Did you know that 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? Not impressed? Women in Red (WiR) focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you!
Women in Leadership Virtual World Edit-a-thon
Date
7 to 20 September 2015
Location
This is a virtual, global event... you can participate from anywhere in the world
TheWomen in Leadership Virtual World Edit-a-thon will be held from 7 to 20 September 2015. Anyone can take part whatever your previous experience. The event targets more focused work on the coverage of women in Wikipedia.
At WikiProject Women in Red, we have noticed serious gaps in Wikipedia's coverage ofwomen in leadership. To help remedy the situation, we are focusing on aVirtual World Edit-a-thon from 7 to 20 September 2015 when we hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies of some of the many past and present prominent women leaders who are still red-linked on the English Wikipedia. A virtual edit-a-thon will allow enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the event, choosing names from our preliminaryWomen in leadership list. Relative newcomers to Wikipedia will be able to work with more experienced mentors who will assist them in creating or improving articles, and will provide on-going guidance in the future.
The main goals of the edit-a-thon are therefore:
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 the neglected area of women in leadership
to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
I am keen to support Women in Red but cannot make it this time:
Thanks for the invite. I don't usually work to these time-bound deadlines and contribute when and where I can. I've added a ton of female athlete biographies from the IAAF Championship this month (here andhere).LugnutsDick Laurent is dead10:23, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you kindly for the invite. Being thesloth that I am, I tend to wander about and have trouble staying within projects, but right now I'm on a patch of nice female biographies so I think I'll stick around there for a while now since it coincides with this event.w.carter-Talk10:50, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Many thanks for the invite. I have a long list of needed women's bios in the areas I work on (visual arts, architecture, writing) so am going to pass on this for now. With three cheers for this idea,Alafarge (talk)20:43, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
We have drawn up aninitial list of prominent women leaders who have not yet been covered on the English Wikipedia. The list is arranged by country and contains links to basic information on each individual. Many of the names have been drawn from the world's most widely published lists of women leaders in business, finance, politics and government as well as from historic sources.
Please add any other missing articles for creation here:
Ruth Hammond Broe, was a Colonel in USMCR, received posthumously the The Colonel Julia E. Hamblet Award from theMarine Corps Heritage Foundation for her work in furthering "the recognition of the history of women who have earned the title Marine"
Thanks,SusunW! BTW quite a number of the articles listed under "Outcomes" are one-line stubs. This makes the number of our newly-created articles misleading, as those stubs will certainly show up at AFD in the near future.Yoninah (talk)23:06, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
denadaYoninah I am tagging them all to make sure they have some WikiProject related to women and hopefully they will then end up on our "Alerts" list, if they are nominated. I wish they would figure out how to automate adding WikiProjects.SusunW (talk)00:01, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
... that the British entrepreneurNancy Cruickshank's second start-up, Handbag.com, became the number-one fashion and beauty website in the UK, with 1.5 million visits monthly?(2015-12-11)
... thatKathryn Parsons(pictured) co-founded a startup that teaches people how to "code in a day"?(2015-12-10)
... thatDebra Crew surprised business observers when she became president of theR. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company only two months after being named president ofPepsiCo North America Nutrition?(2015-10-26)
... that chemist and science diplomatNancy B. Jackson was the first implementer of theU.S. State Department's Chemical Security Engagement Program?(2015-10-13)
... that in the war againstTiglath-Pileser III in 732 BCE,Samsi was defeated and was said to have fled the battlefield like a "wild she-ass of the desert"?(2015-10-12)
... that 30 years after joining theRoyal Bank of Canada as a teller,Zabeen Hirji became chief human resources officer with responsibility for nearly 79,000 employees in 50 countries?(2015-10-10)
... that the artistSiri Derkert carved words of peace on the walls of a metro station doubling as a nuclear war shelter?(2015-10-06)
... thatLourdes Aflague Leon Guerrero, who served as a senator in theLegislature of Guam, is the Chairwoman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of the Bank of Guam?(2015-09-28)
... thatKatie Page, CEO ofHarvey Norman and an active supporter of women in sports, announced a $500,000 purse for horses owned or leased by women at the 2013Magic Millions racing event?(2015-09-28)
... thatStephanie Langhoff, who has produced numerous films made by brothersJay andMark Duplass, has been referred to as "the honorary Duplass sister"?(2015-09-26)
... that Iranian-bornAzita Shariati, an executive with the French catering and support services multinationalSodexo, has been named the most powerful businesswoman in Sweden?(2015-09-25)
... thatLouise O'Sullivan, founder and CEO of Anam Technologies,Dublin, is a vocal advocate for gender parity in theIT industry?(2015-09-22)
... that in 2014 theSunday Independent named Irish venture capitalistElaine Coughlan one of "The 50 Most Influential and Powerful Women in Business"?(2015-09-22)
... thatAnn-Marie Campbell, southern division president forThe Home Depot with responsibility for 690 stores and 100,000 employees, started with the company as a part-time cashier?(2015-09-21)
... that within two years of the hiring ofSandi Peterson as Group Worldwide Chairman ofJohnson & Johnson, the company doubled its number of women in executive leadership positions?(2015-09-19)
Lotje (talk)03:34, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
DoneIpigott or someone who speaks/reads Italian and you please confirm my translations of data. Thanks!SusunW (talk)18:27, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
