May: Translation contest Women in the Ancient World Geofocus: British 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 19.80% 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 1-31 May 2022
Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers, Anguilla Minister of Education and Social Development

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This May, Wiki Women in Red has a geofocus on women from inhabited British Overseas Territories. These include: in the Americas Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat and Turks and Caicos Islands; in Oceania, Pitcairn Islands; in Europe, Gibraltar, in the South Atlantic, Falkland Islands and Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.

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 British 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

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

• Polynesian women founders of Pitcairn Island: Mauatua, Teio, Teraura, Tevarua, Toofati, Vahineatua, Teehuteatuaonoa
• Minister of Health and Social Affairs (Bermuda) – Gloria McPhee – 1968^[1]
• Attorney General (BVI) – Paula F. Beaubrun – 1971^[2] - DRAFT here
• Joanna Cox, first women Harbour Master in Falklands^[3]
• Christine Scipio - Councillor, St Helena 1
• Yvette Victoria Angela Swan - Bermudian politician (wikidata)
• Rebecca Edwards (doctor) - Falklands Chief Medical Officer 1
• Sukey Cameron - Falkland Islands' UK Representative 1
• Dawn Smith ^[4]
• Charliena White - Speaker, Montserrat General Assembly 1

From Howard Fergus' Gallery Montserrat: Some Prominent People in Our History [1]

• Ellen Lindsey
• Catherine Barzey
• Margaret Dyer-Howe
• Vereen Thomas-Woolcock

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New or upgraded articles

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Main Page features

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

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• Margaret Ramsay-Hale - 29 May

New/expanded articles featured in the In the news... column of the Wikipedia Main page

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• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2022

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• Invitation: May 2022
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