Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/11

Dates	April 13-14 2016
Location	This is a virtual, global event... you can participate from anywhere in the world
Host	Women in Red
Supporting	University of Edinburgh
Hashtag	#wikiwomeninred
Facilitators	Rosiestep; add your name here; add your name here

Women in Espionage | April 2016

1-31 April: Women Writers 1-31 April: Welsh Women 13-20 April: Women in Espionage April-December: Women Scientists

See also: Future events

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 19.98% 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 Women in Espionage

For Spy Week 2016 on April 13-20, 2016, Women in Red is focusing on women in espionage, in collaboration with and support of University of Edinburgh's "Women in Espionage and Spy Fiction".

Anyone can take part in this event, whatever their previous experience. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies of some of the women in espionage 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. See the list of red links for guidance.

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

Participants

User:Aboudaqn for Melissa Boyle Mahle, Hede Massing, Grace Lumpkin, Judith Coplon, Carol Weiss King, Berthe Zimmermann, Elinor Ferry, Virginia Foster Durr, Ruth Fischer, others
97198 (talk) 04:25, 12 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Ipigott (talk) 06:38, 12 April 2016 (UTC) I'll try to contribute at least one author biography[reply]
T. Anthony (talk) 07:12, 12 April 2016 (UTC) I might be a bit busy with other work though.[reply]
Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 08:28, 12 April 2016 (UTC) I'll try to write an article, possibly on one of the women involved in the Venona Project, and have a look at some of the "to improve" articles.[reply]
Nvvchar. 11:53, 12 April 2016 (UTC) I am active in the three current (8,9 and 10) Red projects[reply]
Victuallers (talk) 14:36, 12 April 2016 (UTC) I was trying to keep it a secret![reply]
Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:53, 12 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Rosiestep (talk) 01:34, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
SusunW (talk) 17:42, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
PamD 22:47, 14 April 2016 (UTC) I've made a stub for Ginette Jullian[reply]
Alafarge (talk) 21:51, 21 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Howkafkaesque (talk) 01:45, 27 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

Redlinks list of women in espionage

Add these to articles

Add to the foot of every biography: {{Authority control}}; it will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata.
Add a Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Stub_types if appropriate to do so
There is a list of applicable categories at Category:Female wartime spies.

Add these to article talkpages

If the woman was born before 1950 use: {{WikiProject Women's history}}
If the woman was born after 1950 use: {{WikiProject Women}}
{{WikiProject Biography}}
Add to WikiProject Esponiage: {{WikiProject Espionage |class= |importance= }}
Add to WikiProject Military history:{{WPMILHIST|class= }}
Important: Please also include the Women in Esponiage editathon template for this event: {{WIR-Spy 2016}}