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So, uh... I had insomnia... In addition to the FPCs listed above, we now have....
Also, the 1966 flood of the Arno and Gina Krog images are both now FPs. And I just noticed my signature is telling me I've hit 7% of all FPs, which is nice. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7% of all FPs 11:33, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
I've just discovered List of Ghanaians, List of Canadians, List of English people etc. See them all at Lists of people by nationality or by following links in Category:Lists of people by nationality. For some nationalities there are only a group of specific lists (sportspeople, artists, people from xyz region, etc), while for others, as above, there is a list which looks as if it ought to include everyone from that country who has an article (andprobably also a whole lot of narrower lists). I'm very sceptical about the value of such country-wide lists except for extremely small or under-represented countries: list of English people has a "politicians" section which is frankly tiny, and it isn't clear whether this is someone's view of "important" politicians, or just incompleteness because not many editors add their new articles to the list.
But since these lists exist, we ought to make sure that women are well represented. So when you create an article about a woman, please consider adding her to the relevant "List of ...", or to whatever specific sublist is appropriate (eg for Australia, List of Australians is a redirect to Lists of Australians which lists a lot of more specific lists).
I had a look at the outcomes of our "Millenial countries" editathon and couldn't find a single one (didn't check all) which seemed to have an incoming link from a "List of ...", so I think I'm not the only WiR editor who wasn't aware of these lists.
So now the list of things to think about adding, to raise the visibility of our articles, includes:
{{subst:refer|type=surname}}
and end it with {{surname}}
)If anyone was in the mood for a mindless-but-useful job (feeling slightly ill, or listening to a radio play?), you could go through the outcomes lists of some of our editathons and check for any or all of those. I've done one or two lists, checking for redirects from alternative forms of names. It occurs to me that it might be useful to note on the talk page for any particular WiR editathon if we do any sort of followup checking and link-making like that, to avoid duplication. Pam D 17:25, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
I just signed up and I agree with dawnleelynn (above) that it's a bit confusing, although I found my way. Having just participated in a Good Article backlog drive, I was wondering would it be useful to adopt the listing format they used? For that, the participants self-listed giving their username as a level 4 heading, making it easy to see who had done what and also keeping it easy to count individual contributions. Hope that makes sense, you can see what I mean here. I don't mind to reconfigure the two current lists (Newly created stubs: October and Destubbed articles: October) if people think it would help. In any case good luck everyone with the stubathon! Mujinga ( talk) 12:46, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
Our three-month stub contest is starting now and will continue until the end of the year. Although there will be no physical prizes, each month (October, November and December) recognition will be given to the winners of two different sections: one for new stubs, the other for enhancing existing stubs. The contest is open to all registered members of Women in Red. Join in now and help us improve women's coverage on Wikipedia.-- Ipigott ( talk) 19:04, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
{{us-bio-stub}}
, although Mabel Strickland Woodward has in fact already reached start class. .--
Ipigott (
talk)
07:29, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
Japan has been celebrating the 2019 Rugby World Cup and the Olympics just coming on the way to Tokyo. The country has also not forgotten to give priority to women as well. Of course, I read the news regarding the special event which was conducted on 29 September 2019 by the Swedish embassy in Japan to promote biographies about women in Wikipedia in both English and Japanese languages. But I was also confused on one of the sentences which was mentioned in the source. It said Rina Yomota, an editor of an agricultural website created an article about Eri Otsu, a farmer who won an award in 2017 from the UN Food and Agricultural Organization. But the sentence didn't clearly specify whether the article Eri Otsu was create in English or Japanese version. When I searched it in the English version, it was not available. I even just now searched and try to create for that person and unfortunately my attempt was a failure that I hardly found any sources to create for Eri Otsu. I am also just having doubts whether the above source that I linked here is a reliable one or not. Abishe ( talk) 14:28, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
Here is a list of pages that are red-linked on pages relating to women's world championships. Most of them are women, a good few are teams, events or "country at event"/"country in sport", and a few are men related to women's sport (referees, coaches etc.).
Hope this is useful. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
23:09, 2 October 2019 (UTC).
Alex Depledge was nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alex Depledge. Concerns were raised that the article is promotional and that she is not notable. Alexandra Depledge is "a British technology entrepreneur, known best for being the founder and CEO of Resi, and also as the founder and former CEO of Helpling that was formerly known as Hassle.com". Can anyone find more sources about her? Cunard ( talk) 07:59, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello all, I've been asked to provide examples of articles within our scope that include "visual examples of vandalism". If you are aware of any, would you kindly post diffs here? Thank you. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 10:51, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
This announcement on FB may interest some of you: -- Rosiestep ( talk) 19:43, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
"Please help us showcase the achievements of Ukrainian women to the world. We at Wikimedia Ukraine (Вікімедіа Україна / Wikimedia Ukraine) are organizing a Wikipedia writing challenge aimed to improve the coverage of Ukrainian women — https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/She_Did_It . The marathon has already started and will run for a week — by the end of October 11th. You can create and expand articles in any language other than Ukrainian🙂 The rules and the scoring system are inspired by WikiGap Challenge, so they might be familiar to some of you🙂 Prizes are premium Grammarly subscriptions for most active contributors. Special offer for anyone from the CEE community — Wikimedia Ukraine's warm love and souvenirs at the upcoming CEE Meeting🙂 Please join the challenge and, of course, help us spread the word about it. Thanks!"
Just came across Why universities are hiring “Wikipedeans-in-Residence” by Aaron Hutchins. It raises the problem of gender bias.-- Ipigott ( talk) 08:19, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi again! This time I have a request re actual content. I recently created an article for a redlink listed on this Project's page, Ella Russell, under the Focus on Suffrage initiative. I subsequently received a message by User:DragonflySixtyseven arguing "the second half of the article doesn't really pertain to her, does it?" I disagree, having stated that it "establishes very clearly why her work was ultimately important to suffragism both locally and nationally". Could you please provide feedback as to which view might prevail? My intentions as always are to try and include as much information as possible concerning underrepresented topics, as sustained by sources. Much appreciated, and please improve the article if you deem it necessary or possible! PK650 ( talk) 11:19, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
A final update, for now:
The third grant-funded round of
WikiProject X has been completed. Unfortunately, while this round has not resulted in a deployed product, I am not planning to resume working on the project for the foreseeable future. Please see the
final report for more information.
Regards,
-— Isarra ༆ 19:24, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
I took a few pics of her at a conference, but nothing really turned out great. I'd been planning on going back and taking better ones the second day of the conference, but didn't get there because of a migraine. Two pics were semi-ok and I uploaded them, but I can't decide if they could be used in her article here on the en-wiki:
Could either of these be used? Or edited to make them better? - Yupik ( talk) 11:11, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi all, Becca Barnes's most recent course has concluded and it looks like Dr. Barnes just moved the content from sandboxes to mainspace this weekend. I'm starting the preliminary cleanups now. Here are the articles created. Per previous discussions, I thought I'd drop you a line and let you know. Thanks, Elysia (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 16:29, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
One of our Twitter (#wikiwomeninred) mates is Prof Jo Delahunty QC who recently gave one of the free lectures at Gresham College on "Have women achieved professional equality". She talks brilliantly for about an hour. After 54 mins she talks about raising the visibility of women .... and Women in Red on Wikipedia is seen as a force for good. Proud to see us mentioned. It wasn't at our prompting and she only mentioned it as we chatted about other things. Its not a "media" mention, but impressive to see this project mentioned there. Roger aka Victuallers ( talk) 05:51, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi, all! I'm writing to notify anyone who's hanging around here today that I'll be helping a group of people run an event to add biographies to ENWP today. It will primarily be scientists and engineers who identify as women or with other marginalized groups. We'll review notability requirements, and my team will help new editors start stubs that meet those standards. Last time we helped a group run such an event, I promised to make a note here. Looking forward to seeing some new Wikipedians join in this great cause! Jami (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 18:15, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello. Not too sure of the relevance of this for the Women in Red page, and I'm hoping that if it isn't, maybe someone can give me a bit of a steer... I was given the Women in Red talk page as a possible place to ask my question, so here goes:
I've struggled with the publication of my first wikipedia entry here Draft:Liz_MacRae_Shaw I thought I was getting somewhere after a major editing frenzy earlier this year, but after searching libraries for book titles to reveal notability, the reviewer came back and commented that the books are in almost no libraries, so the subject was not considered to be notable enough.
One of the author's most notable pieces of research appears in the Gaelic Society of Inverness and it seems as if this has maybe been overlooked by the last reviewer.
If this is irrelevant, I apologise, but I'm having one last go at getting my first entry published. Thanks for any help you might be able to offer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hazelraee ( talk • contribs) 12:39, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
This is one of the reasons I dislike AfC. I think the article would get past AfD, but they can be quite stringent with AfC. Number of libraries is not the notability guideline. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7% of all FPs 13:11, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
Thanks Mujinga and Adam Cuerden
Adam Cuerden - can I ask what you mean by AfD? Is that articles for deletion? Thanks for your help on this, and for pointing out that the number of libraries is not the notability guideline. I'm on a very steep learning curve here! Hazelraee ( talk) 14:40, 9 October 2019 (UTC) Hazelraee ( talk)
I see from WHGI that we now have over 300,000 women's biographies on the English version of Wikipedia, far surpassing those in any other collection. From Wikipedia:WikiProject Women and Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History, you can see that quite a few have reached FA or GA. On the other hand, there are still lots of stubs which need attention, for example those listed as high or mid importance. Perhaps we can deal with some of them under our current stub contest, aiming for both quantitative and qualitative improvements. Never a dull day!-- Ipigott ( talk) 12:30, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
So, all the images from the last report and its update passed, which is a fantastic success rate. I usually try to wait for a minimum of three new ones before posting again, although it's a bit of a judgement call, as I like having them up while they're still relevant, instead of announcing the new featured picture candidate... that just passed. Last week. Going to borrow some of the captions from WP:FPC, because, dagnabbit, if I'm the only one with nominations at this particular moment in time, I can be as self-indulgent as I want. Oh, wait, Coffeeandcrumbs snuck one in while I wasn't looking. ...Eh, still doing it.
I'm really excited by the release of the archives of the National Women's Party to the Library of Congress. I have a... few chosen out. Alright, like 20. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7% of all FPs 02:36, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
I see from Anne Salomon that {{ Infobox academic}} is still rooted in the c1950s ... taking the topmost information to be most important, I learn she is a Canadian marine ecologist married to Tim Storr and has one (I'm sure lovely) child.
Later on there's some stuff about her academic credentials. -- Tagishsimon ( talk) 00:25, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
I'm training today (belated #AdaLoveslaceDay editathon) at the Pankhurst Centre. Its a day late but wanted to hold it at the Pankhurst's house in Manchester. Eventful times as the centre was broken into and they have just raised £20K to fix the damage. The CEO said that the editathon was too important to cancel!. So I have cloned a page for the newbies to sign up to and our twitter mates are interested in joining in. I have created the page too quickly and not sure if it all works. Can anyone volunteer to test and fix i? Really keep to use the outreach dashboard. I'm travelling for next six or so hours (its a long drive from Scotland). Obviously if we have editors who would like to join us online (or in person) then that would be great. (I have been watching WIR editors looking at the list of Force fed suffragettes and great to see the collaboration in progress). Thanks in anticipation Victuallers ( talk) 05:51, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
Moira Paul's wonderful article on the REDress Project is going live tonight on the front page of this wiki's DYK for those of you in North and South America and tomorrow morning (UTC 1:00) for the rest of us. This is already her second DYK in the last couple of weeks. Great job, Moira Paul! - Yupik ( talk) 11:06, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
I noticed that List of female chefs with Michelin stars is at AfD, but more importantly, it looks like a good candidate for names in red to turn blue. XOR'easter ( talk) 19:58, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
I know this slightly off topic but I would appreciate any help in improving Olga Tokarczuk so she can appear on the Main Page for WP:ITN/C. We need a source for all claims on the page. Don't try !voting at ITNC that is pointless. Just need team work to quickly improve the page to meet the quality standards. --- Coffeeand crumbs 14:50, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
The biography of Esther Duflo needs urgent attention, especially the lack of in-line referencing. See [17].-- Ipigott ( talk) 10:53, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
Hey! I'm back! Fiancé went back to the states, restoring images is calming... it happens. I should probably point out the lead image of Frances Willard, because, while it's quite a bit too small for featured pictures, I'm rather happy with it. And I do do things outwith WiR. I just try to make at least half my FPs WiR-related, which, since some of the others... aren't gender related, pushes up the gender balance at FP. All three of these are suffragettes, all with their own reasons, and all interesting outside of suffrage. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs 21:18, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
Despite being busy with college work nowadays, I managed to take a look at the brief video about the chapter of Women in Red campaign started way back in 2015 as we know. It has been a nice journey for our campaign with lot of ups and downs. Take a look at this. Abishe ( talk) 02:39, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello Fellow Wikipedians! I have been working on adding more biographies on women woodworkers and am wondering what is the best way to have all of the names in one centralized location. So far I have been putting them under the Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Crafts section but I am wondering if there is an area for artists by discipline that I am not seeing? I have been thinking of starting a separate task force for this woman in woodworking project. I have several editors interested in working on specifically women in woodworking and we gather informally every month and may start to host larger editing gatherings in which having a centralized list of women woodworkers with red links would be helpful. I am also thinking the task force may want to include articles recently turned blue or other articles on the subject that could use editing, in which case perhaps the task force should be a child of the project Wikipedia:WikiProject Women artists. Any input is welcome! Thanks Terasaface ( talk) 06:28, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
There are, at least, 567,927 Wikidata items which are human (Q5) and have no sex or gender (P21). This obviously affects the coverage of our redlinks. I think it is more frequent for some countries than others, such as Chinese people whose article exists only in Chinese Wikipedia. Do you think we can do something to close this gap? Best, -- MarioGom ( talk) 13:04, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello all! The BBC published their list of 100 Women in 2019 today, so in the spirit of WiR, I made a table and a list of the women to see who we have articles on and who we don't. I've also included Wikipedias in other languages too. Some of the names on the non-appearing list might have Wikidata items or be on Wikipedias in other languages, since the search I did was based on the way the BBC wrote their names. On the other hand, we can use the redlinks on the meta page to add redirects since people could be searching for them based on the BBC's versions of their names. (And of course, the reason why I saw this list in the first place is that Skolt Saami journalist Sara Wesslin made the list! :)) - Yupik ( talk) 10:20, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
This set of FPs is brought to you by Women in Red! Because two of these women got articles through Women in Red as part of the Focus on Suffrage this year, and the third got a massive improvement! Also by crippling insomnia and being too ill to go out. That's the less fun part. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs 07:40, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
Some doubts about this article have been raised at
Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sahar Moghadass, and, while I think there's enough to satisfy
WP:GNG, it's also true that it's a mess, with blog articles as a large number of sources, and Wikidata sorry, Wikiseda, but still, the name doesn't give me high "Reliable source" vibes used as a source in one case. This article DEFINITELY needs some TLC, ideally from someone who speaks Persian.
Adam Cuerden (
talk)Has about 7.1% of all
FPs
20:04, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
...I swear I'm not trying to be funny here by posting reports so often. It's just a super-good period for women at FPC. This time, it's mostly not only half by me. (Insomnia attacks once more!)
Adam Cuerden (
talk)Has about 7.1% of all
FPs
01:36, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello all,
A user has come to me asking for advice regarding my decline of a draft submitted via the AFC process. I have responded to the user but I am also posting a link to the discussion here so any interested users can chime in and offer some more advice. The discussion can be found at User talk:StraussInTheHouse#Draft:List of Books About Women in History.
Many thanks,
SITH (talk) 18:45, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello! I'm requesting feedback for WikiProject X components usage. Your project is using templates related to my proposal and your feedback would be really appreciated: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject X § Streamlining WikiProject X components. Thank you! -- MarioGom ( talk) 10:37, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
Have spent today creating the table for 100 Women (BBC)#2019 and adding info to Wikidata, including new names. I see there are CS and WD lists on the Redlist page. The WD list is for 2018 only and for some reason has retained blue-linked names. Someone with skill in this area may care to sort this out. I have not yet clicked through to all the bios and added a statement, reference and category for the award of 100 Women. Again, someone may like to take on this task. There would appear to be a good number of interesting women who deserve to have bios written. Oronsay ( talk) 08:09, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
If someone is looking for an article to create for the landlocked countries portion of WIR this month, this woman is a great candidate. I'm quite surprised that we don't already have an article about her yet. Wikidata has items for some of the articles she's written, but no qid for her yet. No photos in Commons. - Yupik ( talk) 00:08, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
Is there a project heading for works by women, books, stories, buildings, paintings whatever, by women which do not but probably should have an article? ☕ Antiqueight chatter 12:42, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
Feel free to suggest others, either to be created via Wikidata, or perhaps there's a webpage you've seen with a good list, or etc.. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 13:15, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
All - In light of the conversation we've been having in this section, I'm wondering if it might not be worthwhile to include a monthly (quarterly?) "Works focus" event, like we have a monthly "Geofocus" event? Although works might not be everyone's "cup of tea", this might bring in new editors. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 12:11, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
I'm kind of running out of suffragettes with images to restore. Currently, my queue is Inter-Allied Women's Conference, once I burst out of the frantic madness of restoration I've been stuck in, then Ethel Smyth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton if I can find a good one of her, Hazel MacKaye (who has the best lead image I've seen), Nina Allender, and then I'm kind of running out of ones I've found good images for. So, I suppose I'm open to suggestions? I want at least half female-related FPs, and have a few things I'd like to do outwith Women in Red, so need counterbalances. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs 07:38, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
Just as a heads up, I might take a bit to go through everything, as I always like to research each name, to make sure I'm going with the best possible image for the person, which means checking all the likely places, which in this case looks to include, just offhand, the Te Papa, The National Libraries of France, and Norway (both of which have GREAT open-access to their images), the Metropolitan Museum in New York (a surprisingly useful source for photos and painting, if somewhat random as to whether it'll have nothing or a wealth of stuff), The Library of Congress, the New York Public Library (erratic as to what they've put into the free-download categories, but sometimes useful), Google, and whatever else seems relevant. This can take a while. I tend to do research in batches, then work through it, removing things as needed from the list if I hit problems with it. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs 23:24, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
So, so far...
There will, of course, be more, but thought it might be good to have a progress bar. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs 11:18, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
I spotted Draft:Naaz Joshi today (it turned up at CAT:CSD because it had been copied and pasted around a bit), and the creator is having difficulty getting going. One of the problems I've got is that some of the news sources I looked up are blocked where I am, so I can't pull facts from them. Oldperson has already given it a bit of spit and polish, but I think it just needs some care and attention from the right person - then we could get a DYK out of it. Any takers? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 21:41, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
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So, uh... I had insomnia... In addition to the FPCs listed above, we now have....
Also, the 1966 flood of the Arno and Gina Krog images are both now FPs. And I just noticed my signature is telling me I've hit 7% of all FPs, which is nice. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7% of all FPs 11:33, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
I've just discovered List of Ghanaians, List of Canadians, List of English people etc. See them all at Lists of people by nationality or by following links in Category:Lists of people by nationality. For some nationalities there are only a group of specific lists (sportspeople, artists, people from xyz region, etc), while for others, as above, there is a list which looks as if it ought to include everyone from that country who has an article (andprobably also a whole lot of narrower lists). I'm very sceptical about the value of such country-wide lists except for extremely small or under-represented countries: list of English people has a "politicians" section which is frankly tiny, and it isn't clear whether this is someone's view of "important" politicians, or just incompleteness because not many editors add their new articles to the list.
But since these lists exist, we ought to make sure that women are well represented. So when you create an article about a woman, please consider adding her to the relevant "List of ...", or to whatever specific sublist is appropriate (eg for Australia, List of Australians is a redirect to Lists of Australians which lists a lot of more specific lists).
I had a look at the outcomes of our "Millenial countries" editathon and couldn't find a single one (didn't check all) which seemed to have an incoming link from a "List of ...", so I think I'm not the only WiR editor who wasn't aware of these lists.
So now the list of things to think about adding, to raise the visibility of our articles, includes:
{{subst:refer|type=surname}}
and end it with {{surname}}
)If anyone was in the mood for a mindless-but-useful job (feeling slightly ill, or listening to a radio play?), you could go through the outcomes lists of some of our editathons and check for any or all of those. I've done one or two lists, checking for redirects from alternative forms of names. It occurs to me that it might be useful to note on the talk page for any particular WiR editathon if we do any sort of followup checking and link-making like that, to avoid duplication. Pam D 17:25, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
I just signed up and I agree with dawnleelynn (above) that it's a bit confusing, although I found my way. Having just participated in a Good Article backlog drive, I was wondering would it be useful to adopt the listing format they used? For that, the participants self-listed giving their username as a level 4 heading, making it easy to see who had done what and also keeping it easy to count individual contributions. Hope that makes sense, you can see what I mean here. I don't mind to reconfigure the two current lists (Newly created stubs: October and Destubbed articles: October) if people think it would help. In any case good luck everyone with the stubathon! Mujinga ( talk) 12:46, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
Our three-month stub contest is starting now and will continue until the end of the year. Although there will be no physical prizes, each month (October, November and December) recognition will be given to the winners of two different sections: one for new stubs, the other for enhancing existing stubs. The contest is open to all registered members of Women in Red. Join in now and help us improve women's coverage on Wikipedia.-- Ipigott ( talk) 19:04, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
{{us-bio-stub}}
, although Mabel Strickland Woodward has in fact already reached start class. .--
Ipigott (
talk)
07:29, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
Japan has been celebrating the 2019 Rugby World Cup and the Olympics just coming on the way to Tokyo. The country has also not forgotten to give priority to women as well. Of course, I read the news regarding the special event which was conducted on 29 September 2019 by the Swedish embassy in Japan to promote biographies about women in Wikipedia in both English and Japanese languages. But I was also confused on one of the sentences which was mentioned in the source. It said Rina Yomota, an editor of an agricultural website created an article about Eri Otsu, a farmer who won an award in 2017 from the UN Food and Agricultural Organization. But the sentence didn't clearly specify whether the article Eri Otsu was create in English or Japanese version. When I searched it in the English version, it was not available. I even just now searched and try to create for that person and unfortunately my attempt was a failure that I hardly found any sources to create for Eri Otsu. I am also just having doubts whether the above source that I linked here is a reliable one or not. Abishe ( talk) 14:28, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
Here is a list of pages that are red-linked on pages relating to women's world championships. Most of them are women, a good few are teams, events or "country at event"/"country in sport", and a few are men related to women's sport (referees, coaches etc.).
Hope this is useful. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
23:09, 2 October 2019 (UTC).
Alex Depledge was nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alex Depledge. Concerns were raised that the article is promotional and that she is not notable. Alexandra Depledge is "a British technology entrepreneur, known best for being the founder and CEO of Resi, and also as the founder and former CEO of Helpling that was formerly known as Hassle.com". Can anyone find more sources about her? Cunard ( talk) 07:59, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello all, I've been asked to provide examples of articles within our scope that include "visual examples of vandalism". If you are aware of any, would you kindly post diffs here? Thank you. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 10:51, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
This announcement on FB may interest some of you: -- Rosiestep ( talk) 19:43, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
"Please help us showcase the achievements of Ukrainian women to the world. We at Wikimedia Ukraine (Вікімедіа Україна / Wikimedia Ukraine) are organizing a Wikipedia writing challenge aimed to improve the coverage of Ukrainian women — https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/She_Did_It . The marathon has already started and will run for a week — by the end of October 11th. You can create and expand articles in any language other than Ukrainian🙂 The rules and the scoring system are inspired by WikiGap Challenge, so they might be familiar to some of you🙂 Prizes are premium Grammarly subscriptions for most active contributors. Special offer for anyone from the CEE community — Wikimedia Ukraine's warm love and souvenirs at the upcoming CEE Meeting🙂 Please join the challenge and, of course, help us spread the word about it. Thanks!"
Just came across Why universities are hiring “Wikipedeans-in-Residence” by Aaron Hutchins. It raises the problem of gender bias.-- Ipigott ( talk) 08:19, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi again! This time I have a request re actual content. I recently created an article for a redlink listed on this Project's page, Ella Russell, under the Focus on Suffrage initiative. I subsequently received a message by User:DragonflySixtyseven arguing "the second half of the article doesn't really pertain to her, does it?" I disagree, having stated that it "establishes very clearly why her work was ultimately important to suffragism both locally and nationally". Could you please provide feedback as to which view might prevail? My intentions as always are to try and include as much information as possible concerning underrepresented topics, as sustained by sources. Much appreciated, and please improve the article if you deem it necessary or possible! PK650 ( talk) 11:19, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
A final update, for now:
The third grant-funded round of
WikiProject X has been completed. Unfortunately, while this round has not resulted in a deployed product, I am not planning to resume working on the project for the foreseeable future. Please see the
final report for more information.
Regards,
-— Isarra ༆ 19:24, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
I took a few pics of her at a conference, but nothing really turned out great. I'd been planning on going back and taking better ones the second day of the conference, but didn't get there because of a migraine. Two pics were semi-ok and I uploaded them, but I can't decide if they could be used in her article here on the en-wiki:
Could either of these be used? Or edited to make them better? - Yupik ( talk) 11:11, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi all, Becca Barnes's most recent course has concluded and it looks like Dr. Barnes just moved the content from sandboxes to mainspace this weekend. I'm starting the preliminary cleanups now. Here are the articles created. Per previous discussions, I thought I'd drop you a line and let you know. Thanks, Elysia (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 16:29, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
One of our Twitter (#wikiwomeninred) mates is Prof Jo Delahunty QC who recently gave one of the free lectures at Gresham College on "Have women achieved professional equality". She talks brilliantly for about an hour. After 54 mins she talks about raising the visibility of women .... and Women in Red on Wikipedia is seen as a force for good. Proud to see us mentioned. It wasn't at our prompting and she only mentioned it as we chatted about other things. Its not a "media" mention, but impressive to see this project mentioned there. Roger aka Victuallers ( talk) 05:51, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi, all! I'm writing to notify anyone who's hanging around here today that I'll be helping a group of people run an event to add biographies to ENWP today. It will primarily be scientists and engineers who identify as women or with other marginalized groups. We'll review notability requirements, and my team will help new editors start stubs that meet those standards. Last time we helped a group run such an event, I promised to make a note here. Looking forward to seeing some new Wikipedians join in this great cause! Jami (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 18:15, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello. Not too sure of the relevance of this for the Women in Red page, and I'm hoping that if it isn't, maybe someone can give me a bit of a steer... I was given the Women in Red talk page as a possible place to ask my question, so here goes:
I've struggled with the publication of my first wikipedia entry here Draft:Liz_MacRae_Shaw I thought I was getting somewhere after a major editing frenzy earlier this year, but after searching libraries for book titles to reveal notability, the reviewer came back and commented that the books are in almost no libraries, so the subject was not considered to be notable enough.
One of the author's most notable pieces of research appears in the Gaelic Society of Inverness and it seems as if this has maybe been overlooked by the last reviewer.
If this is irrelevant, I apologise, but I'm having one last go at getting my first entry published. Thanks for any help you might be able to offer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hazelraee ( talk • contribs) 12:39, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
This is one of the reasons I dislike AfC. I think the article would get past AfD, but they can be quite stringent with AfC. Number of libraries is not the notability guideline. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7% of all FPs 13:11, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
Thanks Mujinga and Adam Cuerden
Adam Cuerden - can I ask what you mean by AfD? Is that articles for deletion? Thanks for your help on this, and for pointing out that the number of libraries is not the notability guideline. I'm on a very steep learning curve here! Hazelraee ( talk) 14:40, 9 October 2019 (UTC) Hazelraee ( talk)
I see from WHGI that we now have over 300,000 women's biographies on the English version of Wikipedia, far surpassing those in any other collection. From Wikipedia:WikiProject Women and Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History, you can see that quite a few have reached FA or GA. On the other hand, there are still lots of stubs which need attention, for example those listed as high or mid importance. Perhaps we can deal with some of them under our current stub contest, aiming for both quantitative and qualitative improvements. Never a dull day!-- Ipigott ( talk) 12:30, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
So, all the images from the last report and its update passed, which is a fantastic success rate. I usually try to wait for a minimum of three new ones before posting again, although it's a bit of a judgement call, as I like having them up while they're still relevant, instead of announcing the new featured picture candidate... that just passed. Last week. Going to borrow some of the captions from WP:FPC, because, dagnabbit, if I'm the only one with nominations at this particular moment in time, I can be as self-indulgent as I want. Oh, wait, Coffeeandcrumbs snuck one in while I wasn't looking. ...Eh, still doing it.
I'm really excited by the release of the archives of the National Women's Party to the Library of Congress. I have a... few chosen out. Alright, like 20. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7% of all FPs 02:36, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
I see from Anne Salomon that {{ Infobox academic}} is still rooted in the c1950s ... taking the topmost information to be most important, I learn she is a Canadian marine ecologist married to Tim Storr and has one (I'm sure lovely) child.
Later on there's some stuff about her academic credentials. -- Tagishsimon ( talk) 00:25, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
I'm training today (belated #AdaLoveslaceDay editathon) at the Pankhurst Centre. Its a day late but wanted to hold it at the Pankhurst's house in Manchester. Eventful times as the centre was broken into and they have just raised £20K to fix the damage. The CEO said that the editathon was too important to cancel!. So I have cloned a page for the newbies to sign up to and our twitter mates are interested in joining in. I have created the page too quickly and not sure if it all works. Can anyone volunteer to test and fix i? Really keep to use the outreach dashboard. I'm travelling for next six or so hours (its a long drive from Scotland). Obviously if we have editors who would like to join us online (or in person) then that would be great. (I have been watching WIR editors looking at the list of Force fed suffragettes and great to see the collaboration in progress). Thanks in anticipation Victuallers ( talk) 05:51, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
Moira Paul's wonderful article on the REDress Project is going live tonight on the front page of this wiki's DYK for those of you in North and South America and tomorrow morning (UTC 1:00) for the rest of us. This is already her second DYK in the last couple of weeks. Great job, Moira Paul! - Yupik ( talk) 11:06, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
I noticed that List of female chefs with Michelin stars is at AfD, but more importantly, it looks like a good candidate for names in red to turn blue. XOR'easter ( talk) 19:58, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
I know this slightly off topic but I would appreciate any help in improving Olga Tokarczuk so she can appear on the Main Page for WP:ITN/C. We need a source for all claims on the page. Don't try !voting at ITNC that is pointless. Just need team work to quickly improve the page to meet the quality standards. --- Coffeeand crumbs 14:50, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
The biography of Esther Duflo needs urgent attention, especially the lack of in-line referencing. See [17].-- Ipigott ( talk) 10:53, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
Hey! I'm back! Fiancé went back to the states, restoring images is calming... it happens. I should probably point out the lead image of Frances Willard, because, while it's quite a bit too small for featured pictures, I'm rather happy with it. And I do do things outwith WiR. I just try to make at least half my FPs WiR-related, which, since some of the others... aren't gender related, pushes up the gender balance at FP. All three of these are suffragettes, all with their own reasons, and all interesting outside of suffrage. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs 21:18, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
Despite being busy with college work nowadays, I managed to take a look at the brief video about the chapter of Women in Red campaign started way back in 2015 as we know. It has been a nice journey for our campaign with lot of ups and downs. Take a look at this. Abishe ( talk) 02:39, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello Fellow Wikipedians! I have been working on adding more biographies on women woodworkers and am wondering what is the best way to have all of the names in one centralized location. So far I have been putting them under the Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Crafts section but I am wondering if there is an area for artists by discipline that I am not seeing? I have been thinking of starting a separate task force for this woman in woodworking project. I have several editors interested in working on specifically women in woodworking and we gather informally every month and may start to host larger editing gatherings in which having a centralized list of women woodworkers with red links would be helpful. I am also thinking the task force may want to include articles recently turned blue or other articles on the subject that could use editing, in which case perhaps the task force should be a child of the project Wikipedia:WikiProject Women artists. Any input is welcome! Thanks Terasaface ( talk) 06:28, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
There are, at least, 567,927 Wikidata items which are human (Q5) and have no sex or gender (P21). This obviously affects the coverage of our redlinks. I think it is more frequent for some countries than others, such as Chinese people whose article exists only in Chinese Wikipedia. Do you think we can do something to close this gap? Best, -- MarioGom ( talk) 13:04, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello all! The BBC published their list of 100 Women in 2019 today, so in the spirit of WiR, I made a table and a list of the women to see who we have articles on and who we don't. I've also included Wikipedias in other languages too. Some of the names on the non-appearing list might have Wikidata items or be on Wikipedias in other languages, since the search I did was based on the way the BBC wrote their names. On the other hand, we can use the redlinks on the meta page to add redirects since people could be searching for them based on the BBC's versions of their names. (And of course, the reason why I saw this list in the first place is that Skolt Saami journalist Sara Wesslin made the list! :)) - Yupik ( talk) 10:20, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
This set of FPs is brought to you by Women in Red! Because two of these women got articles through Women in Red as part of the Focus on Suffrage this year, and the third got a massive improvement! Also by crippling insomnia and being too ill to go out. That's the less fun part. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs 07:40, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
Some doubts about this article have been raised at
Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sahar Moghadass, and, while I think there's enough to satisfy
WP:GNG, it's also true that it's a mess, with blog articles as a large number of sources, and Wikidata sorry, Wikiseda, but still, the name doesn't give me high "Reliable source" vibes used as a source in one case. This article DEFINITELY needs some TLC, ideally from someone who speaks Persian.
Adam Cuerden (
talk)Has about 7.1% of all
FPs
20:04, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
...I swear I'm not trying to be funny here by posting reports so often. It's just a super-good period for women at FPC. This time, it's mostly not only half by me. (Insomnia attacks once more!)
Adam Cuerden (
talk)Has about 7.1% of all
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01:36, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello all,
A user has come to me asking for advice regarding my decline of a draft submitted via the AFC process. I have responded to the user but I am also posting a link to the discussion here so any interested users can chime in and offer some more advice. The discussion can be found at User talk:StraussInTheHouse#Draft:List of Books About Women in History.
Many thanks,
SITH (talk) 18:45, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello! I'm requesting feedback for WikiProject X components usage. Your project is using templates related to my proposal and your feedback would be really appreciated: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject X § Streamlining WikiProject X components. Thank you! -- MarioGom ( talk) 10:37, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
Have spent today creating the table for 100 Women (BBC)#2019 and adding info to Wikidata, including new names. I see there are CS and WD lists on the Redlist page. The WD list is for 2018 only and for some reason has retained blue-linked names. Someone with skill in this area may care to sort this out. I have not yet clicked through to all the bios and added a statement, reference and category for the award of 100 Women. Again, someone may like to take on this task. There would appear to be a good number of interesting women who deserve to have bios written. Oronsay ( talk) 08:09, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
If someone is looking for an article to create for the landlocked countries portion of WIR this month, this woman is a great candidate. I'm quite surprised that we don't already have an article about her yet. Wikidata has items for some of the articles she's written, but no qid for her yet. No photos in Commons. - Yupik ( talk) 00:08, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
Is there a project heading for works by women, books, stories, buildings, paintings whatever, by women which do not but probably should have an article? ☕ Antiqueight chatter 12:42, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
Feel free to suggest others, either to be created via Wikidata, or perhaps there's a webpage you've seen with a good list, or etc.. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 13:15, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
All - In light of the conversation we've been having in this section, I'm wondering if it might not be worthwhile to include a monthly (quarterly?) "Works focus" event, like we have a monthly "Geofocus" event? Although works might not be everyone's "cup of tea", this might bring in new editors. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 12:11, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
I'm kind of running out of suffragettes with images to restore. Currently, my queue is Inter-Allied Women's Conference, once I burst out of the frantic madness of restoration I've been stuck in, then Ethel Smyth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton if I can find a good one of her, Hazel MacKaye (who has the best lead image I've seen), Nina Allender, and then I'm kind of running out of ones I've found good images for. So, I suppose I'm open to suggestions? I want at least half female-related FPs, and have a few things I'd like to do outwith Women in Red, so need counterbalances. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs 07:38, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
Just as a heads up, I might take a bit to go through everything, as I always like to research each name, to make sure I'm going with the best possible image for the person, which means checking all the likely places, which in this case looks to include, just offhand, the Te Papa, The National Libraries of France, and Norway (both of which have GREAT open-access to their images), the Metropolitan Museum in New York (a surprisingly useful source for photos and painting, if somewhat random as to whether it'll have nothing or a wealth of stuff), The Library of Congress, the New York Public Library (erratic as to what they've put into the free-download categories, but sometimes useful), Google, and whatever else seems relevant. This can take a while. I tend to do research in batches, then work through it, removing things as needed from the list if I hit problems with it. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs 23:24, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
So, so far...
There will, of course, be more, but thought it might be good to have a progress bar. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs 11:18, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
I spotted Draft:Naaz Joshi today (it turned up at CAT:CSD because it had been copied and pasted around a bit), and the creator is having difficulty getting going. One of the problems I've got is that some of the news sources I looked up are blocked where I am, so I can't pull facts from them. Oldperson has already given it a bit of spit and polish, but I think it just needs some care and attention from the right person - then we could get a DYK out of it. Any takers? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 21:41, 24 October 2019 (UTC)