Our objective is to turnred links intoblue 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 toHumaniki, only20.23% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed?Content gender gap is a form ofsystemic 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!
Women's rights initiative
Online event 2021
Bliss Finley, office manager of "The Suffragist," official organ of the Woman's Party.
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In 2021, Women in Red is focusing onwomen's rights as a year-long initiative.
Anyone can take part in this event. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about notable women who have recently passed away, including their writings or other works.
This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative. Contributors are of course also welcome to add articles on any other 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 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) and via nominations to In The News.
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.
If you tweet about any of the articles, upload any of the images to Pinterest, or successfully nominate for In The News, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.
Thank you!
Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)
Add other red links here, if possible with a source:
Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion[1],[2],[3],[4] (Note: first link provides a bunch of affiliated academics in the field of human rights/statelessness studies. It's currently a redirect, but since they launched a peer reviewed journal and do publishing[5] seems like it should be a separate article.)
... thatMiriam Soljak, after fighting to recover herNew Zealand nationality for nearly three decades, was told that the government considered she had never lost it?(2021-11-21)
... that in Botswana, writerUnity Dow(pictured) took legal actions as aplaintiff,legal counsellor, andjudge to challenge gender discrimination and protect indigenous rights, before becoming a legislator?(2021-11-15)
... that even thoughAustralian citizens are no longerBritish subjects, they can still vote in elections and stand for parliament in the United Kingdom?(2021-11-13)
... that theSuffrage Torch was a symbol of illumination during theSuffragist campaigns in the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the summer of 1915 and the idea ofHarriot Stanton Blatch?(2021-06-27)