Black Women's History
Online Edit-a-thon

Dates	Monday-Monday February 1-15, 2016 2 weeks long
Location	This is a virtual, global event... you can participate from anywhere in the world
Sponsor	AfroCROWD
Host	Women in Red
Twitter hashtag	#WikiContentGenderGap
Facilitators	Rosiestep (talk) add your name here add your name here

Women in Red is hosting a virtual editathon from February 1 to 15, 2016, on Black Women's History. Anyone can take part whatever their previous experience. We hope both new and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies of some of the many past and present notable black women who are still red-linked on the English Wikipedia. The virtual edit-a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work.

The main goals of the edit-a-thon 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

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• Women in Red: Black Women's History redlinks
• Women in Red: Missing articles by nationality – Africa
• AfroCROWD: Task List
• WikiProject Haiti:
  • Requested articles
  • To Do list
• 2015 Black Life Matters Editathon: List of articles to edit
• 2016 Black Life Matters Editahon: List of articles to edit
• User:Dsp13 redlinks:
  • Ghanaian female politicians
  • African women
  • Black women in America
  • Women in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Caribbean writers

The following are mentioned in this article

• Beachy Head Lady - sub-Saharan skeleton found in Britain
• Sibongile Sambo - first woman to found an aviation company in South Africa
• Fatima Massaquoi (born 1904) - author of "The Autobiography of an African Princess"
• Sarah Kaisi - singer in East Africa known as Shaa
• Maureen Ayité - fashion designer from Benin

• Authority control
  • Add to the foot of every biography:
    ((Authority control))
  • Authority control will remain hidden until relevant identifiers have been added to Wikidata
    -- or, alternately, use Template:Authority control to add it "old school"
• Categories
  Categories may have to be expanded but already include the following:
  • Category:African women (and subcategories)
  • Category:African-American women
  • Category:Black feminism
  • Category:Black Canadian women
  • Category:Black English women
  • Category:Lists of black people presents a number of useful lists but none (yet) specifically on women
• Stub templates
  • Stub types

Talk page WikiProject banners

• WikiProject Biography: ((WikiProject Biography|class=|living=|listas=))
• WikiProject Women:
  • Born before 1950: ((WikiProject Women's History))
  • Born after 1950: ((WikiProject Women))
• WikiProject African diaspora:
  • Born inside continental Africa: ((WikiProject Africa))
  • Born outside continental Africa: ((WikiProject African diaspora))
• Important: Please also include the Black Women's History editathon banner for this event: ((WIR-B 2016))

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Did You Know? articles

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject Women in Red meetup 7 articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

• ... that Althea McNish is not American, but she is descended from a Merikin? (2016-04-01)
• ... that Bilikiss Adebiyi (pictured) planned to collect rubbish in the streets of Nigeria while taking her MBA at MIT? (2016-03-15)
• ... that Sonia M. Johnny, the first woman ambassador to the United States from Saint Lucia, has also represented CARICOM nations' interests in a trade dispute over bananas? (2016-03-08)
• ... that Afro-Dominican lesbian feminist scholar Ochy Curiel was a featured musician at the 2004 Teddy Awards in Berlin? (2016-03-08)
• ... that women's rights activist Meaza Ashenafi noted that Amharic proverbs that place women only in domestic roles are to blame for the degrading of women in Ethiopia? (2016-03-08)
• ... that Afro-Curaçaoan writer and educator Joceline Clemencia advocated for Papiamento to become an official language of Curaçao? (2016-03-08)
• ... that Doris Sands Johnson, who wrote a how-to book for voting, lost her initial attempt to run for office but later became the premier woman President of the Bahamian Senate? (2016-03-08)
• ... that Deolinda Rodríguez de Almeida became known as Angola's "Mother of the Revolution"? (2016-03-08)
• ... that in 2013, Forbes listed Vera Songwe as one of the "20 Young Power Women in Africa"? (2016-02-29)
• ... that Hetty Reckless was born in 1776, escaped from Salem, and boasted of seeing George Washington? (2016-02-29)
• ... that Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, who would later become president of the Bar Association of Puerto Rico, sued a judge in the 1980s so she could appear in court dressed in pants? (2016-02-29)
• ... that Gloria Wekker has been called "Holland's Angela Davis" for igniting debate on cultural racism? (2016-02-26)
• ... that Zaila McCalla, first female Chief Justice of Jamaica, is also the Chancellor of the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands? (2016-02-25)
• ... that Carrie A. Tuggle established the Tuggle Institute, in Birmingham, Alabama, a boarding school to give free education for black children who were destitute orphans or juvenile defendants? (2016-02-25)
• ... that Norma Cox Astwood, a clinical psychologist, became Vice President of the Senate of Bermuda? (2016-02-24)
• ... that Crucian Ruby M. Rouss served in the Women's Army Corps before becoming the "first black woman to head a Legislature in the United States"? (2016-02-23)
• ... that Paulette Poujol-Oriol's literary works focus principally on the social and economic problems of Haiti, evoking moral options and suggesting solutions? (2016-02-23)
• ... that Rose Piper's 1946 painting Back Water was inspired by Bessie Smith's "Backwater Blues"? (2016-02-22)
• ... that the black Liberian scholar and educator, Princess Fatima Massaquoi, wrote of her challenging experiences in Nazi Germany and the U.S. South in a recently rediscovered autobiography? (2016-02-21)
• ... that shortly after becoming the first woman and first African American television news anchor in Colorado, Reynelda Muse began wearing an Afro on the air to assert her identity? (2016-02-20)
• ... that 2001 Zambian presidential candidate Gwendoline Konie (pictured) published a poem against male arrogance? (2016-02-20)
• ... that the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only all-black, all-female battalion to serve overseas during World War II? (2016-02-20)
• ... that the "Mother of the Probation" system, Sybil Joyce Hylton, is a National Hero of the Cayman Islands? (2016-02-19)
• ... that Florida Ruffin Ridley co-founded the Society for the Collection of Negro Folklore? (2016-02-19)
• ... that in an era when women of African descent had little access to education or public role models, the Black Cross Nurses (pictured) trained them in healthcare, allowing them to be seen in leadership roles? (2016-02-18)
• ... that Tina Allen's sculpture of Frederick Douglass is featured in the movie Akeelah and the Bee? (2016-02-15)
• ... that Romona Robinson won a television news anchor job in Cleveland, Ohio, with a demo tape that showed her remaining poised and self-confident while "being wiped out by a hurricane-whipped wave"? (2016-02-15)
• ... that Silvina Fabars, who won the National Dance Prize of Cuba in 2014, was once a rebel fighter under Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution? (2016-02-14)
• ... that Ruth Guimarães, the first Afro-Brazilian author to gain a nationwide audience, translated classic literature but also wrote original works about fables, legends, and everyday life? (2016-02-14)
• ... that Rosita Baltazar, co-founder of the Belize National Dance Company, taught language and dance on St. Vincent in a Garifuna cultural reclamation project? (2016-02-14)
• ... that Velma Scantlebury, the first African American woman transplant surgeon in the United States, estimates she has completed over 2,000 organ transplants? (2016-02-11)
• ... that nurse and midwife Rosita Beatrice Missick-Butterfield was the first woman Speaker of the Legislative Council of the Turks and Caicos Islands? (2016-02-08)
• ... that in 1994 Gloria Tanner became the first African American woman state senator in Colorado history? (2016-02-05)
• ... that former slave Lucy Goode Brooks (pictured) helped found the Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans, which still serves families in Richmond, Virginia, as the Friends' Association for Children? (2016-01-04)

Featured pictures

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  Shirley Chisholm
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  Ibukun Odusote
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  Cardiss Collins
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  Barbara Jordan

• Wikipedia Activism and Diversity in Science, blog article by Hilda Bastian
• Five African women who should have wiki pages, posted on MUI PR on 3 February
• Wilson, Chris. "Why Wikipedia Is in Trouble." Time. January 14, 2016.
  • User:FloNight quoted on the work of this project, WikiProject Women in Red

• Wikipedia:Meetup/Women in Red/7/invitation & thank you templates
• Event template: Black Women's History editathon template for this event: ((WIR-B 2016))

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