Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/7

Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR)!

Our objective is to turn red links into blue 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 to Humaniki, only 19.97% 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. Editors of all genders are equally and warmly welcome to participate in the work of Women in Red!

Celebrating Black WikiHistory Month

February 2016

Black Women's History
Online Edit-a-thon

Dates	Monday-Monday February 1-15, 2016 2 weeks long
Location	This is a virtual, global event... you can participate from anywhere in the world
Sponsor	AfroCROWD
Host	Women in Red
Twitter hashtag	#WikiContentGenderGap
Facilitators	Rosiestep (talk) add your name here add your name here

Women in Red is hosting a virtual editathon from February 1 to 15, 2016, on Black Women's History. Anyone can take part whatever their previous experience. We hope both new and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies of some of the many past and present notable black women who are still red-linked on the English Wikipedia. The virtual edit-a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work.

The main goals of the edit-a-thon 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

Participants

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1. Rosiestep (talk) 18:48, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
2. Ipigott (talk) 08:17, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
3. SusunW (talk) 23:31, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
4. Alafarge (talk) 19:29, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
5. Penny Richards (talk) 00:42, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
6. Anthere (talk) 10:37, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
7. Garik.Kh 11:55, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
8. Armineaghayan (talk) 12:04, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
9. T. Anthony (talk) 13:00, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
10. 4meter4 (talk) 14:05, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
11. Armin Karapetyan (talk) 14:11, 27 January 2016 (UTC))
12. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 14:27, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
13. Rosekelleher (talk) 14:51, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
14. 1bandsaw (talk) 18:57, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
15. Andrew D. (talk) 19:13, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
16. [[D-free]] (talk) 23:09, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
17. Owlsmcgee (talk) 02:11, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
18. Rberchie (talk) 23:12, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
19. Nvvchar. 13:52, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
20. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) I'll be doing mostly image work. See Talk page. 19:16, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
21. Fuzchia (talk) 00:59, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
22. BrillLyle (talk)
23. Wikidata patrol! Missvain (talk) 21:22, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
24. Staceydolxx
25. Worm That Turned
26. Thisissusanbell (talk) 12:48, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
27. gobonobo ^{+ c} 23:57, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
28. Victuallers (talk) 09:34, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
29. Montanabw^(talk)|GO THUNDER! 05:42, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
30. PamD 16:07, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
31. StartupAsh (talk)
32. Duckduckstop (talk) 21:14, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
33. Lange.lea (talk) 14:19, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
34. Bridgebrad (talk) 01:55, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
35. Sydney Poore/FloNight♥♥♥♥ 02:14, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
36. Adjoajo;
37. Behemothing (talk) 22:02, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
38. Big_iron (talk) 03:22, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
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Articles to be created

Pre-event preparation

Sign up for an account

Read a quick editing tutorial

Look at a biography template

... and Biographies of living people

... and Infobox template – person

Wikipedia markup cheatsheet

The "Sandbox"

• Women in Red: Black Women's History redlinks
• Women in Red: Missing articles by nationality – Africa
• AfroCROWD: Task List
• WikiProject Haiti:
  • Requested articles
  • To Do list
• 2015 Black Life Matters Editathon: List of articles to edit
• 2016 Black Life Matters Editahon: List of articles to edit
• User:Dsp13 redlinks:
  • Ghanaian female politicians
  • African women
  • Black women in America
  • Women in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Caribbean writers

The following are mentioned in this article

• Beachy Head Lady - sub-Saharan skeleton found in Britain
• Sibongile Sambo - first woman to found an aviation company in South Africa
• Fatima Massaquoi (born 1904) - author of "The Autobiography of an African Princess"
• Sarah Kaisi - singer in East Africa known as Shaa
• Maureen Ayité - fashion designer from Benin

Add elements to articles

• Authority control
  • Add to the foot of every biography:
    {{Authority control}}
  • Authority control will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata
    -- or, alternately, use Template:Authority control to add it "old school"
• Categories
  Categories may have to be expanded but already include the following:
  • Category:African women (and subcategories)
  • Category:African-American women
  • Category:Black feminism
  • Category:Black Canadian women
  • Category:Black English women
  • Category:Lists of black people presents a number of useful lists but none (yet) specifically on women
• Stub templates
  • Stub types

Add to article talk pages

Talk page WikiProject banners

• WikiProject Biography: {{WikiProject Biography|class=|living=|listas=}}
• WikiProject Women:
  • Born before 1950: {{WikiProject Women's History}}
  • Born after 1950: {{WikiProject Women}}
• WikiProject African diaspora:
  • Born inside continental Africa: {{WikiProject Africa}}
  • Born outside continental Africa: {{WikiProject African diaspora}}
• Important: Please also include the Black Women's History editathon banner for this event: {{WIR-B 2016}}

Outcomes

Add the titles of your new or upgraded articles here – most recent at the top

1. Achenyo Idachaba
2. Bilikiss Adebiyi Abiola - DYKable
3. Mariam Sy Diawara
4. Arame Ndoye
5. Aminata Mbengue Ndiaye
6. Olajumoke Orisaguna
7. Zaila McCalla
8. Carrie A. Tuggle
9. Margaret Charles Smith
10. Khady Diallo
11. Muriel Diallo
12. Suzanne Iroche
13. Olufunke Iyabo Osibodu
14. Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens
15. Naomi Shelton
16. Ida Forsyne
17. Ana Irma Rivera Lassén
18. The McCrary Sisters
19. Ann McCrary
20. Joceline Clemencia
21. Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan
22. Elizabeth Isichei
23. Sarah Helen Mahammitt
24. Ella Mahammitt
25. Folayegbe Akintunde-Ighodalo
26. Yetunde Onanuga
27. Tejumade Alakija
28. Evelyn Dove (new)
29. Jessica Fièvre
30. Ochy Curiel
31. Marie-Reine de Jaham
32. Johannie Maria Spaan
33. Lourdes Teodoro
34. Ardie Clark Halyard
35. Francine Muyumba
36. Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer
37. Delia Jarrett-Macauley (new)
38. Évelyne Trouillot
39. Peggoty Mutai
40. Effie T. Battle
41. Uche Ekwunife
42. Emmelie Prophète
43. Sybil I. McLaughlin
44. Aminu Bashir Wali
45. Erlinda Fadera-Basilio
46. Chamsia Sagaf
47. Anya Williams
48. Fatumata Djau Baldé
49. Rose Okoji Oko
50. Marie-Magdeleine Carbet
51. Bolanle Awe‎
52. Primer Encuentro de Mujeres Negras de América Latina y El Caribe
53. Thandi Orleyn
54. Tomasa Núñez
55. Pearle Christian (new)
56. Mona Guérin
57. Geraldine Connor (new)
58. Marlène Rigaud Apollon
59. Anna Johnson Dupree
60. Nonkululeko Nyembezi-Heita
61. Fatimat Raji Rasaki (stub)
62. Madeleine Sylvain-Bouchereau
63. Debbie McClendon
64. Helen Oyeyemi
65. Ade Solanke (new)
66. Mame Diarra Bousso
67. Jacqueline Beaugé-Rosier
68. The Autobiography of an African Princess
69. Althea McNish
70. Mimi Barthélémy
71. Cecelia Cabaniss Saunders
72. Jane Johnson Endsley
73. Gwyneth Barber Wood
74. Sonia M. Johnny
75. Elmer Lucille Allen (stub)
76. Nobia A. Franklin
77. Eileene L. Parsons
78. Teresina Bodkin (stub)
79. Gloria Wekker
80. Harriet Evans Paine
81. Viola Onwuliri (DYK hook about Professor, air-crash or Goodluck Johnathon?)
82. Gertrude Schalk
83. Naomi Nhiwatiwa
84. Khadija Bukar Abba Ibrahim update
85. Madeline Bunch (stub)
86. Cecelia Adkins (stub)
87. Moranda Smith
88. Fannie Pennington
89. Ada Mae Edwards
90. Sarita Francis
91. Sibongile Sambo
92. Juliet Elu
93. Doris Y. Wilkinson
94. Cordelia Agbebaku
95. Charity Angya
96. Comfort Ekpo
97. Oluwayemisi Oluremi Obilade
98. Ekanem Ikpi Braide
99. Rosemund Dienye Green-Osahogulu
100. Alhaja Kudirat Abiola - DYKable?
101. Fauzia Nasreen
102. Sybil Joyce Hylton
103. Maureen Ayité
104. Fatima Massaquoi
105. Odette Roy Fombrun
106. Carrie Saxon Perry (new)
107. Edythe Mae Gordon
108. Glory Van Scott
109. Norma Cox Astwood
110. Judy Thongori
111. Frances Rodrigues
112. Yanick Lahens
113. Brigid Annisette-George
114. Linda M. Deane
115. Olufunke Baruwa
116. Paulette Poujol-Oriol
117. Ruth Logan Roberts
118. Ingrid Moses-Scatliffe
119. Neva Edwards
120. Silvina Fabars
121. Catherine Allen Latimer
122. Hawa Essuman
123. Mabel Ridley
124. Charity Ogbenyealu Adule
125. Amarachi Okafor
126. Alaba Jonathan
127. Grace Gabriel
128. Olawunmi Banjo
129. Otobong Nkanga
130. Ada Benjamin
131. Ayisha Osori
132. 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
133. 32nd and 33rd Post Headquarters Companies (WAC)
134. Célestine Ouezzin Coulibaly
135. Deolinda Rodríguez de Almeida
136. Aïchatou Boulama Kané - stub
137. Gladys Kahaka - stub
138. Stella Chinyelu Okoli
139. Angèle Diabang Brener - new
140. Ruby M. Rouss
141. Evelyne Mpoudi Ngolé
142. Rosine Sori-Coulibaly
143. Meaza Ashenafi‎
144. Lucy Hughes Brown
145. Elise Forrest Harleston - expanded
146. Simi Bedford
147. Esther Ibanga re-cut, ref, pic and paraphrase cut and paste
148. Kay Livingstone
149. Aïcha Fofana
150. Neshani Andreas
151. Edythe J. Gaines - new article
152. Ayoka Chenzira - created article
153. Lupita Nyong'o - added cite, consolidated cite, might scrub BrillLyle (talk)
154. Althea Efunshile
155. Mary Charles George
156. Constance Wu - major scrub of citations; added content BrillLyle (talk)
157. Danai Gurira - periodic checkin: cite cleanup bare urls, added cite BrillLyle (talk)
158. Rosina Umelo
159. Carlene Firmin
160. Lilly Goodman
161. Mary E. Bibb
162. Diana Sigei Chepkemoi (stubby)
163. Cynthia Y. Forde
164. Doris Sands Johnson
165. Hadiza Bala Usman
166. Reynelda Muse
167. Jigawa State School of Midwifery
168. Taiwo Olayemi Elufioye
169. Micheline Rawlins
170. Deborah Bell
171. Sarah E. Gorham
172. Vera Okolo (stub)
173. Fausat Balogun
174. Lucy Goode Brooks
175. Lilian Bader (stub)
176. Esther Madudu
177. Ibukun Odusote
178. Vera Songwe
179. Bridget Harris
180. Halima Kanni
181. Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika improved
182. Gwendoline Konie DYKable?
183. Undine Smith Moore improved
184. Sarah Bickford
185. Velma Scantlebury
186. Scenes from the Life of a Martyr
187. Shirley Gunter
188. Siti Kassim
189. Denise Epoté
190. Carrie A. Tuggle
191. Rose Piper
192. Black Cross Nurses
193. Abena Busia
194. Ruth Guimarães
195. Gloria Tanner
196. Vivian Seay
197. Tina Allen
198. Lucy Miller Mitchell
199. Florida Ruffin Ridley
200. Rosita Beatrice Missick-Butterfield
201. Hetty Reckless
202. Rosita Baltazar
203. Thelma C. Davidson Adair
204. Willa Mae Sudduth
205. Florence M. Rice

Did You Know? articles

• ... that Althea McNish is not American, but she is descended from a Merikin? (2016-04-01)
• ... that Bilikiss Adebiyi (pictured) planned to collect rubbish in the streets of Nigeria while taking her MBA at MIT? (2016-03-15)
• ... that Sonia M. Johnny, the first woman ambassador to the United States from Saint Lucia, has also represented CARICOM nations' interests in a trade dispute over bananas? (2016-03-08)
• ... that Afro-Dominican lesbian feminist scholar Ochy Curiel was a featured musician at the 2004 Teddy Awards in Berlin? (2016-03-08)
• ... that women's rights activist Meaza Ashenafi noted that Amharic proverbs that place women only in domestic roles are to blame for the degrading of women in Ethiopia? (2016-03-08)
• ... that Afro-Curaçaoan writer and educator Joceline Clemencia advocated for Papiamento to become an official language of Curaçao? (2016-03-08)
• ... that Doris Sands Johnson, who wrote a how-to book for voting, lost her initial attempt to run for office but later became the premier woman President of the Bahamian Senate? (2016-03-08)
• ... that Deolinda Rodríguez de Almeida became known as Angola's "Mother of the Revolution"? (2016-03-08)
• ... that in 2013, Forbes listed Vera Songwe as one of the "20 Young Power Women in Africa"? (2016-02-29)
• ... that Hetty Reckless was born in 1776, escaped from Salem, and boasted of seeing George Washington? (2016-02-29)
• ... that Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, who would later become president of the Bar Association of Puerto Rico, sued a judge in the 1980s so she could appear in court dressed in pants? (2016-02-29)
• ... that Gloria Wekker has been called "Holland's Angela Davis" for igniting debate on cultural racism? (2016-02-26)
• ... that Zaila McCalla, first female Chief Justice of Jamaica, is also the Chancellor of the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands? (2016-02-25)
• ... that Carrie A. Tuggle established the Tuggle Institute, in Birmingham, Alabama, a boarding school to give free education for black children who were destitute orphans or juvenile defendants? (2016-02-25)
• ... that Norma Cox Astwood, a clinical psychologist, became Vice President of the Senate of Bermuda? (2016-02-24)
• ... that Crucian Ruby M. Rouss served in the Women's Army Corps before becoming the "first black woman to head a Legislature in the United States"? (2016-02-23)
• ... that Paulette Poujol-Oriol's literary works focus principally on the social and economic problems of Haiti, evoking moral options and suggesting solutions? (2016-02-23)
• ... that Rose Piper's 1946 painting Back Water was inspired by Bessie Smith's "Backwater Blues"? (2016-02-22)
• ... that the black Liberian scholar and educator, Princess Fatima Massaquoi, wrote of her challenging experiences in Nazi Germany and the U.S. South in a recently rediscovered autobiography? (2016-02-21)
• ... that shortly after becoming the first woman and first African American television news anchor in Colorado, Reynelda Muse began wearing an Afro on the air to assert her identity? (2016-02-20)
• ... that 2001 Zambian presidential candidate Gwendoline Konie (pictured) published a poem against male arrogance? (2016-02-20)
• ... that the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only all-black, all-female battalion to serve overseas during World War II? (2016-02-20)
• ... that the "Mother of the Probation" system, Sybil Joyce Hylton, is a National Hero of the Cayman Islands? (2016-02-19)
• ... that Florida Ruffin Ridley co-founded the Society for the Collection of Negro Folklore? (2016-02-19)
• ... that in an era when women of African descent had little access to education or public role models, the Black Cross Nurses (pictured) trained them in healthcare, allowing them to be seen in leadership roles? (2016-02-18)
• ... that Tina Allen's sculpture of Frederick Douglass is featured in the movie Akeelah and the Bee? (2016-02-15)
• ... that Romona Robinson won a television news anchor job in Cleveland, Ohio, with a demo tape that showed her remaining poised and self-confident while "being wiped out by a hurricane-whipped wave"? (2016-02-15)
• ... that Silvina Fabars, who won the National Dance Prize of Cuba in 2014, was once a rebel fighter under Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution? (2016-02-14)
• ... that Ruth Guimarães, the first Afro-Brazilian author to gain a nationwide audience, translated classic literature but also wrote original works about fables, legends, and everyday life? (2016-02-14)
• ... that Rosita Baltazar, co-founder of the Belize National Dance Company, taught language and dance on St. Vincent in a Garifuna cultural reclamation project? (2016-02-14)
• ... that Velma Scantlebury, the first African American woman transplant surgeon in the United States, estimates she has completed over 2,000 organ transplants? (2016-02-11)
• ... that nurse and midwife Rosita Beatrice Missick-Butterfield was the first woman Speaker of the Legislative Council of the Turks and Caicos Islands? (2016-02-08)
• ... that in 1994 Gloria Tanner became the first African American woman state senator in Colorado history? (2016-02-05)
• ... that former slave Lucy Goode Brooks (pictured) helped found the Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans, which still serves families in Richmond, Virginia, as the Friends' Association for Children? (2016-01-04)

Featured pictures

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  Shirley Chisholm
• 
  Ibukun Odusote
• 
  Cardiss Collins
• 
  Barbara Jordan

Press about the event

• Wikipedia Activism and Diversity in Science, blog article by Hilda Bastian
• Five African women who should have wiki pages, posted on MUI PR on 3 February
• Wilson, Chris. "Why Wikipedia Is in Trouble." Time. January 14, 2016.
  • User:FloNight quoted on the work of this project, WikiProject Women in Red

Event templates

• Wikipedia:Meetup/Women in Red/7/invitation & thank you templates
• Event template: Black Women's History editathon template for this event: {{WIR-B 2016}}

External links

• WikiProject: Women in Red
• AfroCROWD
• Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
• Wikimedia New York City