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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, only20.13% 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!

Women in the Ancient World edit‑a‑thon
Online event May 2022
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In May 2022 Wiki Women in Red is striving to increase coverage of women in theAncient world. By Ancient world, we don't just mean Europe but the whole world, wherever notable women have been recorded. In addition, we are encouraging more biographies of notable women who are classicists, including archaeologists, epigraphers, historians, linguists, numismatists and philologists, as well as their organizations, awards and related initiatives.

This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in our initiative. You are of course also welcome to write articles on any other notable women who deserve to be covered and add them, for example under our #1day1woman priority.

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in improving biographies and other articles about notable women, including their writings or other works. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative.

Main goals

• to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating or improving biographies of prominent women
• to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
• to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media and via nominations toMain Page features Did You Know…? and In The News.

What else?

• Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you have worked on 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 their images on social media, or successfully nominate for In The News, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

Red-link lists of women from a wide variety of fields can be accessed from theWiR Redlink index. Those which might be most useful for Women in the Ancient World are listed below.Please note: listing does not guarantee qualification for inclusion in the encyclopedia. Please readPrimer for creating women's biographies.

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• WCCWiki, the initiative that seeks to improve the representation of classicists (broadly conceived) who identify as women and non-binary on Wikipedia, is meeting on Monday 23rd May 1-3pm (GMT+1) online for our monthly editathon. You are very welcome to join us! Please email email womensclassicalcommittee@gmail.com for joining details. For more on WCCWiki, see here:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Women%27s_Classical_Committee

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
• Add LI after the article if you post it on LinkedIn
• Add ITN after the article if it was posted on the main page viaWP:In The News.

Most recent on top. Also, please indicate amount of improvement (e.g., number of characters, words, or sentences added).

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

• Add here – most recent at the top with date of publication
• Napir-Asu - 16 June

New/expanded articles featured in theIn the news... column of the WikipediaMain page

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

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons:Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2022

Add here – most recent at the top

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  Caroline Morris Galt
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  Louise Fitz Randolph
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  Ellen S. Spinden

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