Welcome toWikiProject Women in Red (WiR)!
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, only20.13% 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!

Endocrine Health edit‑a‑thon
Online event November 2021
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In November 2021 Women in Red is starting a new initiative to coincide withWorld Diabetes Day on 14 November. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles on the theme ofdiabetes and endocrine health. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate.

Themain 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 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 ourTen Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.
• If you share any of the articles or images on social media, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

We have red-link lists on women from relevant fields and countries, which can be found in theWiR Redlink index. A selection of those which might be most useful for this priority is listed below:

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• Priscilla White (physician) - needs referencing
• Lee Ducat andCarol Lurie -founders ofJDRF
• Gladys Boyd -Canadian diabetologist
• Lois Jovanovic -expert in gestational diabetes
• Laura Billetdeaux -child diabetes activist
• Tracey D. Brown -President of the American Diabetic Association
• Anne Peters (physician -director of the USC Clinical Diabetes Programs
• Denise Faustman - needs attention
• Dana Lewis -- diabetes DIY entrepreneur
• Kelly Close -founder of the influential organizations Close Concerns and the diaTribe Foundation
• Christina Roth -founder and head of the College Diabetes Network (CDN)
• Kerri Sparling -Six Until Me blogger and author of several D-books
• Cherise Shockley -founder of Diabetes Social Media Advocacy (DSMA)
• Amy Tendrich -founder and editor of DiabetesMine
• Elsie Needham -first person to recover from diabetic coma by using insulin
• Heena Akbar -endocrinologist specialising in indigenous Pacifika experiences of diabetes
• Wiebke Arlt -Editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Endocrinology
• Several unlinked or redlinked winners of theMinkowski Prize ("the most prestigious European prize in the field of diabetes research") are or might be women.

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
• Add IG after the article if you post it on Instagram

Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new

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

• Add here – most recent at the top with date of publication
• Mabel Barltrop - 8 December
• Sherita Hill Golden - 14 November

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons:Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2021

Add here – most recent at the top

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  first European to take insulin
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  the box
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  garden of eden
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  open the box
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  Chi Che Wang
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  Madge Skelly

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