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    About

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    Welcome! This is where Women in Red plans future events and discusses ideas for more general improvements. Everyone is welcome to make suggestions or work on tasks. What we decide to do is based on consensus. No one is in charge. You don't have to be a member to participate. Like elsewhere on Wikipedia: be polite, be bold. Join the discussion here or on our project talkpage.

    Year-long focus for 2025

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    This is under discussion on the WiR talk page. Please help us to reach a consensus.--Ipigott (talk) 09:20, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    2024

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    Nov 2024

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    Women in engineering logo draft

    Firming up for November

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    ONGOING -  
    ** Event #293: #1day1woman #1day1woman 
    ** Event #294:  Education Year long initiative Education Year long initiative 
    
    NEW - Asian women  - 178 as go by 
    * Asian women
    ** Event #321: Asian women Green tickY
    
    NEW - Geofocus: Islands Q-Z 
    * Geofocus: Islands Q-Z
    ** Event #322: Geofocus: Islands Q-Z Green tickY
    
    NEW - Women in engineering 
    * Women in engineering 
    ** Event #323: Women in engineering Green tickY
    
    ANNOUNCEMENTS (EVENTS FACILITATED BY OTHERS) 
    *  Annual Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM) is a campaign designed to boost Asian content on Wikipedia each November. Green tickY
    * Unreferenced articles backlog drive. These Wikiproject clean-up lists offer a start to November's backlog drive, e.g. Women's History and Women writers Green tickY
    
    INVITATION: 
    * Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2024#November 2024 -  Green tickY
    ** logo  Green tickY
    
    COMING UP:
    * Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Events  
    
    TIP OF THE MONTH:
    * Looking for an image? Sometimes you can find openly licensed ones at search.creativecommons.org/ Green tickY
    

    Oronsay, Ipigott, Rosiestep, Lajmmoore, CT55555, Victuallers, Cielquiparle, SusunW, Chocmilk03, Penny Richards, Silver seren, PamD, Curbon7, MSGJ and all WIR helpers: Here's a rough draft of the to-do list. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 15:25, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks, WomenArtistUpdates for pulling this this together.
    I have a question regarding the name of #321: currently, "Women in Asia", but what about "Asian women" (which would include diaspora), or even just "Asia"? --Rosiestep (talk) 18:34, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Rosiestep, Good suggestion.  Done --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 18:43, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Hmmm, Every November I usually include a few women who had careers in Asia (educators, medical missionaries, diplomats, etc.), but many of them wouldn't make sense to include if the title is "Asian women". Which is fine, it's nice to switch it up and include the diaspora; just adding another perspective on the title. Penny Richards (talk) 22:32, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Pinging TheResilientEngineer. You offered to work on redlists for engineers. Any updates? Thanks. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 22:56, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Hey I've cleaned up this list Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Engineering to take out all the blue links (bar one that popped up recently). I would like to extend it to other geographies but I don't know who the engineering institutions are for them so it's a bit difficult to find lists to work from. Happy for others to add, it's clean and I've extended it a bit. TheResilientEngineer (talk) 16:26, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I've also drafted the women in engineering Event page using the STEM one as a template.
    The red lists don't seem to disaggregate by discipline (except for civil engineers) so the list of red lists is not as extensive as for say STEM. I hope that's okay? Or are there suggestions on how to navigate this? TheResilientEngineer (talk) 17:24, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks TheResilientEngineer! It looks good to me. I have no understanding of engineering though. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 20:15, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @WomenArtistUpdates so if I wanted to create a redlist of women Impressionists.....how do we do that? I'm still new to wiki and very much still learning. I think it might be helpful to be able to create lists of:
    • Civil Engineers
    • Mechanical Engineers
    • Chemical Engineers
    • Electrical Engineers
    • Biomedical Engineers
    • Materials Scientists (If this doesn't already exist elsewhere)
    TheResilientEngineer (talk) 08:26, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I worked it out. We now have some separate redlists TheResilientEngineer (talk) 10:17, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I rather like the hard hat. I think it will stand out as something new and interesting.--Ipigott (talk) 07:53, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Maybe then 'Asia' is the one to go for as its most expansive? Lajmmoore (talk) 08:52, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Event #323: Women in engineering basically just needs reviewing and it's ready to go. I've tried extending the CS redlist to other countries by looking for members of national academies. There's a few folks I've added that are really good candidates for pages. So hopefully we'll be able to make quite a few great biographies! TheResilientEngineer (talk) 14:37, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I started 'Islands - Q to Z' so it needs a review Lajmmoore (talk) 09:08, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Oronsay, Ipigott, Rosiestep, Lajmmoore, CT55555, Victuallers, Cielquiparle, SusunW, Chocmilk03, Penny Richards, Silver seren, PamD, Curbon7, MSGJ and all WIR helpers: We need some more eyes please. Proof read and add green check. If you are shy about the green check, just add your name to participants. If anyone is still interested in "Nobility" or "pending drafts", move the proposal into 2025, selecting a month that needs filling. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 22:52, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I have made a number of changes to both #321 and #322 so don't feel able to sign off on them. Oronsay (talk) 02:31, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Per the announcement on the main WiR talkpage here, I've added mention of this campaign in the invite's "ANNOUNCEMENTS (EVENTS FACILITATED BY OTHERS)" section, but feel free to remove it if you feel like the announcement on our talkpage is sufficient. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:10, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I think drawing WIR members' attention to the two Project clean-up lists is a v. good idea. Do others agree? Oronsay (talk) 14:56, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Me too. I changed the red box to a green check and will put it in the invitation. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 20:46, 26 October 2024 (UTC

    Annual

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    • Wiki Asia Month

    Engineering

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    As per Archaeology dicsussion above? Lajmmoore (talk) 22:20, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    There's a list that seems very out of date. I can have a go at updating it. But will need help in all likelihood. There is time though! Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Engineering TheResilientEngineer (talk) 17:29, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Geofocus: Islands Q-Z

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    Alphabet by month
    Month Letters
    Sept A-H
    Oct I-P
    Nov Q-Z
    Alphabet by month
    Letters Month Islands
    A - H Sept American Samoa, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cape Verde, Cook Islands, Cuba and Cyprus, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Faroe Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Greenland, Grenada, Guam, Haiti, Hong Kong
    I - P Oct Iceland, Jamaica, Japan, Kiribati, Madagascar, Maldives, Malta, Isle of Man, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mayotte, Federated States of Micronesia, Montserrat, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Northern Cyprus, Northern Mariana Islands., Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Puerto Rico
    Q-Z Nov Réunion, Rodrigues, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu

    Dec 2024

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    Annual 2024

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    • Religion
    • To be more inclusive, would we want to consider referring to it as Religious, spiritual, and wisdom traditions (a descriptor used by Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Religion)? However, this is quite long. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:06, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    • Winter sports
    • Women who died in 2024

    Get to 20

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    According to my projections of the increasing numbers of women's biographies, the number of women's biographies should be hitting 20% of all biographies by the end of the year. I wondered if it would perhaps be worth doing an end-of-year edit-a-thon to help us nudge it over the line. Unlike the usual themed characters of our monthly edit-a-thons, this one could be more of a free-for-all to encourage as much creation as possible. Just an idea. --Grnrchst (talk) 08:14, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    De-orphan December

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    Adding a suggestion here for a deorphaning theme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Women_in_Red#de-orphaning_as_monthly_initiative? However, looking I wonder if December might be a bit full with other themes? Lajmmoore (talk) 06:23, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I did quite a lot of deorphaning in August-September and think that making it one of several themes is a good idea. There is little point in several people trying to deorphan the same article and finding it has already been done. We should encourage volunteers to add links which improve the articles edited, rather than to deorphan articles at any cost. Deorphaning is also a good opportunity to see whether the article can be improved in other ways. TSventon (talk) 16:54, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    2025

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    Jan 2025

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    Annual

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    Alphabet run A and B

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    Alphabet by month
    Month Letters
    January A & B
    February C & D
    March E & F
    April G & H
    May I & J
    June K & L
    July M & N
    August O & P
    September Q & R
    October S & T
    November U, V, W
    December X, Y & Z
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    • As per this discussion, perhaps a focus on women who are well represented in languages that aren't English, using this list. Might need a catchier title though? Lajmmoore (talk) 17:26, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
      @Lajmmoore: I actually already proposed an "Interwiki edit-a-thon" along these lines (see below). --Grnrchst (talk) 10:26, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
      When I sort one of our geofocus redlists on the "number of links" column, a depressing number of the top ranking are usually porn stars. Do we want to focus our editors' minds on them? I'm showing my biases here, but I can't help but think there are more worthwhile contributions we could make to en.wiki. But as long as we remind our editors to skim through the highly-linked lists looking for someone who seems a real gap in en.wiki, it could be useful. PamD 18:40, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
      @PamD: I understand the hesitation, it's something I find a bit jarring about some of the geofocused redlists as well. But there are redlists for different occupations, which by their nature would preclude these kinds of article. For example, the woman with the most interwiki links on the revolutionaries list has 8 interwiki links; there's also 10 interwiki links for the most inter-linked in economists, 6 for judges, etc. --Grnrchst (talk) 10:33, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    #PendingDrafts

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    As per Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red#Women-related articles at AfC, suggesting that we begin a never-ending event (along the lines of #1day1woman) focused on women-related AfC articles. This will take some set-up work, but the idea is that methodical awareness of these articles and collaborative assistance with improving them will increase the possibility that the draft will make it to mainpage, and that the newbie editor will come to know they aren't alone. --Rosiestep (talk) 08:34, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Maybe this is our year-long event in 2025? Lajmmoore (talk) 08:52, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Feb 2025

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    Black women

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    Annual event

    Alphabet run C & D

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    Alphabet by month
    Month Letters
    January A & B
    February C & D
    March E & F
    April G & H
    May I & J
    June K & L
    July M & N
    August O & P
    September Q & R
    October S & T
    November U, V, W
    December X, Y & Z

    Mar 2025

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    Artists+Activists

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    Annual Event

    Alphabet run E & F

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    Alphabet by month
    Month Letters
    January A & B
    February C & D
    March E & F
    April G & H
    May I & J
    June K & L
    July M & N
    August O & P
    September Q & R
    October S & T
    November U, V, W
    December X, Y & Z

    Apr 2025

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    Alphabet run G & H

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    Alphabet by month
    Month Letters
    January A & B
    February C & D
    March E & F
    April G & H
    May I & J
    June K & L
    July M & N
    August O & P
    September Q & R
    October S & T
    November U, V, W
    December X, Y & Z

    May 2025

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    Alphabet run I & J

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    Alphabet by month
    Month Letters
    January A & B
    February C & D
    March E & F
    April G & H
    May I & J
    June K & L
    July M & N
    August O & P
    September Q & R
    October S & T
    November U, V, W
    December X, Y & Z

    Jun 2025

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    LGBTQ+ women | Wiki Loves Pride

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    Annual event

    Alphabet run K & L

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    Alphabet by month
    Month Letters
    January A & B
    February C & D
    March E & F
    April G & H
    May I & J
    June K & L
    July M & N
    August O & P
    September Q & R
    October S & T
    November U, V, W
    December X, Y & Z

    Jul 2025

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    Women in Red turns 10

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    Celebrate WiR's 10th birthday - let's discuss how best to do this. --Oronsay (talk) 19:05, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Alphabet run M & N

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    Alphabet by month
    Month Letters
    January A & B
    February C & D
    March E & F
    April G & H
    May I & J
    June K & L
    July M & N
    August O & P
    September Q & R
    October S & T
    November U, V, W
    December X, Y & Z

    Aug 2025

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    Indigenous women

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    Annual event

    Alphabet run O & P

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    Alphabet by month
    Month Letters
    January A & B
    February C & D
    March E & F
    April G & H
    May I & J
    June K & L
    July M & N
    August O & P
    September Q & R
    October S & T
    November U, V, W
    December X, Y & Z

    Sep 2025

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    Women writers & their works

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    Annual event

    Alphabet run Q & R

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    Alphabet by month
    Month Letters
    January A & B
    February C & D
    March E & F
    April G & H
    May I & J
    June K & L
    July M & N
    August O & P
    September Q & R
    October S & T
    November U, V, W
    December X, Y & Z

    Oct 2025

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    Women in STEM

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    Annual event

    Alphabet run S & T

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    Alphabet by month
    Month Letters
    January A & B
    February C & D
    March E & F
    April G & H
    May I & J
    June K & L
    July M & N
    August O & P
    September Q & R
    October S & T
    November U, V, W
    December X, Y & Z

    Nov 2025

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    Asian women

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    Annual event

    Alphabet run U, V, W

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    Alphabet by month
    Month Letters
    January A & B
    February C & D
    March E & F
    April G & H
    May I & J
    June K & L
    July M & N
    August O & P
    September Q & R
    October S & T
    November U, V, W
    December X, Y & Z

    Dec 2025

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    Women who died in 2025

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    Annual Event

    Alphabet run X, Y & Z

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    Alphabet by month
    Month Letters
    January A & B
    February C & D
    March E & F
    April G & H
    May I & J
    June K & L
    July M & N
    August O & P
    September Q & R
    October S & T
    November U, V, W
    December X, Y & Z

    Tip of the Month

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    Table of annual events/collaborations

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    Month Annual event considerations
    January
    • Public Domain (Public Domain Day, 1 Jan)
    • Women who died in 202x
    • Education (International Day of Education, 24 January[1])
    February
    March
    • Artists+Activists (with Art+Feminism)
    • Folklore
    • #VisibleWikiWomen (photos/Wikimedia Commons; with Whose Knowledge?)
    April
    May
    • CEE women (with CEE User Group)
    June
    July
    • Sports
    August
    September
    • Writers (with WP:WPWW est. 30 Aug 2014)
    October
    November
    • Politics
    • Wiki Asia Month
    December
    • Religion
    • Women who died in 202x

    Potential/Suggestions

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    Starting over as of Dec 2023 see Potential/Suggestions Archive. Bring back any ideas for reconsideration. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:46, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Geofocus ideas

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    Non-geofocus ideas

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    Revolutionary women

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    Hey all. For quite a while now I've been working on articles about revolutionary women (i.e. women who either participated in revolutions or were involved in revolutionary movements/organisations). Most of my submissions have been to other themed events, but I was thinking it might be fun to do a specific edit-a-thon focused on revolutionary women. I can try putting together a red list for it, perhaps we could do it some time next year? --Grnrchst (talk) 14:39, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Interwiki edit-a-thon

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    I was just fiddling around with the number of links redlist, as I noticed it hadn't updated in over a year, and managed to get it back to working order. It got me thinking whether we should have an edit-a-thon focused specifically on creating articles with a high number of interwiki links; the redlist includes articles with 7 or more interwiki links. This could be a nice way to focus on the higher importance (for lack of a better term) articles that other language wikis have recognised as worthy of articles. --Grnrchst (talk) 09:46, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Support! as I think it's an interesting perspective. --Rosiestep (talk) 19:10, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Nobility

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    Following publication of ODNB's August update and WiR talk page discussion.--Ipigott (talk) 09:20, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Ideas page administration

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    Common tasks for each event.
    This list is incomplete. Please add to it
    .
    • identify sponsors and/or WikiProject hosts
    • create list of potential participants, including active editors from the area(s) to be covered
    • create editathon banner
    • create/find editathon icon
    • develop the WiR redlist, find related redlink lists
    • create meetup page, completing sections on
    • "Add these to articles" (stub templates, applicable categories, useful lists)
    • "Add these to article talkpages" (WikiProject banners, editathon banner for the event)
    • create the invite
    • distribute the invite
    • develop social media campaign (FB, Twitter)
    • We haven't been doing this but it would be great if we had a social media volunteer
    • add Authority Control if missing to all the articles created during the event
    • double-check each article for categories
    • double-check each article for talkpage banners
    • create the thank you and/or barnstar
    • develop a list of contributors (overlaps to some degree with registered participants)
    • distribute the thank you and/or barnstar after the event to the contributors
    • create Wikidata entry if none exists

    Checklist for updates of virtual meetups

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    This section is purely administrative. It is not about the ongoing discussions of topics.

    WiR generally has a variety of monthly, quarterly and annual events. WiR also sends out an “invitation” to its registered participants notifying them of those events. This is an effort to list tasks associated with the administrative tasks of updating and adding pages. We will be maintaining this list to assist with Quality Assurance. This is a working document and should be maintained to reflect current bast practices. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 16:52, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    As of March 2024 we are working with a new set of cascading templates. Because the template speak to each other the preview of the template might not be as expected. For example 302 might look like 304. Additionally some pages won't preview correctly unless the editor purges the page to update the cache.

    The interrelated templates allow us to make changes and pages once, without updating new and past events throughout the WiR ecosystem. This will ultimately reduce mistakes, bad directs, and misinformation. The coders involved are watching these pages to ensure they work correctly. March 2024 is the first iteration. If direction are not clear it is the drafter's fault - not the coders, so please be gentle.

    This is a working document and should be maintained to reflect current bast practices. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 21:43, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Basic overview of tasks using March 2024 as a guide

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    Each month there will be new events and ongoing events

    YEAR-LONG INITIATIVES
    #1day1woman 2024 
    ** Event #293: #1day1woman #1day1woman 
    Education  - Year long initiative 
    ** Event #294:  Education Year long initiative Education Year long initiative 
    
    NEW - Alphabet run Q & R 
    * Alphabet run Q & R
    ** Event #299: Alphabet run Q & R
    
    NEW -  Women's History Month | Art+Feminism  - 260 as go by
    * Art+Activism
    ** Event #300: Art+Feminism Green tickY
    
    NEW -   Find Her  
    *  Find Her  
    ** Event #301: Find Her Green tickY
    
    ANNOUNCEMENTS (EVENTS FACILITATED BY OTHERS) 
    * All content gender gap events, in every language Wikipedia, in March 2024
    * Francophone Women★ Writers Fortnight 2024
    * Feminism and Folklore 2024
    
    INVITATION: 
    * Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2024#March 2024 Green tickY
    ** logo 
    
    COMING UP:
    * Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Events 
    TIP OF THE MONTH:
    * When creating a new article be sure to check various spellings, including birth name, married names and pseudonyms, to be sure an article doesn't already exist. Green tickY
    

    (For ongoing re-write of instruction Archived: Basic overview of tasks using March 2021 as a guide)

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    NEW
    * Art+Activism
    ** Event page: Art+Activism 
    ** Talkpage template: Template:WIR-192
    * VisibleWikiWomen
    ** Event page: VisibleWikiWomen
    ** Talkpage template: Template:WIR-193 
    CONTEST (Jan/Feb/Mar)
    * Africa
    ** Event page: Africa
    ** Talkpage template: Template:WIR-186
    CONTINUING
    ** Women's rights
    **Template:WIR-188
    ** #1day1woman2021
    ** Template:WIR-184 & Template:WIR-00-2021 
    INVITATION: 
    * Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/2021#March 2021