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Welcome to Women in Red (WiR)! We are a group of volunteer (unpaid) editors of all genders who live around the world and speak dozens of languages. Across different language Wikipedias, we focus on reducing systemic bias regarding gender representation (content gender gap) in the wiki movement. Our goal is to "move the needle" in terms of statistical representation of women and other gender minorities on Wikipedia. We recognized a need for this work in 2014 when we learned that, as of October 2014, only 15.53% of English Wikipedia's biographies were about women.^[1] Without a particular percentage in mind, we recognized that with persistence, we could increase it, one article at a time. With only this in mind, Women in Red was established in July 2015, at Wikimania Mexico City, by Roger Bamkin and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight.

According to Humaniki, the percentage of women's biographies on the English Wikipedia has reached 19.80% as of 8 April 2024. That means that of 1,997,611 biographies, only 395,457 are about women.^[2] Not impressed? "Content gender gap" is a form of systemic bias, and WiR addresses it in a positive way through shared values.

Can we increase the percentage still further? Yes! But we need you in order to do so. How? There are more than 30,000 general forum comments from over a thousand different editors on our talkpage.^[3] Ask there. You don't have to be a member in order to participate in the conversations; just please be civil.

Do the articles have to be perfect when they are created? No. But establishing them according to Wikipedia's policies is the first step, and that's the focus of Women in Red: new article creation. Over time, other editors will improve these articles; maybe that's you.

On Wikipedia

Our Wikipedia WikiProject focuses on creating content regarding women's biographies, women's works, and women's issues. Our editors create articles in many different language Wikipedias. The objective is to turn "redlinks" (like this one) into blue ones. That's why we are called "Women in Red".

We take an inclusive view towards subject matter, editors, and language communities:

• Editors: We do not focus on the gender of the editor. Anyone/everyone is welcome to be a member, participant, enthusiast of Women in Red. If you participate in WiR, you can join up officially using the box in the top right-hand corner of this page. You are also welcome to add our userbox template ((User WikiProject Women in Red)) to your user page, to produce:

This user is a participant in WikiProject Women in Red (redlinks→blue)

• Language communities: While Women in Red began on English Wikipedia, it is an international commitment with dozens of other language communities. Please add a link to your language's coordination page here.
• Subject matter:

• If the subject of the article self-identifies as a woman—binary and/or non-binary and/or other, that person is included within the scope of Women in Red. Historic cases where it's unknown how they self-identified also count. The goal of the project is to increase inclusion, and we'd rather not block article subjects from being included in an article creation drive.
• In addition to creating new articles, we create and maintain hundreds of lists of "missing" notable women. Some of these women have an article on some language Wikipedia, while others have no article in any Wikipedia. We call these lists, "redlists".
• Click on our Redlinks index to see our lists of missing articles by focus area, occupation and nationality. Like everything else on Wikipedia, this is incomplete, so feel free to add pertinent items to our crowd-sourced lists.
• While all redlists have redlinks, our redlists are generated in numerous ways:

• crowd-sourced (example, Crafts)
• Wikidata-generated (example, Herpetologists)
• based on a dictionary or other reference book (example, Encyclopédie Larousse)
• based on a website (example, BBC 100 Women)
• based on an international Authority Control (example, VIAF)

Wikimedia Commons

Every year, our members upload thousands of images to Wikimedia Commons: photographs of women, their signatures, their works, etc. In turn, these images can be added to Wikipedia articles. This is another way people can be involved in improving women's representation on Wikipedia. Over 10,000 new images were added in 2022.

Wikidata

We create and improve Wikidata items related to women, women's works, and women's issues.

Please post recent announcements directly on this page for improved page editing history, watcher alerts and greater visibility

Add new announcements to the top. Sign with ~~~~. Remove old ones after a couple of months.

• New redlists: A Historical Dictionary of British Women, American Women Artists, Past and Present, Dictionary of Wisconsin History, Italian Women Writers, Mujeres de Nuestra Tierra (Argentina), Representative Women of New England, Encyclopedia of China
• Video recording of The Adrianne Wadewitz Panel at the WOW2022 Conference, featuring Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Annie Reynolds, Caddie Brain and Caroline Phillips. Oronsay (talk) 22:50, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  Thank you so much for telling people about this. I am learning so much from the panel speakers and it is putting all the work into such an inspiring and informative context. Terrific. Balance person (talk) 09:12, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• The streamed WOW2022 Conference on "Diversity, Diasporas and Digitality, The Worlds of Wikimedia and Beyond", Sydney, Australia, 17-18 November 2022 features a panel discussion with Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Annie Reynolds, Caddie Brain and Caroline Phillips as well as a presentation by Jess Wade.--Ipigott (talk) 10:39, 8 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  Jess Wade's presentation may be viewed on the WOW2022 Conference page.Oronsay (talk) 22:51, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

For a complete list of events, visit Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Events.

WiR works by filling in missing articles based on extensive lists of needed topics. The index to our wide range of topics and nationalities can be found at the Redlist index. Please make these red links blue. Notable women without a Wikipedia biography can be added to any crowd-sourced redlists they match; and added to wikidata such that they're included in wikidata-derived redlists. We also have a guide to adding names to redlists, and to creating new redlists.

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Women for articles about women that are nominated for deletion.

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Note: This report is based on the ((WIR)) banners of WikiProject Women in Red. If an article isn't listed here, first verify that it has one of those banners. If it has another women-related banner, like ((WikiProject Women)), ((WikiProject Women's History)) or ((WikiProject Women scientists)), look on those projects' article alert pages instead.

Did you know

• 06 Apr 2024 – Agnes Mapes (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Silver seren (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Apr 2024 – Olga von Türk-Rohn (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by 4meter4 (t · c); see discussion
• 31 Mar 2024 – Iona Allen (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Oughtta Be Otters (t · c); see discussion
• 30 Mar 2024 – Miyuki Ichijo (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Miraclepine (t · c); see discussion
• 28 Mar 2024 – Elizabeth Ward (British campaigner) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Jonathan Deamer (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Mar 2024 – Aysu Türkoğlu (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by CeeGee (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Mar 2024 – Full Personality Expression (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Lajmmoore (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Mar 2024 – Alda Milner-Barry (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by EEHalli (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 09 Apr 2024 – Stella Ahono (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JTtheOG (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
• 09 Apr 2024 – Jonna Doolittle Hoppes (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Skeet Shooter (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 08 Apr 2024 – Anastasia Horne (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Velella (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 08 Apr 2024 – Stefani Iotova (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JTtheOG (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 08 Apr 2024 – Julie Ragbeer (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Andise1 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 08 Apr 2024 – Elizabeth Leitman (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Iffy (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 08 Apr 2024 – Ivona Turčinović (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JTtheOG (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 08 Apr 2024 – Béatrice d'Hirson (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ltbdl (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 08 Apr 2024 – Shazza McKenzie (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Addicted4517 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 07 Apr 2024 – Alison Green (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Scope creep (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)

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Proposed deletions

• 02 Apr 2024 – Irene Basilis (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Bri (t · c): Fails WP:NBIO, sources are thin, no awards or other high notability accomplishments are visible here, and positions attained such as deputy director don't have notability attached.
• 08 Apr 2024 – Jonna Doolittle Hoppes (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Skeet Shooter (t · c) was deproded by PamD (t · c) on 08 Apr 2024

Redirects for discussion

• 29 Mar 2024 – Anastasia Horne (talk · edit · hist) →Undressed RfDed by Rusalkii (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Good article nominees

• 23 Mar 2024 – Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gerda Arendt (t · c); start discussion
• 06 Mar 2024 – Eileen Niedfield (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Fortunaa (t · c); start discussion
• 22 Dec 2023 – Edith García Buchaca (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by SusunW (t · c); see discussion
• 19 Dec 2023 – Lashauwn Beyond (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Another Believer (t · c); see discussion
• 11 Dec 2023 – Nina Popova (official) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by SusunW (t · c); start discussion
• 16 Nov 2023 – Women's International Democratic Federation (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by SusunW (t · c); start discussion
• 10 Nov 2023 – Nelly Núñez (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Krisgabwoosh (t · c); start discussion
• 02 Nov 2023 – Ana María Sempértegui (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Krisgabwoosh (t · c); start discussion

Requested moves

• 06 Apr 2024 – Margaret Tynes (talk · edit · hist) move request to Draft:Margaret Tynes by Jax 0677 (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 31 Jan 2024 – Gypsy-Rose Blanchard (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard by Daniel Case (t · c); see discussion
• 02 Apr 2024 – Yuna Ogata (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Dialogue (group) by DCsansei (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Articles for creation

• 08 Apr 2024 – Draft:Corinna Jenkins Tucker (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by NHHistorian (t · c)
• 04 Apr 2024 – Draft:Evgenia (Eugenia) Bronskaya (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Fattoxxon (t · c) was accepted to Eugenia Bronskaya (talk · edit · hist) by Theroadislong (t · c) on 05 Apr 2024

Thanks firstly to Ronhjones, and now to Galobtter, we have a bot showing declined drafts submitted to AfC. Weekly updates highlight those most recently listed under New Additions. With a little bit of attention, some of them could well be moved to mainspace, encouraging the editors who created them to progress on Wikipedia.

WiR maintains resources to help you contribute, including lists of topical books and external links, information on editing in general, and contacts you can reach out to for specific needs. They can be found at Resources.

Academic research on Wikipedia's content gender gap is also documented at Research.

This section is a transcluded subpage, containing more information than is shown here. To view detailed month-by-month results or to edit, go to Metrics.

The articles created for any month, including the current month, can be displayed by clicking on one of the months in the archive box.

We track the articles we create each month. Reports bot updates these lists automatically, but you can manually add and annotate entries. The bot will remove non-existent pages. More details about the bot. Our metrics talkpage is here: Metrics talkpage

The evolving list for this month (see Archives box) is created by the bot which lists new women's biographies on the basis of their female gender on Wikidata. At present, the bot does not list women's works, associations or related articles but you are encouraged to add these to the list manually. A WiR Wikidata page provides information on how you can help ensure WiR metrics are up-to-date.

The graph shows the number of articles created each month. The apparent decrease for the current month reflects the number of articles created up to today's date. Only data on completed months indicate overall progress.

For personal metrics on how many articles you've created about women, see this tool.

If you want to measure gender diversity in a given Wikipedia article, use this tool.

Updated: Rosiestep (talk) 17:31, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As a result of figures presented by Humaniki, we keep posting on the main Women in Red page the percentage of women's biographies on the English version of Wikipedia. Increases are steady but marginal: for example from July 2022 to July 2023, the percentage has risen from around 19.3% to around 19.6%.

Thanks to an analysis presented by Andrew Gray on the WIR talk page, it certainly looks as if the number of men and women involved in sports has a significant influence on the statistics for women. A detailed account of Gray's work is presented in "Gender and BLPs on Wikipedia, redux", which he published on 2 August 2023.

The two lists below show that biographies of living people (BLPs) born in recent years are approximately 50% female if data on all categories of athletes are excluded. By contrast, the equivalent overall figures (including athletes) are only around 25%. As a result, biographies of very large numbers of male sportspeople seem to be responsible for the huge difference. Andrew Gray's detailed lists below document how figures for BLPs by year of birth have evolved over the years:

Overall development of BLPs since the 1920s for all biographies

• Missing birth year BLPs - 150,574, of which 53,355 female - 35.4%
• 1920s birth BLPs - 5,096, of which 1,325 female - 26.0%
• 1930s birth BLPs - 39,055, of which 7,086 female - 18.1%
• 1940s birth BLPs - 95,602, of which 18,495 female - 19.3%
• 1950s birth BLPs - 128,518, of which 27,172 female - 21.1%
• 1960s birth BLPs - 145,300, of which 33,390 female - 23.0%
• 1970s birth BLPs - 150,539, of which 37,893 female - 25.2%
• 1980s birth BLPs - 171,072, of which 42,880 female - 25.1%
• 1990s birth BLPs - 150,880, of which 36,944 female - 24.5%
• 2000s birth BLPs - 30,042, of which 7,542 female - 25.1%

Development of BLPs since the 1920s for biographies excluding athletes

If we discount all athletes using the infobox method, the results are:

• Missing birth year BLPs - 140,177, of which 51,021 female - 36.4%
• 1920s birth BLPs - 4,321, of which 1,228 female - 28.4%
• 1930s birth BLPs - 28,978, of which 6,161 female - 21.2%
• 1940s birth BLPs - 73,095, of which 16,566 female - 22.7%
• 1950s birth BLPs - 95,893, of which 23,644 female - 24.7%
• 1960s birth BLPs - 96,175, of which 26,632 female - 27.8%
• 1970s birth BLPs - 81,682, of which 27,562 female - 33.7%
• 1980s birth BLPs - 58,078, of which 24,816 female - 42.7%
• 1990s birth BLPs - 23,281, of which 11,754 female - 50.5%
• 2000s birth BLPs - 2,850, of which 1,539 female - 54.0%

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

WiR is amazing and has way too much to showcase here. Please see Showcase for our recent and past achievements.

Recent Did You Know? blurbs

These are the 20 most recent WP:DYK entries for WiR. Updated approximately weekly by User:JL-Bot.

• ... that the anarchist Rosa Laviña opened the first vegetarian restaurant in Tolosa? (2024-04-06)
• ... that Hildegard Temporini-Gräfin Vitzthum arrived at the University of Tübingen as a student in 1959, and remained there until her death in 2004? (2024-04-05)
• ... that in 1940 Xu Ruiyun became the first Chinese woman to receive a PhD in mathematics? (2024-04-03)
• ... that the Canadian League for Peace and Democracy organized a 10,000-person rally at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto to protest a 2,500-person fascist rally? (2024-04-03)
• ... that Esther Merle Jackson, as a specialist in theatre and dance education at the United States Office of Education, intended to expand theater's role in the Great Society? (2024-03-31)
• ... that the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont inspired the name of the transgender rights organisation the Beaumont Society? (2024-03-31)
• ... that Velma Whitman had "one of the largest and most elaborate wardrobes" for a vaudeville performer thanks to her collection of designer-made English and French gowns? (2024-03-28)
• ... that footballer Keira Walsh first captained England in 2018, when she was the youngest player in the squad? (2024-03-28)
• ... that voice actresses Miharu Hanai and Aina Suzuki were revealed to be sisters when they were both cast in an anime TV series? (2024-03-27)
• ... that Jo-anne Wilkinson and Graeme Dingle crossed the Bering Sea in a leaking boat? (2024-03-25)
• ... that May O'Flaherty's purchase in 1949 of Parsons Bookshop, which would become a hub of activity in Dublin's Baggotonia, was inadvertent? (2024-03-24)
• ... that American mezzo-soprano Cecelia Hall portrayed the lead male role in Mozart's Ascanio in Alba? (2024-03-23)
• ... that despite a career writing queer literature, Chen Xue's 2019 novel Fatherless City had a "putatively straight premise"? (2024-03-22)
• ... that one of the buildings that house the Safe House Museum (pictured) was where Martin Luther King Jr. hid from the Ku Klux Klan on 21 March 1968, just weeks before he was assassinated? (2024-03-21)
• ... that Australian Madeleine Steere played water polo professionally in Turkey after studying biomolecular science in the United States? (2024-03-20)
• ... that as she commenced chemotherapy, Irish singer Majella O'Donnell raised more than €350,000 for the Irish Cancer Society with a sponsored head shave live on The Late Late Show? (2024-03-17)
• ... that the 1974 conference Transvestism and Transsexualism in Modern Society in Leeds became an early platform for the emergence of terms such as "gender alignment" and "trans.people"? (2024-03-16)
• ... that Patricia Grace did not intend for her novel Potiki, about the impact of land development on an indigenous community, to be seen as political? (2024-03-16)
• ... that the actress Lottie Williams was one of the cakewalk dancers depicted on the front cover of the sheet music for Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" (pictured)? (2024-03-16)
• ... that trans women in Cape Verde are colloquially referred to as tchindas, named after Tchinda Andrade, the first trans woman in the country to come out publicly? (2024-03-13)

Transcluding 20 of 2680 total

There has been considerable press coverage of WiR. Below are some recent articles. To add articles to the list, visit Press.

• "Wikimedia Foundation launches ‘Wikipedia Needs More Women’ campaign" by Josephine Agbonkhese, Vanguard, 8 March 2024
• "On International Women’s Day, Wikimedia Foundation celebrates efforts in Africa to improve gender equity on Wikipedia", The Sun, 8 March 2024
• "Int'l Women's Day: Wikimedia launches 'Wikipedia needs more women' campaign", Business Standard, 8 March 2024
• "Wikipedia needs more women. And India can help bridge this gender gap" by Anusha Alikhan, The Print, 8 March 2024
• "The Guardian view on Wikipedia’s female volunteers: a hive heroism that changes history", editorial, The Guardinan, 8 March 2024, also in connection with Lucy Moore
• "UK academic’s Wikipedia project raises profile of women around the world", by Robyn Vinter on Wikipedian Lucy Moore, The Guardian, 5 March 2024
• "Review highlights gender gap on Wikipedia", by University of Barcelone, Phys.org, 5 March 2024
• "What a Wikipedia page can do for women in STEM", by Olivia Clear, womensagenda.com.au, 11 October 2023
• "‘Why are they not on Wikipedia?’: Dr Jess Wade’s mission for recognition for unsung scientists", by Donna Ferguson, The Observer, 1 October 2023
• "Some Things I Like About the Expanding Wikipedia Universe", by Hilda Bastian, Absolutely Maybe (PLOS) blog, 2 August 2023
• "Bestselling author Kate Mosse urges budding historians and writers to add more biographies of women to Wikipedia", by Fiona Parker, Daily Mail, 3 July 2023
• "The British physicist making women scientists visible online", article about Jess Wade by Anna Cuenca, Phys Org, 20 April 2023
• "Social Scientists Can’t Ignore the Power of Wikipedia—or Its Systemic Biases", by Mariah John-Leighton and Hannah Jane Pearson, London School of Economics and Political Science, 6 April 2023
• "Wheres Russo?" Sky Sports profile Lewes FC including Women in Red Barnstar winner James Boyes 31 March 2023
• "Closing Wikipedia’s Gender Gap, One Edit at a Time", by Sara Norberg, Tufts Now, 27 March 2023
• Nature asks 6 to comment on their plans for International Women's Day including Jess Wade.
• "Majority of Wikipedia editors are still men - so how is the online encyclopaedia addressing the issue?", Evening Standard, 8 March 2023.
• "Lewes FC is delighted that our own volunteer club photographer James Boyes has received a ‘Barnstar’ award from Women in Red, and is indeed the only person to receive one in 2022."

Academia

In addition to listings under Research, academic papers on gender bias in Wikipedia (as recorded in Wikidata) are listed in Scholia.

To include a paper, create an item about it on Wikidata (check first to avoid duplicates) and give it main subject (P921) = gender bias on Wikipedia (Q17002416).

Wikimedia Commons has media related to WikiProject Women in Red.

• Women in Red on Twitter
• Interest in women's history began much earlier than is assumed, Phys Org, August 25, 2015

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