Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/42

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	Adath Jeshurun Women's League
About
Facilitators	Rosiestep;
Online event
1-30 May 2017	Join the Women in Red online editathon from anywhere in the world.

	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!

Women's organizations & conferences: May 2017

May: Organizations & conferences May: Sports May: Asian and Pacific islanders

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

See also: Future events

Welcome!

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 article talk pages...
.	`{{WikiProject Biography\| }}` or `{{WikiProject Biography}}` `{{WikiProject Women}}` if born after 1950; or `{{WikiProject Women's History}}::` if born before 1950. Editathon banner: `{{WIR-42}}`

Women in Red is hosting a virtual editathon from May 1 to 31, 2017, on Women's organizations & conferences.

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)

Focus and lists of red links

The objective is to create or improve articles on women's organizations, clubs, non-profits, and other groups formed by and/or for women. The other objective is to improve articles on notable conferences that women have created and hosted.