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Dates 21 November to 15 December 2016 Location Join this Women in Red virtual, global event, and you can participate from anywhere in the world. Learn more about the project WP:GLAM/BBC's 100 Women Affiliated organization BBC & Wikimedia UK Social media #wikiwomeninred #100womenwiki Pinterest board Facilitators RosiestepVictuallers Celebrating BBC 100 Women Wikimedia BBC 100 Women is a partnership between the BBC and Wikimedia. Its objective is to raise awareness of the gender gap on Wikipedia, improve coverage of women and encourage women to edit. BBC 100 Women is one of the BBC’s most successful news series which names 100 influential and inspirational women around the world every year, creating documentaries, features and interviews with them, as a way to look at women’s rights around the world. It is broadcast on the BBC World Service’s TV, radio and online services in 28 languages and bbc.com to reach global audiences of over 320 million a week. The series is entering its fourth year in 2016 and will be on air between 21st November to 8th December. There are three ways you can participate! Virtual participation: Women in Red will facilitate a virtual editathon from 21 November to 15 December, extending a week beyond the dates set by the BBC. Anyone, anywhere, can participate anytime. In-person events: On 8 December 2016, edit-a-thons will be held in BBC Broadcasting House in central London, at BBC Archives in Reading, and in locations around the world where there are BBC bureaux and active Wikimedia communities: Beijing, Cairo, Cardiff, Delhi, Hong Kong, Islamabad, Jerusalem, Kathmandu, Kabul, Miami, Nairobi, Rome (Italy), São Paolo and Washington, DC. See also the BBC's invitation: BBC 100 Women 2016: Who are our forgotten women? Join our edit-a-thon. Social media: a Pinterest board is set up for this event Editors in all languages are encouraged to live tweet about their involvement and their edits using #wikiwomeninred and #100womenwiki

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These articles appear to be a result of the BBC editathons.

1. Virginia Tyler Hudson - no links, orphan (fixed)
2. Etta Lee
3. Lisa Kemmerer - no links
4. Erin McKenney
5. Praveena Solomon - not notable
6. Shradha Sharma - AfD
7. Mary Zappone
8. Robyn Fivush - orphan
9. Patricia M. Bricklin - orphan
10. Irene Claremont de Castillejo
11. Olga Uskova
12. Catherine White (doctor)
13. Jackie Crookstone
14. Avani Chaturvedi
15. Eileen Kennedy (judge)

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Here are five pictures that I took at the Broadcasting House event. Andrew D. (talk) 18:47, 10 December 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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  Broadcasting House – old and new – "Nation shall speak peace unto Nation".
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  Reception. Notice the TARDIS parked in the corner.
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  The first main session was held in and around the ground floor media café.
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  The lift to the 7th floor. Each lift played a different BBC radio channel.
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  The session in the 7th floor studio. The table on the right was a live broadcast on the BBC World Service.

• Wikipédia : où sont les femmes ?, Par Clara Brunel, Le Point, 14 December 2016
• The Wikipedia gap is the latest gender gap you need to be worried about, Metro UK, 12 December 2016.--Ipigott (talk) 12:42, 12 December 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• 100 Women History Hour, BBC, 11 December 2016: 50-minute sound broadcast on the gender gap with lengthy coverage of Wikipedia.--Ipigott (talk) 08:48, 11 December 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Wikipedia edit-a-thon tackles internet gender gap, ABC Australia, 9 December 2016.--Ipigott (talk) 08:17, 9 December 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Episode of Science in Action, Wikipedia and the gender gap, BBC, 8 December 2016.--Ipigott (talk) 08:17, 9 December 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• BBC 100 Women 2016 page
• Not press but, a Pinterest board is set up for this event (it's empty as I post this, but I'll update it as the event unfolds).Penny Richards (talk) 19:33, 11 November 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• In connection with BBC 100 Women, the BBC programme "Click" has included an item on Wikipedia and the related editathons. It is billed as: "100 Women Wikipedia Edit-a-thon project: The BBC 100 Women 2016 project includes the question: is the internet sexist? On 8th December, 100 Women is joining up with Wikipedia to hold a 12 hour edit-a-thon, to intervene in that story of the place of women online. Click talks to the BBC’s Fiona Crack." The programme can be accessed here. The item on Wikipedia starts at 07.30.--Ipigott (talk) 08:38, 7 December 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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