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 1–30 September 2021
Gioconda Belli, Nicaraguan writer

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In September 2021, Women in Red is once again focusing on women writers and their works from around the world. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies of some of the many notable women writers, past and present, who are still red-linked on the English Wikipedia. Other articles related to women and writing, such as the works they have created, their organizations and their awards, are also encouraged.

The main goals of the event are:

• 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 combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
• to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media

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 to newer editors. Women Do News is also having a training on September 15 on finding sources to write biographies of women journalists.
• If you share any of the articles or images to social media, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

Thank you!

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

We have a wide variety of red-link lists. Some of the most relevant to this priority are listed below.

Note: for those listed in the Dictionary of Women Worldwide, some corresponding entries may be found at Encyclopedia.com or, for access to all, by signing up for the Wikipedia Library's free bundle and then using this search option.

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

• “30 Nigerian Women Poets”
• “Notes toward the Bibliography of Nigerian Women's Poetry (1985-2006)” (available on JSTOR)
• "Longlist nominees for the 2021 National Book Awards for Young People's Literature

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

New or upgraded articles

Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new

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
• Laura Jean McKay - 16 October
• Catherine Downes - 6 October
• Theodora Wilson Wilson - 3 Ocotber
• On 26 September 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lydia Wevers
• Carol K. Mack - 25 September
• On 23 September 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jacquelyn Reingold
• On 21 September 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Noliwe Rooks
• On 19 September 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Devon Powers

• 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

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  Mary Finnin
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  Adda Ravnkilde
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  Julie Heins
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  Anna Christiane Ludvigsen
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  Kira Obolensky
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  Sara Beaumont Kennedy
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  Iowa Authors and Their Works
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  Ruth Seinfel Goode
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  Frederikke Charlotte Reventlow
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  Pearl A. Harwood
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  Olive Sanxay
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  Teckla Juel
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  Fanny Suenssen
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  Norma Mitchell
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  Minerva Dayton Bateham
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  Lucille Baldwin Van Slyke
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  Katharine May Edwards
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  Ida M. Evans
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  Ida M. Evans
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  Alfhilda Mechlenburg
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  Louise Hegermann-Lindencrone
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  Gertrude Jenness Rinden
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  Melissa Nobles
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  Flora Aldrich
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  Ednah Shepard Thomas
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  Diana Bourbon
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  Clara Edmunds Hemingway
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  Bertha M. Rice
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  Ada L. F. Snell
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  Lucy Sprague Mitchell
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  Sophie Chantal Hart
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  Sarojini Naidu (improved image)
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  Vera Beringer
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  Garreta Busey
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  Editha Aceituna Thurlow Griffin

• Invitation: SEPTEMBER 2021
• Editathon banner for talk pages: Template:WIR-208: {{WIR-208}}