Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR)!
Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's representation on all language Wikipedias (biographies, women's works, women's issues, broadly construed). Did you know that, according to Humaniki, only 19.87% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed? Content gender gap is a form of systemic bias, and this is what WiR addresses. We invite you to participate, whenever you like, in whatever way suits you and your schedule. Editors of all genders are equally and warmly welcome at Women in Red!
Authority control should be included at the foot of every biography: {{Authority control}}. It will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata.
Choose applicable Categories including relevant subcategories of Category:Women.
If applicable, add a stub template at the foot of an article:{{stub}}.
{{WikiProject Women}} if born after 1950; or {{WikiProject Women's History}}:: if born before 1950.
Editathon banner: {{WIR-191}}
In February 2021, in collaboration with Wikipedia's Women's Classical Committee, we are striving to increase coverage of women classicists, including archaeologists, epigraphers, historians, linguists, numismatists and philologists, as well as their organizations, awards and related initiatives. In addition, we are encouraging more biographies of notable women from the classical period.
This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in our initiative. You are of course also welcome to add articles on any other notable women who deserve to be covered, for example under our #1day1woman priority.
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.
These are lists of redlinked articles to be created. A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on our Redlist index. Those relating to classicists and women from the classical period are listed below:
These lists are are generated and automatically-updated by Wikidata:
Mary Renault (upgraded) TW, PIN
Mary Belle McElwainTW
Elizabeth Blegen (upgraded) TW, PIN
Diophantus of AbaeTW
Marguerite Naville - PIN TW
Julia Zabłocka - PIN TW
Sara Santoro
Friederike Fless - PIN TW
Lise Hannestad
