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 19.78% 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!

Find Her editathon
Online event March 2024
Meetup	301
Type	Edit-a-thon
Category	WikiProject Women in Red meetup 301 articles
Use social media to promote our work!
Facebook	Wiki Women in Red
Twitter	@wikiwomeninred
Instagram	@wikiwomeninred
Pinterest	March-2024-editathons
Hashtag	#wikiwomeninred
Add to articles
Authority control	Authority control should be included at the foot of every biography: ((Authority control)). It will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata.
Categories	Choose applicable categories including relevant subcategories of Category:Women.
Stub	If applicable, add stub template at the foot of an article: ((stub)).
Add to article talk pages
((WikiProject Biography))
((WikiProject Women)) if born after 1950; or ((WikiProject Women's History)) if born before 1950.
Editathon banner: ((WIR|301))

In March 2024, Women in Red wants to make it easier to find women and non-binary people on Wikipedia. This is a new event! We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating redirects and adding categories and wikilinks to make it easier to find women.

Here are some ways you can make it easier to find women:

• Add categories including relevant subcategories of Category:Women
• Add wikilinks on other pages to the page such as a relevant list of people (e.g. "List of women writers", "List of [nationality] writers"), or check the Find Link tool and see if you can find her on other pages
• Create redirects from alternative names (e.g. her performance name, birth name, pseudonym) (see information about redirects here)

This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative. Contributors are of course also welcome to work on articles or add new articles about 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 (in an easier way than creating new biographies!)
• 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.

Useful tips and links

For this event, you'll be working on existing articles so we don't have our usual lists of redlinks.

Useful tips for a starting point:

• Guidance: You can find Wikipedia's guidance on redirects here, guidance on categories here and guidance on wikilinking here. If you have any questions or are finding anything confusing, post on the Women in Red talk page and experienced editors will be happy to help you.
• Surnames: Adding someone to the relevant surname page (or making a redirect from her surname if she's the only name-holder) is really useful. It helps the reader who only knows a surname, and reminds people that there are Janes and Georginas in among all the Johns and Georges. For examples of a surname page, see Hanson (surname), List of people with surname Miller or List of people with surname Peña.
• Checking for redirects: To find out whether an article already has existing redirects, click on "What links here" (likely on the right-hand side of the screen, under Tools) and then look for them. It helps if you've installed the userscript which displays all redirects in green, User:Anomie/linkclassifier, as you can then see redirects easily, but isn't essential.
• For more guidance: Read the essay on Writing women into the encyclopedia describing how writing about women on Wikipedia doesn't stop after you've created a biography. This essay gives great suggestions on additional categories to add, where to add links, and more.

Here are some links that can help you identify articles to work on, and feel free to add more:

• Articles needing additional categories to help identify articles that are missing categories
• Orphaned articles about women artists
• Orphaned articles about women scientists
• Orphaned articles about women writers
• Orphaned articles about women's history
• Look at articles created in past WiR Editathons Talkpage suggestion to adopt-an-editathon

To raise the profile of Women in Red you can include the link WP:WIR-301 in your edit summaries.

Promote our work

Key:

• Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
• Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
• Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter
• Add IG after the article if you post it 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

March 2024

Early start (pre-March 2024)

• Aurelia Mace categories added, added to surname page
• Louise Serpa added to relevant pages, categories added
• Lizzie Weeks de-orphaned, categories added
• Portrait of Greta Moll created redirect to Marg Moll (also known as Greta Moll) the subject of the portrait, PIN
• Cecylia Słapakowa, de-orphaned
• Henriette Mankiewicz, categories added, PIN
• Dana Zámečníková, de-orphaned, categories added, PIN
• Lina Marsh, de-orphaned, categories added
• Lizette Gutierrez, de-orphaned, categories added, redirect created from her performance name San Cha
• Rena Stewart, new page created - TW

• Invitation: March 2024
• Editathon banner for talk pages – Find Her ((WIR|301))