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!

Peace and Diplomacy initiative
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In 2023, Women in Red is focusing on peace and diplomacy as a year-long initiative. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about women who are or have been peace activists, diplomats or have otherwise contributed to the cause of peace and constructive international relations, as well as their organizations, writings, awards and other connected 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 the topics of the month or our comprehensive #1day1woman priority.

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?

• The lists of redlinks should provide inspiration.

• There is a section where you can list the articles you create this month, and another section where you can add the images you uploaded to Commons.
• This essay on creating women's biographies and ourTen Simple Rules might be helpful to newcomers.

A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on ourRedlist index. Those relating to war and diplomacy are listed below:

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

• Georgia Lloyd - Pacifist & daughter ofLola Maverick Lloyd^{[1][2][3][4][5]}
• Margaret Isely - Pacifist, organic food activist, nutritionist, businesswomen & political activist
• Peace:Napalm Ladies includingLisa Kalvelage,Joyce Marilyn McLean,Aileen Hutchinson, andBeverly Farquharson
• Peace:Ruby Sophia Rich[1]
• Kerry Buck NATO^[6]
• Jennifer May Loten OAS
• Sofie From-Emmesberger ambassador to NATO. Article needs improvement
• Jennifer Macmillan UN in Vienna
• Amanda Ellis UN^[7]
• Joy Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu UN^[8]
• Denise Natali^[9]
• Christina Frundt^[10]
• Florencia Molina^[11]
• Tanya Street^[12]
• Sheila White (politician)^[13]
• Maria Adebahr^[14]
• Konstantina Koliou^[15]
• Kay Macpherson founding member ofNational Action Committee on the Status of Women
• LOTS of redlinks in the updated article onWomen's International Democratic Federation

Help by adding Photos to the Newly created or old articles with no photo or with poor quality photo. Either add existing photo (if already present in Wiki) or upload new one.

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons:

Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2023

Add here – most recent at the top:

• Lola Maverick Lloyd - PQM
• Margaret Isely - NM
• Shigeri Yamataka - NM
• Lisa Kalvelage - NM
• Ruby Sophia Rich - NM
• Lisa Kalvelage - NM
• Sofie From-Emmesberger - NM
• Amanda Ellis - NM
• Randall Forsberg - NM

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

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• ... that telephone operatorMyriel Davies began her long career as a peace activist during theSuez Crisis?(2023-10-30)
• ... thatHelene Lecher's presentation at theWomen at the Hague conference, whichMary Heaton Vorse described as the "most moving speech of all the Congress", urged for peace?(2023-05-06)
• ... thatBertha McNeill challenged policies of theWomen's International League for Peace and Freedom that excluded Black women from full membership in the organization?(2023-03-26)
• ... that to attend the 1915Women at the Hague Congress,Eugénie Hamer and the Belgian delegates drove, were frisked, walked two hours, and took a train?(2023-03-22)
• ... thatCora Slocomb di Brazza designed thepeace flag adopted by the International Council of Women, and her motherAbby Day Slocomb designed theConnecticut state flag?(2023-03-22)
• ... thatHelene Scheu-Riesz created the first German translation ofAlice Through the Looking-Glass but struggled withLewis Carroll's made-up words?(2023-03-20)
• ... that the support of conservationistKae Miller(pictured) for people recovering from mental illnesses resulted in the establishment of Te Rae Kaihau Park inWellington, New Zealand?(2023-03-11)
• ... that African-American journalistErna P. Harris(pictured) was called a "fearless critic" of theinternment of Japanese Americans by the US government during World War II?(2023-02-18)

• Vivian Silver(2023-11-15)

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Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2023Add here – most recent at the top

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  Isie andJan Smuts
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  Oksana Dramaretska
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  Nina Popova and her daughterRenita Grigoryeva
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  Rakiah Abdul Lamit
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  Masurai Masri
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  Noor Qamar Sulaiman
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  Mazlizah Mahalee
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  Tan Bee Yong
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  Anna Kong Mei
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  Mrs. Ngo Ba Thanh
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  Yoko Matsuoka
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  Marie Simon
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  Lotta Dempsey
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  Lotta Dempsey (2nd from left)
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  Ebyan Mahamed Salah of Somalia and UN human rights
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  Meira Levinson at Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics
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  Goma HoOLaila Bourhil 2023 MONUSCO
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  Beatrice Pitney Lamb
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  Dawn M. Liberi and peace
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  Rebecca Hersman head of anti-WMD in US
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  Mariquita Villard Platov
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  Eleanor Woolley Fowler
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  Agnes Callard
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  Finnegan Biden
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  Violet Tillard
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  Sofía Boza, Ambassador of Chile
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  Margarita Benítez & dad
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  María Herrera Magdaleno
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  Susan Hammond (Vietnam) War Legacies Project
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  Paula Pogány
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  Pearl Farmer Richardson
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  Dora Staudinger new free to use source
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  Abigail Day Slocomb
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  Students of the Brazza Lace Cooperative Schools
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  Italian Mother & Daughter Making Lace
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  Jane Addams (l) andVirginia Tango Piatti (r)
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  Virginia Tango Piatti
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  Cora Slocomb di Brazza
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  Clara Weekes
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  Kae Miller
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  Betty Olsson
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  Bertha McNeill
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  1915 Belgian delegationWomen at the Hague
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  Anne Withington
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  Helene Scheu-Riesz
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  Helene Scheu-Riesz, byPauline Hamilton
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  Lucy Biddle Lewis
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  Ellen Palmstierna
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  Anna T. Nilsson
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  Matilda Widegren
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  A. Evelyn Newman
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  1921 WILPF Executive Committee
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  Group at WILPF Congress Vienna 1921
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  Henriette Crone
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  Else Zeuthen
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  Annelise Rüegg
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  Olga Misař
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  Alice Thacher Post
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  Rose Morgan French
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  Lillian G. Kohlhamer
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  Lillian G. Kohlhamer
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  Annie E. Molloy
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  Esther Biddle Rhoads
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  Greta Engkvist

Previous annual initiatives:

• 2022:Climate
• 2021:Women's rights
• 2020:Anti-discrimination
• 2019:Suffrage
• 2016:Science

• Invitation:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Outreach/2023
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