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 19.81% 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!
Authority control should be included at the foot of every biography: {{Authority control}}. It will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata.
Choose applicable Categories including relevant subcategories of
Category:Women.
If applicable, add a stub template at the foot of an article:{{stub}}.
{{WikiProject Biography| }} or {{WikiProject Biography}}
{{WikiProject Women}} if born after 1950; or {{WikiProject Women's History}}:: if born before 1950.
Editathon banner: {{WIR-178}}
From October to December 2020, we are holding the first of our three-month virtual contests devoted to women from the continents of the world. We have decided to start with Asia as it will coincide with
Wikipedia Asian Month in November.
The prizes will be virtual in the form of recognition of the top three contributors for each of the three months with special recognition for the top contributor over the full three-month period.
In line with other Wikipedia contests, articles must have at least 160 words or 1,000 characters of running text (excluding references, lists, boxes and headings) and should have at least two reliable secondary references. Note that for Wikipedia Asian Month, they have to have at leat 3,000 characters or 300 words of running text. While we encourage the creation of women's biographies, articles addressing the works or achievements of Asian women will also qualify. Articles which are not long enough can be listed separately but will not be taken into account for the contest.
In order to participate, contributors must be members of Women in Red. Anyone can register as a member by using the box on the
main WiR page.
Please use this article's talk page if you need assistance or wish to comment on the contest.
We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies of the many past and present notable women from Asia, whatever their occupation or role. While our top priority is new biographies, articles about the works, organizations or achievements of Asian women are also welcome.
The main goals of the event are:
to extend coverage of Asian women on the English Wikipedia
to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of prominent women
to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on this specific area
to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
to promote new articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter)
What else?
Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create this month, and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
If you tweet about any of the articles, or upload any of the images to Pinterest, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.
Thank you!
Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)
Red-link lists on women from a wide variety of fields can be accessed from the
WiR Redlink index. Those which might be most useful for Asian women are listed below.
Wikidata red-link lists: women's biographies by country in other language versions of Wikipedia, as well as a few that are crowd-sourced:
Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter
Newly-created articles which meet contest rules: December
Please list in the order created (i.e. the oldest at the top). Participants should then list further articles immediately below the first article they create. This will help to establish the number of articles created by each participant. The sequence should be:
{{flagicon|country}} [[article title]] new article by ~~~~, the four tildes representing user name and date created.
Remember articles need to have a running text or readable prose size of 160 words or 1,000 characters (300 words or 3,000 characters for submission to Wikipedia Asian Month). Articles which are not long enough may be listed separately under "Newly-created articles which do not meet contest rules: November". You can check the length of any article by using
Xtools article info and looking under "Prose" for characters and words. (Please do not use this tool to check more than two or three articles at a time or you will overload the system.)
Newly-created articles which do not meet contest rules: December
If you create a new article stub which does not meet the contest rules (e.g. too short), you are welcome to list it here. Please list in the order created (i.e. the oldest at the top). The sequence should be:
{{flagicon|country}} [[article title]] new article by ~~~~, the four tildes representing user name and date created.
Newly-created articles which meet contest rules: November
Please list in the order created (i.e. the oldest at the top). Participants should then list further articles immediately below the first article they create. This will help to establish the number of articles created by each participant. The sequence should be:
{{flagicon|country}} [[article title]] new article by ~~~~, the four tildes representing user name and date created.
Remember articles need to have a running text or readable prose size of 160 words or 1,000 characters (300 words or 3,000 characters for submission to Wikipedia Asian Month). Articles which are not long enough may be listed separately under "Newly-created articles which do not meet contest rules: November". You can check the length of any article by using
Xtools article info and looking under "Prose" for characters and words. (Please do not use this tool to check more than two or three articles at a time or you will overload the system.)
Newly-created articles which do not meet contest rules: November
If you create a new article stub which does not meet the contest rules (e.g. too short), you are welcome to list it here. Please list in the order created (i.e. the oldest at the top). The sequence should be:
{{flagicon|country}} [[article title]] new article by ~~~~, the four tildes representing user name and date created.
Newly-created articles which meet contest rules: October
Please list in the order created (i.e. the oldest at the top). Participants should then list further articles immediately below the first article they create. This will help to establish the number of articles created by each participant. The sequence should be:
{{flagicon|country}} [[article title]] new article by ~~~~, the four tildes representing user name and date created.
Remember artcles need to have a running text or readable prose size of 160 words or 1,000 characters. Articles which are not long enough may be listed separately under "Newly-created articles which do not meet contest rules: October". You can check the length of any article by using
Xtools article info and looking under "Prose" for characters and words. (Please do not use this tool to check more than two or three articles at a time or you will overload the system.)
Newly-created articles which do not meet contest rules: October
If you create a new article stub which does not meet the contest rules (e.g. too short), you are welcome to list it here. Please list in the order created (i.e. the oldest at the top). The sequence should be:
{{flagicon|country}} [[article title]] new article by ~~~~, the four tildes representing user name and date created.
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 19.81% 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!
Authority control should be included at the foot of every biography: {{Authority control}}. It will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata.
Choose applicable Categories including relevant subcategories of
Category:Women.
If applicable, add a stub template at the foot of an article:{{stub}}.
{{WikiProject Biography| }} or {{WikiProject Biography}}
{{WikiProject Women}} if born after 1950; or {{WikiProject Women's History}}:: if born before 1950.
Editathon banner: {{WIR-178}}
From October to December 2020, we are holding the first of our three-month virtual contests devoted to women from the continents of the world. We have decided to start with Asia as it will coincide with
Wikipedia Asian Month in November.
The prizes will be virtual in the form of recognition of the top three contributors for each of the three months with special recognition for the top contributor over the full three-month period.
In line with other Wikipedia contests, articles must have at least 160 words or 1,000 characters of running text (excluding references, lists, boxes and headings) and should have at least two reliable secondary references. Note that for Wikipedia Asian Month, they have to have at leat 3,000 characters or 300 words of running text. While we encourage the creation of women's biographies, articles addressing the works or achievements of Asian women will also qualify. Articles which are not long enough can be listed separately but will not be taken into account for the contest.
In order to participate, contributors must be members of Women in Red. Anyone can register as a member by using the box on the
main WiR page.
Please use this article's talk page if you need assistance or wish to comment on the contest.
We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies of the many past and present notable women from Asia, whatever their occupation or role. While our top priority is new biographies, articles about the works, organizations or achievements of Asian women are also welcome.
The main goals of the event are:
to extend coverage of Asian women on the English Wikipedia
to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of prominent women
to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on this specific area
to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
to promote new articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter)
What else?
Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create this month, and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
If you tweet about any of the articles, or upload any of the images to Pinterest, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.
Thank you!
Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)
Red-link lists on women from a wide variety of fields can be accessed from the
WiR Redlink index. Those which might be most useful for Asian women are listed below.
Wikidata red-link lists: women's biographies by country in other language versions of Wikipedia, as well as a few that are crowd-sourced:
Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter
Newly-created articles which meet contest rules: December
Please list in the order created (i.e. the oldest at the top). Participants should then list further articles immediately below the first article they create. This will help to establish the number of articles created by each participant. The sequence should be:
{{flagicon|country}} [[article title]] new article by ~~~~, the four tildes representing user name and date created.
Remember articles need to have a running text or readable prose size of 160 words or 1,000 characters (300 words or 3,000 characters for submission to Wikipedia Asian Month). Articles which are not long enough may be listed separately under "Newly-created articles which do not meet contest rules: November". You can check the length of any article by using
Xtools article info and looking under "Prose" for characters and words. (Please do not use this tool to check more than two or three articles at a time or you will overload the system.)
Newly-created articles which do not meet contest rules: December
If you create a new article stub which does not meet the contest rules (e.g. too short), you are welcome to list it here. Please list in the order created (i.e. the oldest at the top). The sequence should be:
{{flagicon|country}} [[article title]] new article by ~~~~, the four tildes representing user name and date created.
Newly-created articles which meet contest rules: November
Please list in the order created (i.e. the oldest at the top). Participants should then list further articles immediately below the first article they create. This will help to establish the number of articles created by each participant. The sequence should be:
{{flagicon|country}} [[article title]] new article by ~~~~, the four tildes representing user name and date created.
Remember articles need to have a running text or readable prose size of 160 words or 1,000 characters (300 words or 3,000 characters for submission to Wikipedia Asian Month). Articles which are not long enough may be listed separately under "Newly-created articles which do not meet contest rules: November". You can check the length of any article by using
Xtools article info and looking under "Prose" for characters and words. (Please do not use this tool to check more than two or three articles at a time or you will overload the system.)
Newly-created articles which do not meet contest rules: November
If you create a new article stub which does not meet the contest rules (e.g. too short), you are welcome to list it here. Please list in the order created (i.e. the oldest at the top). The sequence should be:
{{flagicon|country}} [[article title]] new article by ~~~~, the four tildes representing user name and date created.
Newly-created articles which meet contest rules: October
Please list in the order created (i.e. the oldest at the top). Participants should then list further articles immediately below the first article they create. This will help to establish the number of articles created by each participant. The sequence should be:
{{flagicon|country}} [[article title]] new article by ~~~~, the four tildes representing user name and date created.
Remember artcles need to have a running text or readable prose size of 160 words or 1,000 characters. Articles which are not long enough may be listed separately under "Newly-created articles which do not meet contest rules: October". You can check the length of any article by using
Xtools article info and looking under "Prose" for characters and words. (Please do not use this tool to check more than two or three articles at a time or you will overload the system.)
Newly-created articles which do not meet contest rules: October
If you create a new article stub which does not meet the contest rules (e.g. too short), you are welcome to list it here. Please list in the order created (i.e. the oldest at the top). The sequence should be:
{{flagicon|country}} [[article title]] new article by ~~~~, the four tildes representing user name and date created.