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!

Women who died: 2024 edit‑a‑thon
Online event December 2024 – January 2025
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Once again in December and January we are focusing onnotable women who died in 2024, from all fields and nationalities. Many of them will have been covered in detail in the obituaries published in newspapers and journals around the world.

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about notable women who have recently died, including their writings or other 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 our #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 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 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, upload any of the images to Pinterest, or successfully nominate for In The News, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

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

Other sources where women who died in 2024 may be found:

• Deaths in 2024 (for prior months, use history to find version before redlinks removed)
• Obituaries inThe New York Times
• Obituaries in the UK'sThe Guardian, including from the (Start of the year)

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

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.

• ... that World War II nurse Ethel Lote practised yoga and tai chi until she was 95?(2025-01-20)
• ... thatKaterina Clark wrote "a brave and intelligent study of the Soviet novel"?(2025-01-18)

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

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  Shirah Neiman
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  Evelyn Lord
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  Shigeko Sasamori
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  Marcela Krinke-Susmelj
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  Edna died

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