September: Women writers & their works

2021 Aug/Sept: Women's leadership & empowerment

2021 Jul/Aug/Sept: Olympic & Paralympic Games Latin America contest

2021 global initiatives: #1day1woman2021 Women's rights

See also: Future events

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!

Welcome!

Online event 1 July – 30 Sept 2021
Louise Sauvage at the 1992 Paralympic Games

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.	((WikiProject Biography| )) or ((WikiProject Biography)) ((WikiProject Women)) if born after 1950; or ((WikiProject Women's History)):: if born before 1950. Editathon banner: ((WIR-204))

July begins a three-month Women-in-Red focus on women at the Olympic and Paralympic Games, as well as all related art, poetry and other connected topics. It will run through September to cover the 2020 Summer Olympics (23 July - 8 August) and the 2020 Summer Paralympics (24 August - 5 September), taking place in Tokyo.

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about women associated with the Games. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate. Contributors are also welcome to add articles on any other notable women, 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 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

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 post about any of the articles on social media, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

See also

• meta:Wiki Loves Sport 2021

Thank you!

A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on our Redlist index. Some of those relating to women and the Olympics are listed below:

See also: Wiki Loves Sport 2021. If you contribute articles there, you can add them here, too.

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Key:

• 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
• Add IG after the article if you post it on Instagram

New or upgraded articles September

Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new

New or upgraded articles August

Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new

New or upgraded articles July

Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new

Did You Know features

New/expanded articles featured in the Did you know... column of the Wikipedia Main page

• Add here – most recent at the top with date of publication
• Inger K. Frith - 5 December
• Aruba at the Paralympics - 25 September
• Georgia Wilson (equestrian) - 21 September
• Isatou Nyang 19 September
• Suzanna Hext - 12 September
• Sjerstin Vermeulen - 1 September
• Evelyn van Leeuwen - 1 September
• Issy Bailey - 30 August
• Alia Issa - 29 August
• Natalie Simanowski - 28 August
• Ksenia Ovsyannikova - 28 August
• Gemma Collis-McCann - 24 August
• Ileana Rodriguez - 24 August
• Quinn (soccer) - 21 August
• Yerilda Zapata - 19 August
• Jo Muir - 5 August
• Alica Schmidt - 5 August
• Marthe Yankurije - 2 August
• Aya Girard de Langlade Mpali - 30 July
• Kenya women's national volleyball team - 25 July
• Hélène Defrance - 24 July

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2021

Add here – most recent at the top

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  María José Moya
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  Li Yin Yin
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  Kaitlyn Verfuerth
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  Emmy Kaiser
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  Natália Mayara
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  Stephanie Chan
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• Yulimar Rojas (2018)
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  Danielle Peers
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  Women's 100m final (1948 Summer Olympics)
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  Nel van Vliet
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  Nel van Vliet
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  Victoria Draves
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  Discus throwing podium (1948 Summer Olympics)
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  Shirley Strickland & Joyce King
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  Jo Teunissen-Waalboer
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  Rosette Luyina Kiese
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  Mel Nicholls
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  Antoinette Gillou
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  Antoinette Gillou (and Warren)

• Invitation: July 2021
• Editathon banner for talk pages: Template:WIR-204: ((WIR-204))