Geofocus: French overseas territories| April 2022

April: Gender studies Translation contest Geofocus: French overseas territories

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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 19.75% 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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This April, Wiki Women in Red has a geofocus on women from French overseas regions, territories and collectivities. These include: in the Americas French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon; in Oceania, French Polynesia, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna; in the Indian Ocean, Mayotte and Réunion.

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in improving biographies and other articles about notable women, including their writings or other works. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative.

Main goals

to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating or improving biographies of prominent women
to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media and via nominations to Main Page features Did You Know…? and In The News.

What else?

Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you have worked on 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 share any of the articles or their images on social media, or successfully nominate for In The News, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

Thank you!

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

Red-link lists of women from a wide variety of fields can be accessed from the WiR Redlink index. Those which might be most useful for women in the French overseas territories are listed below. Please note: listing does not guarantee qualification for inclusion in the encyclopedia. Please read Primer for creating women's biographies

Wikidata red-link lists: women's biographies by country in other language versions of Wikipedia, as well as a few that are crowd-sourced:

Crowd sourced[edit]

Caribbean - see for Guadeloupe, Martinique, etc.
List of the first women holders of political offices in North America - some red-linked women from territories of France
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest/Missing articles/Oceania - useful for New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna in particular

Wide-ranging wikidata redlists[edit]

More focussed wikidata redlists[edit]

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

French Polynesian Women's Council 1
Léonie Tidjite Varnier - politician from New Caledonia 1
Virginie Ruffenach - New Caledonian politician
Marie-Pierre Goyetche [fr] - New Caledonian trade unionist
Christiane Gambey - New Caledonian anti-independence politician 1
Lavinia Tagane - Wallis and Futuna politician 1
Marie-Louise Selui - Wallis and Futuna politician 1
Mireille Laufilitoga - Wallis and Futuna politician 1
Echati Maoulida - Mahorese activist (FR)
Zakia Madi - Mahorese activist (FR)
Women in French Guiana - very poor article
Vanessa Miranville - Mayor of La Possession, Reunion (FR)
Catherine De Arburn - Fourth Vice President of the Territorial Council of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Catherine Hélène - Second Vice President of the Territorial Council of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Tatiana Vigneau-Urtizbéréa - Opposition Member of the Territorial Council of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Joane Beaupertuis - Majority Member of the Territorial Council of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Valérie Perrin - Majority Member of the Territorial Council of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Carole Sérignat - Majority Member of the Territorial Council of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Virginie Sabarots - Majority Member of the Territorial Council of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Claire Vigneaux - Majority Member of the Territorial Council of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Chatouilleuses - Women's activist group in Mayotte who used tickle torture on politicians to achieve their goals (would make for a great DYK)
Monique Agenor () - writer from Reunion
Anna Galore - writer from Reunion
Claire Karm - writer from Reunion