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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!

Geofocus: Russia/USSR edit‑a‑thon
Online event June 2018
Anna Bulavkina
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Type	Edit-a-thon
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In June 2018, Women in Red is focusing on women inRussia and the formerSoviet Union. The republics or countries to be covered includeArmenia,Azerbaijan,Byelorussia,Estonia,Georgia,Kazakhstan,Kirghizia,Latvia,Lithuania,Moldavia,Russian SFSR,Tajikistan,Turkmenia,Ukraine andUzbekistan. 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 in all fields of interest in these countries, as well as their achievements, writings, organizations, and awards. 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.

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 ourTen 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.

In addition we have Wikidata red link lists on women from all the countries mentioned which can be found in theWomen in Red navbox. A selection of these is listed below.

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

1.There's a Soviet woman who has an article in 7 languages but not English:ru:Anna Pankratova;(nowAnna Pankratova)
2. Heroes of the Russian Federationru:Natalya Kachuevskaya,ru:Marina Plotnikova,ru:Nina Brusnikova,ru:Marem Arapkhanova andru:Lidya Shulaikina(nowLidiya Shulaykina as that was the spelling inList of Heroes of the Russian Federation (S), but with lots of incoming redirects from different spellings).(don't takeru:Alime Abdenanova 'cause I'm already working ton her article; (FinishedAlime Abdenanova)
3.Regimental commander of the586th Fighter Aviation Regimentru:Tamara Kazarinova (she was actually quite a villan and made her way to regimental commander of a women's aviation regiment mostly for her role in the Great Purge even after an injury left her unable to fly. She hated the pilots of the regiment, tried to get rid of them by sending them on suicide missions, and threw away any Hero of the Soviet Union nomination that reached her desk);(FinishedTamara Kazarinova)
4.Renowned artist and victim of theCrimean Tatar Holocaustru:Adaviye Efendiyeva;(FinishedAdaviye Efendiyeva)
5.Chechen-Ukrainian soldier, sniper, medic, and police officeruk:Amina Okueva.FinishedAmina Okueva
6.A kindergarten director by the name oftt:Saide Arifova saved over 80 Jewish children from being sent to concentration camps and subjected to inhuman medical experiments; tortured by the Nazis but refused to betray any names. After the Soviets expelled the Nazis from Crimea she was deported to Uzbekistan with the rest of the Crimean Tatar nation as Tatars were perceived as traitors by the Soviets. She survived the exile in the desert (46.2% did not) and returned to Crimea in the 80's. In 2017 a movie was made about her.
--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 15:15, 31 May 2018 (UTC)Couple of italicised updates:PamD09:14, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Key:

• Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
• Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
• Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter

New/expanded articles featured in theDid you know... column of the WikipediaMain page

• Add here – most recent at the top with date of publication

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  Xenia Makletzova
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  Ina Bourskaya
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  Ina Bourskaya
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  Genia Fonariova

• Please addCategory:Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2018 to any media you upload to Commons.
• Invitation:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2018
• Editathon banner for talk pages:Template:WikiProject Women in Red -{{WIR|82}}

• WikiProject Women in Red in 2018
• Wikipedia meetups in June 2018
• WikiProject Women in Red events