Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR), a
WikiProject whose objective is to turn "
redlinks" into
blue ones within the project scope. The project scope includes women -real and fictional- their biographies and their works, broadly construed. In November 2014, only just over 15% of the English Wikipedia's biographies were on women. Since then, we have managed to improve the situation slightly, bringing the figure up to 16.38%, as of 7 August 2016. But that means only 226,706 of our 1,383,736 biographies are about women. Not impressed? "
Content gender gap" is a form of
systemic bias, and WiR addresses it in a positive way. We do this by hosting edit-a-thons on various topics, and socializing the scope and objective via social media. We invite you to take part whenever and however you wish. There is no requirement to participate in everything we do, or to even sign up.
If the objective and scope of our project interest you, please join in the discussion on our talkpage or jump in and create articles. You might like to start by participating in the editathon on
Wikipedia and United Nations Women Project until August 12 or those on
Indigenous Women and
Polar Women for the whole of August, in addition to the ongoing
Women Scientists. We warmly welcome you.
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 19.87% 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!
The articles created for any month, including the current month, can be displayed by clicking on one of the months in the
archive box.
We track the articles we create each month.
Reports bot updates these lists automatically, but you can manually add and annotate entries. The bot will remove non-existent pages.
More details about the bot. Our metrics talkpage is here:
Metrics talkpage
The evolving list for this month (see Archives box) is created by the bot which lists new women's biographies on the basis of their female gender on Wikidata. At present, the bot does not list women's works, associations or related articles but you are encouraged to add these to the list manually. A
WiR Wikidata page provides information on how you can help ensure WiR metrics are up-to-date.
The graph shows the number of articles created each month. The apparent decrease for the current month reflects the number of articles created up to today's date. Only data on completed months indicate overall progress.
For personal metrics on how many articles you've created about women, see
this tool.
If you want to measure gender diversity in a given Wikipedia article, use
this tool.
As a result of figures presented by
Humaniki, we keep posting on the main Women in Red page the percentage of women's biographies on the English version of Wikipedia. Increases are steady but marginal: for example from July 2022 to July 2023, the percentage has risen from around 19.3% to around 19.6%.
Thanks to an analysis presented by
Andrew Gray on the
WIR talk page, it certainly looks as if the number of men and women involved in sports has a significant influence on the statistics for women. A detailed account of Gray's work is presented in
"Gender and BLPs on Wikipedia, redux", which he published on 2 August 2023.
The two lists below show that biographies of living people (BLPs) born in recent years are approximately 50% female if data on all categories of athletes are excluded. By contrast, the equivalent overall figures (including athletes) are only around 25%. As a result, biographies of very large numbers of male sportspeople seem to be responsible for the huge difference. Andrew Gray's detailed lists below document how figures for BLPs by year of birth have evolved over the years:
Overall development of BLPs since the 1920s for all biographies
Missing birth year BLPs - 150,574, of which 53,355 female - 35.4%
1920s birth BLPs - 5,096, of which 1,325 female - 26.0%
1930s birth BLPs - 39,055, of which 7,086 female - 18.1%
1940s birth BLPs - 95,602, of which 18,495 female - 19.3%
1950s birth BLPs - 128,518, of which 27,172 female - 21.1%
1960s birth BLPs - 145,300, of which 33,390 female - 23.0%
1970s birth BLPs - 150,539, of which 37,893 female - 25.2%
1980s birth BLPs - 171,072, of which 42,880 female - 25.1%
1990s birth BLPs - 150,880, of which 36,944 female - 24.5%
2000s birth BLPs - 30,042, of which 7,542 female - 25.1%
Development of BLPs since the 1920s for biographies excluding athletes
If we discount all athletes using the infobox method, the results are:
Missing birth year BLPs - 140,177, of which 51,021 female - 36.4%
1920s birth BLPs - 4,321, of which 1,228 female - 28.4%
1930s birth BLPs - 28,978, of which 6,161 female - 21.2%
1940s birth BLPs - 73,095, of which 16,566 female - 22.7%
1950s birth BLPs - 95,893, of which 23,644 female - 24.7%
1960s birth BLPs - 96,175, of which 26,632 female - 27.8%
1970s birth BLPs - 81,682, of which 27,562 female - 33.7%
1980s birth BLPs - 58,078, of which 24,816 female - 42.7%
1990s birth BLPs - 23,281, of which 11,754 female - 50.5%
2000s birth BLPs - 2,850, of which 1,539 female - 54.0%
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on
Phabricator and on
MediaWiki.org.
Big Tech's Big Tobacco moment. Despite the title, today's Axios podcast introduced by Niala Boodhoo includes comments by
Roger Bamkin on today's 24-hour ADA marathon, 12 October 2021
This page documents published peer-reviewed research on gender gaps within Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. Most of the research is related to English Wikipedia's content gender gap, but not all.
Langrock, Isabelle; González-Bailón, Sandra (June 2022). "The Gender Divide in Wikipedia: Quantifying and Assessing the Impact of Two Feminist Interventions". Journal of Communication. 72 (3): 297–321.
doi:
10.1093/joc/jqac004.
Beytía, Pablo; Wagner, Claudia (22 March 2022). "Visibility layers: a framework for systematising the gender gap in Wikipedia content". Internet Policy Review. 11 (1).
doi:
10.14763/2022.1.1621.
Gupta, Sneh; Trehan, Kulveen (2022). "Twitter reacts to absence of women on Wikipedia: a mixed-methods analysis of #VisibleWikiWomen campaign". Media Asia. 49 (2): 130–154.
doi:
10.1080/01296612.2021.2003100.
S2CID245065502.
Lir, Shlomit Aharoni (2021). "Strangers in a seemingly open-to-all website: the gender bias in Wikipedia". Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. 40 (7): 801–818.
doi:
10.1108/EDI-10-2018-0198.
S2CID214364954.
Young, Amber G; Wigdor, Ariel D.; Kane, Gerald C. (2020). "The Gender Bias Tug-of-War in a Co-creation Community: Core-Periphery Tension on Wikipedia". Journal of Management Information Systems. 37 (4): 1047=1072.
doi:
10.1080/07421222.2020.1831773.
S2CID227240954.
Schellekens, Menno; Holstege, Floris;
Yasseri, Taha (12 April 2019). "Female scholars need to achieve more for equal public recognition".
arXiv:1904.06310 [
cs.DL].
Zagovora, Olga; Flöck, Fabian; Wagner, Claudia (2017). ""(Weitergeleitet von Journalistin)": The Gendered Presentation of Professions on Wikipedia". Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Web Science Conference. pp. 83–92.
arXiv:1706.03848.
doi:
10.1145/3091478.3091488.
ISBN9781450348966.
S2CID11059274.
Graells-Garrido, Eduardo; Lalmas, Mounia;
Menczer, Filippo (2 June 2015). "First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia". Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media. p. 165.
arXiv:1502.02341.
doi:
10.1145/2700171.2791036.
ISBN978-1-4503-3395-5.
S2CID1082360. (Important finding: an analysis of the DBPedia Wikipedia subset shows that 15% of biographies are of women.)
Klein, Maximilian; Konieczny, Piotr (2015). "Gender Gap Through Time and Space: A Journey Through Wikipedia Biographies and the "WIGI" Index".
arXiv:1502.03086 [
cs.CY]. (Interesting study, currently under peer review)
Wagner, Claudia; Garcia, David; Jadidi, Mohsen; Strohmaier, Markus (23 March 2015). "It's a Man's Wikipedia? Assessing Gender Inequality in an Online Encyclopedia".
arXiv:1501.06307 [
cs.CY].
Bourdeloie, Hélène; Vicente, Michaël (2014).
"Contributing to Wikipedia: A Question of Gender". In Fichman, Pnina; Hara, Noriko (eds.). Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration. Lanham: Rowman et Littlefield.
Massa, Paolo; Zelenkauskaite, Asta (2014).
"Gender Gap in Wikipedia Editing: A Cross Language Comparison"(PDF). In Fichman, Pnina; Hara, Noriko (eds.). Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration. Lanham: Rowman et Littlefield. pp. 85–96.
If you are having trouble with references or accessing a reference behind a
paywall, feel free to contact the Librarian in Residence,
Megalibrarygirl. She is also able to reach out to other librarians in her network to help you with your references. The Librarian in Residence is also happy to do reference clean-up. You can either
email her, or post on her
talk page.
Megalibrarygirl (
talk)
18:47, 15 April 2017 (UTC)reply
User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors – Highlight problems and potential problems when using Harvard citations templates like {{harvnb}} and others. To only flag problems, replace User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors.js with User:Svick/HarvErrors.js.
Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR), a
WikiProject whose objective is to turn "
redlinks" into
blue ones within the project scope. The project scope includes women -real and fictional- their biographies and their works, broadly construed. In November 2014, only just over 15% of the English Wikipedia's biographies were on women. Since then, we have managed to improve the situation slightly, bringing the figure up to 16.38%, as of 7 August 2016. But that means only 226,706 of our 1,383,736 biographies are about women. Not impressed? "
Content gender gap" is a form of
systemic bias, and WiR addresses it in a positive way. We do this by hosting edit-a-thons on various topics, and socializing the scope and objective via social media. We invite you to take part whenever and however you wish. There is no requirement to participate in everything we do, or to even sign up.
If the objective and scope of our project interest you, please join in the discussion on our talkpage or jump in and create articles. You might like to start by participating in the editathon on
Wikipedia and United Nations Women Project until August 12 or those on
Indigenous Women and
Polar Women for the whole of August, in addition to the ongoing
Women Scientists. We warmly welcome you.
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 19.87% 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!
The articles created for any month, including the current month, can be displayed by clicking on one of the months in the
archive box.
We track the articles we create each month.
Reports bot updates these lists automatically, but you can manually add and annotate entries. The bot will remove non-existent pages.
More details about the bot. Our metrics talkpage is here:
Metrics talkpage
The evolving list for this month (see Archives box) is created by the bot which lists new women's biographies on the basis of their female gender on Wikidata. At present, the bot does not list women's works, associations or related articles but you are encouraged to add these to the list manually. A
WiR Wikidata page provides information on how you can help ensure WiR metrics are up-to-date.
The graph shows the number of articles created each month. The apparent decrease for the current month reflects the number of articles created up to today's date. Only data on completed months indicate overall progress.
For personal metrics on how many articles you've created about women, see
this tool.
If you want to measure gender diversity in a given Wikipedia article, use
this tool.
As a result of figures presented by
Humaniki, we keep posting on the main Women in Red page the percentage of women's biographies on the English version of Wikipedia. Increases are steady but marginal: for example from July 2022 to July 2023, the percentage has risen from around 19.3% to around 19.6%.
Thanks to an analysis presented by
Andrew Gray on the
WIR talk page, it certainly looks as if the number of men and women involved in sports has a significant influence on the statistics for women. A detailed account of Gray's work is presented in
"Gender and BLPs on Wikipedia, redux", which he published on 2 August 2023.
The two lists below show that biographies of living people (BLPs) born in recent years are approximately 50% female if data on all categories of athletes are excluded. By contrast, the equivalent overall figures (including athletes) are only around 25%. As a result, biographies of very large numbers of male sportspeople seem to be responsible for the huge difference. Andrew Gray's detailed lists below document how figures for BLPs by year of birth have evolved over the years:
Overall development of BLPs since the 1920s for all biographies
Missing birth year BLPs - 150,574, of which 53,355 female - 35.4%
1920s birth BLPs - 5,096, of which 1,325 female - 26.0%
1930s birth BLPs - 39,055, of which 7,086 female - 18.1%
1940s birth BLPs - 95,602, of which 18,495 female - 19.3%
1950s birth BLPs - 128,518, of which 27,172 female - 21.1%
1960s birth BLPs - 145,300, of which 33,390 female - 23.0%
1970s birth BLPs - 150,539, of which 37,893 female - 25.2%
1980s birth BLPs - 171,072, of which 42,880 female - 25.1%
1990s birth BLPs - 150,880, of which 36,944 female - 24.5%
2000s birth BLPs - 30,042, of which 7,542 female - 25.1%
Development of BLPs since the 1920s for biographies excluding athletes
If we discount all athletes using the infobox method, the results are:
Missing birth year BLPs - 140,177, of which 51,021 female - 36.4%
1920s birth BLPs - 4,321, of which 1,228 female - 28.4%
1930s birth BLPs - 28,978, of which 6,161 female - 21.2%
1940s birth BLPs - 73,095, of which 16,566 female - 22.7%
1950s birth BLPs - 95,893, of which 23,644 female - 24.7%
1960s birth BLPs - 96,175, of which 26,632 female - 27.8%
1970s birth BLPs - 81,682, of which 27,562 female - 33.7%
1980s birth BLPs - 58,078, of which 24,816 female - 42.7%
1990s birth BLPs - 23,281, of which 11,754 female - 50.5%
2000s birth BLPs - 2,850, of which 1,539 female - 54.0%
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on
Phabricator and on
MediaWiki.org.
Big Tech's Big Tobacco moment. Despite the title, today's Axios podcast introduced by Niala Boodhoo includes comments by
Roger Bamkin on today's 24-hour ADA marathon, 12 October 2021
This page documents published peer-reviewed research on gender gaps within Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. Most of the research is related to English Wikipedia's content gender gap, but not all.
Langrock, Isabelle; González-Bailón, Sandra (June 2022). "The Gender Divide in Wikipedia: Quantifying and Assessing the Impact of Two Feminist Interventions". Journal of Communication. 72 (3): 297–321.
doi:
10.1093/joc/jqac004.
Beytía, Pablo; Wagner, Claudia (22 March 2022). "Visibility layers: a framework for systematising the gender gap in Wikipedia content". Internet Policy Review. 11 (1).
doi:
10.14763/2022.1.1621.
Gupta, Sneh; Trehan, Kulveen (2022). "Twitter reacts to absence of women on Wikipedia: a mixed-methods analysis of #VisibleWikiWomen campaign". Media Asia. 49 (2): 130–154.
doi:
10.1080/01296612.2021.2003100.
S2CID245065502.
Lir, Shlomit Aharoni (2021). "Strangers in a seemingly open-to-all website: the gender bias in Wikipedia". Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. 40 (7): 801–818.
doi:
10.1108/EDI-10-2018-0198.
S2CID214364954.
Young, Amber G; Wigdor, Ariel D.; Kane, Gerald C. (2020). "The Gender Bias Tug-of-War in a Co-creation Community: Core-Periphery Tension on Wikipedia". Journal of Management Information Systems. 37 (4): 1047=1072.
doi:
10.1080/07421222.2020.1831773.
S2CID227240954.
Schellekens, Menno; Holstege, Floris;
Yasseri, Taha (12 April 2019). "Female scholars need to achieve more for equal public recognition".
arXiv:1904.06310 [
cs.DL].
Zagovora, Olga; Flöck, Fabian; Wagner, Claudia (2017). ""(Weitergeleitet von Journalistin)": The Gendered Presentation of Professions on Wikipedia". Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Web Science Conference. pp. 83–92.
arXiv:1706.03848.
doi:
10.1145/3091478.3091488.
ISBN9781450348966.
S2CID11059274.
Graells-Garrido, Eduardo; Lalmas, Mounia;
Menczer, Filippo (2 June 2015). "First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia". Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media. p. 165.
arXiv:1502.02341.
doi:
10.1145/2700171.2791036.
ISBN978-1-4503-3395-5.
S2CID1082360. (Important finding: an analysis of the DBPedia Wikipedia subset shows that 15% of biographies are of women.)
Klein, Maximilian; Konieczny, Piotr (2015). "Gender Gap Through Time and Space: A Journey Through Wikipedia Biographies and the "WIGI" Index".
arXiv:1502.03086 [
cs.CY]. (Interesting study, currently under peer review)
Wagner, Claudia; Garcia, David; Jadidi, Mohsen; Strohmaier, Markus (23 March 2015). "It's a Man's Wikipedia? Assessing Gender Inequality in an Online Encyclopedia".
arXiv:1501.06307 [
cs.CY].
Bourdeloie, Hélène; Vicente, Michaël (2014).
"Contributing to Wikipedia: A Question of Gender". In Fichman, Pnina; Hara, Noriko (eds.). Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration. Lanham: Rowman et Littlefield.
Massa, Paolo; Zelenkauskaite, Asta (2014).
"Gender Gap in Wikipedia Editing: A Cross Language Comparison"(PDF). In Fichman, Pnina; Hara, Noriko (eds.). Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration. Lanham: Rowman et Littlefield. pp. 85–96.
If you are having trouble with references or accessing a reference behind a
paywall, feel free to contact the Librarian in Residence,
Megalibrarygirl. She is also able to reach out to other librarians in her network to help you with your references. The Librarian in Residence is also happy to do reference clean-up. You can either
email her, or post on her
talk page.
Megalibrarygirl (
talk)
18:47, 15 April 2017 (UTC)reply
User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors – Highlight problems and potential problems when using Harvard citations templates like {{harvnb}} and others. To only flag problems, replace User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors.js with User:Svick/HarvErrors.js.