Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Enriching Wikipedia's Days of the Year

Welcome & How to Get Started

UPDATE: The scope of the project has broadened to add genderfluid, non-binary, and intersex people to the days of the year, with an interest in prioritizing people of color.

An informal list of people to add can be found here. This is not a definitive list, feel free to find and edit yourself.

Please note that any entries to Days of the Year will require inline citations as of January, 2018. Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 16:56, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Welcome! This is a project to add more women to Wikipedia's Days of the Year(DOY). Per the original Inspire Idea page,

Wikipedia's Days of the Year pages are used by many people to get a snapshot of history on a particular day. The events, births, and deaths listed are disproportionately about men. I propose a project that makes a concerted effort to add the accomplishments and achievements of women.

That's the main goal of this project: find women who are notable and add links to them on the DOY pages.

What role would you like to play?

Research, I don't want to edit. Here you go!
I'd like to just to straight edits, I don't want to have to look for things. Go here!
I'd like to do some analysis. Right over here!

Research

Wikipedia is a big place, and it's filled with all kinds of interesting women. A good place to start is with Women's History Categories:

(Find the rest here)

Doing the research and adding women to this list

If you'd like to add a woman to this list, you can start anywhere with any woman. You need to be sure that she:

1. has a wikipedia page that is not a stub article,
2. has a definite date of birth, death, and/or major accomplishment, and
3. is not already listed on the date in question.

I find it best to have a tab open with the days of the year (link) to quickly check to see if the woman I'm looking at is already listed.

When editing the next section, it's simplest to format your entry this way:

# [<link to wikipedia page> <woman's name>]

For example:

# [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Yang_Yan Empress Yang Yan]
# [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Zhen Lady Zhen]

becomes this:

1. Empress Yang Yan
2. Lady Zhen

Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk)

Women to be added

If you add someone on this list to a DOY, please indicate that you have done so. Either add "done" at the end, use the <strike> tag, or move the entry to the section of edits already made

1. Ruby Keeler, born August 25, 1910 (See also August 1910). Died Feb. 28, 1993. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk • contribs) 03:35, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
2. Mae Jemison the first black woman in space Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 08:08, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
3. Empress Dowager Bian
4. Empress Yang Yan
5. Lady Zhen
6. Bridget Ogilvie
7. Margie Profet
8. Viola Liuzzo
9. Joyce Cooper stub article
10. Jean McDowell stub article
11. Pearl Primus
12. Pinkie Gordon Lane
13. Ava DuVernay
14. Safi Faye
15. Kasi Lemmons
16. Pauli Murray
17. Ruby Bridges
18. Marsha P Johnson
19. Joyce Bryant
20. Jennifer Holiday (softball) stub article
21. C. Delores Tucker
22. Pauline Cushman
23. Belle Boyd
24. Antonia Ford
25. Jane Franklin — Preceding unsigned comment added by Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk • contribs) 18:49, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
26. Isabella Andreini
27. Laura Bassi
28. Nina Boyle
29. Ruta Sepetys
30. Sarah Stewart (cancer research)
31. Anita Brenner
32. Florence Hawley
33. Maria Hinojosa
34. Linda Christian
35. Jean Batten

Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 20:33, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 06:58, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

1. Macrina the Younger There is only a date of death for her, but I found the page interesting

73.162.229.144 (talk)

1. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.162.229.144 (talk) 18:34, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

She's already listed on that date as an observance of the Church. Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 18:52, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Editing the Days of the Year

Editing notes

1. Please be sure to put births and deaths in their proper section. They should not be listed under "Events".
2. To make finding edits easier, you can add "WDOY project addition" to your edit comments
3. From User: Shir-El too, when adding information about someone, words like "reformer," "activist" aren't enough; added things like 'active in women's sufferage and Anti-Slavery movements.' If we want people to read about them, they need to know why. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk • contribs) 18:49, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Edits made so far

• Dorothy Sloop, User:Jessamyn link

Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 19:00, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

• Susan B. Anthony User:Shir-El too link

• Helen Keller User:Shir-El too link

Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 02:29, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Days of the Year

Days of the Year - Style Guide

Calendar

If you want to edit right away, great! Please mark your edits with WDOY.

Evaluations

Evaluation/analysis has taken the form of a simple count by hand of men vs women. Most of the time male and female names are easily distinguishable. For a small percentage of links, you'll need to follow a link to see if the subject is male or female.

Below are the first analyses. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk • contribs) 01:57, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

May

May 1

version accepted as of April 5, 2015

Births

Men: 225 Women: 60

Deaths

Men: 77 Women: 16

Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 03:50, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

June

Analysis begun 4/2/2015

June 1

Version accepted as of March 23, 2015

Events

Men: 18 Women: 3

Births

Men: 178 Women: 54

Deaths

Men: 92 Women: 13

Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 18:59, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Discussion

This was a count of the men and women listed on the page. I'm less confident of the count on Events because it's not clear whether kings/leaders in battle should be counted, even if they are listed by name on the event itself. If so, the count (and disparity) will be higer, but it might be worth doing. Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 18:59, 2 April 2015 (UTC)