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    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. We invite you to participate, whenever you like, in whatever way suits you and your schedule. Editors of all genders are equally and warmly welcome at Women in Red!
    Find Her editathon
    Online event
    March 2024
    Meetup301
    TypeEdit-a-thon
    ArticlesMeetup 301 articles (45)
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    Find Her
    March 2024
    Recently completed: Women in STEM Geofocus: Islands I–P Women in archaeology
    New this month: Asian women Geofocus: Islands Q–Z Women in engineering
    Ongoing initiatives: #1day1woman Education
    Upcoming events: Ideas
    Welcome!

    In March 2024, Women in Red wants to make it easier to find women and non-binary people on Wikipedia. This is a new event! We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating redirects and adding categories and wikilinks to make it easier to find women.

    Here are some ways you can make it easier to find women:

    • Add categories including relevant subcategories of Category:Women
    • Add wikilinks on other pages to the page such as a relevant list of people (e.g. "List of women writers", "List of [nationality] writers"), or check the Find Link tool and see if you can find her on other pages
    • Create redirects from alternative names (e.g. her performance name, birth name, pseudonym) (see information about redirects here)

    This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative. Contributors are of course also welcome to work on articles or add new articles about any other women who deserve to be covered, for example under the topics of the month or our comprehensive #1day1woman priority.

    The main goals of the event are:

    • to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia (in an easier way than creating new biographies!)
    • to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works.
    Thank you!
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    For this event, you'll be working on existing articles so we don't have our usual lists of redlinks.

    Useful tips for a starting point:

    • Guidance: You can find Wikipedia's guidance on redirects here, guidance on categories here and guidance on wikilinking here. If you have any questions or are finding anything confusing, post on the Women in Red talk page and experienced editors will be happy to help you.
    • Surnames: Adding someone to the relevant surname page (or making a redirect from her surname if she's the only name-holder) is really useful. It helps the reader who only knows a surname, and reminds people that there are Janes and Georginas in among all the Johns and Georges. For examples of a surname page, see Hanson (surname), List of people with surname Miller or List of people with surname Peña.
    • Checking for redirects: To find out whether an article already has existing redirects, click on "What links here" (likely on the right-hand side of the screen, under Tools) and then look for them. It helps if you've installed the userscript which displays all redirects in green, User:Anomie/linkclassifier, as you can then see redirects easily, but isn't essential.
    • For more guidance: Read the essay on Writing women into the encyclopedia describing how writing about women on Wikipedia doesn't stop after you've created a biography. This essay gives great suggestions on additional categories to add, where to add links, and more.

    Here are some links that can help you identify articles to work on, and feel free to add more:

    To raise the profile of Women in Red you can include the link WP:WIR-301 in your edit summaries.

    Participants

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    Outcomes (articles)

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    Promote our work

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    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 IG after the article if you post it on Instagram
    • Add LI after the article if you post it on LinkedIn
    • Add ITN after the article if it was posted on the main page via WP:In The News

    March 2024

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    Early start (pre-March 2024)

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    Event templates

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    • Invitation: March 2024
    • Editathon banner for talk pages – Find Her {{WIR|301}}
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