September 2018
Women currently in academics
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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 19.91% 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! |
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Online event 1–30 September 2018 | |
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September 2018 editathons | |
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In September 2018, Women in Red is focusing on women currently working in academic fields. This includes professors, scientists and more, with an emphasis on women still alive. Anyone can take part in this event. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about women in all fields of interest in these countries, as well as their achievements, writings, organizations, and awards. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in our initiative. You are of course also welcome to add articles on any other notable women who deserve to be covered.
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)
What else?
- Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create this month, and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
- This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.
- If you tweet about any of the articles, or upload any of the images to Pinterest, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.
Thank you!
Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)
editIn addition, we have Wikidata red-link lists on women from all the countries mentioned which can be found in the Women in Red navbox. A selection of these covering countries in which women are not well covered is listed below.
Wikidata (WD) red-link lists: women's biographies by country in other language versions of Wikipedia: |
Add other red links here, if possible with a source:
- Kimberly Yuracko, new Dean of Northwestern University School of Law [1] [2]
- Mona Lohanda, former head curator of the National Archives of Indonesia, historian and writer [3][4]
Participants
edit- Megalibrarygirl (talk) 20:29, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
- SusunW (talk) 03:29, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
- Penny Richards (talk) 13:32, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
- Ipigott (talk) 12:22, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
- Oronsay (talk) 21:17, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
- Footnotefanatic (talk) 05:13, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
- Smdgejc (talk) 05:37, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
- HandsomeBoy (talk) 10:21, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
- PamD 10:22, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
- Kangarooth (talk) 11:51, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
- Rosiestep (talk) 16:59, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
- Bakazaka (talk) 02:49, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
- Kingsif (talk) 22:49, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
- Clio987
- Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 13:04, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
- Medievalfran (talk) 13:49, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
- Thsmi002 (talk) 15:36, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
- Missvain (talk) 22:49, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
Outcomes (articles)
editPromote our work
editKey:
- 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
New or upgraded articles
editMost recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new
Remember you can also list your new biographies on the September Monthly achievement initiative
- Catherine Rowett
- Dianne F. Harrison
- Esther Ngan-ling Chow
- Patricia Yancey Martin
- Heidi Li Feldman
- Alexandra Styron AfC
- Joanne Kurtzberg AfC
- Daisy Hay
- Stella Ifeanyi Smith
- Folasade Ogunsola
- Karen S. Haynes
- Fiona McHardy
- Susanna Braund
- Helena Chmura Kraemer
- Christine Blasey Ford - PIN
- Kei Nakazawa
- Lynda Nead
- Philipa Idogho
- Alicia Azula TW, PIN
- Terah Lyons TW, PIN
- Wendy Ayres-Bennett
- Judith Still
- Adia Harvey Wingfield
- Marijane Osborn
- Joya Chatterji
- Eleanora Carus-Wilson TW, PIN
- Ann Moss
- La Francis Rodgers-Rose
- Jane Lightfoot
- Judith Elizabeth Hall
- Helen Lovatt
- Aishatu Madawaki
- Rebecca Langlands
- Lynn Abrams
- Cecilia García Arocha
- Rachel Haurwitz
- Mariko Bando - PIN
- Gilda Ochoa
- Alexandra Shepard
- Ashley Mears
- Veronica Della Dora
- Mona Lohanda
Did You Know features
editNew/expanded articles featured in the Did you know... column of the Wikipedia Main page
Add most recent at the top with date of publication
- "... that sociologist Ashley Mears conducted an ethnography of the fashion industry while working as a model in New York and London?" (24 September 2018)
Outcomes (pictures and videos)
editPress about the event
editEvent templates
edit- Invitation: September 2018
- Editathon banner for talk pages: Template:WIR-91:
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