September: Women writers & their works

2021 Aug/Sept: Women's leadership & empowerment

2021 Jul/Aug/Sept: Olympic & Paralympic Games Latin America contest

2021 global initiatives: #1day1woman2021 Women's rights

See also: Future events

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!

Welcome!

Online event 1 July to 30 Spetember 2021
WiR Women in Latin America contest

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From July to September 2021, we are holding the fourth of our three-month virtual contests each devoted to women from one of the continents of the world. Following the Women in Asia contest (Oct-Dec 2020); Women in Africa contest (Jan-Mar 2021); and the Women in Europe contest (Apr-Jun 2021); from July to September, we are continuing with Latin America.

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. While we encourage the creation of women's biographies, articles addressing the works or achievements of Latin American 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 Latin America, whatever their occupation or role. While our top priority is new biographies, articles about the works, organizations or achievements of Latin American women are also welcome.

The main goals of the event are:

• to extend coverage of Latin American 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, Instagram, other)

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.
• This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful.
• If you share an article from the contest on social media, 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 Latin-American women are listed below.

• Listing on a bot generated redlist does NOT imply qualification for inclusion in the encyclopedia. Please read Primer for creating women's biographies

Add other red links here, if possible with a source:

Promote our work

Key:

• 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
• Add IG after the article if you post it on Instagram
• Add LI after the article if you post it on LinkedIn

Newly created articles which meet contest rules: September

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. Articles which are not long enough may be listed separately under "Newly-created articles which do not meet contest rules: August". 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: September

Improved articles September

Newly created articles which meet contest rules: August

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. Articles which are not long enough may be listed separately under "Newly-created articles which do not meet contest rules: August". 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: August

Improved articles August

Newly-created articles which meet contest rules: July

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. Articles which are not long enough may be listed separately under "Newly-created articles which do not meet contest rules: July". 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: July

Improved articles July

1. Berenice Quezada — upgrade by Innisfree987 ( talk) 18:23, 28 July 2021 (UTC) reply

Did You Know features

New/expanded articles featured in the Did you know... column of the Wikipedia Main page

• Add here – most recent at the top with date of publication

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2021

Add here – most recent at the top

• 
  Becky Soundy
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  Claudia M. Palena
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  Virginia Vera
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  Alba Luz Ramos
• Yulimar Rojas (2018)
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  Berta Valle and Victoria Cárdenas
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  Marita Camacho Quirós
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  Eleanor Blackmore
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  Mary Melsa
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  María Haydee Osuna
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  María Haydee Osuna
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  Tamara Dávila
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  Vilma Núñez
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  Leonor Zúniga
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  Azahalea Solís
• 
  Celia Camacho
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  Lorna Norori
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  Marlen Chow
• 
  Arlen Cerda
• 
  Asunción Moreno
• 
  Elvira Cuadra
• 
  Sandra Ramos (activist)
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  Verónica Chávez
• 
  Kitty Monterrey
• 
  Suyén Barahona
• 
  Suyén Barahona

Contest Winners Final

Total for the 3 month contest

• Winner: Fixer88 - 97 articles
• Second place: Nick Number - 72 articles
• Third place: Rosiestep - 51 articles

Winners per month

Those recognized in September:

• Winner: Fixer88 - 20 articles
• Second place: Roundtheworld - 12 articles
• Third place: Rosiestep - 11 articles

Those recognized in August:

• Winner: Rosiestep - 40 articles
• Second place: Nick Number - 38 articles
• Third place: Fixer88 - 37 articles

Those recognized in July:

• Winner: Fixer88 - 40 articles
• Second place: Nick Number - 27 articles
• Third place: Shari Garland - 12 articles (tie)
• Third place: Dsp13 - 12 articles (tie)

• Invitation: JULY 2021
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