Geofocus: Central & Southern Asia | November 2022

November: Alphabet Run | I to J Women in Education Geofocus Central & Southern Asia

2022 global initiatives: #1day1woman2022 Climate

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!

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Online event 1–30 November 2022
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This November, to coincide with the Wikipedia Asian Month contest Wiki Women in Red's geofocus is on women from Central Asia, namely Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, and Southern Asia, being Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. You are welcome to sign up below and for the Wikipedia Asian Month contest (rules apply).

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about notable women from or associated with these countries.

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 women who deserve to be covered, for example under the topics of the month or our comprehensive #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 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 and 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 create month by 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 images on social media, or successfully nominate for Main Page, 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 Central and Southern Asia are listed below. Please note: listing does not guarantee qualification for inclusion in the encyclopedia. Please read Primer for creating women's biographies.

Wikidata (WD) red-link lists:

Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Bhutan
India
Iran
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Maldives
Nepal (CS) and Nepal (WD)
Pakistan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent

Redlinked names not currently included in a Women in Red redlist

Aisha Mugdal[1]
Anjali Ameer
Noor Enayat [2]
Zainab Husseini, biology teacher and farming union leader in Iraq-ulya. [3]
Pratima Gaonkar, intersexed national swimmer committeed suicide in 2001 when kicked from sport, [4]
Lidia Adamkałyjewna Imanalieva ambassador to Slovakia, Hungary, Austria
Farahnaz Torkestani - Vice president (2009-2013)

Kyrgyzstan

Tazimkhan Kalibetova - Finance minister (2007-09)
Dinara Shaydieva - Finance minister (2011)
Larisa Gutnichenko - Deputy Prime Minister (1996-98)
Toktobubu Aytikeeva - Deputy Prime Minister (2004-05)
Ishengul Boljurova - Deputy Prime Minister (2005) and Acting Deputy Prime Minister 2006
Elmira Ibraimova - Deputy Prime Minister (2008-10)
Tazhikan Kalimbetova - Deputy Prime Minister (2009-10)
Uktomkhan Abdullaeva - Deputy Prime Minister 2009-10 and 2010-11
Gulnara Asymbekova - Deputy Prime Minister (2011-14)
Kamila Talieva - Deputy Prime Minister (2012-14)
Elmira Sarieva - Deputy Prime Minister (2014-15)
Damira Niyazalieva - Deputy Prime Minister (2014-15)
Gulmira Kudaiberdieva - Deputy Prime Minister (2015-16)
Altinai Omurbekova - Deputy Prime Minister (2018-20) (stub)