Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/76

Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative

May 2018: Women of the sea Villains Women in sports Geofocus: Central & Eastern European women

June 2018: WiR Loves Pride Singers and Songwriters Women in GLAM Geofocus: Russia/USSR

See also: Future events

Women in Red

Hello and welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR) whose objective is to turn redlinks into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's biographies and women's works. Did you know that according to WHGI only 17.64% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed? Content gender gap is a form of systemic bias, and this is what WiR addresses. We invite you to participate whenever you like in whatever way suits you and your schedule. Women in Red warmly welcomes you!

Online event 1–31 May 2018

In May 2018, Women in Red is focusing on villains! Anyone can take part in this event. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about women who are criminals, scoundrels, rogues, miscreants, and evildoers, both real and fictional. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in our initiative. See below for lists of red-linked women who have been history's villains. You are of course also welcome to add articles on any other notable women who deserve to be covered.

The main goals of the event are:

• to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most prominent women
• to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
• to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
• to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter)

What else?

• Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create this month, and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
• This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.
• If you tweet about any of the articles, or upload any of the images to Pinterest, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

• 1 Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)
• 2 Participants
• 3 Outcomes (articles)
  • 3.1 Promote our work
  • 3.2 New or upgraded articles
  • 3.3 Did You Know features
• 4 Outcomes (pictures and videos)
• 5 Press about the event
• 6 Event templates

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

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