Women's leadership & empowerment
August-September 2021
Annual Interwiki Women Collaboration

2021 Aug/Sept: Women's leadership & empowerment

2021 Jul/Aug/Sept: Olympic & Paralympic Games Latin America 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 19.73% 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 August – September 2021
m:Interwiki_Women_Collaboration logo

Use social media to promote our work!
Facebook	Wiki Women in Red
Twitter	@wikiwomeninred
Pinterest	August 2021 editathons & September 2021 editathons
Hashtag	`#wikiwomeninred`

Add to articles
.	Authority control should be included at the foot of every biography: `((Authority control))`. It will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata. Choose applicable Categories including relevant subcategories of Category:Women. If applicable, add a stub template at the foot of an article:`((stub))`.

Add to article talk pages
.	`((WikiProject Biography\| ))` or `((WikiProject Biography))` `((WikiProject Women))` if born after 1950; or `((WikiProject Women's History))::` if born before 1950. Editathon banner: `((WIR-207))`

See also: Interwiki Women Collaboration. If you contribute articles there, you can add them here, too.

This August and September, we join the Interwiki Women Collaboration for a multi-project effort to write entries on women's leadership and empowerment. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about women’s achievements, works, writings and awards in leadership and their empowerment of other women. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative. Contributors 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!