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 19.77% 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!

Temperance Women editathon
Online event January 2024
Henry D. Cogswell Temperance Fountain in Washington, DC
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This January to coincide with the Dry January movement we are focusing on women activists who were involved in the temperance movement. For further discussion on the theme, please see this discussion. As noted in the discussion, newspapers.com could be a key resource for many of these women. Anti-temperance activists are also in scope (for example, the members of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform (WONPR), in the United States).

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about notable women involved in temperance work, including their writings or other works.

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 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 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 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, upload any of the images to Pinterest, or successfully nominate for In The News, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

Editing ideas

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

• redlist from the 1904 publication Representative Women of New England - Many subjects of this dictionary were Temperance advocates
• Emilie Solomon - South African women's rights activist and SA WCTU president (here)
• Mrs M. E. Duguid - former SA WCTU chairman - sourcing might be dificult (here)
• This reference might have some African-American women activists in it
• Ema Longjam Memchoubi - leader of Meira Paibi movement in India
• Liu-Wang Liming and the WCTU in China (source) - WP page says her mother was a WCTU leader too?
• Toyoju Sasaki, the secretary of Japan's WCTU (JP article)
• Ushioda Chiseko, Japanese activist, alo connectef to WCTU (source)
• Ebina Miya OR Miya Ebina (?), Japanese temperance activist (source) (JP article)
• Tõkyõ fujin kyöfü zasshi (Tokyo woman's mor reform magazine) - magazine of the WCTU in Japan (source)
• Cornelia Beardsley Forbes, president, Connecticut WCTU (photo and article in Demorests' Monthly Magazine)

Please add the biographical dictionary, if used:

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Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new

Early start

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Key:

• Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
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• Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter
• Add IG after the article if you post in on Instagram
• Add LI after the article if you post it on LinkedIn
• Add ITN after the article if it was posted on the main page via WP:In The News

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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 - 2024

Add here – most recent at the top

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  Helen Gerrells Stoddard
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  Helen Gerrells Stoddard
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  Emily Spörck
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  Clara A. Webber
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  Georgia Cawthorne
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  Harriot T. Todd
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  Helen G. Rice
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  Katharine Lent Stevenson
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  Lillie Maynard
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  Mary E. Cheney
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  Mrs. M. J. Cleverley
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  Sarah D. E. Pevear
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  Agnes Spencer (temperance activist)
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  Angie Starr-Martin
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  Elizabeth S. McMaster
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  Isabella S. McConnell
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  Minnie T. MacKee
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  Mrs. A. F. Bryce
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  Mrs. A. M. Jones
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  Mrs. A. W. Black
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  Mrs. E. J. Gibson
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  Mrs. E. W. Gormley
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  Mrs. H. H. Forrest
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  Mrs. J. M. Porter
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  Mrs. J. W. Bailie
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  Mrs. M. A. Irwin
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  Mrs. M. N. Calhoun
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  Mrs. R. C. Wylie
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  Mrs. S. J. Collins
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  Mrs. T. H. Colhour
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  Mrs. William B. Rhoades

• Invitation: January 2024
• Editathon banner for talk pages – Woman's Christian Temperance Union (e.g., in the United States) and Women's Christian Temperance Union (e.g., in New Zealand) Template:WIR-296: ((WIR-296))