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Hi all. The redlist for women with the most sitelinks across Wikimedia projects won't update when I try to refresh it. Whenever I try to update it the Listeria page says "Status:no items". It looks like the bot hasn't been able to update it since July. Does anyone know what's going on? Mcampany ( talk) 22:13, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Kudos to Tagishsimon for what they have done so far. Eventually, after all these items are created, we will tap into the 24 other language versions of Women in Red and have them add their redlists and their events into Wikidata. Some have started doing it already, e.g. annual Art+Feminism events, AfroCROWD redlists, the recent Interwiki Collaboration event... but mostly, not. Ultimately, this will help with promoting our events, plus it will encourage international collaboration and coordination. There is still a lot of work to do, pagestalkers, (see below) and we can use extra hands plus extra thoughts on how to improve on this idea. P.S. Why I mentioned Open Refine is because Gamaliel has mentioned that tool, but I'm clueless how to use it. I might have used petscan and/or quickstatements, but I don't for sure. I could really use a tutorial. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 21:53, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
I think someone started creating items in Wikidata for each of our events. Was that Tagishsimon or perhaps someone else? I'd like to know where we are with this task as I'd be glad to add the ones which aren't in there yet. I couldn't find a Listeria list showing which events are in Wikidata, and which ones aren't, ergo the question. Also curious if you used Open Refine or something else for the upload. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 19:38, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
There seems to be a fair head of steam building around a proposal for 'an informal group dedicated to creating @Wikipedia pages for most notable women in neuroscience' - https://twitter.com/chrisgorgo/status/1169697861811892224 fwiw. To that end we have a new redlist - Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Neuroscientists. -- Tagishsimon ( talk) 23:30, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
Rose Henderson was a fictional character on the TV series "Lost" and has no article, yet there are numerous links from that name to the Canadian political activist Rose Henderson (1871 - 1937). Anyone wanna take that on? I've got ZERO experience writing about TV characters. If no one takes this on in the near future, I'll remove the incorrect links. Best, WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 19:01, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
Which articles about women on Wikipedia have had the most disputes (the more notable the better)? A journalist is asking this question as part of a broader interview about Women in Red. I remember the dispute around Katie Bouman. Who else comes to mind? -- Rosiestep ( talk) 15:46, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
How has Zoë Quinn not been mentioned yet? See also Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/GamerGate. — David Eppstein ( talk) 16:56, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
There's a new ticket on phab entitled "Wikidata Humans and Gender Data Tools" which, as I understand it, is a couple of developers inviting a discussion of what will likely turn out to be the future wikimedia bias measurement tool: "Tools like Wikidata Human Gender Indicators[1] and Denelezh[2] and Wikidata Cultural Observatory[3] display data about Wikidata's human coverage, but do they do provide exactly what anti-bias communities want? What new features, tools or maintenance could we build to help these "countering systemic bias" projects succeed?" I hope folk here will have a good hard think & provide some input. -- Tagishsimon ( talk) 16:06, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
I see that we just hit 18% for En Wiki women bios. Well done! -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 23:33, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
There is a Swedish but not an English article on Karin Dahlman-Wright . She's been in the news recently as resigning from vice-presidency of the Karolinska [1]. I prefer not to scandal-monger, but I think even before this she was notable. So if someone wants to try handling this gracefully... — David Eppstein ( talk) 18:20, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 6.9% of all FPs 23:12, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
It's good to see that once again a woman, Emna Mizouni from Tunisia - user name Emnamizouni - has been selected as Wikimedian of the Year.-- Ipigott ( talk) 08:13, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
Maria Sefidari has biographies in three other languages, but not here. I created a stub two weeks ago, but it was speedy deleted as "not notable". The admin was kind enough to put it in my userspace to work on. I think it is ready to go, but it would be nice if someone else looked it over. I don't want it to be speedy deleted again. It is still brief and could benefit from someone who can read Spanish to add more detail from Spanish sources. The biography is at User:Bitter Oil/María Sefidari. Thanks. Bitter Oil ( talk) 21:43, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
Some of you may be interested in completing this Pre-event Survey for WikiWomenCamp 2020. Thank you. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 15:53, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
I thought that this 1914 book of women from Iowa might be useful for articles - https://archive.org/details/bluebookofiowawo00reev. I created Emily Calkins Stebbins because of her entry in the book (I know that there is a template for Newspapers.com clippings, but I can't find it again). SL93 ( talk) 17:40, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
I would really thank all of you for the wonderful articles you created last month and the year before for the indigenous women part of the project and in general. The Saami ones have all been listed on the Northern Saami Wikipedia's Facebook page and many of the people have been tagged in them and even liked them. In addition, I have been told a number of times at various places during the summer how marvellous and how important it is that these articles are in the English Wikipedia and that hopefully they will spread to other language versions too. The redlink list I have had up forever is also starting to be more blue than red, which is a welcome change. So again, thank you so much! - Yupik ( talk) 19:07, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
If anyone is in town and interested in attending this conference, it's being held at the Institute of Modern Languages Research in London (UK) on October 31 and November 1, 2019. Potential to find a lot of new BLPs! - Yupik ( talk) 00:23, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
Today, I was informed about m:Interwiki Women Collaboration, a cross-wikis and cross-languages campaign. The event runs August 20 - September 20, 2019. Although our August events are almost over, and our September schedule is already fixed, I'm reticent to say that English Wikipedia is too busy with other things to participate on such short notice. So what I will do is donate our September articles to the campaign on meta. It's not a perfect solution, but it's a sign of good faith collaboration. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 02:33, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
Hello, all! I'm here to inquire about the possibility of coordinating a milhist drive in the spring with the Women in Red Wikiproject. The proposal is located here, if you'd like more information. Note that at this time nothing is set in stone, I'm merely attempting to get a feel for how much interest there would be for a spring drive and if there is enough to move forward where should the effort be concentrated since as we all know getting people to work on drive related events is difficult at best :) Drop me a line if you have any questions, and if there is interested from this project's members in a cross project drive we'll keep you informed of the developments (if any) at MILHIST. TomStar81 ( Talk) 13:32, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
This news may interest some of you, with a thank you to Astrid Carlsen (WMNO). -- Rosiestep ( talk) 14:07, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
Newly created article on a theater archivist. Expansion efforts welcome. ThatMontrealIP ( talk) 21:33, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
So far, our sports editathon has yielded 1,033 new articles in August, plus 556 new articles in July! So thanks to everyone who has been contributing articles for this event, and here's to making "sports" be Women in Red's 2020 year-long focus!
According to today's issue of The Signpost, the bad news is that: "... for athlete-related articles, there are far less articles about female athletes than males, hindering the fair representation of the female in the athletic world." -- Rosiestep ( talk) 01:37, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
Mike Vage from the A.V. Club has published a generally positive but somewhat critical article about our List of female American football players titled " They weren’t all kickers: Tackling the history of women in football". It points out that "the Women's National Football Conference has 20 teams, only five of which have Wikipedia pages" while the article on the Independent Women's Football League does not mention it is now defunct. Anyone interested in dealing with these shortcomings?-- Ipigott ( talk) 10:09, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
Christine N. Govan was a prolific author of children's novels. I found her article in sad shape with a prod on it, added some more books and reviews, and removed the prod, but it could use more help, especially in filling out her biography. (Also there are a lot more books and published reviews of them than the ones I added.) — David Eppstein ( talk) 05:31, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
I've belatedly put the REDress project draft I was working on up for review: User:Moira Paul/REDress Project. This was part of the August focus on indigenous women and was discussed here before I started. I'm afraid life got in the way so I've only just gone back to look at it and decide it's ready to go. As always, I'd appreciate people more competent at wikidata and images to take a look to increase its chance of being accepted into mainspace. I've deliberately included names that are in red, so we have a way of picking those up and expanding them at another time. Moira Paul ( talk) 14:31, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
A while back I did a biog of
Wen Shu as part of the 'women in space' monthly theme. I ordered a library book that catalogues an exhibition and contains lots of biographical details. When I got it, I realised many artists featured were not on en-wikipedia. I've added one,
Qiu Zhu, which has been accepted as a 'start' quality page. And I've created a redlist for the others:
Redlist of female chinese painters. Is there anything more I need to do or can I just start working through them?
Moira Paul (
talk) 23:37, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
Sophie Goddard's Marie Claire article Meet the Future Shapers of 2019 who are inspiring women worldwide picks out the following: Seyi Akiwowo, Jess Wade, Lynette Linton (artistic director at London’s Bush Theatre), firefighter Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, Emma Barnett, Alice Tapper (financial consultant), Sonia Adesara (a medical campaigner), screenwriter Laurie Nunn, playwright Cash Carraway, and sustainability website founder Tara Button. The article offers background on all of them, including those already covered.-- Ipigott ( talk) 11:18, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
We've been discussing plans for October, the main topics being science and fashion but we could possibly also launch a three-month stubathon (not just creating new stubs but destubbing existing ones). Please let us know whether you think this would be a good idea, either here or on the Ideas page. It would be great it we could put things together over the next four or five days.-- Ipigott ( talk) 10:02, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi! I've recently joined Wikipedia and came across your project a few weeks ago. I have since tried to write articles on notable researchers in my particular field (technology), and computer science specifically. I am proud to have created a few in just a few weeks. I received a talk page message, however, saying one of them would be deleted for not satisfying the academic criteria. I find this quite strange given Alonso Betanzos has over 4,000 citations and is quite well known in her field. A quick read of the criteria (a second time, as I obviously checked before writing it in the first place) confirmed my assumptions. I am sure everyone here is aware of the prejudice female academics often face in the "real" world, but I was truly expecting something different on Wikipedia, especially given initiatives such as this project precisely exist to promote greater development of female participation online. I am here to basically request assistance in dealing with this issue given I've never participated in the deletion process. I would appreciate any comments and you are all welcome to continue this in my talk page. Thank you! PK650 ( talk) 03:55, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
October 2019, Volume 5, Issue 10, Numbers 107, 108, 137, 138, 139, 140
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-- Megalibrarygirl ( talk) 17:34, 23 September 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Please remember to make your article as easily found as possible. If you state that there's an alternative spelling of their name, make a redirect from it. Make redirects from longer or shorter versions of their name - if you've included a long version of their name in the lead it's because you found it somewhere, and a reader might find the same source and search for it ... or a careless future editor might create a duplicate article there, if you don't create a redirect.
And surnames: Wikipedia has loads of surname pages, mostly just a list of people with that surname. Please make sure that the women we write about feature good and strong in those lists. And if they were known under both birth name and married name, add them to both lists. If there isn't a surname list, there may be an article or disambiguation page because the name is also a word used for other things: add a hatnote or a dab page entry. If there is nothing at the surname, make a redirect from surname to unique surname-holder (checking afterwards that it hasn't got a lot of incoming redlinks). If several people share the surname but there isn't yet a surname page... create it, if you've got the time and energy. To format the top nicely, you can type {{subst:refer|type=surname}}
, then add your people, and end it with {{surname}}
. (There are also a lot of given-name lists, but I'm not convinced that they are useful enough to bother with: I suppose someone might remember
Greta and not
Thunberg, but for the vast majority of people it's more likely to be a mention of "Professor Thunberg" or "Thunberg's work" or a paper by "G. Thunberg" which sends readers to the encyclopedia to find out more about someone, so surnames seem to me to be vastly more important.)
I've spent the last couple of hours sorting out half the entries in the list of outcomes of our WIR-129 on Indigenous women (have a look at my contribution list), and will get back to numbers 1-47 in that list when I've got time - there is a lot of Real Life stuff I need to do, and I've been using this too much as an excuse for procrastination (no, I'm not wasting time, I'm fixing Wikipedia and making women more visible!)
I know redirects and dab pages etc aren't everyone's favourite thing, but they can make a big difference, and can turn red links blue in all sorts of places. (You just need to check that it's the right red link, not a tennis player who happens to have the same name as your Antartic explorer!) Pam D 10:53, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
I'm trying to decide about a disambigfrom EJH. She did sign things that way. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 6.9% of all FPs 22:27, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
I know it's not a competition and there are others here with more, but I just created my 1000th biography of a woman in STEM today and thought I should share it with this group. I made a blog post about it at https://11011110.github.io/blog/2019/09/22/1000-women-stem.html — David Eppstein ( talk) 05:42, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
{{ RSNZ 150 Women in 150 Words}} has quite a few redlinks. There are articles about each of them at [16] but (per the template name) they're pretty short, so you may need to find additional material elsewhere to make Wikipedia articles out of them. — David Eppstein ( talk) 07:07, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
I am considering starting an article on Kerry Sink, a South African marine scientist and head of the marine programme at the South African National Biodiversity Institute. I would like a second opinion on notability, as I may be slightly biased, having known and occasionally worked with her for several years, and I don't have much experience with biographies - they are not generally my line of interest. Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 14:17, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
As per list created stubs for missing Times Higher Education listarticles need translation from German Kerstin Krieglstein and Sabine Kunst ,Dutch Geert ten Dam and Mirjam Van Praag ,Catalan Margarita Arboix ,Swedish Sigbritt Karlsson. Pharaoh of the Wizards ( talk) 04:56, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:06, 23 September 2019 (UTC).
There has been a discussion on my talk page about preparing a graph to illustrate progress over the years. Perhaps one of our more mathematically-minded participants could use one of the templates at Wikipedia:Graphs and charts to compile a line graph. I think the priority is to display percentages reached over time (i.e. the percentages of biographies on the EN wiki which are about women). I suggest we start with the following (drawn from WHGI):
Then no data until:
Once we have this, we might also try to trace the number of new biographies over time but I think the percentages are more important. Any offers?-- Ipigott ( talk) 16:36, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
It has occurred to me that if it is too difficult to use the Wikipedia graph templates, someone may be ready to make a simple graph on paper and then photograph it. MS Excel also provides for graphs. Perhaps David Eppstein or Victuallers could devote a few minutes to this? Rosiestep thinks a graph would be really useful for her coming presentations. Or maybe someone could simply let us know of an editor interested in helping out with graphs. It seems quite important to me.-- Ipigott ( talk) 06:41, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
Interesting! There's actually more points if you drill into the raw WHGI data:
There's a lot more data in there too. You could look at new creations only, compare enwiki to other projects, break it down by nationality, ethnicity, etc. – Joe ( talk) 13:17, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
interesting website sponsored by Cambridge University, "Orlando, Women's writing in the British Isles from the Beginning to Present", password protected but people can subscribe: [20] -- Elisa.rolle ( talk) 06:27, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
I worked on a draft of an article on Elizabeth Russell Elizabeth Russell (United Empire Loyalist).
She is one of the very few women with an entry in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
I'd appreciate both advice, or assistance, in getting it ready for article space.
Is this the place for this kind of post?
Cheers! Geo Swan ( talk) 00:23, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
I... really didn't expect to be back so soon. But here we are! Rosa Parks and Fredrikke Mørck have passed. New ones come from several different nominators. I'm going back to being chatty, because I like being chatty, and you can't stop me. :
Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7% of all FPs 01:20, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
For the record, all of these are currently passing, except Emma Gillett, and I think that says more about how recently Gillett was nominated (it's at 4 out of 5 supports, and it's less than 24 hours since the start of the nomination. With the exception of Wikipedia-related women like Sue Gardner (and that may be more of a bias against appearing too insular), I've usually found that a well-composed high-resolution image of a female notable enough to have a Wikipedia article will usually pass without problems, though featured pictures has had a definite bias towards more nominations of men in the past, that... well, there's good reasons I've switched heavily towards females. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7% of all FPs 18:50, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi all, the 2019 crop of MacArthur Genius awardees were announced, including some missing women on ENWP:
This is a big prize, so hopefully we can turn some of these women blue! Enwebb ( talk) 13:20, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
Anyone up for nominating this page for DYK? As far as I can tell, today would be the deadline for doing so. One hook that came to mind is the parallel between the dresses in the outdoor installation being vandalized and going missing as did the women they represent [21]. I have to leave for an event soon and I'm not sure I'll be back in time to do it myself, which is why I'm putting it up here and asking for your help. :) Thanks! - Yupik ( talk) 11:31, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
Is there a rule that editors should add a hatnote when there are two articles on people with the same name and only creates a human name DAB page if there are more than two? Oronsay ( talk) 00:29, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
I'm trying to create an article for the Italian actress and playwright Madeline Merli. I can find plenty of information about her career in newspapers.com and barely anything about her personal life ("Madeline Merli, billed as "the Italian star actress," but also said to be the daughter of a prominent New Yorker, toured in Canada and the US in the 1890s with Orson Clifford."), but I can't find her birth date and death date. SL93 ( talk) 22:28, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
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Hi all. The redlist for women with the most sitelinks across Wikimedia projects won't update when I try to refresh it. Whenever I try to update it the Listeria page says "Status:no items". It looks like the bot hasn't been able to update it since July. Does anyone know what's going on? Mcampany ( talk) 22:13, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Kudos to Tagishsimon for what they have done so far. Eventually, after all these items are created, we will tap into the 24 other language versions of Women in Red and have them add their redlists and their events into Wikidata. Some have started doing it already, e.g. annual Art+Feminism events, AfroCROWD redlists, the recent Interwiki Collaboration event... but mostly, not. Ultimately, this will help with promoting our events, plus it will encourage international collaboration and coordination. There is still a lot of work to do, pagestalkers, (see below) and we can use extra hands plus extra thoughts on how to improve on this idea. P.S. Why I mentioned Open Refine is because Gamaliel has mentioned that tool, but I'm clueless how to use it. I might have used petscan and/or quickstatements, but I don't for sure. I could really use a tutorial. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 21:53, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
I think someone started creating items in Wikidata for each of our events. Was that Tagishsimon or perhaps someone else? I'd like to know where we are with this task as I'd be glad to add the ones which aren't in there yet. I couldn't find a Listeria list showing which events are in Wikidata, and which ones aren't, ergo the question. Also curious if you used Open Refine or something else for the upload. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 19:38, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
There seems to be a fair head of steam building around a proposal for 'an informal group dedicated to creating @Wikipedia pages for most notable women in neuroscience' - https://twitter.com/chrisgorgo/status/1169697861811892224 fwiw. To that end we have a new redlist - Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Neuroscientists. -- Tagishsimon ( talk) 23:30, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
Rose Henderson was a fictional character on the TV series "Lost" and has no article, yet there are numerous links from that name to the Canadian political activist Rose Henderson (1871 - 1937). Anyone wanna take that on? I've got ZERO experience writing about TV characters. If no one takes this on in the near future, I'll remove the incorrect links. Best, WomenArtistUpdates ( talk) 19:01, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
Which articles about women on Wikipedia have had the most disputes (the more notable the better)? A journalist is asking this question as part of a broader interview about Women in Red. I remember the dispute around Katie Bouman. Who else comes to mind? -- Rosiestep ( talk) 15:46, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
How has Zoë Quinn not been mentioned yet? See also Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/GamerGate. — David Eppstein ( talk) 16:56, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
There's a new ticket on phab entitled "Wikidata Humans and Gender Data Tools" which, as I understand it, is a couple of developers inviting a discussion of what will likely turn out to be the future wikimedia bias measurement tool: "Tools like Wikidata Human Gender Indicators[1] and Denelezh[2] and Wikidata Cultural Observatory[3] display data about Wikidata's human coverage, but do they do provide exactly what anti-bias communities want? What new features, tools or maintenance could we build to help these "countering systemic bias" projects succeed?" I hope folk here will have a good hard think & provide some input. -- Tagishsimon ( talk) 16:06, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
I see that we just hit 18% for En Wiki women bios. Well done! -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 23:33, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
There is a Swedish but not an English article on Karin Dahlman-Wright . She's been in the news recently as resigning from vice-presidency of the Karolinska [1]. I prefer not to scandal-monger, but I think even before this she was notable. So if someone wants to try handling this gracefully... — David Eppstein ( talk) 18:20, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 6.9% of all FPs 23:12, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
It's good to see that once again a woman, Emna Mizouni from Tunisia - user name Emnamizouni - has been selected as Wikimedian of the Year.-- Ipigott ( talk) 08:13, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
Maria Sefidari has biographies in three other languages, but not here. I created a stub two weeks ago, but it was speedy deleted as "not notable". The admin was kind enough to put it in my userspace to work on. I think it is ready to go, but it would be nice if someone else looked it over. I don't want it to be speedy deleted again. It is still brief and could benefit from someone who can read Spanish to add more detail from Spanish sources. The biography is at User:Bitter Oil/María Sefidari. Thanks. Bitter Oil ( talk) 21:43, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
Some of you may be interested in completing this Pre-event Survey for WikiWomenCamp 2020. Thank you. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 15:53, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
I thought that this 1914 book of women from Iowa might be useful for articles - https://archive.org/details/bluebookofiowawo00reev. I created Emily Calkins Stebbins because of her entry in the book (I know that there is a template for Newspapers.com clippings, but I can't find it again). SL93 ( talk) 17:40, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
I would really thank all of you for the wonderful articles you created last month and the year before for the indigenous women part of the project and in general. The Saami ones have all been listed on the Northern Saami Wikipedia's Facebook page and many of the people have been tagged in them and even liked them. In addition, I have been told a number of times at various places during the summer how marvellous and how important it is that these articles are in the English Wikipedia and that hopefully they will spread to other language versions too. The redlink list I have had up forever is also starting to be more blue than red, which is a welcome change. So again, thank you so much! - Yupik ( talk) 19:07, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
If anyone is in town and interested in attending this conference, it's being held at the Institute of Modern Languages Research in London (UK) on October 31 and November 1, 2019. Potential to find a lot of new BLPs! - Yupik ( talk) 00:23, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
Today, I was informed about m:Interwiki Women Collaboration, a cross-wikis and cross-languages campaign. The event runs August 20 - September 20, 2019. Although our August events are almost over, and our September schedule is already fixed, I'm reticent to say that English Wikipedia is too busy with other things to participate on such short notice. So what I will do is donate our September articles to the campaign on meta. It's not a perfect solution, but it's a sign of good faith collaboration. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 02:33, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
Hello, all! I'm here to inquire about the possibility of coordinating a milhist drive in the spring with the Women in Red Wikiproject. The proposal is located here, if you'd like more information. Note that at this time nothing is set in stone, I'm merely attempting to get a feel for how much interest there would be for a spring drive and if there is enough to move forward where should the effort be concentrated since as we all know getting people to work on drive related events is difficult at best :) Drop me a line if you have any questions, and if there is interested from this project's members in a cross project drive we'll keep you informed of the developments (if any) at MILHIST. TomStar81 ( Talk) 13:32, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
This news may interest some of you, with a thank you to Astrid Carlsen (WMNO). -- Rosiestep ( talk) 14:07, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
Newly created article on a theater archivist. Expansion efforts welcome. ThatMontrealIP ( talk) 21:33, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
So far, our sports editathon has yielded 1,033 new articles in August, plus 556 new articles in July! So thanks to everyone who has been contributing articles for this event, and here's to making "sports" be Women in Red's 2020 year-long focus!
According to today's issue of The Signpost, the bad news is that: "... for athlete-related articles, there are far less articles about female athletes than males, hindering the fair representation of the female in the athletic world." -- Rosiestep ( talk) 01:37, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
Mike Vage from the A.V. Club has published a generally positive but somewhat critical article about our List of female American football players titled " They weren’t all kickers: Tackling the history of women in football". It points out that "the Women's National Football Conference has 20 teams, only five of which have Wikipedia pages" while the article on the Independent Women's Football League does not mention it is now defunct. Anyone interested in dealing with these shortcomings?-- Ipigott ( talk) 10:09, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
Christine N. Govan was a prolific author of children's novels. I found her article in sad shape with a prod on it, added some more books and reviews, and removed the prod, but it could use more help, especially in filling out her biography. (Also there are a lot more books and published reviews of them than the ones I added.) — David Eppstein ( talk) 05:31, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
I've belatedly put the REDress project draft I was working on up for review: User:Moira Paul/REDress Project. This was part of the August focus on indigenous women and was discussed here before I started. I'm afraid life got in the way so I've only just gone back to look at it and decide it's ready to go. As always, I'd appreciate people more competent at wikidata and images to take a look to increase its chance of being accepted into mainspace. I've deliberately included names that are in red, so we have a way of picking those up and expanding them at another time. Moira Paul ( talk) 14:31, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
A while back I did a biog of
Wen Shu as part of the 'women in space' monthly theme. I ordered a library book that catalogues an exhibition and contains lots of biographical details. When I got it, I realised many artists featured were not on en-wikipedia. I've added one,
Qiu Zhu, which has been accepted as a 'start' quality page. And I've created a redlist for the others:
Redlist of female chinese painters. Is there anything more I need to do or can I just start working through them?
Moira Paul (
talk) 23:37, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
Sophie Goddard's Marie Claire article Meet the Future Shapers of 2019 who are inspiring women worldwide picks out the following: Seyi Akiwowo, Jess Wade, Lynette Linton (artistic director at London’s Bush Theatre), firefighter Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, Emma Barnett, Alice Tapper (financial consultant), Sonia Adesara (a medical campaigner), screenwriter Laurie Nunn, playwright Cash Carraway, and sustainability website founder Tara Button. The article offers background on all of them, including those already covered.-- Ipigott ( talk) 11:18, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
We've been discussing plans for October, the main topics being science and fashion but we could possibly also launch a three-month stubathon (not just creating new stubs but destubbing existing ones). Please let us know whether you think this would be a good idea, either here or on the Ideas page. It would be great it we could put things together over the next four or five days.-- Ipigott ( talk) 10:02, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi! I've recently joined Wikipedia and came across your project a few weeks ago. I have since tried to write articles on notable researchers in my particular field (technology), and computer science specifically. I am proud to have created a few in just a few weeks. I received a talk page message, however, saying one of them would be deleted for not satisfying the academic criteria. I find this quite strange given Alonso Betanzos has over 4,000 citations and is quite well known in her field. A quick read of the criteria (a second time, as I obviously checked before writing it in the first place) confirmed my assumptions. I am sure everyone here is aware of the prejudice female academics often face in the "real" world, but I was truly expecting something different on Wikipedia, especially given initiatives such as this project precisely exist to promote greater development of female participation online. I am here to basically request assistance in dealing with this issue given I've never participated in the deletion process. I would appreciate any comments and you are all welcome to continue this in my talk page. Thank you! PK650 ( talk) 03:55, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
October 2019, Volume 5, Issue 10, Numbers 107, 108, 137, 138, 139, 140
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-- Megalibrarygirl ( talk) 17:34, 23 September 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Please remember to make your article as easily found as possible. If you state that there's an alternative spelling of their name, make a redirect from it. Make redirects from longer or shorter versions of their name - if you've included a long version of their name in the lead it's because you found it somewhere, and a reader might find the same source and search for it ... or a careless future editor might create a duplicate article there, if you don't create a redirect.
And surnames: Wikipedia has loads of surname pages, mostly just a list of people with that surname. Please make sure that the women we write about feature good and strong in those lists. And if they were known under both birth name and married name, add them to both lists. If there isn't a surname list, there may be an article or disambiguation page because the name is also a word used for other things: add a hatnote or a dab page entry. If there is nothing at the surname, make a redirect from surname to unique surname-holder (checking afterwards that it hasn't got a lot of incoming redlinks). If several people share the surname but there isn't yet a surname page... create it, if you've got the time and energy. To format the top nicely, you can type {{subst:refer|type=surname}}
, then add your people, and end it with {{surname}}
. (There are also a lot of given-name lists, but I'm not convinced that they are useful enough to bother with: I suppose someone might remember
Greta and not
Thunberg, but for the vast majority of people it's more likely to be a mention of "Professor Thunberg" or "Thunberg's work" or a paper by "G. Thunberg" which sends readers to the encyclopedia to find out more about someone, so surnames seem to me to be vastly more important.)
I've spent the last couple of hours sorting out half the entries in the list of outcomes of our WIR-129 on Indigenous women (have a look at my contribution list), and will get back to numbers 1-47 in that list when I've got time - there is a lot of Real Life stuff I need to do, and I've been using this too much as an excuse for procrastination (no, I'm not wasting time, I'm fixing Wikipedia and making women more visible!)
I know redirects and dab pages etc aren't everyone's favourite thing, but they can make a big difference, and can turn red links blue in all sorts of places. (You just need to check that it's the right red link, not a tennis player who happens to have the same name as your Antartic explorer!) Pam D 10:53, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
I'm trying to decide about a disambigfrom EJH. She did sign things that way. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 6.9% of all FPs 22:27, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
I know it's not a competition and there are others here with more, but I just created my 1000th biography of a woman in STEM today and thought I should share it with this group. I made a blog post about it at https://11011110.github.io/blog/2019/09/22/1000-women-stem.html — David Eppstein ( talk) 05:42, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
{{ RSNZ 150 Women in 150 Words}} has quite a few redlinks. There are articles about each of them at [16] but (per the template name) they're pretty short, so you may need to find additional material elsewhere to make Wikipedia articles out of them. — David Eppstein ( talk) 07:07, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
I am considering starting an article on Kerry Sink, a South African marine scientist and head of the marine programme at the South African National Biodiversity Institute. I would like a second opinion on notability, as I may be slightly biased, having known and occasionally worked with her for several years, and I don't have much experience with biographies - they are not generally my line of interest. Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 14:17, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
As per list created stubs for missing Times Higher Education listarticles need translation from German Kerstin Krieglstein and Sabine Kunst ,Dutch Geert ten Dam and Mirjam Van Praag ,Catalan Margarita Arboix ,Swedish Sigbritt Karlsson. Pharaoh of the Wizards ( talk) 04:56, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:06, 23 September 2019 (UTC).
There has been a discussion on my talk page about preparing a graph to illustrate progress over the years. Perhaps one of our more mathematically-minded participants could use one of the templates at Wikipedia:Graphs and charts to compile a line graph. I think the priority is to display percentages reached over time (i.e. the percentages of biographies on the EN wiki which are about women). I suggest we start with the following (drawn from WHGI):
Then no data until:
Once we have this, we might also try to trace the number of new biographies over time but I think the percentages are more important. Any offers?-- Ipigott ( talk) 16:36, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
It has occurred to me that if it is too difficult to use the Wikipedia graph templates, someone may be ready to make a simple graph on paper and then photograph it. MS Excel also provides for graphs. Perhaps David Eppstein or Victuallers could devote a few minutes to this? Rosiestep thinks a graph would be really useful for her coming presentations. Or maybe someone could simply let us know of an editor interested in helping out with graphs. It seems quite important to me.-- Ipigott ( talk) 06:41, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
Interesting! There's actually more points if you drill into the raw WHGI data:
There's a lot more data in there too. You could look at new creations only, compare enwiki to other projects, break it down by nationality, ethnicity, etc. – Joe ( talk) 13:17, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
interesting website sponsored by Cambridge University, "Orlando, Women's writing in the British Isles from the Beginning to Present", password protected but people can subscribe: [20] -- Elisa.rolle ( talk) 06:27, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
I worked on a draft of an article on Elizabeth Russell Elizabeth Russell (United Empire Loyalist).
She is one of the very few women with an entry in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
I'd appreciate both advice, or assistance, in getting it ready for article space.
Is this the place for this kind of post?
Cheers! Geo Swan ( talk) 00:23, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
I... really didn't expect to be back so soon. But here we are! Rosa Parks and Fredrikke Mørck have passed. New ones come from several different nominators. I'm going back to being chatty, because I like being chatty, and you can't stop me. :
Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7% of all FPs 01:20, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
For the record, all of these are currently passing, except Emma Gillett, and I think that says more about how recently Gillett was nominated (it's at 4 out of 5 supports, and it's less than 24 hours since the start of the nomination. With the exception of Wikipedia-related women like Sue Gardner (and that may be more of a bias against appearing too insular), I've usually found that a well-composed high-resolution image of a female notable enough to have a Wikipedia article will usually pass without problems, though featured pictures has had a definite bias towards more nominations of men in the past, that... well, there's good reasons I've switched heavily towards females. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7% of all FPs 18:50, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi all, the 2019 crop of MacArthur Genius awardees were announced, including some missing women on ENWP:
This is a big prize, so hopefully we can turn some of these women blue! Enwebb ( talk) 13:20, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
Anyone up for nominating this page for DYK? As far as I can tell, today would be the deadline for doing so. One hook that came to mind is the parallel between the dresses in the outdoor installation being vandalized and going missing as did the women they represent [21]. I have to leave for an event soon and I'm not sure I'll be back in time to do it myself, which is why I'm putting it up here and asking for your help. :) Thanks! - Yupik ( talk) 11:31, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
Is there a rule that editors should add a hatnote when there are two articles on people with the same name and only creates a human name DAB page if there are more than two? Oronsay ( talk) 00:29, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
I'm trying to create an article for the Italian actress and playwright Madeline Merli. I can find plenty of information about her career in newspapers.com and barely anything about her personal life ("Madeline Merli, billed as "the Italian star actress," but also said to be the daughter of a prominent New Yorker, toured in Canada and the US in the 1890s with Orson Clifford."), but I can't find her birth date and death date. SL93 ( talk) 22:28, 26 September 2019 (UTC)