May: Organizations & conferencesMay: SportsMay: Asian and Pacific islanders

June: Met's art by womenJune: WiR Loves PrideJune: Pre-20th-century women

See also: Future events

Women in Red

Hello and welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR) whose objective is to turn redlinks into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's biographies and women's works. Did you know that according to WHGI only 16.97% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed? Content gender gap is a form of systemic bias, and this is what WiR addresses. We invite you to participate whenever you like in whatever way suits you and your schedule. Women in Red warmly welcomes you!

Welcome!

About
Facilitators	Rosiestep
Online event
1-31 May 2017	Join the Women in Red online editathon from anywhere in the world.

Use social media to promote our work!
Facebook	Wiki Women in Red
Twitter	@wikiwomeninred
Pinterest	May 2017 Editathons
Hashtag	#wikiwomeninred

Add to articles
.	Authority control should be included at the foot of every biography:{{Authority control}}. It will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata.
.	Choose applicable Categories such as:Category:Women and relative subcategories
.	If applicable, add a stub template at the foot of an article:Women Stubs, or{{Women-stub}}

Add to articletalk pages...
.	{{WikiProject Biography| }} or{{WikiProject Biography}} {{WikiProject Women}} if born after 1950; or{{WikiProject Women's History}}:: if born before 1950. Editathon banner:{{WIR-43}}

Women in Red is hosting a virtual editathonfrom May 1 to 31, 2017, onWomen in sports and athletics.

The virtual edit-a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work. 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)

The objective is to create or improve articles on women in sports, whether as players, writers, organizations, trophies, or other areas relating to sports and athletics.

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

• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame#Hall of Fame honorees has a bunch of redlinks. Any of these folks should easily prove notable, though for the older ones, finding sources could be a challenge.the list at the HOF has some good clues for people to search, and the list itself hasn't been updated since 2013 or 2014 -- it's missing a lot of redlinks (like this one.Montanabw^(talk)22:46, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Also, what would it take to generate a list, such as the above, for women in horse racing -- jockeys and trainers. Trainers who should qualify as notable (need to have trained a Grade I winner, see NHORSERACING) but with no article includeLinda Rice (top 10 right now),Patricia Farro (in top 50),Kathleen O'Connell,Michelle Nevin andCarla GainesEquibase is a good database to find the top people in these fields, look for those listed as "Multiple Graded Stakes Winning Trainers" (or jockeys).Montanabw^(talk)22:54, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• How about Equestrians or do we need to name the individual sport?^{Atsme📞📧}00:19, 29 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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 the titles of your new or upgraded articles here created in May – most recent at the top, specifying upgraded if not new

New/expanded articles featured in theDid you know... column of the WikipediaMain page

• Add here - most recent at the top with date of publication

• Invitation:May 2017
• Editathon banner for talk pages:Template:WIR-42:{{WIR-43}}

• WikiProject Women in Red in 2017