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Welcome to Women in Red (WiR), a [[WikiProject]] whose objective is to turn "[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Redlist index|redlinks]]" into [[Help:Link_color#blue_link|blue ones]] within the project scope: women's biographies and works by women. Click on our '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Redlist index|Redlinks index]]''' to see all our lists by focus area, occupation and nationality. |
Welcome to Women in Red (WiR), a [[WikiProject]] whose objective is to turn "[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Redlist index|redlinks]]" into [[Help:Link_color#blue_link|blue ones]] within the project scope: women's biographies and works by women. Click on our '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Redlist index|Redlinks index]]''' to see all our lists by focus area, occupation and nationality. |
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We recognized a need for this work as, in November 2014, only about 15% of the English Wikipedia's biographies were about women. Founded in July 2015, WiR strives to improve the figure, which has reached '''17. |
We recognized a need for this work as, in November 2014, only about 15% of the English Wikipedia's biographies were about women. Founded in July 2015, WiR strives to improve the figure, which has reached '''17.79%''' as of 4 February 2019. But that means, according to [http://whgi.wmflabs.org/gender-by-language.html WHGI], only 282,715 of our 1,589,601 biographies are about women. Not impressed? "[[Gender bias in Wikipedia|Content gender gap]]" is a form of [[systemic bias]], and WiR addresses it in a positive way through [[:m:Values/2016 discussion/Synthesis|shared values]]. |
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Revision as of 17:04, 4 February 2019
Meet the participants |
Welcome to Women in Red (WiR), a WikiProject whose objective is to turn "redlinks" into blue ones within the project scope: women's biographies and works by women. Click on our Redlinks index to see all our lists by focus area, occupation and nationality.
We recognized a need for this work as, in November 2014, only about 15% of the English Wikipedia's biographies were about women. Founded in July 2015, WiR strives to improve the figure, which has reached 17.79% as of 4 February 2019. But that means, according to WHGI, only 282,715 of our 1,589,601 biographies are about women. Not impressed? "Content gender gap" is a form of systemic bias, and WiR addresses it in a positive way through shared values.
If you participate in WiR, you can join up officially using the box in the top right-hand corner of this page. You are also welcome to add our userbox template {{User WikiProject Women in Red}}
to your user page, to produce:
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Learn more about our work, including Press and Research »
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Lists of red links
WiR works by filling in missing articles based on extensive lists of needed topics. The index to our wide range of topics and nationalities can be found at the Redlist index. Please make these red links blue. Notable women without a wikipedia biography can be added to any crowd-sourced redlists they match; and added to wikidata such that they're included in wikidata-derived redlists.
Article alerts
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Women for articles about women that are nominated for deletion.
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Today's featured article requests
- 10 Aug 2024 – Phoolan Devi (talk · · hist) has been proposed for Today's Featured Article by Mujinga (t · c); see discussion
Did you know
- 13 Jun 2024 – Crien Bolhuis-Schilstra (talk · · hist) was nominated for DYK by Evrik (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Jun 2024 – Na O-mi (talk · · hist) was nominated for DYK by Wuju Daisuki (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Jun 2024 – Joely Proudfit (talk · · hist) was nominated for DYK by Silver seren (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Jun 2024 – Rosemary Miller (talk · · hist) was nominated for DYK by BeanieFan11 (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Jun 2024 – Gladys Stone Wright (talk · · hist) was nominated for DYK by SL93 (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Jun 2024 – Esther Tailfeathers (talk · · hist) was nominated for DYK by Valereee (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Jun 2024 – Sara Houcke (talk · · hist) was nominated for DYK by Silver seren (t · c); see discussion
- 30 May 2024 – Dagmar Skálová (talk · · hist) was nominated for DYK by Evrik (t · c); see discussion
- 26 May 2024 – Brittany Luse (talk · · hist) was nominated for DYK by Innisfree987 (t · c); see discussion
- 22 May 2024 – Lois E. Trott (talk · · hist) was nominated for DYK by Xoak (t · c); see discussion
- (5 more...)
Articles for deletion
- 15 Jun 2024 – Amy Thomas (talk · · hist) was AfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 15 Jun 2024 – Calabar Chic (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Vanderwaalforces (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 14 Jun 2024 – Antonia Gallegos (talk · · hist) was AfDed by JTtheOG (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
- 14 Jun 2024 – Fleur Revell (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Ynsfial (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
- 14 Jun 2024 – Lisa Solberg (talk · · hist) was AfDed by GreenLipstickLesbian (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 13 Jun 2024 – Lucia Arrascaeta (talk · · hist) was AfDed by JTtheOG (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
- 13 Jun 2024 – Annalena Ley (talk · · hist) was AfDed by JTtheOG (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 13 Jun 2024 – Catherine Swift (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Spagooder (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 13 Jun 2024 – Crien Bolhuis-Schilstra (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Fram (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
- 13 Jun 2024 – Raba Khan (talk · · hist) was AfDed by AlbeitPK (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
- (78 more...)
Proposed deletions
- 12 Jun 2024 – Jessie Wood (talk · · hist) was PRODed by LibStar (t · c): concern
- 11 Jun 2024 – Jovana Milosevic (talk · · hist) was PRODed by LibStar (t · c): concern
- 10 Jun 2024 – Jelena Patrnogić (talk · · hist) was PRODed by Risedemise (t · c): concern
- 13 Jun 2024 – Lisa Solberg (talk · · hist) PRODed by GreenLipstickLesbian (t · c) was deproded by Salvidrim! (t · c) on 14 Jun 2024
- 09 Jun 2024 – Molly Reeve (talk · · hist) PRODed by JTtheOG (t · c) was deproded by ScottishFootballObseasive (t · c) (author) on 11 Jun 2024
- 09 Jun 2024 – Lauren Brown (talk · · hist) PRODed by Ruth Bader Yinzburg (t · c) was deleted
- 08 Jun 2024 – Natasha Frew (talk · · hist) PRODed by JTtheOG (t · c) was deproded by ScottishFootballObseasive (t · c) (author) on 11 Jun 2024
- 06 Jun 2024 – Eilidh Begg (talk · · hist) PRODed by JTtheOG (t · c) was deproded by ScottishFootballObseasive (t · c) (author) on 11 Jun 2024
- 06 Jun 2024 – Bryony Ross (talk · · hist) PRODed by JTtheOG (t · c) and endorsed by Spiderone (t · c) on 08 Jun 2024 was deproded by ScottishFootballObseasive (t · c) (author) on 11 Jun 2024
- 06 Jun 2024 – Vhairi Munro (talk · · hist) PRODed by JTtheOG (t · c) and endorsed by Spiderone (t · c) on 09 Jun 2024 was deproded by ScottishFootballObseasive (t · c) (author) on 11 Jun 2024
- (4 more...)
Good article nominees
- 10 Jun 2024 – Mary Myers (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by GreenLipstickLesbian (t · c); start
- 07 Jun 2024 – Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Riley1012 (t · c); start
- 06 Jun 2024 – Queen Lupa (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Evrik (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Jun 2024 – Wong Sau Ying (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Grnrchst (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Jun 2024 – Rosemary Miller (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by BeanieFan11 (t · c); start
- 28 May 2024 – Luise Duttenhofer (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Kusma (t · c); start
- 17 May 2024 – Hurra-yi Khuttali (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Amir Ghandi (t · c); start
- 16 Nov 2023 – Women's International Democratic Federation (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by SusunW (t · c); start
Requests for comments
- 24 May 2024 – Eden Golan (talk · · hist) has an RfC by ArmorredKnight (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 08 Jun 2024 – Christina Liljenberg Halstrøm (talk · · hist) is requested to be moved to Chris Liljenberg Halstrøm by Amortias (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Jun 2024 – Lady Jean Campbell (talk · · hist) move request to Jean Campbell (model) by Usena321 (t · c) was moved to Jean Campbell (model) (talk · · hist) by SafariScribe (t · c) on 13 Jun 2024; see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 10 Jun 2024 – Palopa (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to LGBT rights in Papua New Guinea by Rainsage (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 14 Jun 2024 – Draft:Tatyana G. Rautian (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by EarthquakeInterest (t · c)
- 13 Jun 2024 – Draft:Alissic (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by FENFEN (t · c)
- 12 Jun 2024 – Draft:Marilou Schultz (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Bklibcat67 (t · c)
- 09 Jun 2024 – Draft:Norsuriati Sharbini (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Pangalau (t · c)
- 20 May 2024 – Draft:Meekyoung Shin (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Dalmationrotary (t · c)
- 22 Apr 2024 – Draft:Mara-Daria Cojocaru (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Takeru Watanabe (t · c)
- 11 Apr 2024 – Draft:Bahar Atish (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Harold Krabs (t · c)
- 15 Feb 2024 – Draft:Brittany Spanos (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Stifle (t · c)
Declined drafts
Thanks to Ronhjones, we now have a bot showing declined drafts submitted to AfC. Weekly updates highlight those most recently listed under New Additions. With a little bit of attention, some of them could well be moved to mainspace, encouraging the editors who created them to progress on Wikipedia.--Ipigott (talk) 11:33, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
Resources and research
WiR maintains resources to help you contribute, including lists of topical books and external links, information on editing in general, and contacts you can reach out to for specific needs. They can be found at Resources.
Academic research on Wikipedia's content gender gap is also documented at Research.
Metrics
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About: additional details
The articles created for any month, including the current month, can be displayed by clicking on one of the months in the archive box.
We track the articles we create each month. Reports bot updates these lists automatically, but you can manually add and annotate entries. The bot will remove non-existent pages. More details about the bot. Our metrics talkpage is here: Metrics talkpage
The evolving list for this month (see Archives box) is created by the bot which lists new women's biographies on the basis of their female gender on Wikidata. At present, the bot does not list women's works, associations or related articles but you are encouraged to add these to the list manually. A WiR Wikidata page provides information on how you can help ensure WiR metrics are up-to-date.
The graph shows the number of articles created each month. The apparent decrease for the current month reflects the number of articles created up to today's date. Only data on completed months indicate overall progress.
For personal metrics on how many articles you've created about women, see this tool.
If you want to measure gender diversity in a given Wikipedia article, use this tool.
Totals at a glance
Year | Portion if applicable |
Total | Daily average |
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2015 | 18 Jul - 31 Dec | 11,711 | 70 |
2016 | 28,399 | 77 | |
2017 | 28,271 | 77 | |
2018 | 27,323 | 75 | |
2019 | 27,207 | 75 | |
2020 | 30,119 | 82 | |
2021 | 26,780 | 73 | |
2022 | 18,893 | 52 | |
2023 | 17,925 | 49 | |
2024 | |||
Grand total | 216,628 |
Updated: Rosiestep (talk) 17:31, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
Summary of Women in Red statistics from main page
Date | Women | Bios | Percentage | Increase in % for year |
Increase in Women for year |
Increase in Bios for year |
Percentage for year |
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30-Sep-2015 | 205,814 | 1,299,047 | 15.84% | ||||
1-Jan-2017 | 240,445 | 1,432,907 | 16.78% | 0.94% | 34,631 | 133,860 | 25.87% |
1-Jan-2018 | 262,099 | 1,509,348 | 17.37% | 0.58% | 21,654 | 76,441 | 28.33% |
31-Dec-2018 | 279,959 | 1,573,341 | 17.79% | 0.43% | 17,860 | 63,993 | 27.91% |
30-Dec-2019 | 305,072 | 1,678,323 | 18.18% | 0.38% | 25,113 | 104,982 | 23.92% |
11-Jan-2021 | 332,622 | 1,778,126 | 18.71% | 0.53% | 27,550 | 99,803 | 27.60% |
3-Jan-2022 | 356,439 | 1,865,516 | 19.11% | 0.40% | 23,817 | 87,390 | 27.25% |
2-Jan-2023 | 373,263 | 1,921,359 | 19.43% | 0.32% | 16,824 | 55,843 | 30.13% |
1-Jan-2024 | 390,207 | 1,978,991 | 19.72% | 0.29% | 16,944 | 57,632 | 29.40% |
Total | 184,393 | 679,944 | 27.12% |
Note: the September 2015 figure was reported here.
Updated by: TSventon (talk) 22:04, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
Further background on metrics
As a result of figures presented by Humaniki, we keep posting on the main Women in Red page the percentage of women's biographies on the English version of Wikipedia. Increases are steady but marginal: for example from July 2022 to July 2023, the percentage has risen from around 19.3% to around 19.6%.
Thanks to an analysis presented by Andrew Gray on the WIR talk page, it certainly looks as if the number of men and women involved in sports has a significant influence on the statistics for women. A detailed account of Gray's work is presented in "Gender and BLPs on Wikipedia, redux", which he published on 2 August 2023.
The two lists below show that biographies of living people (BLPs) born in recent years are approximately 50% female if data on all categories of athletes are excluded. By contrast, the equivalent overall figures (including athletes) are only around 25%. As a result, biographies of very large numbers of male sportspeople seem to be responsible for the huge difference. Andrew Gray's detailed lists below document how figures for BLPs by year of birth have evolved over the years:
Overall development of BLPs since the 1920s for all biographies
- Missing birth year BLPs - 150,574, of which 53,355 female - 35.4%
- 1920s birth BLPs - 5,096, of which 1,325 female - 26.0%
- 1930s birth BLPs - 39,055, of which 7,086 female - 18.1%
- 1940s birth BLPs - 95,602, of which 18,495 female - 19.3%
- 1950s birth BLPs - 128,518, of which 27,172 female - 21.1%
- 1960s birth BLPs - 145,300, of which 33,390 female - 23.0%
- 1970s birth BLPs - 150,539, of which 37,893 female - 25.2%
- 1980s birth BLPs - 171,072, of which 42,880 female - 25.1%
- 1990s birth BLPs - 150,880, of which 36,944 female - 24.5%
- 2000s birth BLPs - 30,042, of which 7,542 female - 25.1%
Development of BLPs since the 1920s for biographies excluding athletes
If we discount all athletes using the infobox method, the results are:
- Missing birth year BLPs - 140,177, of which 51,021 female - 36.4%
- 1920s birth BLPs - 4,321, of which 1,228 female - 28.4%
- 1930s birth BLPs - 28,978, of which 6,161 female - 21.2%
- 1940s birth BLPs - 73,095, of which 16,566 female - 22.7%
- 1950s birth BLPs - 95,893, of which 23,644 female - 24.7%
- 1960s birth BLPs - 96,175, of which 26,632 female - 27.8%
- 1970s birth BLPs - 81,682, of which 27,562 female - 33.7%
- 1980s birth BLPs - 58,078, of which 24,816 female - 42.7%
- 1990s birth BLPs - 23,281, of which 11,754 female - 50.5%
- 2000s birth BLPs - 2,850, of which 1,539 female - 54.0%
Showcase
WiR is amazing and has way too much to showcase here. Please see Showcase for our recent and past achievements.
Recent Did You Know? blurbs
These are the 20 most recent WP:DYK entries for WiR. Updated approximately weekly by User:JL-Bot.
- ... that Shirley Warde not only starred in theater and movie productions, but also wrote playscripts and short stories for magazines? (2024-06-14)
- ... that Rachel Brem discovered a tumor in her own breast while testing ultrasound equipment for her hospital? (2024-06-12)
- ... that Bianca Babb, a pioneer girl captured by Comanches, described her time among them as "every day seemed to be a holiday", despite the hardships of her initial capture? (2024-06-12)
- ... that in addition to her popular manga series Delicious in Dungeon, Ryoko Kui has drawn fan art of the games Baldur's Gate, Pathfinder and Planescape: Torment? (2024-06-11)
- ... that Carrie Swain was possibly the first woman entertainer to perform in blackface? (2024-06-09)
- ... that Syrian artist Kefah Ali Deeb painted an empty chair (pictured) as her vision of victims and refugees? (2024-06-07)
- ... that Elizabeth Yeampierre has called Puerto Rico the "poster child for climate injustice" due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria? (2024-06-03)
- ... that Olga Lander's camera required her to work close to the dangerous wartime subjects she photographed (example pictured)? (2024-05-29)
- ... that although Evgeniia Subbotina failed to escape her own exile in Siberia, she successfully aided the escapes of Catherine Breshkovsky, Yelizaveta Kovalskaya and Sofya Bogomolets? (2024-05-29)
- ... that Marie Catharine Neal, an expert on Hawaiian plants, authored the acclaimed book In Gardens of Hawaii in 1948, which described more than 2,000 species with detailed scientific information and illustrations? (2024-05-28)
- ... that Elizabeth Seifert, who was denied a medical degree due to her gender, went on to achieve success as a writer, penning more than 80 novels about the very field from which she had been excluded? (2024-05-28)
- ... that suffragette Ellen Oliver recognised "daughter of God" Mabel Barltrop as the spiritual child of prophet Joanna Southcott? (2024-05-27)
- ... that the Robyn Gigl novel By Way of Sorrow, which features a transgender lawyer as the protagonist, was described as "quietly groundbreaking" by The New York Times? (2024-05-25)
- ... that actress Nellie McCoy suffered a mental breakdown after her theatre performance was criticized, leading to her being committed to a sanatorium? (2024-05-24)
- ... that the 2024 inductees to the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame include a man with Down syndrome who has lifted 425 pounds (193 kg) (pictured), an "average gymnast" turned Olympics judge, a "preeminent sportswriter", the state's "greatest high hurdler", the "inventor" of the modern sports mascot, a record-setting 10-year-old, a champion gymnast, an Olympic field hockey player, and a pro baseball player in five countries? (2024-05-23)
- ... that Romani Holocaust survivor Philomena Franz wrote about her deportation to Auschwitz, internment in Ravensbrück, escape from a camp near Wittenberge, and concealment by a farmer? (2024-05-22)
- ... that Josephine Kenyon moved from recommendations of rigid scheduling to "on-demand" scheduling in editions of her book Healthy Babies Are Happy Babies? (2024-05-22)
- ... that Amie Parnes allegedly first heard about her employer, The Messenger, ceasing operations from a New York Times article? (2024-05-22)
- ... that although Agnes Kimball was a popular recording artist of opera and musical theatre, she never appeared as a singing actress on the stage? (2024-05-14)
- ... that actress Edna May Sperl's fiancé was arrested on the day of her wedding by a federal marshal because her fiancé's father opposed the marriage? (2024-05-12)
Transcluding 20 of 2715 total
Press
There has been considerable press coverage of WiR. You can find links to lots of relevant articles under Press.
External links
- Women in Red on Twitter
- Interest in women's history began much earlier than is assumed, Phys Org, August 25, 2015