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!

Black women edit‑a‑thon
Online event February 2024
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In February 2024, Women in Red is once again focusing on Black women in conjunction withBlack History Month. In this connection, we welcome the collaborative efforts ofWikiProject Black Lives Matter.

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about Black women, 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, 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 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, Instagram)

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.

These are lists of redlinked articles to be created. A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on ourRedlist index. Those relating to Black women are listed below:

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

• Lots of women inEast African Legislative Assembly who could be written if sources can be found.
• Gee Bernard (1934–2016), first Black councillor in Croydon and member of theInner London Education Authority (ILEA).[1],[2],[3],[4]
• Brooke Cunningham Health Commissioner Minnesota Department of Health^[1]
• Dominique Leach^[2]
• Washington, D.C. health directors:
  • Sharon Lewis^[3] <-- Needs disambiguator
  • Ayanna Bennett^[4]
• Mary Anne Smith, (née Spencer, 1917-2001) 1st Black real estate agent in San Jose, California, worked to eliminateredlining[5],[6]
• Charlot Kristensen, visual artist and comic creator[7]
• Jill Jerold [es] first ever black female character to appear in a Marvel comic book.

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, please, specifying upgraded if not new

• ... thatEsther Merle Jackson, as a specialist in theatre and dance education at theUnited States Office of Education, intended to expand theater's role in theGreat Society?(2024-03-31)
• ... that one of the buildings that house theSafe House Museum(pictured) was where Martin Luther King Jr. hid from the Ku Klux Klan on 21 March 1968, just weeks before he was assassinated?(2024-03-21)
• ... thattrans women in Cape Verde are colloquially referred to astchindas, named afterTchinda Andrade, the first trans woman in the country tocome out publicly?(2024-03-13)
• ... thatEnass Muzamel established the Sudanese Female Cyclists Initiative to challenge the stigma against women riding bikes in Sudan?(2024-03-10)

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons:Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2024

Add here – most recent at the top

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  Anna Minerva Henderson
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  Denise Hinton
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  Lula Warlick
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  Imagene Stewart
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  Anne Shongwe
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  Oda Gasinzigwa
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  Carrie Still Shepperson
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  Carrie Burton Overton
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  Brenda Swann Holmes
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  Karrie G. Dixon
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  Louise Parrott Cochran
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  Bertha LaBranche Johnson
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  Annie Walker Blackwell
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  Anita Turpeau Anderson
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  Alyce Fraser Denny
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  Lola N. Vassall
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  Juanita Ellsworth Miller
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  Gladys L. Catchings
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  Lucia Posso
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  Ethna Beulah Winston
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  Eva C. Mitchell
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  Roberta Randolph DeMar
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  Easther Mayi Kith of Cameroon and Reading
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  Diana Salazar Méndez of Ecuador
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  Mary Evans Wilson
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  Yolande Du Bois
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  Mae Virginia Cowdery
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  Eulalie Spence
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  Jane Dabney Shackelford
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  Marguerite Frierson
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  Minerva France
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  Eulacie Shamberger Chatman
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  Georgia Caldwell Smith
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  Jane Ellen McAllister

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