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 2025
Naimi Sweetie Hamza Aziz, representative of Tanzania to theIAEA, pictured in October 2024.
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In February 2025, 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.

What else?

• Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you created 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.

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)

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:

• Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new and biographical dictionary, if used:

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 Bsky after the article if you post it on Bluesky

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons:Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red – 2025

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  Tasha Smith
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  Ella Payne Moran
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  Roberta Flack
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  Temwa Chawinga
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  Dilum Dissanayake at WIPO
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  Estelle Pinckney Clough
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  Charlotte Moton Hubbard
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  Jennie B. Moton
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  Sallie Wyatt Stewart
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  Irene Drusilla Namaganda
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  Camille Cohen Jones
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  Nancy Elizabeth Prophet
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  Agnes Yewande Savage
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  Ruth Janetta Temple
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  Mary Virginia Cook Parrish
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  Sarah Willie Layton
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  Pauline E. Dinkins
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  Ruth E. Occomy
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  Sarah C. Williamson
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  Victoria Spivey
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  Nina Mae McKinney
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  Delia Silance
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  Frances Berry Coston
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  Jean Coston Maloney
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  Lorenza Jordan Cole
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  Tusaiwe Munkhondya
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  Emma Kaliya
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  Ethel Caution-Davis
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  Lillie Maie Hubbard
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  Clara Burrill Bruce

• ... thatCeleste Bedford Walker said that both her plays on theHouston riot of 1917 andTulsa race massacre were "quintessential racial confrontation stories"?(2025-03-24)
• ... thatMabel Dole Haden gained her law degree atHoward University after not being able to afford to complete her bachelor's degree there?(2025-03-22)
• ... thatSardoine Mia(pictured) creates paintings whose surfaces look like concrete?(2025-03-18)
• ... thatLydie Pongault was appointed to the Congolese government to fill the roles of two other ministers?(2025-03-18)
• ... thatSamba Yonga andMulenga Kapwepwe founded theWomen's History Museum of Zambia to counter a colonialist perspective on women's history?(2025-03-08)
• ... that it is said thatAntoinette Lubaki, Congo's first named woman artist, painted her watercolours by candlelight at night, as no stories were allowed to be told during daylight?(2025-02-12)
• ... thatWilla Brown's efforts to train African-American pilots in the United States led to the creation of theTuskegee Airmen?(2020-04-28)
• ... thatFlorida Ruffin Ridley co-founded the Society for the Collection of Negro Folklore?(2016-02-19)
• ... thatJosephine Silone Yates(pictured) was the first black woman to head a college science department in the United States?(2014-02-27)

• Invitation:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Outreach/2025

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