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| Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR)! |
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| 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 20.003% 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! |
| Geofocus: Islands A–H editathon | |
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| Online event September 2024 | |
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| Meetup | 317 |
| Type | Edit-a-thon |
| Series | Geofocus |
| Articles | Meetup 317 articles (40) |
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| Hashtag | #wikiwomeninred |
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| Authority control | 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. |
| Categories | Choose applicable categories including relevant subcategories of Category:Women. |
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{{WikiProject Women}} if born after 1950; or {{WikiProject Women's History}} if born before 1950. | |
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Geofocus: Islands A–H
September 2024
September 2024
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Welcome!
For September, October and November 2024 we are giving special attention to women from islands around the world. We hope both new contributors and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies about island women, as well as articles on their achievements, writings, organizations, and awards. Australia (& other countries later) will be excluded due to their size, but women from offshore islands, such as Kangaroo Island, Thursday Island, Tasmania, could be included. Other examples could be women from Åland islands, which are part of Finland or women from Guernsey and Jersey in the Channel Islands.
| Letters | Month | Islands |
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| A - H | Sept | American Samoa, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bermuda, Cape Verde, Channel Islands, Cook Islands, Cuba and Cyprus, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Faroe Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Greenland, Grenada, Guam, Guernsey, Haiti, Hong Kong |
| I - P | Oct | Iceland, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Kiribati, Madagascar, Maldives, Malta, Isle of Man, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mayotte, Federated States of Micronesia, Montserrat, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Cyprus, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Puerto Rico |
| Q-Z | Nov | Réunion, Rodrigues, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu |
The main goals of the event are:
- to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of 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
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 share any of the articles on social media (thank you!), please indicate you have done so next to the article name.
Thank you!