Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/112

Women's History Month | March 2019

Continuing global initiatives: #1day1woman Focus on Suffrage

March: Women's History Month mainpage Francophone Women

See also: Future events

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 19.85% 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!

Welcome!

Online event 1–31 March 2019
Art+Feminism article campaign VisibleWikiWomen image campaign

Use social media to promote our work!
Facebook	Wiki Women in Red
Twitter	@wikiwomeninred
Pinterest	March 2019 editathons
Hashtag	#wikiwomeninred, #VisibleWikiWomen

In March, we celebrate International Women's Day (March 8th) and Women's History Month. Our main goals 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
• draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
• support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
• promote the new/improved articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter)

As in previous years, this event is a collaboration between Women in Red and two other organizations: Art+Feminism and Whose Knowledge?.*

• As usual, we will be offering our full support for all the activities supported by Art+Feminism. Below, you will find links to many lists of missing articles about various types of artists and feminists, as well as Boundbreakers, that is, women throughout the world who are really making a difference (such as activists, and so forth). These curated lists are meant to provide inspiration. But you are, of course, welcome to write articles on women who have contributed to art in the widest sense or who have been involved in feminism or generally campaigning for better conditions for women. Articles on women's works, associations, and writings are also welcome.
• In addition, we invite you to upload as many new images as possible, whether on Wikipedia or Commons, in support of the Whose Knowledge? image campaign.
• As we are celebrating Women's History Month, we also welcome coverage of women who have played an important historical role, whatever their interests or profession. They can be included under #1day1woman.

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 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, or upload any of the images to Pinterest, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

Thank you!

Participants

• Rosiestep (talk) 20:30, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
• Ipigott (talk) 08:30, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
• SusunW (talk) 17:44, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
• Señoritaleona (talk) 20:36, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
• Penny Richards (talk) 06:54, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
• Nick Number (talk) 18:51, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
• Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 00:14, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
• WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 20:51, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
• PamD 10:23, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
• Kenirwin/(talk) 19:13, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
• Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 01:15, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
• Victuallers (talk) 10:59, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
• Thsmi002 (talk) 04:13, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
• SamHolt6 (talk) 9:21, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
• Rosalina523 (talk) 17:27, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
• Kwickert (talk) 22:11, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
• IdRatherBeAtTheBeach (talk) 16:45, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
• Abishe (talk) 16:31, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
• Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 19:00, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
• Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:47, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
• Mcampany (talk) 01:34, 12 March 2019 (UTC)\
• Missvain (talk) 22:40, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
• Kangarooth (talk) 09:06, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
• Yhhue91 (talk) 08:53, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
• Lapalabranecesaria (talk) 08:58, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
• --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:24, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Outcomes: Art+Feminism (articles)

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/112a

Outcomes: VisibleWikiWomen (media)

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/112b

Press about the event

• Wiki women: Volunteers add female and non-binary artists to Wikipedia, CBC, 15 March 2019
• Libraries’ day-long Wiki Edit-a-thon to help shrink gender gap, by Jill Shockey, Penn State News, 15 March 2019
• Cornell Celebrates International Women’s Day with Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, by Chantal Raguin, The Cornell Daily Sun, 10 March 2019
• Edit-a-thon aims to give recognition to more women, arts on Wikipedia, by Alexsandra Coltun Schneider, Daily Bruin, 11 March 2019
• ICA holds ‘Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon’ to increase female, gender non-binary representation online, by Jennifer Suryadjaja, The Daily Free Press, 7 March 2019 Wikipedia ‘Edit-a-Thon’ translates Spanish entries on Latin artists], by Jesenia De Moya Correa, The Inquirer, 6 March 2019
• Fine Arts Library to Host Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, University of Arkansas News, 4 March 2019
• Here’s how you can expand visibility of Latinx artists on Wikipedia, By Roberto Torres Technically Philly, Feb. 26, 2019
• Creating conversations about Latinx art with Wikipedia, by Nigel Thompson, Al Dia, March 4, 2019
• Wikipedia ‘Edit-a-Thon’ translates Spanish entries on Latin artists, by Jesenia De Moya Correa, The Inquirer, 6 March 2019
• UNC libraries give feminism a voice with Wikipedia edit-a-thon, by Ava Eucker, The Daily Tar Heel, 3 May 2019
• UNLV hosts feminist 'edit-a-thon' on Wikipedia, by Jesse Stiller, CampusReform, 26 February 2019

Event templates

• Invitation: MARCH 2019
• Editathon banner for talk pages: Template:WIR-112: {{WIR-112}}