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Welcome! This is where Women in Red plans future events and discusses ideas for more general improvements. Everyone is welcome to make suggestions or work on tasks. What we decide to do is based on consensus. No one is in charge. You don't have to be a member to participate. Like elsewhere on Wikipedia: be polite, be bold. Join the discussion here or on our project talkpage.
#1day1woman 2024 ** Event #293: #1day1woman #1day1woman Education - Year long initiative ** Event #294: Education Year long initiative Education Year long initiative
NEW - Pride - 272 as go by for text and lists * Pride ** Event #308: LGBTQ+ women | Wiki Loves Pride
NEW - Women in Music- 273 as go by for text and lists * Women in Music ** Event #309: Women in Music
NEW - Alphabet run X, Y & Z - 271 as go by for text and lists * Alphabet run X, Y & Z ** Event #310: Alphabet run X, Y & Z
ANNOUNCEMENTS (EVENTS FACILITATED BY OTHERS) * Women in Green Good Article Edit-a-thon June 2024 - Going Back in Time
INVITATION: * Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2024#June 2024 - ** logo COMING UP: * Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Events
TIP OF THE MONTH: * Find a Grave is NOT a reliable source ( as it is user-generated content). It can be used to look for biographical clues.
Oronsay, Ipigott, Rosiestep, Lajmmoore, CT55555, Victuallers, Cielquiparle, SusunW, Chocmilk03, Penny Richards, Silver seren, PamD, Curbon7, MSGJ, and all WIR helpers: Here's a rough draft of the to-do list. I plan on filling out more text in the skeleton pages in the upcoming days, but anyone wanting to help is warmly welcomed. Comments on Geofocus Islands appreciated. Which logo would you like on the invite? Pride or Music? I grabbed the "tip of the month" off the list. Not married to it. -- WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 00:44, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
Oronsay, Ipigott, Rosiestep, Lajmmoore, CT55555, Victuallers, Cielquiparle, SusunW, Chocmilk03, Penny Richards, Silver seren, PamD, Curbon7, MSGJ, and all WIR helpers: It sure looks like this is coming together. The page we have not expanded is the island geofocus. That event has two issues: it brings our # of events for June to four, and also I can't tell from the comments if there is group enthusiasm for this. Push it back or change to focus? geofocus is not my thing, but it is a big motivator for others. My own opinion is that we keep the number of new events to three and I think both music and pride will be good draws, So I'd like to move it down the ideas list, to august or September, for when we need something. -- WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 18:00, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
Oronsay, Ipigott, Rosiestep, Lajmmoore, CT55555, Victuallers, Cielquiparle, SusunW, Chocmilk03, Penny Richards, Silver seren, PamD, Curbon7, MSGJ, and all WIR helpers: I was bold and moved the island geofocus topic and conversation down to September. Anyone up for proof-reading the June items? -- WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 18:26, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
The logos look great, WomenArtistUpdates.-- Oronsay ( talk) 21:19, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
Month | Letters |
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July | A & B |
August | C & D |
September | E & F |
October | G & H |
November | I & J |
December | K & L |
January | M & N |
February | O & P |
March | Q & R |
April | S & T |
May | U, V, W |
June | X, Y & Z |
Proposing Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Science Fiction and Fantasy again. Looking at July because there is a major convention to take place in Glasgow in August so it would be a nice run it to that. ☕ Antiqueight chatter 11:03, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
See suggestion made here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red#translation contest 2024. Last time we did it: #227 in April-May-June 2022. What about scheduling it for June-July-August 2024? -- Rosiestep ( talk) 16:04, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
Islands A, B & C was suggested for May on the WIR Talk page, but held over due to our annual collaboration on CEE Women. If we go ahead with all the above events, it makes five, plus our two year-long ones. Is this too many?-- Oronsay ( talk) 20:17, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
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Oct | I-P |
Nov | Q-Z |
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Sept | A-H |
Oct | I-P |
Nov | Q-Z |
Month | Letters |
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Sept | A-H |
Oct | I-P |
Nov | Q-Z |
Month | Annual event considerations |
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Starting over as of Dec 2023 see Potential/Suggestions Archive. Bring back any ideas for reconsideration. -- WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 01:46, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
Common tasks for each event. This list is incomplete. Please add to it | |
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This section is purely administrative. It is not about the ongoing discussions of topics.
WiR generally has a variety of monthly, quarterly and annual events. WiR also sends out an “invitation” to its registered participants notifying them of those events. This is an effort to list tasks associated with the administrative tasks of updating and adding pages. We will be maintaining this list to assist with Quality Assurance. This is a working document and should be maintained to reflect current bast practices. WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 16:52, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
As of March 2024 we are working with a new set of cascading templates. Because the template speak to each other the preview of the template might not be as expected. For example 302 might look like 304. Additionally some pages won't preview correctly unless the editor purges the page to update the cache.
The interrelated templates allow us to make changes and pages once, without updating new and past events throughout the WiR ecosystem. This will ultimately reduce mistakes, bad directs, and misinformation. The coders involved are watching these pages to ensure they work correctly. March 2024 is the first iteration. If direction are not clear it is the drafter's fault - not the coders, so please be gentle.
This is a working document and should be maintained to reflect current bast practices. -- WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 21:43, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
Each month there will be new events and ongoing events
YEAR-LONG INITIATIVES #1day1woman 2024 ** Event #293: #1day1woman #1day1woman Education - Year long initiative ** Event #294: Education Year long initiative Education Year long initiative
NEW - Alphabet run Q & R * Alphabet run Q & R ** Event #299: Alphabet run Q & R
NEW - Women's History Month | Art+Feminism - 260 as go by * Art+Activism ** Event #300: Art+Feminism NEW - Find Her * Find Her ** Event #301: Find Her
ANNOUNCEMENTS (EVENTS FACILITATED BY OTHERS) * All content gender gap events, in every language Wikipedia, in March 2024 * Francophone Women★ Writers Fortnight 2024 * Feminism and Folklore 2024
INVITATION: * Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2024#March 2024 ** logo COMING UP: * Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Events TIP OF THE MONTH: * When creating a new article be sure to check various spellings, including birth name, married names and pseudonyms, to be sure an article doesn't already exist.
{{
WikiProject Women in Red}}
or its shortcut {{
WIR}}
.Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/n
where n is the number of the new event. You can use the {{
WIR meetup header}}
template to help you. {{
WIR meetup header}}
will populate the event header and right side infoboxes. * Then copy and sections from previous month to add boilerplate language. For example, start at Participants copy through the bottom of the page
(XYZ as an example). update month and event number in the pasted sections.{{ok}}
NEW * Art+Activism ** Event page: Art+Activism ** Talkpage template: Template:WIR-192 * VisibleWikiWomen ** Event page: VisibleWikiWomen ** Talkpage template: Template:WIR-193 CONTEST (Jan/Feb/Mar) * Africa ** Event page: Africa ** Talkpage template: Template:WIR-186 CONTINUING ** Women's rights ** Template:WIR-188 ** #1day1woman2021 ** Template:WIR-184 & Template:WIR-00-2021 INVITATION: * Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2021#March 2021
This section provides room for suggesting and discussing more general improvements to the project. There are no limitations here but topics could include membership, contests, collaboration, promotion and future expectations. Feel free to come forward with anything you think would make the project more effective.
Looking for feedback on the new version at Template:Women in Red navigation/sandbox — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 19:50, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
Not many of us are able to write a new article every day but most of us should be in a position to create one biography a week. How about making this a subsection of #1day1woman, starting in January 2024? Each participant could have a separate slot in which their new biographies could be listed. There would be no need for biographies to meet specific criteria such as minimum length but all new articles should meet normal standards of acceptance. We could provide virtual awards for those who manage to continue for three months (with at least 13 articles), six months (26 articles), nine months (39 articles) and for the whole of 2024 (52 articles). Participants should of course be able to create and list more than one new biography a week if they wish but everyone should try to create at least one per week. If contributors are able to keep this up, I believe it could have a significant effect on how we progress. There should be no need to participate from the beginning of January. Participants could join whenever they want and simply calculate periods of three months from the date of their first addition. Is this workable as it is or does anyone have other suggestions?-- Ipigott ( talk) 10:43, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
In a
recent discussion on my talkpage with
Ipigott regarding WiR events, I asked, ... I'm also curious if we aren't in touch with what events the world wants us to facilitate...
I suggested 3 quarterly campaigns for later this year: social influencers (Apr, May, June), sports (Jul, Aug, Sep), politics (Oct, Nov, Dec). There were also other salient points made in that section of my talkpage. Ian suggested that I shift the proposal regarding the 3 quarterly campaigns here. So, What do you think? --
Rosiestep (
talk) 19:46, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
As a general follow-up to a chat at my user talkpage with Ipigott about mentoring new contributors and ideas related to incentives to improve participation, I don't really have specifics to offer, but instead a few general perspectives to perhaps consider.
My perspective is based on how as an attorney, I became familiar with what is known as 'client-centered lawyering' (brief example overview: Client Centered Lawyering: An Avenue for Change, Aqdas Khudadad, October 12, 2022, University of Cincinnati Legal Clinic), and later in my M.Ed program, 'student-centered teaching' (there are a variety of monikers for this practice) (brief example overview: Student-Centered Learning: In Principle and in Practice (Christa Green and Christopher Harrington, July 20, 2020, Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute). Ipigott, not to put you on the spot too much, but you seem to take what could be considered an 'editor-centered mentoring' approach, and I think this is a solid foundation upon which further efforts could be developed.
There is substantial research literature available on these subjects that may be helpful to review and adapt for new editor support and retention purposes. I use the term "retention" intentionally because of its use in the education field as a metric, so this may be a helpful keyword.
On a more specific note, maybe it would be helpful for new editors to have access to reflections from editors with more experience, about what it was like to be a new editor, what they wish they knew/what was a surprise to learn, and strategies that helped for coping with challenges. For this Wikiproject, perhaps we could tailor reflections to also include a focus related to writing about women. Beccaynr ( talk) 19:24, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Welcome to Women in Red!
Home | Article alerts | Essays | Events | Ideas & planning | Images | Join | Metrics | Outreach | Redlist index | Research | Resources | Showcase | Social media | Tools & tech |
2015 •
2016 •
2017 •
2018 •
2019 •
2020 •
2021 •
2022 •
Jan-Apr 2023 •
May-Aug 2023 |
Recently completed: | |
May 2024: | |
Ongoing initiatives: | |
Upcoming events: |
Welcome! This is where Women in Red plans future events and discusses ideas for more general improvements. Everyone is welcome to make suggestions or work on tasks. What we decide to do is based on consensus. No one is in charge. You don't have to be a member to participate. Like elsewhere on Wikipedia: be polite, be bold. Join the discussion here or on our project talkpage.
#1day1woman 2024 ** Event #293: #1day1woman #1day1woman Education - Year long initiative ** Event #294: Education Year long initiative Education Year long initiative
NEW - Pride - 272 as go by for text and lists * Pride ** Event #308: LGBTQ+ women | Wiki Loves Pride
NEW - Women in Music- 273 as go by for text and lists * Women in Music ** Event #309: Women in Music
NEW - Alphabet run X, Y & Z - 271 as go by for text and lists * Alphabet run X, Y & Z ** Event #310: Alphabet run X, Y & Z
ANNOUNCEMENTS (EVENTS FACILITATED BY OTHERS) * Women in Green Good Article Edit-a-thon June 2024 - Going Back in Time
INVITATION: * Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2024#June 2024 - ** logo COMING UP: * Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Events
TIP OF THE MONTH: * Find a Grave is NOT a reliable source ( as it is user-generated content). It can be used to look for biographical clues.
Oronsay, Ipigott, Rosiestep, Lajmmoore, CT55555, Victuallers, Cielquiparle, SusunW, Chocmilk03, Penny Richards, Silver seren, PamD, Curbon7, MSGJ, and all WIR helpers: Here's a rough draft of the to-do list. I plan on filling out more text in the skeleton pages in the upcoming days, but anyone wanting to help is warmly welcomed. Comments on Geofocus Islands appreciated. Which logo would you like on the invite? Pride or Music? I grabbed the "tip of the month" off the list. Not married to it. -- WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 00:44, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
Oronsay, Ipigott, Rosiestep, Lajmmoore, CT55555, Victuallers, Cielquiparle, SusunW, Chocmilk03, Penny Richards, Silver seren, PamD, Curbon7, MSGJ, and all WIR helpers: It sure looks like this is coming together. The page we have not expanded is the island geofocus. That event has two issues: it brings our # of events for June to four, and also I can't tell from the comments if there is group enthusiasm for this. Push it back or change to focus? geofocus is not my thing, but it is a big motivator for others. My own opinion is that we keep the number of new events to three and I think both music and pride will be good draws, So I'd like to move it down the ideas list, to august or September, for when we need something. -- WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 18:00, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
Oronsay, Ipigott, Rosiestep, Lajmmoore, CT55555, Victuallers, Cielquiparle, SusunW, Chocmilk03, Penny Richards, Silver seren, PamD, Curbon7, MSGJ, and all WIR helpers: I was bold and moved the island geofocus topic and conversation down to September. Anyone up for proof-reading the June items? -- WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 18:26, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
The logos look great, WomenArtistUpdates.-- Oronsay ( talk) 21:19, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
Month | Letters |
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July | A & B |
August | C & D |
September | E & F |
October | G & H |
November | I & J |
December | K & L |
January | M & N |
February | O & P |
March | Q & R |
April | S & T |
May | U, V, W |
June | X, Y & Z |
Proposing Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Science Fiction and Fantasy again. Looking at July because there is a major convention to take place in Glasgow in August so it would be a nice run it to that. ☕ Antiqueight chatter 11:03, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
See suggestion made here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red#translation contest 2024. Last time we did it: #227 in April-May-June 2022. What about scheduling it for June-July-August 2024? -- Rosiestep ( talk) 16:04, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
Islands A, B & C was suggested for May on the WIR Talk page, but held over due to our annual collaboration on CEE Women. If we go ahead with all the above events, it makes five, plus our two year-long ones. Is this too many?-- Oronsay ( talk) 20:17, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
Month | Letters |
---|---|
Sept | A - H |
Oct | I-P |
Nov | Q-Z |
Month | Letters |
---|---|
Sept | A-H |
Oct | I-P |
Nov | Q-Z |
Month | Letters |
---|---|
Sept | A-H |
Oct | I-P |
Nov | Q-Z |
Month | Annual event considerations |
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January |
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February |
|
March |
|
April |
|
May |
|
June |
|
July |
|
August |
|
September |
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October |
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November |
|
December |
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Starting over as of Dec 2023 see Potential/Suggestions Archive. Bring back any ideas for reconsideration. -- WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 01:46, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
Common tasks for each event. This list is incomplete. Please add to it | |
---|---|
. |
|
This section is purely administrative. It is not about the ongoing discussions of topics.
WiR generally has a variety of monthly, quarterly and annual events. WiR also sends out an “invitation” to its registered participants notifying them of those events. This is an effort to list tasks associated with the administrative tasks of updating and adding pages. We will be maintaining this list to assist with Quality Assurance. This is a working document and should be maintained to reflect current bast practices. WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 16:52, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
As of March 2024 we are working with a new set of cascading templates. Because the template speak to each other the preview of the template might not be as expected. For example 302 might look like 304. Additionally some pages won't preview correctly unless the editor purges the page to update the cache.
The interrelated templates allow us to make changes and pages once, without updating new and past events throughout the WiR ecosystem. This will ultimately reduce mistakes, bad directs, and misinformation. The coders involved are watching these pages to ensure they work correctly. March 2024 is the first iteration. If direction are not clear it is the drafter's fault - not the coders, so please be gentle.
This is a working document and should be maintained to reflect current bast practices. -- WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 21:43, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
Each month there will be new events and ongoing events
YEAR-LONG INITIATIVES #1day1woman 2024 ** Event #293: #1day1woman #1day1woman Education - Year long initiative ** Event #294: Education Year long initiative Education Year long initiative
NEW - Alphabet run Q & R * Alphabet run Q & R ** Event #299: Alphabet run Q & R
NEW - Women's History Month | Art+Feminism - 260 as go by * Art+Activism ** Event #300: Art+Feminism NEW - Find Her * Find Her ** Event #301: Find Her
ANNOUNCEMENTS (EVENTS FACILITATED BY OTHERS) * All content gender gap events, in every language Wikipedia, in March 2024 * Francophone Women★ Writers Fortnight 2024 * Feminism and Folklore 2024
INVITATION: * Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2024#March 2024 ** logo COMING UP: * Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Events TIP OF THE MONTH: * When creating a new article be sure to check various spellings, including birth name, married names and pseudonyms, to be sure an article doesn't already exist.
{{
WikiProject Women in Red}}
or its shortcut {{
WIR}}
.Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/n
where n is the number of the new event. You can use the {{
WIR meetup header}}
template to help you. {{
WIR meetup header}}
will populate the event header and right side infoboxes. * Then copy and sections from previous month to add boilerplate language. For example, start at Participants copy through the bottom of the page
(XYZ as an example). update month and event number in the pasted sections.{{ok}}
NEW * Art+Activism ** Event page: Art+Activism ** Talkpage template: Template:WIR-192 * VisibleWikiWomen ** Event page: VisibleWikiWomen ** Talkpage template: Template:WIR-193 CONTEST (Jan/Feb/Mar) * Africa ** Event page: Africa ** Talkpage template: Template:WIR-186 CONTINUING ** Women's rights ** Template:WIR-188 ** #1day1woman2021 ** Template:WIR-184 & Template:WIR-00-2021 INVITATION: * Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2021#March 2021
This section provides room for suggesting and discussing more general improvements to the project. There are no limitations here but topics could include membership, contests, collaboration, promotion and future expectations. Feel free to come forward with anything you think would make the project more effective.
Looking for feedback on the new version at Template:Women in Red navigation/sandbox — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 19:50, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
Not many of us are able to write a new article every day but most of us should be in a position to create one biography a week. How about making this a subsection of #1day1woman, starting in January 2024? Each participant could have a separate slot in which their new biographies could be listed. There would be no need for biographies to meet specific criteria such as minimum length but all new articles should meet normal standards of acceptance. We could provide virtual awards for those who manage to continue for three months (with at least 13 articles), six months (26 articles), nine months (39 articles) and for the whole of 2024 (52 articles). Participants should of course be able to create and list more than one new biography a week if they wish but everyone should try to create at least one per week. If contributors are able to keep this up, I believe it could have a significant effect on how we progress. There should be no need to participate from the beginning of January. Participants could join whenever they want and simply calculate periods of three months from the date of their first addition. Is this workable as it is or does anyone have other suggestions?-- Ipigott ( talk) 10:43, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
In a
recent discussion on my talkpage with
Ipigott regarding WiR events, I asked, ... I'm also curious if we aren't in touch with what events the world wants us to facilitate...
I suggested 3 quarterly campaigns for later this year: social influencers (Apr, May, June), sports (Jul, Aug, Sep), politics (Oct, Nov, Dec). There were also other salient points made in that section of my talkpage. Ian suggested that I shift the proposal regarding the 3 quarterly campaigns here. So, What do you think? --
Rosiestep (
talk) 19:46, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
As a general follow-up to a chat at my user talkpage with Ipigott about mentoring new contributors and ideas related to incentives to improve participation, I don't really have specifics to offer, but instead a few general perspectives to perhaps consider.
My perspective is based on how as an attorney, I became familiar with what is known as 'client-centered lawyering' (brief example overview: Client Centered Lawyering: An Avenue for Change, Aqdas Khudadad, October 12, 2022, University of Cincinnati Legal Clinic), and later in my M.Ed program, 'student-centered teaching' (there are a variety of monikers for this practice) (brief example overview: Student-Centered Learning: In Principle and in Practice (Christa Green and Christopher Harrington, July 20, 2020, Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute). Ipigott, not to put you on the spot too much, but you seem to take what could be considered an 'editor-centered mentoring' approach, and I think this is a solid foundation upon which further efforts could be developed.
There is substantial research literature available on these subjects that may be helpful to review and adapt for new editor support and retention purposes. I use the term "retention" intentionally because of its use in the education field as a metric, so this may be a helpful keyword.
On a more specific note, maybe it would be helpful for new editors to have access to reflections from editors with more experience, about what it was like to be a new editor, what they wish they knew/what was a surprise to learn, and strategies that helped for coping with challenges. For this Wikiproject, perhaps we could tailor reflections to also include a focus related to writing about women. Beccaynr ( talk) 19:24, 19 February 2024 (UTC)