Wikipedia:100 DC Women/2021
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The contest has now concluded. Barnstars and postcards coming soon! We encourage you to keep writing articles and using the #100DCWomen hashtag.
New articles created: 148
The leaderboard:
| Jessamyn | 24 |
| HickoryOughtShirt?4 | 22 |
| Penny Richards | 17 |
| Bookworm-ce | 15 |
| Innisfree987 | 12 |
| Engineerchange | 8 |
| SamHolt6 | 8 |
| Skvader | 5 |
Rules
Create new articles relating to women in the greater Washington DC region. 3,000 characters and 300 words minimum, with sources, during May 2021. Lists do not qualify.
- The contest is limited to articles on the English language Wikipedia.
- The article is newly created by you (i.e. not expanding stubs) between May 1, 2021 0:00 and May 31, 2021 23:59 (UTC).
- The article should be at least 3,000 characters and at least 300 words in length. (excluding infobox, templates, etc.)
- The article must fulfill Wikipedia notability criteria.
- The article must have sufficient references; doubtful or controversial statements in the article should be verifiable by the citation(s) listed in that article.
- The article may be translated from another language Wikipedia, but it must not be purely machine translated and should be properly copy edited.
- There must be no major problems with the article (no copyright violations, questions of notability, etc.)
- For the purposes of this contest, the greater Washington DC region consists of the District of Columbia and the US states of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. The scope is purely geographical and articles can involve any point in time or history.
- Articles do not need to be biographies. They can deal with any aspect of women in the greater Washington DC region at any point in time.
- Judges will have the final say whether or not articles meet the above criteria.
- Judges, board members, and employees of Wikimedia District of Columbia may participate but are not eligible for prizes or awards.
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- Jessamyn (talk) 21:40, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
- Penny Richards (talk) 00:22, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
- HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 02:29, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
- Bookworm-ce (talk) 04:44, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
- Fuzheado | Talk 15:14, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
- Eddie891 Talk Work 21:16, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
- Rosiestep (talk) 04:38, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
- Malikxan talk 13:11, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
- Engineerchange (talk) 17:25, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
- POLITANVM talk 14:07, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
- --evrik (talk) 01:11, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
- Innisfree987 (talk) 19:56, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
- Lajmmoore (talk) 07:45, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
- YODADICAE👽 17:25, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
- SamHolt6 (talk) 17:27, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
- Kncny11 (shoot) 04:20, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
- Thriley (talk) 18:37, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
- Skvader (talk) 21:46, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
- Dr. Van Nostrand (talk) 01:23, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
- –CaroleHenson (talk) 22:57, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
Submit articles
Contributed to the English Wikipedia for the contest? Submit your contributions through the Fountain tool.
Share your contributions on social media with the hashtag #100DCWomen
Organizers and judges
Lists of suggestions and missing articles
Note: Any new articles must meet Wikipedia notability criteria. A suggestion for a missing article does not guarantee that the subject meets that criteria.
Some suggestions for missing biographies - click on the red link for each name to start a pre-formatted draft article.