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.
Categories
Choose applicable categories including relevant subcategories of
Category:Women.
Stub
If applicable, add stub template at the foot of an article: {{stub}}.
In March 2024, Women in Red wants to make it easier to find women and non-binary people on Wikipedia. This is a new event! We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating redirects and adding categories and wikilinks to make it easier to find women.
Here are some ways you can make it easier to find women:
Add categories including relevant subcategories of
Category:Women
Add wikilinks on other pages to the page such as a relevant list of people (e.g. "List of women writers", "List of [nationality] writers"), or check the
Find Link tool and see if you can find her on other pages
Create redirects from alternative names (e.g. her performance name, birth name, pseudonym) (see
information about redirects here)
This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative. Contributors are of course also welcome to work on articles or add new articles about any other women who deserve to be covered, for example under the topics of the month or our comprehensive #1day1woman priority.
The main goals of the event are:
to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia (in an easier way than creating new biographies!)
to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works.
Thank you!
Useful tips and links
For this event, you'll be working on existing articles so we don't have our usual lists of redlinks.
Surnames: Adding someone to the relevant surname page (or making a redirect from her surname if she's the only name-holder) is really useful. It helps the reader who only knows a surname, and reminds people that there are Janes and Georginas in among all the Johns and Georges. For examples of a surname page, see
Hanson (surname),
List of people with surname Miller or
List of people with surname Peña.
Checking for redirects: To find out whether an article already has existing redirects, click on "What links here" (likely on the right-hand side of the screen, under Tools) and then look for them. It helps if you've installed the userscript which displays all redirects in green,
User:Anomie/linkclassifier, as you can then see redirects easily, but isn't essential.
For more guidance: Read the essay on
Writing women into the encyclopedia describing how writing about women on Wikipedia doesn't stop after you've created a biography. This essay gives great suggestions on additional categories to add, where to add links, and more.
Here are some links that can help you identify articles to work on, and feel free to add more:
47 articles from
WIR-25:Women in Archaeology (2016) editathon checked: many redirects from name variants, and entries in surname lists made, plus some author-links where they are cited in other articles
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.
Categories
Choose applicable categories including relevant subcategories of
Category:Women.
Stub
If applicable, add stub template at the foot of an article: {{stub}}.
In March 2024, Women in Red wants to make it easier to find women and non-binary people on Wikipedia. This is a new event! We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating redirects and adding categories and wikilinks to make it easier to find women.
Here are some ways you can make it easier to find women:
Add categories including relevant subcategories of
Category:Women
Add wikilinks on other pages to the page such as a relevant list of people (e.g. "List of women writers", "List of [nationality] writers"), or check the
Find Link tool and see if you can find her on other pages
Create redirects from alternative names (e.g. her performance name, birth name, pseudonym) (see
information about redirects here)
This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative. Contributors are of course also welcome to work on articles or add new articles about any other women who deserve to be covered, for example under the topics of the month or our comprehensive #1day1woman priority.
The main goals of the event are:
to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia (in an easier way than creating new biographies!)
to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works.
Thank you!
Useful tips and links
For this event, you'll be working on existing articles so we don't have our usual lists of redlinks.
Surnames: Adding someone to the relevant surname page (or making a redirect from her surname if she's the only name-holder) is really useful. It helps the reader who only knows a surname, and reminds people that there are Janes and Georginas in among all the Johns and Georges. For examples of a surname page, see
Hanson (surname),
List of people with surname Miller or
List of people with surname Peña.
Checking for redirects: To find out whether an article already has existing redirects, click on "What links here" (likely on the right-hand side of the screen, under Tools) and then look for them. It helps if you've installed the userscript which displays all redirects in green,
User:Anomie/linkclassifier, as you can then see redirects easily, but isn't essential.
For more guidance: Read the essay on
Writing women into the encyclopedia describing how writing about women on Wikipedia doesn't stop after you've created a biography. This essay gives great suggestions on additional categories to add, where to add links, and more.
Here are some links that can help you identify articles to work on, and feel free to add more:
47 articles from
WIR-25:Women in Archaeology (2016) editathon checked: many redirects from name variants, and entries in surname lists made, plus some author-links where they are cited in other articles