of the Women in Music virtual edit-a-thon hosted by WikiProject Women in Red, 10-31 January 2016." Was this a mistake? If I am not wrong this seems to have been created independently of the event by a COI editor. -- Lemongirl942 ( talk) 10:47, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
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So, here it is, three fascinating topics to choose from, and what image do I restore? Emmeline Pankhurst. I'm not always good at sticking to a topic. Still counting it as a WIR FP if it passes, though. =P Adam Cuerden ( talk) 01:25, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
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Charlotte Hanmann, "mostly capturing the urban environment with processed photographs", can you please tell me were "urban environment" appears in Danish, where "processed photographs", and how that "mostly" is sourced. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:24, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
Update: fixed for DYK by Montanabw, - just teach me a bit Danish if you have the time, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:13, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
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On 27 June 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Charlotte Hanmann, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that while Inger Hanmann created enamels for the Copenhagen Airport, her daughter Charlotte made processed photographs of the urban environment? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Charlotte Hanmann), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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You didn't start the page in your sub directory, but in article space. I've moved it to Draft:Swiss women red links. Bgwhite ( talk) 05:41, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
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Please read User_talk:Tim_riley#Sibelius. You can reply here or in my discussion (let's not bother Tim again ;) ). Triplecaña ( talk) 14:10, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
Little project I got into, inspired by Vassia's 100wikidays. A bit shorter, but I don't think I could have gone much longer, honestly. There'll be another. All of them are WIR-appropriate. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 13:53, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
I found it, but cannot read it except for the few bits of French I can pick up from Latin. I think it says name of Pooja Dhingra's Swiss School was Cesar Ritz Colleges and also that she published a book. [www.culinaryartsswitzerland.com/media/swiss_education_group/document/0/cesar-ritz-alumni-international-recruitment-forum.pdf] Can you help? SusunW ( talk) 16:17, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Could you let me know if you find anything likely while working on articles? I have a list, but I always welcome more suggestions.
Besides the current topics, I suspect Polar Women will be hard for me to contribute to, since the collections that have pictures of them aren't likely to be any of my standard ones; any hints towards image sources you have for me on those I'd especially appreciate. Mind you, I thought Halls of Fame was one I'd not be able to get into at all; you've probably noticed I was very wrong there. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 15:47, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hello Ipigott, My name is Stephanie Barker and I am a student at the University of Colorado Boulder. I am currently enrolled in a Digital Anthropology class, which attempts to answer how the digital world affects culture and how culture affects the digital world. For my final project I am doing an ethnography on women Wikipedia users and as a member of the WikiProject Women page I was hoping I could ask you some questions about your experiences editing Wikipedia pages. 1. Have you ever been locked into an intense editing war? If yes, please explain the situation to me. 2. How did you become interested in editing Wikipedia pages and did you have any initial fears/hesitations when you started editing pages? 3. Have you ever been a victim of a mass deletion or other vandalism on Wikipedia? If yes, please explain the situation to me. 4. How would you describe your gender? 5. Is there anything else you would like to share with me about your experiences as a Wikipedia editor? I would like you to know that I am only sharing my research with my professor and the other students in my class. If you would like me to send you a copy of my final project, I would be more than happy to! Sincerely, Stelba90 ( talk) 01:10, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
Haven't been following WIR recently. Did you create a list for deleted articles afterwards? An increasingly amount of content seems to be deleted without properly checking to see if they're actually notable or not.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:08, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
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Ian, #wikiwomeninred twitter page gets a new banner every day. I could add it to project pages and it should also change to a different women (usually one born on that day) every. Refusal will not offend but I thought I Id make the offer. One niggle is that when I look at the project pages I cannot tell if Ive got the right one till I scroll down. Can I unreserved thank you on behalf of the project for the co-ordination you do. Roger
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I am completely confused how I create a Wikidata entry for 1917 Bath Riots and mark it as a women's event. Can you help? SusunW ( talk) 23:51, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
Bonsoir Ian. J'avoue ne pas avoir tout à fait compris le problème avec James (Blofeld) et ne pas trop savoir quoi faire en ce moment. Ce qui est certain est que cela fait plusieurs années (je pèse mes mots) qu'un wikipédien ne m'avait pas autant gonflé. Quand à Shola, il a décidé de l'ignorer. Et je ne peux guère lui reprocher à la vue de l'historique des conversations publiques et privées des deux dernières semaines. Bon enfin bref. Et quand je pense que je suis surtout sensée m'occuper de la partie francophone :)
La partie Côte d'Ivoire et Cameroun est faite en français. Voici la page d'accueil en français:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Wiki_Loves_Women. Les équipes de ces deux pays parlent franchement un anglais médiocre et les équipes anglophones du Ghana et du Nigéria ne parlent pas du tout français donc il est difficile d'avoir beaucoup d'interactions. C'est dommage.
Du côte français, on a un projet naissant inspiré de WiR, les Sans Pages.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs. L'approche est, je crois, beaucoup plus féministe que sur la version anglophone.
De mon côté, actuellement je m'occupe surtout de faire du nettoyage de catégories sur la thématique "Afrique/Femmes". Par exemple, j'ai remis d'aplomb et essayé de compléter la catégorie
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catégorie:Condition_féminine_par_pays cette semaine. C'est pas mal le bazar et disons qu'il y a beaucoup d'éléments manquants. Je ne suis pas très bonne rédactrice, mais j'aime bien que les choses soient bien rangées, bien ordonnées :)
Nous avons aussi quelques participants des 100wikidays, qui consacrent régulièrement des articles aux femmes africaines dans le cadre de WLW.
En fait, j'aimerais beaucoup qu'il y ait un "push" de traduction d'articles EN vers FR ou FR vers EN, ou tout autre language. Mais qui concentrerait l'effort vers la traduction d'articles de fond ou de bio de qualité (alors qu'en général, les traductions se font souvent sur de petits articles) et qui viserait à traduire un article donné dans le plus grand nombre de langue possible. Par exemple, (un peu pris au hasard...), regarde l'article
Malicounda Bambara. Ou
These Girls Are Missing. Ce ne sont pas de très bons articles, mais peut-être peuvent ils être améliorés ? Ensuite, par exemple pour le premier, il n'existe qu'un seul article dans une autre langue (français) mais nettement plus médiocre. Et il n'existe dans aucune autre langue.
Et si... on identifiait collectivement cet automne... disons 16 articles vraiment intéressants et relativement bien traités (mais n'existant pas dans d'autres langues, ou stubs). On les peaufine pendant quelques temps. Et puis... par exemple pour célébrer Wikipedia16 (mi janvier prochain), on lance un petit concours, proposant de traduire ces 16 articles dans le plus grand nombre de langues possibles. Concours symbolique dont les gagnants sont des articles ! Bon, à titre personnel, j'aimerais bien que ces 16 articles soient en rapport avec les femmes et l'Afrique. Mais l'idée est là. Si ça t'intéresse... n'hésite pas !
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If you are interested and have time, could you look over Ellen Johanne Broe to make sure I didn't make too many mistakes with the Danish? I am also quite puzzled that I cannot find a VIAF or ISNI number for her? She has a worldcat presence [1], is listed in Sudoc [2] and has a Library of Congress number [3] but authority control won't take any of that? I hate technical stuff that doesn't work. Hope all is well. SusunW ( talk) 22:13, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Ian; per the non-free content criteria, you cannot use non-free images outside of the mainspace. I'm sure you already knew this and this one just slipped through the cracks, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. Josh Milburn ( talk) 15:33, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
I have made a draft for a Public art in Copenhagen template in this sandbox with inspiration from Template:Public art in London. I am, however, a little puzzled by the London templat's destinction between 'statues' and 'other works' since many of the entries under 'other works' to me does seem in fact to be statues. 'Statues' seems to be reserved for statues of historic people. So do you think the current structure of my draft works or do you have any proposals for improvements?
On women: With all your work on pioneering Women and women history in general, you are probably already aware of it but otherwise the Women's Exhibition of 1895 may interest you. Here is an article from Illustreret Tidende. There is an article on Danish wikiepdia here: . Ramblersen ( talk) 19:08, 24 September 2016 (UTC) @ User:Ipigott: Did you perhaps overlook this question due to the high activity on your talk page? Ramblersen ( talk) 15:51, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
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Your User:Ipigott/Architects page is currently showing archaeologists. (Excellent use of wikidata, btw; kudos.) -- Tagishsimon (talk) 20:45, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
All that talk of fish and French led me to this jewel. Can you please look it over and make sure that there are no blatant errors with the French translation. As you know, it is probably my very worst language to work with. I am quite puzzled as to why her name is given as de Bourgoing. Perhaps because she was nobility? Had not all the authority control docs and her French article been in that name, I would have done it under her married name, as she was clearly known more as the Marschallin Lyautey. I did redirects under both Fortoul and Lyautey, as there are sources under both of her married names, but I was loath to change the surname given the library and data reference links. SusunW ( talk) 21:02, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
I nominated her for DYK if you want to add anything Template:Did you know nominations/Inès de Bourgoing. Now that we are done with that one, what about the countess, Maria de Villegas de Saint-Pierre? I don't know if you have time, but she is really interesting. I also have an English Baroness (what is up with all this royalty for a poor titless American?) that I'm looking for someone to help with. If you're too busy, no worries. SusunW ( talk) 20:07, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
I noticed that the template for WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/24 was missing so I made one based on the WIR-N 2016 template. If I have stepped on anyone's toes, then please tell me and I will know better next time. Thanks. -- Big_iron ( talk) 12:59, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
I noticed you were able to pull the details for redlinks for women from China. There are none listed for Ireland. I have some on my to do pages but I was wondering if there were more for Ireland that you could pull out? It would make it so much easier for me if I could find some more redlinks. There is limited detail on the people I know are missing and it would give me more people to work on... If this isn't a simple task for you then leave it - I was just hoping you have a program written which would do this? ☕ Antiqueight haver 12:35, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
As seen here (added back in May), you should not be sending me messages from the Women in Red project. Please stop spamming me. ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 15:34, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
Nihonjoe, well you're warmly welcome at Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge. In fact sometime I might do a national contest/.editathon for Japan if yo're interested. My sister met her husband in Japan!♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:22, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, can you, Megalibrarygirl or Tagishsimon create a list of African women bios which are ranked Top, High and Mid importance by the African projects currently? I'm adding a triple GA score for anybody who gets one of them to Good Article status, so one woman bio promoted will be worth 3 normal articles. Don't want to pester Tagish again though if I can help it, sorry ;-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:12, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
I greatly appreciate it Tagishsimon and I promise you that'll be the last one! You've been enormously helpful to me!♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:51, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
I see Karen Blixen is on the list. Now a GA on her would well be worth it Susun and MLG.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:51, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
Feel free to add it to the WIR list.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:31, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
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Any idea roughly how many bios we'll need to reach 20% women bios accounting for the average monthly increase in articles on men?♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:43, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Just looked how many bios and current, I reckon around 50,000 articles, might be a bit more but roughly that I think.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:05, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Ipigott, "not" isn't a word in my vocabulary. Just tell me how many articles roughly we'd need to get 20%. According to the WIR page we have 1,407,950 bio articles. Even allowing 100,000 or 200,000 extra male bios it would be what, somewhere between 50-70,000 bios needed? Achievable. Believe me. Just try to get me the best estimate based on current expansion trends for male bios and I will start to devise something.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:07, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
You said "We're simply not going to make 20% " haha. I am something in mind, and yup, you're right in thinking that it's a challenge and a percentage bar :-) You'd need an average of 95 articles a day to pull it off in two years. But consider that the Africa Destubathon produced 500 articles in one week, so it wouldn't be much more than that... ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:09, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Divide 100,000 or even 70,000 by 195 (number of countries in the world). Reckon the figure is manageable/low? I could devise something which gets people producing lots of bios for every country all at the same time given the chance, even with 100,000 bios, only like what 512 articles on average needed per country to pull it off... Can be done, believe. Though some countries might not have that many bios for women, roughly something could be worked out to evenly create articles for women for every country in the world. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:45, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
At present WIR interest in challenges and contests is extremely low I think. It would be difficult to convince everybody at the project to contribute to a challenge. At present getting that many articles does seem impossible in maybe two years. To pull it off you'd have to do something big to mobilise hundreds of editors too who might not normally contribute heavily to women or be involved in WIR and start to turn the tide. I think though that once WIR members start to see the results, then that may be enough to convince people to contribute all articles to a big challenge on the quest for 20% women bios. I'm going to start drafting for this if I have time later in the week in my sandbox, as it will need a lot more thought and planning, and don't want to jump the gun. I'll just start to devise a mechanism which could be used to pull off what we'd need to get WIR to 20% and people can start to see that actually it is achievable in two years perhaps rather than eight or nine years or whatever you reckon otherwise..♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:17, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Sander.v.Ginkel I gave you a hard time over the British sports stubs, sorry haha. We welcome meatier stubs for UK and any of the other continent challenges. Asia and Latin America ones could use a boost with good creations. If you can make them a little meatier than Sheila Ramos, perhaps another paragraph that would be fine I think. Feel free to add them to the challenges.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:18, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
A bit of a generalization, there'll be a lot of women who couldn't care less about women bios on wikipedia and writing articles on women. And there's alrady a lot of male editors writing articles about women and think nothing of it, we're all humans/people! :-) I know that when I've written articles about women I think of them in exactly the same way as I would a male bio, they're biographies, the same category. I don't think too much about gender as I write an article, except where I've been doing it specifically for WIR or is about a feminist or women's rights activist. But when you really look into it there's an enormous bias in terms of percentage of biographies, and it's not good enough in 2016. So we need to max out production and aim at getting that percentage up to beyond 20 and improving existing articles at the same time which you can only really do through a well funded contest/a perma contest within a shorter time frame. The prize system would get us the editors, male or female, doesn't matter really in terms of quality, but we could certainly do with far more women editors because of a broader focus. Where we could attract more editors is offering people books they want so there is an incentive there to write. Time permitting I'll start drawing up what I have in mind by Friday.♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:46, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
I've got an idea but I won't draw anything up yet, all in good time.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:06, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
Greetings - I have an article nominated for deletion. I will admit what I was able to find about the person was thin but she seemed to be the second woman to become a snooker referee which seemed notable to me. But personal articles about her are few and far between. So it's up for deletion. I'm not sure if there is a place I can note it so people can take a look and potentially improve it for saving or tell me that yes - it's too thin to keep and I should not argue it.. Patricia Murphy (referee) .. I thought perhaps you or a talk page watcher could comment? ☕ Antiqueight haver 20:25, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
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I am not sure wether you may have missed my 'ping' (you probably get a lot of those) so just in case: The list of streets named after women you requested a few days ago on some women in red-page can be found at User:Ramblersen/Sandbox4. I am not sure what the plans for the list are, so just tell me if it needs to ne edited in any specific way (put in a form with further information or so) or yplaod it yourself with the needed changes. Ramblersen ( talk) 18:02, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
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If you're working on Asian women Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge still welcomes you!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:36, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
Yes, creeping more towards 17% now!♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:09, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
Yeah, if I'd known earlier I could have staged something to benefit Asia at the same time! The Asia Challenge Rosie though isn't a Destubathon it's an ongoing editathon/challenge, so that is designed to encourage more output for Asia Month and beyond!! Ipigott, do you know what they call Germany, Austria and Switzerland together? There must be a name for that like Benelux for some of the others. I think a sub challenge to cover those three would work best.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:03, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
On 9 November 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Inès de Bourgoing, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that nurse Inès de Bourgoing (pictured) was named Honorary Corporal of the Foreign Legion after she established a convalescent hospital in Morocco and a retirement center in France for French soldiers? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Inès de Bourgoing. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Inès de Bourgoing), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Hi Ipigott - I recently volunteered to participate in the Wikipedia Asian Month and I am focussing on Indian Women in Red. The list made on the event page Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_nationality/India is managed by a bot and I cannot see if the red links are turning to blue links. As a volunteer, I need to see the progress made when I see the page turned to blue links instead of staying red. Is this something you can help? Thanks in advance and thank you for creating the event page. -- Parul Thakur ( talk) 09:27, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Ian, I see that WMUK have created a page for BBC as we have too. I'm aware that we had that silly mix up with WikimediaNG that didnt help anyone. If you are OK then I intend to create a merged page and then put in a REDIRECT to make it appear to be in two places. I have been talking to WMUK but I think this comes under the "Bold" banner. Are you OK with this? Does it matter where it is for your stuff to work etc? Oh and while I'm here. Have another virtual barnstar for not only doing lots of useful stuff but giving advice (see above) and knocking out new articles. Say, I couldnt tempt you to a BBC editathon in London? I'd buy the beer! Cheers Victuallers ( talk) 13:15, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
@ Ipigott and Rosiestep: Hi Rosie, yes they want me to lead, but WMUK have been quiet. I'm hoping to talk to them tomorrow. They seem to think that they need to speak to you, which sends poor messages. Ian, ....'m not saying we could have avoided all of this but I volunteered to go and talk to them 3 weeks ago and it was thought unnecessary. WiR could have made a better contribution - good to see that good stuff is happening anyway. R
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Some questions.....1- I think the talk page tag is labeled wrongly -says writers not BBC 100 but I'm not at all certain. 2- can a page have more than 1 tag? June Eric-Udorie was written because she was on the BBC 100 but tagged with the writers editathon because she is a writer and that was the editathon that was ongoing. ☕ Antiqueight haver 00:27, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
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The real winner is of course Dr. Blofeld for succeeding in reaching and even exceeding the target with a final count of over 102%. Congratulations! A great achievement.-- Ipigott ( talk) 11:01, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
Thankyou! Yes, 2041 articles and 676 women bios is certainly noteworthy!♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:34, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi, can you and page stalkers add entries done like Rasha Sharbaji to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge as well, which is supporting Asian Month?♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:43, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
The Challenges are permanent now. And when we reach 10,000 we'll up it ;-). Contests are only intended to fuel the challenges and make reaching targets easier!♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:26, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
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Yes, made a decent start on this! Can you give me a list of the different main fields of occupation we're dealing with with women? Is there a way we could narrow it down to 10 primary fields of occupation for women or is that not enough? I was thinking something like $5000 divided by 10 to cover the occupation aspect.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:22, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
So far I think
How about the above? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:59, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
Manufacturing I don't think is as viable as one for Leadership and business, how about the above now?♦
Dr. Blofeld 18:23, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
I'm convinced feminism (meaning women's rights, fighting for status, pioneering women's activities) deserves a slot of its own. I don't really think food and drink is so important; it falls within the other activities. You might consider a slot for other occupations: military, aviation, exploring, etc. The one we haven't mentioned and in which there is superlative interest is sports. So how about:
You might be able to find better headings but I think these represent the ten main slots. There will be grey areas between art and entertainment and between science and education. But all this could be explained. I think you're on the right track. We could also use these headings for editathons or whatever. What's missing is geographical/religious origins and ethnicity. Nothing for the Jews, eskimos, or aboriginees -- but these could no doubt be accommodated under the other headings?-- Ipigott ( talk) 18:56, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
Yes, those are good, we can include Food and Drink in Art I think.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:43, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
No rush, but feel free sometime this week to further outline sub fields which would be included under each here.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:48, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
Food and Drink could also be an aspect of leadership. Maybe there should be an 11th category: "Other", to cater for anything unexpected. Many of the women in the BBC 100 Women would fall into this slot. Also many women who become famous because of news coverage on murders, rape and other crimes, spying, accidents, or because of their notability in travel, gardening, demonstrations, etc. There could be a way of combining participation in Other with that in the 10 main slots. I'll also try to participate in the discussions on the other pages addressing contests on Women.-- Ipigott ( talk) 08:37, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
Dear Ipigott, this is in reply to your message on my talk page. There isn't much explanation there; what gives? MezzoMezzo ( talk) 03:15, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
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Merry Christmas from me! Thanks for your company during 2016. We have seen the percentage of articles on women rise from 15% to 16.77%. 20% is within our grasp and that's an increase of a third over what we first found. Victuallers ( talk) 13:55, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
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My Christmas gift to you--Blixen. I have now finally reviewed the entirety of what was there, sourced what I could, removed what could not be sourced and added information where I could. I would remove that whole "Quotes" section, were it up to me, but maybe you would like to use one or two of them in a quotebox? I also did not rework the "Works" section, as I thought you said you wanted to do that. The entire lede/lead needs to be rewritten, but I always find that easiest to do after the body is written. Would that we had some more/better photographs. *sigh* At least now, we have totally sourced bones which you can build upon. Please let me know if I can help in any way to move it along to GA. SusunW ( talk) 04:56, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
Merry Christmas all! The lede needs work before GA but the expansion work looks very good!♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:47, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
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