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In view of the highly successful online Wikimedia Women in Red panel presentation, I suggested on Rosiestep's talk page that we could use a similar online approach for a two-hour recruitment editathon which could be repeated two or three times the same day for different time zones. The two hours could consist of three or four short inspiring introductory presentations, possibly by some of the Wikimedia panelists, while most of the remaining time could be devoted to short practical exercises on Wikipedia editing. The participants could be completely new editors or editors who have recently joined but have not yet gained much experience in editing. They would have a week to draft their first article. Their work could then be reviewed and discussed at lessons learnt sessions a week after the editathons. Now that several key contributors have supported the approach, we need to plan the online sessions in some detail. As I have little experience either of online presentations or of editathons, I was hoping that Rosiestep and/or Victuallers could coordinate planning unless there are any other offers. It now looks as if the event could be held in connection with Ada Lovelace Day on Friday, 8 October, perhaps with lessons learnt sessions on Saturday, 15 October. So we still have plenty of time for planning and any further suggestions.-- Ipigott ( talk) 09:56, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
account to run sign ups. I think the 24 hour idea is very good - 24 hours of continuously editing about women in honour of Ada Lovelace would be great fun! Lajmmoore ( talk) 16:36, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
Looks like this may happen!! Victuallers ( talk) 10:19, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
This carries on the conversation above as per Ian's suggestion. On October 12th we will be celebrating Ada Lovelace and Women in STEM. Women in Red has seen this as an opportunity to raise our profile and do some recruitment. At Midday in New Zealand the day will start with the launch of an editathon. As #WikiAda24 continues the baton will be picked up by Australia. We have made a lot of progress. The NZ WIR editors are organised and ready with a press release, zoom links, eventbrite announcements, trainers (and handholders) ready to support the day. WMAU are committed. In the UK we have Emmeline Pankhurst's house booked and the eventbrites etc created. Trainers are booked and we understand that there may be one in Scotland too. At the moment we are reaching out to find editors in the Americas who could carry the editathon forward. New Zealand are prepared to finish the day
Have a look [ here] - the detail is increasing. If you are in UK, NZ or AU then we can sign you up ... if you are not then we really want to speak to you. This is a great opportunity to show off our collaboration. Can you see how you might help? Be Bold. Victuallers ( talk) 15:59, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
If anyone is wishing for a on-wiki way to help with the
ADA24 bonanza, a task that might benefit from any amount of time you have to give it is clean up on the crowd-sourced red-link lists we’re using (see link), some of which contain many now-blue links. I have been working on tidying this up for the newcomers we hope to attract, but have only finished a few of the lists so far.
Also, if there are additional STEM lists that should be included, please do add! Thanks so much.
Innisfree987 (
talk)
17:41, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
"Global 24-hour Wikipedia "Edit-a-thon" Kicks Off In New Zealand" - just announced by Scoop, New Zealand.-- Ipigott ( talk) 12:37, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
I think we have our final list! We have recruited leads for Pakistan and Kenya and plans for NZ, AU and UK are well advanced with good support from each chapter. We have volunteer editors ready to join us to help the newbies we attract but we could always do with more. We also have places where experienced editors can collegially edit together at different virtual locations. The dashboard for the event should record every new article, picture and editor. Do feel free to come along and help a newbie to steer their way through the wiki maze.... and maybe help them in a weeks time and encourage them to join us here more regularly. Find an error = fix it. Victuallers ( talk) 11:41, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
I'll be promoting AdaWiki24 and seeking participation from North American Wikipedians during Sunday's Lightning Talk session at WikiConference North America. If you're registered to attend WCNA, see you there; or you can watch live/later via this YouTube link. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 15:26, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
In case people are wondering how Tuesday is time-tabled, Lisa Maule made this amazing schedule, showing our various locations! Yesterday evening, Victuallers and I showed some of our new Kenyan friends how to make their first edits. If it suits the time zone that you're in, there's an "open" session from 8-10pm UK time, which it would be lovely to see some friendly faces at! There's a sign up here. Lajmmoore ( talk) 08:28, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
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.-- Ipigott ( talk) 10:11, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello all, our new friends in Pakistan @ Femonics: and their team, worked extremely hard on some new stub pages this evening. If people could support some polishing, that would be very much appreciated:
Thank you for all the support. We had so much fun and a wonderful learning experience Femonics ( talk) 18:57, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
Join us for live editing Wikipedia Weekly videocast at 1pm EDT/5 pm UTC. Working with @Rosiestep @restlesscurator @SiobhanLeachman @WikiWomenInRed @Fuzheado on the Timeline of women in computing and more.
Hope you can join us, and feel free to ask questions/interact. - Fuzheado | Talk 16:17, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
From July to September 2021, Women in Red held a virtual editathon focusing on Women at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
A special shout-out to Lugnuts and SportsOlympic for their contribution of preparatory and behind-the-scenes work on this. WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 18:31, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
WATAC explores feminist activism in action, an article from CatholicOutlook, presents plans for covering more women on Wikipedia under the Australian Women in Religion Project with a Zoom session on 13 October. See also Kerrie Burn's video.-- Ipigott ( talk) 15:14, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
Anne Saxelby, a noted figure in the American artisanal cheese movement, had her obit published in The NY Times today: [1] Any help with her article would be appreciated. Thriley ( talk) 04:14, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
I started a tiny stub on her. Plenty of sources and would be a nice easy article to write. Someone may want to have a look! Calliopejen1 ( talk) 15:58, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
This article about a recently deceased physicist with a remarkable life story—her Jewish family fled Belgium during WWII and she eventually ended up in New York—could use some attention. Especially from people with physics knowledge (not me). AleatoryPonderings ( ???) ( !!!) 23:13, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello, is there a policy of this project to use the unused templates starting from 12108 to 12125 from the Unused Templates report? Asking to avoid any potential major disruption as part of my task force idea to deal with the backlog of unused templates as part of WikiProject Templates. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 16:24, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
Perhaps impressively, we have articles on almost every woman mentioned in this Guardian article on overlooked women artists. The only one mentioned that we do not have an article for is Evangeline St Claire. If anyone can find good sourcing, ping me and I will make a stub. I looked around and could not find much. --- Possibly ☎ 15:38, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
For all I know this might have been created as part of WiR outreach anyway... Talk:Lesley Akyaa Opoku Ware Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:57, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
There is a request for comment on Anne Wyllie's talk page where discussion is centred around whether a list of selected publications is appropriate on a scientist's page. Would welcome other views. DrThneed ( talk) 00:49, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
Saturday's New York Times carries a profile on Chanel Contos, an Australian student and sexual consent activist. She's become globally known in the past eight months, with a huge amount of coverage. I probably won't add much more to the above stub, so I encourage anyone here to dive in! Thanks. --- Possibly ☎ 07:24, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed that since that Wikipedia has a notability guideline policy for sports athletes, players and sometimes coaches to see whether or not they have passed that notability guidelines. However, I also noticed that sports referees, particularly association football (soccer) referees, most of them are prone to not meet notability guidelines. Here are my options:
1. The first primary option is to make a separate notability guideline for referees, umpires, match officials, etc, either within the sports notability guideline or a guideline for general match officials in professional general sports, along with football (soccer) referees.
2. The secondary option: is to make the similar guideline to the first option I have stated, but at least have notability guidelines for a how to meet the notability criteria with mostly a topic referring to football (soccer) referees, and/or with other match officials in other major sports.
3. The third option might be tricky to specifically describe but in a nutshell for describing the case: to include a notability guideline for referees for most particularly football (soccer) referees which includes the following categories:
A. Any referee, men and/or women who had officiated it summoned in a major international "senior" tournament such as the FIFA World Cup, the Olympics, the UEFA Euros, the AFC Asian Cup, the Copa America, the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the Africa Cup of Nations, and the OFC Nations Cup, along the UEFA and CONCACAF Nations League, plus the qualifiers, particularly with World Cup qualifiers, Euro qualifying, as they are supposedly deemed to have significant coverage, can be deemed to meet the criteria.
B: Concerning about notability guidelines for players and coaches within a fully professional club league, referees who have been summoned and officiated in a fully professional league such as the Premier League, LaLiga, Seria A, Ligue 1, Bundesliga, Major League Soccer, the Argentine Primera División, etc, or have officiated in their respective club tournament within a league, or a confederation based club tournament, such as the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Europa League, the Copa Libertadores, the Copa Sudamericana, and/or is listed in the FIFA International Referees list can be deemed to meet the criteria. Referees who officiated in a non-professional league are not deemed to be notable, unless they could have significant coverage as they have either been summoned or had officiated in a professional league, a major professional league tournament, or a confederation-based club tournament, or the “senior” international match, and is a listed international referee. Minor club and confederated-based tournament referees including friendlies, even in a senior international friendly match, unless they have meet the significant coverage or some other forms of general notability guidelines.
Continuing with the third option could add a few examples about female referees, which may not meet the criteria due many women’s league mot being fully professional. (It’s not gender-biased this way.) Having said that, if women referees didn’t have enough strength to meet the criteria, they may not be notable, unless they have summoned and officiated the major tournament, such as the FIFA Women’s World Cup, and the Olympics, . The only difference from men’s scenario is that the female referees who have officiated in a league, tournament, club tournament, or a confederated-based club and/or international tournament, may not be deemed to meet the criteria, unless a referee has been summoned and officiated in a FIFA tournament, or the Olympics, and is a listed international referee.
There are some cases that female referees (e.g Kateryna Monzul, and Stéphanie Frappart whom they had officiated in top senior men’s tournament, club and/or international) can meet the criteria. They can meet the criteria if they have officiated an international women’s tournament, summoned and officiated a professional men’s league with their respective football association, has significant coverage, and/or is a listed international referee.
As to referees in other major sports, I don’t know if they could have significant coverage to every sport, and I am aware that this suggestion of the new separate guideline could be controversial, but let’s just say it for the sake of the argument.
Any match official, or umpire who have have officiated in the finals of their respective international tournament, such as in tennis, the Grand Slam tournament, US Open, an IIHF World Cup finals, the IFBA World Cup finals included, and sports in any Olympic final can be deemed notable if they have officiated, has most of the significant coverage, and other methods that passed general notability guidelines.
Assistant referees in any sports are not deemed notable.
I know that I was suggesting a lot in this regard, but these are the conditions.
We can discuss further whether to add the new guideline in a separate article, within the article with athletes, or have any other discussion on how to implement that in many other ways. I am open to any discussion within this topic.
With that being said, please to hesitate to discuss either here, or leave a reply to my talk page.
Thank you, and have a nice day. Ivan Milenin ( talk) 08:25, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi all. I've just posted Marguerite Dunlap - I've been working with a relative of her off-wiki to find sufficient references to demonstrate notability, and I think it's finally ready for mainspace. Any input/edits that anyone here can make to the article would be appreciated (via the thanks button)! Thanks. Mike Peel ( talk) 20:06, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
Women Innovators in Aviation and Space is an on-line editathon to be presented by the Smithsonian on 28 October from 1 pm Eastern. It is apparently being held in connection with the WikiEdu project Wikipedia:GLAM/Smithsonian Institution/American Women's History Initiative (AWHI). I see that CarCai is preparing further details on Wikipedia:WikiProject Smithsonian AWHI/Meetup/Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Women Innovators in Aviation and Spaceflight. Anyone can follow the event on YouTube.-- Ipigott ( talk) 11:05, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi. Latest female cricket bios include players from Argentina and Zimbabwe. Anesthesiologist and captain of the Argentine team Veronica Vasquez plays tomorrow in the Americas qualifier tournament in Mexico, after she made her international debut two years ago. Earlier in the month, the Irish cricket team toured Zimbabwe, prompting a raft of new Zimbabwean bios, including Chiedza Dhururu and Loryn Phiri. Zimbabwe's captain Mary-Anne Musonda made her one-day debut on the tour, scoring a century in her first match. Not to be out-done, Ireland's Amy Hunter also scored a century in the last match of the series, becoming the youngest cricketer (male or female) to score an international hundred in a one-day fixture. Enjoy. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 18:47, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
I recently created a draft for American author Rebecca Frankel. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you, Thriley ( talk) 23:38, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
I’ve tried to find an available photo of Milena Smit but I can’t seem to find one. Is there one out there? Thriley ( talk) 21:53, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
Thank you all! I may try the screenshot method if nothing comes up soon. Thriley ( talk) 23:55, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello all. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Farhat Bashir has been relisted for discussion and further comments would be appreciated. This is an article created as part of #AdaWiki24. Lajmmoore ( talk) 08:16, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
Our Metrics for October have not been updating since 12 October, now stuck at just 604 new articles. Does anyone know how to fix the problem or who we should alert?-- Ipigott ( talk) 15:05, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
This item in French and English on Cision announces a major event at Montreal's Palais des congrès on 23 October in connection with Canada's Women's History Month. Special attention will be given to Elise L'Heureux and Sally Elizabeth Wood. Details have been announced in French, stating that the event will run from 10 am to 5 pm Eastern in Room 720. The morning will cover Wikipedia training, the afternoon lectures. A free lunchbox will be offered to the first 20 to register.-- Ipigott ( talk) 13:56, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
Now we have expanded versions of fr:Elise L'Heureux and fr:Sally Elizabeth Wood. Looks like the editathoners found some good new French sources for the former, and there's apparently an exhibit catalogue for the ongoing exhibit at the Brome Museum on Wood & Wheeler. AleatoryPonderings ( ???) ( !!!) 03:35, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
Women in Red | November 2021, Volume 7, Issue 11, Numbers 184, 188, 210, 212, 213
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-- Innisfree987 ( talk) 21:27, 24 October 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Hello all, I came across this 1987 booklet of important women in Oceania. It includes short biographies of women from - American Samoa, Palau, Micronesia, Guam, Hawai'i', Marshall Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands. (Those in bold still need adding to Wikidata.) I'm not sure all are notable, but several definitely are. The pdf of the booklet includes images (some clearer than others) and since most of those featured are dead, the images might be game for Fair Use! Lajmmoore ( talk) 21:27, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi all! I wanted some help - I was working on an article for a controversial novel from a few years back about the Hemings/Jefferson controversy. I noticed that there was no category for Hemings herself, despite being mentioned in and the focus of several articles. I've fixed this with the category Category:Sally Hemings, but this still needs some work. Can anyone help ensure that everything looks OK and also help create any new subcategories as needed? At the moment I'm just sort of creating new ones as I go along. It would also be awesome if people could add this to articles (when appropriate, of course!) - I don't get as much time on Wikipedia currently, as my home computer no longer works, so I'm kind of limited on what I can do. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (。◕‿◕。) 11:58, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
I am attempting to revive an abandoned draft about Alison Kafer. She is an American academic who has written an influential book Feminist, Queer, Crip about the intersectionality of Feminist, Queer, and Disability Studies. She has also authored many other works on related topics. I'm looking for someone reasonably familiar with feminist and/or queer scholarship, as I'm quite comfortable dealing with disability topics but I'm out of my depth with the other two subject areas. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 21:14, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
While working on women's nationality, I ran into Judith Todd and found a photo of her, but unfortunately while it is in the PD in New Zealand isn't in the US. While trying to find another image to use, I ran into a pioneering photojournalist Evelyn Straus/Evelyn P. Straus. She looks plenty notable to me, i.e. [3], [4] [5], [6] [7], and this which says she was 26 in 1942, i.e. born 1916 +/- and was from Nassau, NY. Family search shows 23 in 1940, which led me to born 22 June 1916/died 10 March 1992, which in turn led me to her obit. Anyone interested in making a start on her? (I'm trying to finish Malawi by the end of the month and don't think I have the time to do Straus.) I've asked GRuban to look over the photographs I found to see if we can use any of them for Todd or Straus. Thanks. SusunW ( talk) 16:46, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi Folks!! This lady won a national award Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lethia Sherman Hankins. If anybody has any time, can these please take a look at it. scope_creep Talk 13:34, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello Women in Red! I just created an article on the American designer, author and business person Mary Wright (1904-1952). She was an equal business partner with her husband, the American mid-century modernist industrial designer, Russel Wright (who was better known than her). I'm thinking of nominating it for DYK, however I'm not the greatest writer, and would deeply appreciate it if someone has the time to read through it and correct my grammar and awkward sentence structure. Thank you in advance for your interest and help! Netherzone ( talk) 14:46, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
I'm seeing a lot of edits today on WIR-related biographies by different new editors, with similar patterns of adding links: Ta1202 ( talk · contribs), SoCerulean ( talk · contribs), Enegrini ( talk · contribs), GoatHeard65 ( talk · contribs), Itl259 ( talk · contribs), and Afryedits ( talk · contribs). Does anyone know of any editathons or classes this might have come from, or is it maybe some strange form of sockpuppetry? — David Eppstein ( talk) 22:51, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
Well; to be clear & in case there's any doubt: good job, AlwaysInRed / Elisa Negrini / whoever organised this. Thank you for putting together the event & for the constructive edits. Please don't take any of the above as criticism; just WiR chewing the cud. -- Tagishsimon ( talk) 08:25, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
American country singer Rose Lee Maphis has died. I created a brief stub for her. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you, Thriley ( talk) 02:26, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
The photo used on this obit seems like it would be an excellent candidate for commons:Template:PD-US-no notice, but I can't track down an authoritative source. I tried searching the Country Music Hall of Fame archives to no avail. It's included in her NYT obit credited to Starday Records and described as an "undated publicity photo". Is there some central repository for publicity photos, maybe? AleatoryPonderings ( ???) ( !!!) 00:49, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi, everyone. I just finished making articles on breast cancer survivor Nancy Cappello and on the condition of dense breasts. I was rather surprised the latter wasn't made by some science-minded Wikipedian in the past, as it is mentioned across many articles. Anyways, it exists now. One problem I'm having is finding a photo to use for Cappello's article. As she died recently (2018) and so there's plenty of photos that exist, but all copyrighted as far as I can tell. Anyone have any suggestions? Silver seren C 23:03, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
I'd appreciate help with Draft:Adrian_Sandra_Dobs - given the endocrinology initiative and seeing her red link - I started the with intent to hand off (I have COI) but thought it would help to just get it started. — soupvector ( talk) 13:53, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
Anyone want to tackle this? Edith Kermit Roosevelt was apparently a prolific and fairly renowned journalist who published in major outlets. Granddaughter of Teddy; daughter of Archibald Roosevelt. Problem is, she has the same (full) name as her First Lady grandmother, so searching is more difficult (plus the name on-wiki redirects to her grandmother, although it shouldn't in my opinion). But an article on her would be really helpful, in my opinion. So far I've found this: [9], [10]. Looks promising for anyone who has the time and interest. Thanks very much. Softlavender ( talk) 01:51, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 95 | ← | Archive 100 | Archive 101 | Archive 102 | Archive 103 | Archive 104 | Archive 105 |
In view of the highly successful online Wikimedia Women in Red panel presentation, I suggested on Rosiestep's talk page that we could use a similar online approach for a two-hour recruitment editathon which could be repeated two or three times the same day for different time zones. The two hours could consist of three or four short inspiring introductory presentations, possibly by some of the Wikimedia panelists, while most of the remaining time could be devoted to short practical exercises on Wikipedia editing. The participants could be completely new editors or editors who have recently joined but have not yet gained much experience in editing. They would have a week to draft their first article. Their work could then be reviewed and discussed at lessons learnt sessions a week after the editathons. Now that several key contributors have supported the approach, we need to plan the online sessions in some detail. As I have little experience either of online presentations or of editathons, I was hoping that Rosiestep and/or Victuallers could coordinate planning unless there are any other offers. It now looks as if the event could be held in connection with Ada Lovelace Day on Friday, 8 October, perhaps with lessons learnt sessions on Saturday, 15 October. So we still have plenty of time for planning and any further suggestions.-- Ipigott ( talk) 09:56, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
account to run sign ups. I think the 24 hour idea is very good - 24 hours of continuously editing about women in honour of Ada Lovelace would be great fun! Lajmmoore ( talk) 16:36, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
Looks like this may happen!! Victuallers ( talk) 10:19, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
This carries on the conversation above as per Ian's suggestion. On October 12th we will be celebrating Ada Lovelace and Women in STEM. Women in Red has seen this as an opportunity to raise our profile and do some recruitment. At Midday in New Zealand the day will start with the launch of an editathon. As #WikiAda24 continues the baton will be picked up by Australia. We have made a lot of progress. The NZ WIR editors are organised and ready with a press release, zoom links, eventbrite announcements, trainers (and handholders) ready to support the day. WMAU are committed. In the UK we have Emmeline Pankhurst's house booked and the eventbrites etc created. Trainers are booked and we understand that there may be one in Scotland too. At the moment we are reaching out to find editors in the Americas who could carry the editathon forward. New Zealand are prepared to finish the day
Have a look [ here] - the detail is increasing. If you are in UK, NZ or AU then we can sign you up ... if you are not then we really want to speak to you. This is a great opportunity to show off our collaboration. Can you see how you might help? Be Bold. Victuallers ( talk) 15:59, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
If anyone is wishing for a on-wiki way to help with the
ADA24 bonanza, a task that might benefit from any amount of time you have to give it is clean up on the crowd-sourced red-link lists we’re using (see link), some of which contain many now-blue links. I have been working on tidying this up for the newcomers we hope to attract, but have only finished a few of the lists so far.
Also, if there are additional STEM lists that should be included, please do add! Thanks so much.
Innisfree987 (
talk)
17:41, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
"Global 24-hour Wikipedia "Edit-a-thon" Kicks Off In New Zealand" - just announced by Scoop, New Zealand.-- Ipigott ( talk) 12:37, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
I think we have our final list! We have recruited leads for Pakistan and Kenya and plans for NZ, AU and UK are well advanced with good support from each chapter. We have volunteer editors ready to join us to help the newbies we attract but we could always do with more. We also have places where experienced editors can collegially edit together at different virtual locations. The dashboard for the event should record every new article, picture and editor. Do feel free to come along and help a newbie to steer their way through the wiki maze.... and maybe help them in a weeks time and encourage them to join us here more regularly. Find an error = fix it. Victuallers ( talk) 11:41, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
I'll be promoting AdaWiki24 and seeking participation from North American Wikipedians during Sunday's Lightning Talk session at WikiConference North America. If you're registered to attend WCNA, see you there; or you can watch live/later via this YouTube link. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 15:26, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
In case people are wondering how Tuesday is time-tabled, Lisa Maule made this amazing schedule, showing our various locations! Yesterday evening, Victuallers and I showed some of our new Kenyan friends how to make their first edits. If it suits the time zone that you're in, there's an "open" session from 8-10pm UK time, which it would be lovely to see some friendly faces at! There's a sign up here. Lajmmoore ( talk) 08:28, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
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.-- Ipigott ( talk) 10:11, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello all, our new friends in Pakistan @ Femonics: and their team, worked extremely hard on some new stub pages this evening. If people could support some polishing, that would be very much appreciated:
Thank you for all the support. We had so much fun and a wonderful learning experience Femonics ( talk) 18:57, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
Join us for live editing Wikipedia Weekly videocast at 1pm EDT/5 pm UTC. Working with @Rosiestep @restlesscurator @SiobhanLeachman @WikiWomenInRed @Fuzheado on the Timeline of women in computing and more.
Hope you can join us, and feel free to ask questions/interact. - Fuzheado | Talk 16:17, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
From July to September 2021, Women in Red held a virtual editathon focusing on Women at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
A special shout-out to Lugnuts and SportsOlympic for their contribution of preparatory and behind-the-scenes work on this. WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 18:31, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
WATAC explores feminist activism in action, an article from CatholicOutlook, presents plans for covering more women on Wikipedia under the Australian Women in Religion Project with a Zoom session on 13 October. See also Kerrie Burn's video.-- Ipigott ( talk) 15:14, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
Anne Saxelby, a noted figure in the American artisanal cheese movement, had her obit published in The NY Times today: [1] Any help with her article would be appreciated. Thriley ( talk) 04:14, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
I started a tiny stub on her. Plenty of sources and would be a nice easy article to write. Someone may want to have a look! Calliopejen1 ( talk) 15:58, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
This article about a recently deceased physicist with a remarkable life story—her Jewish family fled Belgium during WWII and she eventually ended up in New York—could use some attention. Especially from people with physics knowledge (not me). AleatoryPonderings ( ???) ( !!!) 23:13, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello, is there a policy of this project to use the unused templates starting from 12108 to 12125 from the Unused Templates report? Asking to avoid any potential major disruption as part of my task force idea to deal with the backlog of unused templates as part of WikiProject Templates. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 16:24, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
Perhaps impressively, we have articles on almost every woman mentioned in this Guardian article on overlooked women artists. The only one mentioned that we do not have an article for is Evangeline St Claire. If anyone can find good sourcing, ping me and I will make a stub. I looked around and could not find much. --- Possibly ☎ 15:38, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
For all I know this might have been created as part of WiR outreach anyway... Talk:Lesley Akyaa Opoku Ware Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:57, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
There is a request for comment on Anne Wyllie's talk page where discussion is centred around whether a list of selected publications is appropriate on a scientist's page. Would welcome other views. DrThneed ( talk) 00:49, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
Saturday's New York Times carries a profile on Chanel Contos, an Australian student and sexual consent activist. She's become globally known in the past eight months, with a huge amount of coverage. I probably won't add much more to the above stub, so I encourage anyone here to dive in! Thanks. --- Possibly ☎ 07:24, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed that since that Wikipedia has a notability guideline policy for sports athletes, players and sometimes coaches to see whether or not they have passed that notability guidelines. However, I also noticed that sports referees, particularly association football (soccer) referees, most of them are prone to not meet notability guidelines. Here are my options:
1. The first primary option is to make a separate notability guideline for referees, umpires, match officials, etc, either within the sports notability guideline or a guideline for general match officials in professional general sports, along with football (soccer) referees.
2. The secondary option: is to make the similar guideline to the first option I have stated, but at least have notability guidelines for a how to meet the notability criteria with mostly a topic referring to football (soccer) referees, and/or with other match officials in other major sports.
3. The third option might be tricky to specifically describe but in a nutshell for describing the case: to include a notability guideline for referees for most particularly football (soccer) referees which includes the following categories:
A. Any referee, men and/or women who had officiated it summoned in a major international "senior" tournament such as the FIFA World Cup, the Olympics, the UEFA Euros, the AFC Asian Cup, the Copa America, the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the Africa Cup of Nations, and the OFC Nations Cup, along the UEFA and CONCACAF Nations League, plus the qualifiers, particularly with World Cup qualifiers, Euro qualifying, as they are supposedly deemed to have significant coverage, can be deemed to meet the criteria.
B: Concerning about notability guidelines for players and coaches within a fully professional club league, referees who have been summoned and officiated in a fully professional league such as the Premier League, LaLiga, Seria A, Ligue 1, Bundesliga, Major League Soccer, the Argentine Primera División, etc, or have officiated in their respective club tournament within a league, or a confederation based club tournament, such as the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Europa League, the Copa Libertadores, the Copa Sudamericana, and/or is listed in the FIFA International Referees list can be deemed to meet the criteria. Referees who officiated in a non-professional league are not deemed to be notable, unless they could have significant coverage as they have either been summoned or had officiated in a professional league, a major professional league tournament, or a confederation-based club tournament, or the “senior” international match, and is a listed international referee. Minor club and confederated-based tournament referees including friendlies, even in a senior international friendly match, unless they have meet the significant coverage or some other forms of general notability guidelines.
Continuing with the third option could add a few examples about female referees, which may not meet the criteria due many women’s league mot being fully professional. (It’s not gender-biased this way.) Having said that, if women referees didn’t have enough strength to meet the criteria, they may not be notable, unless they have summoned and officiated the major tournament, such as the FIFA Women’s World Cup, and the Olympics, . The only difference from men’s scenario is that the female referees who have officiated in a league, tournament, club tournament, or a confederated-based club and/or international tournament, may not be deemed to meet the criteria, unless a referee has been summoned and officiated in a FIFA tournament, or the Olympics, and is a listed international referee.
There are some cases that female referees (e.g Kateryna Monzul, and Stéphanie Frappart whom they had officiated in top senior men’s tournament, club and/or international) can meet the criteria. They can meet the criteria if they have officiated an international women’s tournament, summoned and officiated a professional men’s league with their respective football association, has significant coverage, and/or is a listed international referee.
As to referees in other major sports, I don’t know if they could have significant coverage to every sport, and I am aware that this suggestion of the new separate guideline could be controversial, but let’s just say it for the sake of the argument.
Any match official, or umpire who have have officiated in the finals of their respective international tournament, such as in tennis, the Grand Slam tournament, US Open, an IIHF World Cup finals, the IFBA World Cup finals included, and sports in any Olympic final can be deemed notable if they have officiated, has most of the significant coverage, and other methods that passed general notability guidelines.
Assistant referees in any sports are not deemed notable.
I know that I was suggesting a lot in this regard, but these are the conditions.
We can discuss further whether to add the new guideline in a separate article, within the article with athletes, or have any other discussion on how to implement that in many other ways. I am open to any discussion within this topic.
With that being said, please to hesitate to discuss either here, or leave a reply to my talk page.
Thank you, and have a nice day. Ivan Milenin ( talk) 08:25, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi all. I've just posted Marguerite Dunlap - I've been working with a relative of her off-wiki to find sufficient references to demonstrate notability, and I think it's finally ready for mainspace. Any input/edits that anyone here can make to the article would be appreciated (via the thanks button)! Thanks. Mike Peel ( talk) 20:06, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
Women Innovators in Aviation and Space is an on-line editathon to be presented by the Smithsonian on 28 October from 1 pm Eastern. It is apparently being held in connection with the WikiEdu project Wikipedia:GLAM/Smithsonian Institution/American Women's History Initiative (AWHI). I see that CarCai is preparing further details on Wikipedia:WikiProject Smithsonian AWHI/Meetup/Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Women Innovators in Aviation and Spaceflight. Anyone can follow the event on YouTube.-- Ipigott ( talk) 11:05, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi. Latest female cricket bios include players from Argentina and Zimbabwe. Anesthesiologist and captain of the Argentine team Veronica Vasquez plays tomorrow in the Americas qualifier tournament in Mexico, after she made her international debut two years ago. Earlier in the month, the Irish cricket team toured Zimbabwe, prompting a raft of new Zimbabwean bios, including Chiedza Dhururu and Loryn Phiri. Zimbabwe's captain Mary-Anne Musonda made her one-day debut on the tour, scoring a century in her first match. Not to be out-done, Ireland's Amy Hunter also scored a century in the last match of the series, becoming the youngest cricketer (male or female) to score an international hundred in a one-day fixture. Enjoy. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 18:47, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
I recently created a draft for American author Rebecca Frankel. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you, Thriley ( talk) 23:38, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
I’ve tried to find an available photo of Milena Smit but I can’t seem to find one. Is there one out there? Thriley ( talk) 21:53, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
Thank you all! I may try the screenshot method if nothing comes up soon. Thriley ( talk) 23:55, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello all. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Farhat Bashir has been relisted for discussion and further comments would be appreciated. This is an article created as part of #AdaWiki24. Lajmmoore ( talk) 08:16, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
Our Metrics for October have not been updating since 12 October, now stuck at just 604 new articles. Does anyone know how to fix the problem or who we should alert?-- Ipigott ( talk) 15:05, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
This item in French and English on Cision announces a major event at Montreal's Palais des congrès on 23 October in connection with Canada's Women's History Month. Special attention will be given to Elise L'Heureux and Sally Elizabeth Wood. Details have been announced in French, stating that the event will run from 10 am to 5 pm Eastern in Room 720. The morning will cover Wikipedia training, the afternoon lectures. A free lunchbox will be offered to the first 20 to register.-- Ipigott ( talk) 13:56, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
Now we have expanded versions of fr:Elise L'Heureux and fr:Sally Elizabeth Wood. Looks like the editathoners found some good new French sources for the former, and there's apparently an exhibit catalogue for the ongoing exhibit at the Brome Museum on Wood & Wheeler. AleatoryPonderings ( ???) ( !!!) 03:35, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
Women in Red | November 2021, Volume 7, Issue 11, Numbers 184, 188, 210, 212, 213
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Hello all, I came across this 1987 booklet of important women in Oceania. It includes short biographies of women from - American Samoa, Palau, Micronesia, Guam, Hawai'i', Marshall Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands. (Those in bold still need adding to Wikidata.) I'm not sure all are notable, but several definitely are. The pdf of the booklet includes images (some clearer than others) and since most of those featured are dead, the images might be game for Fair Use! Lajmmoore ( talk) 21:27, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi all! I wanted some help - I was working on an article for a controversial novel from a few years back about the Hemings/Jefferson controversy. I noticed that there was no category for Hemings herself, despite being mentioned in and the focus of several articles. I've fixed this with the category Category:Sally Hemings, but this still needs some work. Can anyone help ensure that everything looks OK and also help create any new subcategories as needed? At the moment I'm just sort of creating new ones as I go along. It would also be awesome if people could add this to articles (when appropriate, of course!) - I don't get as much time on Wikipedia currently, as my home computer no longer works, so I'm kind of limited on what I can do. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (。◕‿◕。) 11:58, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
I am attempting to revive an abandoned draft about Alison Kafer. She is an American academic who has written an influential book Feminist, Queer, Crip about the intersectionality of Feminist, Queer, and Disability Studies. She has also authored many other works on related topics. I'm looking for someone reasonably familiar with feminist and/or queer scholarship, as I'm quite comfortable dealing with disability topics but I'm out of my depth with the other two subject areas. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 21:14, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
While working on women's nationality, I ran into Judith Todd and found a photo of her, but unfortunately while it is in the PD in New Zealand isn't in the US. While trying to find another image to use, I ran into a pioneering photojournalist Evelyn Straus/Evelyn P. Straus. She looks plenty notable to me, i.e. [3], [4] [5], [6] [7], and this which says she was 26 in 1942, i.e. born 1916 +/- and was from Nassau, NY. Family search shows 23 in 1940, which led me to born 22 June 1916/died 10 March 1992, which in turn led me to her obit. Anyone interested in making a start on her? (I'm trying to finish Malawi by the end of the month and don't think I have the time to do Straus.) I've asked GRuban to look over the photographs I found to see if we can use any of them for Todd or Straus. Thanks. SusunW ( talk) 16:46, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi Folks!! This lady won a national award Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lethia Sherman Hankins. If anybody has any time, can these please take a look at it. scope_creep Talk 13:34, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello Women in Red! I just created an article on the American designer, author and business person Mary Wright (1904-1952). She was an equal business partner with her husband, the American mid-century modernist industrial designer, Russel Wright (who was better known than her). I'm thinking of nominating it for DYK, however I'm not the greatest writer, and would deeply appreciate it if someone has the time to read through it and correct my grammar and awkward sentence structure. Thank you in advance for your interest and help! Netherzone ( talk) 14:46, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
I'm seeing a lot of edits today on WIR-related biographies by different new editors, with similar patterns of adding links: Ta1202 ( talk · contribs), SoCerulean ( talk · contribs), Enegrini ( talk · contribs), GoatHeard65 ( talk · contribs), Itl259 ( talk · contribs), and Afryedits ( talk · contribs). Does anyone know of any editathons or classes this might have come from, or is it maybe some strange form of sockpuppetry? — David Eppstein ( talk) 22:51, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
Well; to be clear & in case there's any doubt: good job, AlwaysInRed / Elisa Negrini / whoever organised this. Thank you for putting together the event & for the constructive edits. Please don't take any of the above as criticism; just WiR chewing the cud. -- Tagishsimon ( talk) 08:25, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
American country singer Rose Lee Maphis has died. I created a brief stub for her. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you, Thriley ( talk) 02:26, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
The photo used on this obit seems like it would be an excellent candidate for commons:Template:PD-US-no notice, but I can't track down an authoritative source. I tried searching the Country Music Hall of Fame archives to no avail. It's included in her NYT obit credited to Starday Records and described as an "undated publicity photo". Is there some central repository for publicity photos, maybe? AleatoryPonderings ( ???) ( !!!) 00:49, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi, everyone. I just finished making articles on breast cancer survivor Nancy Cappello and on the condition of dense breasts. I was rather surprised the latter wasn't made by some science-minded Wikipedian in the past, as it is mentioned across many articles. Anyways, it exists now. One problem I'm having is finding a photo to use for Cappello's article. As she died recently (2018) and so there's plenty of photos that exist, but all copyrighted as far as I can tell. Anyone have any suggestions? Silver seren C 23:03, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
I'd appreciate help with Draft:Adrian_Sandra_Dobs - given the endocrinology initiative and seeing her red link - I started the with intent to hand off (I have COI) but thought it would help to just get it started. — soupvector ( talk) 13:53, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
Anyone want to tackle this? Edith Kermit Roosevelt was apparently a prolific and fairly renowned journalist who published in major outlets. Granddaughter of Teddy; daughter of Archibald Roosevelt. Problem is, she has the same (full) name as her First Lady grandmother, so searching is more difficult (plus the name on-wiki redirects to her grandmother, although it shouldn't in my opinion). But an article on her would be really helpful, in my opinion. So far I've found this: [9], [10]. Looks promising for anyone who has the time and interest. Thanks very much. Softlavender ( talk) 01:51, 28 October 2021 (UTC)