Geofocus: Defunct countries | September 2019

Continuing global initiatives: #1day1woman Focus on Suffrage

September: Law Military history Writers Geofocus: Defunct countries

August: Sports Indigenous women Film and stage Geofocus: Millennial countries

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 19.73% 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 2019
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In September 2019, Women in Red's geofocus in on defunct countries, especially those which were still recognized in the 20th century. Those with opportunities for covering women include Czechoslovakia, Gran Colombia, Hawaiian Kingdom, the Holy Roman Empire, Moldavia, Newfoundland, the Ottoman Empire, Prussia, Rhodesia, Wallachia, Yugoslavia, and of course the Soviet Union. Many others are included in the List of former sovereign states.

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 various 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, for example under our #1day1woman priority.

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)

Red-link lists on women from a wide variety of fields can be accessed from the WiR Redlink index. A selection of those which might be useful for this priority is listed below.

Communist women (especially sections on Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Soviet Union)

Czech Republic: nearly all were originally citizens of Czechoslovakia

Slovakia: nearly all were originally citizens of Slovakia

Soviet Union

Women from the following countries were originally citizens of Yugoslavia:

A number of women born in Gran Colombia before it was split up in 1831 are included in:

Women born in Prussia (before 1932) or in East Germany (between 1949 and 1990) are included in:

Germany

Women born in the Ottoman Empire before 1920 are included in:

Turkey

Add other red links here, if possible with a source:

Participants[edit]

Ipigott (talk) 14:58, 24 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Rosiestep (talk) 14:55, 27 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
SusunW (talk) 15:34, 27 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
MarioGom (talk) 15:36, 27 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Penny Richards (talk) 17:47, 27 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.9% of all FPs} 05:29, 28 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Victuallers (talk) 20:15, 29 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]