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Women in Red

Hello and welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR) whose objective is to turn redlinks into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's biographies and women's works. Did you know that according to WHGI only 16.9% 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. Women in Red warmly welcomes you!

Welcome to Women in Red's
Role Models meetup and online editathon focused on university students who became notable

March 2017

About
Affiliated organizations	Newnham College, Cambridge University
Facilitators	Charles Matthews Victuallers
Invite others!	Invitation
In-person event
8 March 2017	Join us for the physical meetup at Newnham College, Cambridge
Online event
1-31 March 2017	Join the Women in Red event virtually from anywhere in the world.

Use social media to promote our work!
Facebook	Wiki Women in Red
Twitter	@wikiwomeninred
Pinterest	March 2017 Editathons
Hashtag	#wikiwomeninred #BeBoldForChange

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 such as: Category:Activists, Category:Educators
Stub template	If applicable, add a stub template at the foot of an article: Artist Stubs, Activist Stubs or ((Socialwork-stub))

Add to article talk pages...
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.	((WikiProject Biography| a&e-work-group=yes|a&e-priority=)) or ((WikiProject Biography|politician-work-group=yes|politician-priority=)) (note it is a politics and government flag fitting for activists) ((WikiProject Women)) if born after 1950; or ((WikiProject Women's History)):: if born before 1950. Other options depending on the article: ((WikiProject Women artists)) ((WikiProject Feminism)) ((WikiProject Social Work)) ((WikiProject Human rights)) ((WikiProject Politics))
Role Model event banner
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Women in Red is hosting a virtual editathon from March 1 to 31, 2017, on Role Models from Women's Universities in connection with a physical editathon at Newnham College, Cambridge, on Wednesday, 8 March. It coincides with our activities for International Women's Day and WikiWomen's History Month. Anyone can take part whatever their previous experience. The virtual edit-a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work.

The main goals of the event are:

• to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most prominent women
• to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
• to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
• to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter)

Following the in-person event on 8 March at Newnham College, Cambridge, the focus on Role Models will continue until the end of the month. This will allow all those wishing to create or improve articles on alumnae who have gained notability to contribute while providing an opportunity for newcomers to continue to edit in a mediated environment. Please post any problems or requests for assistance on our WiR talk page.

Women's colleges

The main focus started as creating biographies of the alumnae and faculty of Newnham College and other colleges at Cambridge University. Similarly, those participating in the online editathon, are encouraged to create biographies of notable women from colleges elsewhere in Britain and throughout the world. Historically these women may have only been permitted into what were then women's colleges. As the editathon is being held on International Women's Day, participants are also invited to contribute to biographies of artists, feminists, and other notable women whatever their occupation.

Lists on colleges and universities

Although we have no red link lists for them, we encourage coverage of women associated with the following universities and colleges:

Please add the names of other notable missing women alumnae, faculty members or institutions below

• add suggested redlinks here (if possible, with sources)

Women's History Month

Lists of red links for Women's History Month include:

Other

• add suggested redlinks here (if possible, with sources)

Women in red trained seventy new editors at Newnham on 8th March. Each of them started their own article in their sandbox and many created articles.

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

New or upgraded articles

• Add the titles of your new or upgraded articles here created – most recent at the top, specifying upgraded if not new

Did You Know features

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

• Add here - most recent at the top with date of publication

New or upgraded pictures

Note: Red links mean ... there is no article ...

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  Rosalind Franklin
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  Katharine Stephen
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  Sophie Walker
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  Gillian Allnutt - poet
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  Sara Miranda Maxson Cobb - art educator
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  Ellen Darwin - educator
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  Helen Gladstone
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  Marion Kennedy - Newnham supporter
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  Emilie Michaelis - 1st Principal of Froebel College
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  Joan Pernel Strachey - College principal
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  Jane Maria Strachey - suffragist
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  Sarah McGehee Isom
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  Margaret Shove Morriss
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  Tomo Inouye
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  Shi Meiyu
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  Helena Zachos
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  Jennie Mannheimer
• 
  Mary L. F. Ormsby

• Annoucement by Carol Black of Newnham College, Cambridge News, 8 March
• Newnham hosts edit-a-thon to 'make the internet less sexist', Varsity On Line

Please forward this invitation to all potentially interested contacts

		Welcome to... Role Models meetup and online editathon Facilitated by Women in Red Help us to spread the news
		8 March 2017: In-person meetup at Newnham College, Cambridge University Whole of March: worldwide multi-language online edithon for all Focus: Notable women from universities including women's colleges Inform your communities of the need for their support. Contribute in English or in your own language Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English (To subscribe: Women in Red/English language list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list)

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  Dame Carol M. Black, Principal of Newnham College, welcomes editathon participants
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  Doug Taylor, Wikimedia Trustee, ran hourly introduction sessions to editing Wikipedia for newcomers.
• Wikipedia Editathon - introduction to editing
  Wikipedia Editathon - introduction to editing
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  First edits
• Wikipedia Editathon at Newnham College
  Wikipedia Editathon at Newnham College
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  Wikipedia Editathon at Newnham College
• Tutor, Doug Taylor and User:Rubbish_computer
  Tutor, Doug Taylor and User:Rubbish_computer
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  Hard at work
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  School students line up to register new Wikipedia accounts
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  Students from a nearby school join in the fun
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  Wikipedia Editathon at Newnham College
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  Elizabeth Hodges (left) - notable for being the first female commander in the Royal Navy (no article as yet)
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  Dr Elizabeth Hodges - Newnham alumna
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  Sheila Watts PhD, working on new article on Susan Skilliter
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  Wikipedia Editathon - relax and enjoy
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  Newnham College, Cambridge

(Video and audio interviews made during the editathon will follow in due course)