Jewellers & Watchmakers | June 2021

June: LGBTQ+ women June Junes Jewellers & Watchmakers

2021 Apr/May/June: Europe contest

2021 global initiatives: #1day1woman2021 Women's rights

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 19.76% 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!

Welcome!

Online event 1–30 June 2021
A woman visits a jeweller, South Asian painting c. 1850

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This June, Women in Red is focusing on jewellers and watchmakers. We hope to encourage articles on both contemporary and historical women who have designed or created jewelry or clocks and watches. This can include goldsmiths, silversmith and gemologists as well as those involved in business initiatives.

We hope both new and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about women jewellers and horologists, as well as their achievements, organizations, and awards. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative.

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 this 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 the Commons.
This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.

Thank you!

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on our Redlist index. Those relating to jewellers and watchmakers are listed below:

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

Glenda Arentzen (1941-), American metal artist, goldsmith, and silversmith [1]
Kristen Baird, American jewelry designer and businesswoman [2]
Irena Brynner (1942-), American metal artist and educator [3]
Ana Campos (1953-) Portugese jewellery designer [4]
Sharon Church (artist) (1948-), American jeweler, metalsmith, and teacher [5]
Sarah Enoch (1972-), jewellery designer [6]
Kirsten Haydon (1973-) jewellery designer [7]
Beppe Kessler (1952) jewellery designer [8]
Mary Ann Scherr (1921-2016), American metalsmith, teacher, and designer [9] [10]
Helen Shirk (1942-), American metal artist and educator [11]
Marilyn da Silva, American metalsmith and professor of jewelry/metal arts [12]
Beauty Ndlovu (born 1967) and Khishwepi Sithole (1967-2011), South African beadmakers (joint article or two separate articles?)
Folayemi Wilson, American artist and woodworker [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
Merry Renk (1921-2012), American goldsmith, jewelry artist, designer, sculptor, painter, and teacher